. >> john: joining us again by phone, onika williams, she works at a daycare in coney island, she was on a bus earlier today and took amazing video, when we spoke with you last hour you were trying to make your way home as we watch your video here. are you there yet? >> no, i'm down the street from my house. i'm almost home. >> john: what's it been like trying to get home? >> it's been better. it's still raining but the road is clear, it's not as bad as this morning. which tells me the trucks -- the drains are being cleared so it's making going home a little easier. >> sandra: onika, you don't sound as energetic as you did before. you've had a long commute. >> i'm drained. [laughter] yes. thank you, sandra. >> sandra: well, you are luckier than some of the folks we have on the screen right now. cars stuck, rescue efforts underway. >> yes, there was a lot of them. >> sandra: you saw a lot of them. >> yes coney island, stuck in the water, yes. >> sandra: john, we are getting some reports now of subway grates and manholes catching fire. >> john: that usually with the salt water, typicall

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and coney island, he is bringing together over 35 pizza joins from around the nation, to showcase theirt pies. sponsors and advertisers helped produce the event. but the washington post could not tolerate a pizza party for charity. food reporter emily heal whose latest articles include the pumpkin spice latte just turned 20, this is how we got here and chick-fil-a's pimento cheese chicken sandwich is a detour with taking decided i'm going to say hand grenade into a pizza party. screw small business. food reporter emily e-mailed all of dave's sponsors. here's one of her aim is. "we are planning to write about the festival and how some of the sponsors have drawn criticism by some to associate themselves with dave portnoy who has a history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior." when dave found out that he did what she did not do. he called her. >> we have this pizza fast happening on saturday and you're reaching out to the advertisers and you're basically sending sending an e-mail that says to the effect, dave is a message and it raises. >> i have not said anything like

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consumption most famously goes down right here, on the corner of surf and stilwell avenues in coney island the nathan's famous 4th of july hot dog eating contest six years in a row, and i've won all six. that's our super bowl, or world series. that's what everybody looks forward to. we're on espn. long story short, i did it for the hot dogs. johnny: legend has it, nathan's hot dog eating contest dates back to 1916. in those days, 20 hot dogs was the big deal. we started getting more return eaters. we started getting eaters from overseas. and we realized, there needs to be a sort of governing body to advance the sport with integrity. and so we launched the league in the late 90s. you can't have a sport without integrity. exactly. yeah. begin. johnny: major league eating holds about 70 events per year of varying cuisines. but to this day, if i want to make it into the big leagues-- the nathan's famous hot dog contest is where the sun rises and sets on our sport. announcer: joey chestnut. johnny: and after breaking his own record in 2020, with 75 hot dogs consumed in 10 minutes, joey jaws che

. >> we have the annual hot dog eating contest on coney island would you compare your festival to thatould you say they interfere with your relationship? 19 6 that's my year they've got adam sandler and mike tyson you have to put that on the camp -- >> thank you to our friends at the fantastic world of the portuguese sardine you can watch on the city and which dislike the most on the panel i've put the food in front of you grab your plates each is for you toipght see which foods you're willing to eat. >> thank you so much for dinner. you're a very daring person you're always jumping off of cliffs on fox nation i thought you would at least put a sardine in your mouth. >> i would rather jump off a cliff than eat it sardine here. >> i'll be the first one to go here i'll take sardine i don't need the cracker but go sardine. sardine that was good -- >> that got to make sure no spitting out. no bones it is good. macky -- >> macky is eating an anchovy that's the most hated of all foods do you like anhow could somebody not like this this is salty fish. >> having trouble swallowing my sardine.

. >> he and he had gave money for coney island there, and the progress fair as a sop. but he wanted a permanent amusement park to the lake front, but he was so corrupt, that they were worried about the money they would lose doing it. >> he definitely was corrupt. >> questions. >> yeah, this might sound like a really geeky question, but i write historical fiction for young people and i ask this of kids and other historical fiction authors, if you could time travel and you wouldn't change history and you couldn't get hurt, what moment of chicago history, where would you be a fly on the wall, whether it's a chapter or an actual event, what would it be? and the more specific the better, but, yeah. >> i'd love to go to the first ward ball. >> i learn more and more about him every day. >> and it just, it was-- they basically had a big party for the madams and the drug dealers. >> it's very nice because think of the most robust and r-rated thing you could think of and then put it as the colosseum or-- >> can i say that, december 2nd, 1943, the splitting of the atom and rico f

sometimes i awaken from a meat sweat-induced fever strapped to a basket on the wonder wheel at coney islandross the garbage-flecked beach to the sound of a terrifying ragged bellow i realize is coming from my own lungs, which then summons an army of seagulls whom i instruct to gather the half-emptied cans of busch light left by a mob of belgian tourists, all of which i gather into a sack i fashioned out of pants i stole from a sleeping cop, then i swipe a giant inflatable baby yoda from a carny game, strap it to a mast i made by ripping a b68 bus stop sign out of the ground on the corner of stillwell, and launch the vessel as captain of the unregulated pirate booze cruise of news that is my segment... >> "meanwhile." >> stephen: it's eternal. "meanwhile" is eternal. it is endless. endless and evergreen. meanwhile, "people magazine may scrap its weekly what? edition."- no, "people." you can't do this now! this was obviously going to be the year i was named people's sexiest man alive! i swear. hand to god. i swear i was gonna start working out tomorrow! are you not the least bit curious what

pete: blessing in disguise amidst rain in coney island for the pizza fest here's what they have to saw about "the washington post" hit piece on dave portnoy. >> did you guys hear about the article that came out at all? did that deter you at all did you see his response to it? >> we're here in the rain we couldn't be happier. thank you, dave. >> they hate us because they ain't us. >> i love someone who speaks their mind people are scared to speak their mind. >> washington post is full of lunatics it was wild that he's helped small business so much. and then they criticize him for everything they're ones that are hypocritical so i love what dave did. >> how many great things have you been doing for the media all of the smbzs nothing but positive. great vibe look at the crowd right now. leave the guy a loan. >> that's bs straight bs. >> best pizza festival ever, represent. >> one thing that americans is sick of is how politicized everything is and food krit egg trying to shut down event to celebrate pizza, and to taste test pizza. i mean it is crazy. >> small businesses -- yeah. will: in

