Firefighters were battling multiple homes on fire on Sunday morning, after a an apparent  gas explosion in Meadowmere – located near JFK Airport. The explosion was reported at 15 West Avenue at around 6:00AM. It was not yet clear how many injuries were reported, but it appeared that some people did need medical attention. On person – possibly a firefighter was airlifted (see video below). Several surrounding agencies responded, including the FDNY, to quickly put out the flames. Several homes were reduced to rubble. Rockaway Turnpike is closed in both directions between Brookville Boulevard and Peninsula Boulevard. JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status.

President Donald Trump reacted furiously to the announcement by former Whitehouse employee Miles Taylor that he was the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed about an internal “resistance” to Trump within the administration, with the president calling for him to be prosecuted and disparaging details of his career despite claiming minutes earlier to have “never heard of” him. Trump took aim at Taylor during a campaign rally in Goodyear, Ariz., referring to him as a “low-level staffer, a sleazebag, who’s never worked in the White House.” Taylor revealed his identity as “Anonymous” in a blog post on Wednesday afternoon. Trump again blasted Taylor on Thursday at a rally in Florida, where the president said “He should be prosecuted. Are you listening to me back in Washington?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he believes Democratic nominee Joe Biden will beat President Trump but that he’s “nervous” about what Trump will do after the election. “I believe Joe Biden is going to win the election. I’m just a little nervous about what Mr. Trump does post-election,” the governor said. “You know, the president winds up forecasting where he’s going. And he’s been talking for months about ‘election fraud’ and ‘Democratic fraud.’ And he actually said the other day, ‘The only way we lose is if there’s fraud,’” Cuomo said. “So I hope he takes the defeat with some honor and doesn’t try to go into the courts and play games that way.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Power has just gone out in Israel in multiple locations around the country. Reports of power out in Yerushalayim, Tel Aviv, Holon, Ashdod, Ohr Akiva, Netanya, Haifa, Rechovot and many other locations. The Israel Electric Company says all power should be restored in around 30 minutes. No reason was given for the outages. Video below from Ashdod JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be added to an official YWN WhatsApp Group. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

A dangling crane shut down several streets in Midtown on Thursday evening. It happened at 111 West 57th Street near 6th Avenue. The FDNY received a report of debris falling from a building just after 6:40 p.m. The building is an 84-story condo tower on what is referred to as “Billionaires Row.” The city is shut down 55th to 59th streets from Madison to 8th avenues. #BREAKING: huge construction crane swinging wildly at top of mega high rise under construction on 57th and 6th. Reports of debris in street. Lots of streets closed. #abc7ny pic.twitter.com/fwWS21E8h7 — Josh Einiger (@JoshEiniger7) October 29, 2020 JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status.

Some hardcore #MAGA fans decided to have a good time today, and trailed a Biden-Harris Campaign bus all day in Houston with a hearse! According to multiple Twitter reports, the Biden-Harris bus was running through red lights all day to try and lose the hearse from tailing them. Here is video of the bus jumping a red light: I love the Hearst following Biden’s bus. Picking up all@the Clintons suicides! @Dancermom5678 https://t.co/CjCE4bVhQ8 — Tracy Ann (@quattro_mom) October 29, 2020 (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

It appears the Boro Park community really wants to show the MAGA support. Residents woke up on Thursday morning to find flags draped all across many street corners of 13th Avenue – in the heart of the Jewish community. Flags hanging included Trump2020, American flags as well as the NYPD “back the blue” flags. The Orthodox Jewish community overwhelmingly voted Trump in 2016, and will be doing the same next Tuesday. JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be added to an official YWN WhatsApp Group. See the videos and photos (by Heshy Rubenstein) below: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi projected Thursday that Joe Biden would win the White House and said Democrats are ready to work with Biden on a transition agenda to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, address the economic fallout and pass an infrastructure agenda. “I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected president on Tuesday,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a news conference at the Capitol, while acknowledging counting votes may continue past Nov. 3. “On Jan. 20, he will be inaugurated president of the United States. So while we don’t want to be overconfident or assume anything, we have to be ready for how we’re going to go down a different path.” “We are confident. We are calm. And we are prepared. We are ready,” Pelosi said of the election. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A frum doctor in the South Florida Jewish Community, who worked the front lines of the pandemic in Mount Sinai Medical Center, went home after fighting COVID-19 for more than three  months! Dr. Yaakov Rafael Elgozy, father of five from Walnut Creek, miraculously recovered after being on a ventilator for more than two months. The situation at one point was so dire, that he was flown to Gainesville for a possible double lung transplant. BIchasdei Hashem, he made a turn for the best and during his recovery in the hospital, the local Chabad Shluchim, Rabbi Goldman and Rabbi Notick, visited him on a daily basis; putting Tefillin on him while providing support to him and to his amazing and dedicated wife – Rachel.

A convoy of cars decorated with American flags and Trump 2020 banners on Tuesday drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, holding a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in support of the American president ahead of next week’s election. Some two dozen vehicles joined the procession, which was organized by Republicans Overseas Israel. While Jews in the United States are expected to vote overwhelmingly for Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump is a popular figure in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described him as the “greatest friend” Israel has ever had in the White House. Most of the people in Tuesday’s convoy appeared to be American immigrants, though there were also some activists from Netanyahu’s Likud party.