Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has announced the launch of Suffolk BACKSTOP a new COVID-19 rental and small business assistance program for County residents and business owners facing hardships due to the ongoing pandemic. The new two part program – Bringing Assistance for COVID-19 and Kickstarting Support to Operating Professionals (BACKSTOP) will distribute nearly $600,000 in emergency rental assistance to residents and provide nearly 150 small businesses with grants up to $10,000. Applications for the rental assistance program and for the Small Business Assistance Grant Program will open on December 17. “We are now nine months in to this pandemic, and with cases surging once again we need to provide residents in need tangible assistance,” said Suffolk County Executive Bellone. “This new rent relief program coupled with financial aid to struggling small businesses will provide help to some of our most vulnerable residents.”
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four young men, 16-20 years of age were found at a park, murdered with machetes by gang members. in march, gang member tommy alvarado ventura was arrested after police say the 31-year-old sexually assaulted a 2-year-old and a brutally stabbed her mother and another woman. he had been deported four times but returned. the suffolk county executive s office says it needs more funding to fight gangs and to keep kids out of ms-13. the county says they need more resources to help with unaccompanied minors, those undocumented children who have arrived here and are at these schools and are susceptible now to being recruited by ms-13. there have been protests here by some immigrant activists who believe that sessions message here was really political and could actually induced fear here in the immigrant communities. jon: bryan llenas on long island, thank you. jenna: the debate over is a free speech rages on as the university of california berkeley has hundreds of people
steve levy, suffolk county executive out on long island. best of luck to you. a live look at new york city. powerful winds downing trees from north carolina to maryland and now into the new york metro with downed power lines. millions of people in the dark at this hour. how will our nation s biggest city deal with it all? stay with us. we re back in a moment. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn t have it. yeah, we ll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that s it right there. [ male announcer ] it s the at&t network. and what s possible in here is almost impossible to say. i m a film star. well, i m a film,
east in suffolk county where the waves are churning. steve levy is the suffolk county executive. he joins us on the phone. what can you tell us about what is happening out there right now, wil? the worst has not hit us yet. the rain is starting to pick up considerably as are the winds. we expect the lion s share of the damage to be about 9:00 a.m. tomorrow to about noon. we are are still bracing for it. the areas closest to the water were under evacuation orders. is it your sense that a lot of people actually followed those orders, they heeded your advice? yeah, definitely so. and i have been to a throuh a couple of hurricanes since i have been in elective office and i never remember having to see mandatory evacuations like we are having now but we know we are getting hit dead on and
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