News Rundown

Good [music] morning. Status Island news, Thursday, November 5th. Here's your rundown. Today's rundown is brought to you by Silk Spoon. In Brooklyn, six people died and seven were hurt, including [music] three firefighters, when a fire tore through a building in Sunset Park overnight. Fire marshals are checking whether a lithium-ion battery found inside sparked [music] it. Here on Staten Island, Borough President Vito Fossella and Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo are urging [music] the city to consider other uses for the historic Bayley Seton Hospital campus in Clifton, instead of a proposed homeless [music] shelter. In Hong Kong, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in jail for colluding with foreign forces under the national security law. He was due to be freed in January. >> [music] >> France is holding a national day of strikes and protests over wages. Officials expect up to 700,000 marchers and 70,000 [music] police are being deployed. And in Eretz Yisrael, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir visited a Chareidi Hesder Yeshiva in Givat Shaul, [music] which organizers called a first for an army chief. He told the bochurim the goal is that they enter the army Chareidi >> [music] >> and leave Chareidi. Silk Spoon, kosher dairy restaurant, 460 Bradley Avenue. Book your event. 718-494-7455. That's your rundown. [music] Follow Status Island. 718-787-8217. [music] Have a great day.