. >> too, tyler, i'll give you a quick anecdote, went to a place called steve's coney island.on't call it a hot dog, just about an hour ago, three miles from here, ford guy came in, had the ford shirt on. i was trying to talk to him about what we saw with the motorcade. and he said, i got no time for that blank and you can fill in the blank. phil's point, they lean democrat but this is a different kind of democrat >> yeah, i would agree with that i would agree. the look, the rank and file, it's not a lock hold for the democrat nominee. >> it's not a monolith anymore the uaw and labor generally is not a monolith by any stretch of the imagination. gentlemen, we'll be continuing our coverage during the day and then, of course, tonight brian on your program at 7:00 p.m. eastern time, live from michigan phil and brian, thank you. >>> and as the president, as you can see that news headline, appeared to say yes if when asked uaw should gate 40% raise. that headline nearly an hour ago could have pushed us to session lows, we rored the major averages add to the recent losses. nasdaq do

works at a daycare in coney island down there on the beach by the atlantic ocean. what was it like for you? my understanding is you got stuck on a bus. >> yes, hi. the bus was like crowded with people and then the water was just coming out of nowhere. i did not expect to see that at all. it just happened to just drive into a beach full of water, i would call it a beach, unexpected, though, you know. >> sandra: we have your video up right now. i mean, was the bus able to continue on? >> yes. it had to divert to a different location so i had to, you know, find my way back up the road to catch another bus in order to get to my location to work. it was a mess. >> john: it obviously looks like a mess. the last time i can remember flooding, oneka like this in the new york city area, when hurricane sandy hit a number of years ago. were you in new york for that, too? >> no, i was not. but a sister from the church sister joanne, she told me about hurricane sandy this morning as well, was similar to this. so, i'm in shock, you know. this is going to be memories forever. >> s

coney island, the bronx, served in the army, were an engineer for a while, and then found your way into surprised today that this thing you started out so many years ago. >> i'm surprised i still got a job. [ light laughter ] i mean, really, i was -- i was everything but i was a college guy. i mean, i was going to be an engineer i went through - i got a degree in physics from the city college of new york i then went back and became -- and for -- i went to another school for art. i thought i was going to be van gogh i mean - [ light laughter ] is that his name >> seth: yeah, yeah, yeah. [ light laughter ] >> vince van gogh? [ laughter ] >> whoa. one day out of my house, i can't remember something [ light laughter ] and i was going to be a painter. i was going fly jets off the aircraft carriers. i signed up. and i went like, "you schmuck, don't do that. you will die." [ light laughter ] >> seth: so, i want to ask you about "taxi. because this is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, and it's the first place i saw you. and i remember in the opening titles of "taxi", your name came befor

looking to hurt me with my festival, which is supposed to attract 5,000 people over the weekend in coney islandfor the company. and a win for the sponsors. but, instead, this is the "the washington post" going at him. they didn't plan for this type of aggression. >> lawrence: that's exactly right, brian. let's be clear. this is not journalism. this is activism. why are you contacting advertisers? how is that a part of the story? >> brian: typically. >> lawrence: still searching in the midst of writing this piece. reached a different point in this country. every author has their own tribe now. every personality has their own tribe. i think the american people are just sick of the cancel court. they are sickle of the media going after the people they adore. they are sick of the lack of grace for people when they make mistakes. i think their time is up at this point. no one reads or watches the post anyway. >> steve: we have been on the post this morning looking to see if the piece is up. it isn't, yet. when it is, we will figure out what kind of a piece she was writing. >> ainsley: you know, dave

and some pizzeria getting flack for planning to take part in bar stools coney island pizza fest thiskend. founder dave portnoy isn't having it. calling out a "the washington post" reporter he says was planning a hit piece. >> you are basically sending an email that says to the effect dave's miss agenic racist do you want to defend yourselves advertising at this event, right? >> i'm sorry, who are you? >> i'm the guy you are writing the article about dave portnoy. >> oh you are dave portnoy. >> "the washington post" which is wildly left leaning publication to think you are going to give me a fair shake, i wasn't born yesterday. >> carley: love to hear her response to that. portnoy says pizzeria set to serve slices at food festival said he had a history of misogynistic comments. the pizza fest is still set to kick off on saturday. to incredible catch in the stands. snags a home run ball during yesterday's game againsts fillies all while holding a little girl. >> the guy catches the ball with his kid in his arms, puts the kid down, and then fires it back. >> carley: classic dad. have yo

today and canceled, he is expecting 5,000 people out at his one bite festival, i believe it's in coney island and they are trying to intimidate sponsors. where have you heard that before, how about everywhere, to not supporting him and hurting his business. if that's your job to destroy people instead of reporting on something and seeing maybe why sponsors are so important to, to be part of the edgey company barstool -- so much credit for going the offense when other businesses would knuckle under, and he called the "washington post" when he thinks it is and i would love to see his show, a left wing operation out to crush a guy that's not even right wing. >> john: he was respectful enough as we can see there, blur out the phone number of the washington post reporter. he's posted that on x, it's definitely as you suggest worth listening to. brian, as always, good to see you. thank you for hanging with us through the roller coaster. appreciate it. >> sandra: thank you so much. back to the border, john. these live images continue to come in, seems they are all getting up. we can't tell you exact

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