RAS BARAKA

Authorities have apprehended the suspect charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding two Newark police officers.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said the public health emergency declared in response to omicron will end on Monday.

Murphy said the state is seeing nearly 35,000 new cases a day and in the past two weeks, more than 10,000 residents have required hospitalization due to Covid.

An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey's largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule.

With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country’s most prominent writers on race, Howard University in Washington, D.

The monument in Newark, New Jersey, is expected to be installed next summer in Washington Park, which will be renamed Tubman Square.

Newark, New Jersey mayor says his city will follow the science in curbing coronavirus Newark, New Jersey completed a 10-day lockdown before Thanksgiving to slow the spread of COVID-19. That lockdown was initiated by Mayor Ras Baraka, who got some pushback from businesses. Baraka discusses the city's efforts to curb the virus with CBSN's Tanya Rivero.

“You can’t cut El Paso without cutting Juarez, and you can’t cut Juarez without cutting El Paso.”In other developments Tuesday, Illinois Gov. Also, the University Medical Center of El Paso erected heated isolation tents to treat coronavirus patients. El Paso County recorded about 1,400 new cases Tuesday, just short of the previous day's record of 1,443. Other Mexican border cities have complained about people entering from U.S. cities that are suffering from virus outbreaks. Dr. Hector Ocaranza, the city and county health authority in El Paso, said the heavily Latino city's family-based culture has been a contributing factor in the spread.

Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, speaks while Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, left, listens during a budget press conference in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The pace of new coronavirus infections in New Jersey is slowing even as the number of cases rises, indicating that the state's efforts to contain the pandemic are "clearly working," Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. "It's still rising, these cases are still rising," Murphy said. The coronavirus has infected at least 64,584 people in the state, Murphy said.

(Reuters) - Preliminary lead testing in New Jerseys largest city, where old pipes are blamed for leaching the toxic metal into drinking water, show temporary filters are at least 97% successful in supplying clean water to residents, officials said on Monday. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is committed to replacing every single lead service line and so far has replaced 900 of them, the governor said. Residents have been relying on bottled water since early August, when tests found that some of the water filters the city had previously distributed were not working properly. But it ramped up the effort with a new bond issuance by Essex County that would have all pipes replaced within two to three years. A Reuters investigation in 2016 found nearly 3,000 places in the United States with lead poisoning rates much higher than those seen in Flint, in many cases caused by decades-old flaking lead paint or aging lead pipes.

Officials in New Jersey's largest city began offering bottled water Monday to residents who may have been drinking tap water contaminated with lead for months or possibly years. NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) - Officials in New Jersey's largest city began offering bottled water Monday to residents who may have been drinking tap water contaminated with lead for months or possibly years. Newark is taking the advice of the US Environmental Protection Agency and providing bottled water from four city centers, Mayor Ras Baraka and Gov. No safe level of leadThere is no safe level of lead in drinking water, experts say. The EPA recommended the same in its letter, which was meant to "address concerns" and inspire enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Newark, N.J. High school history teacher Yvette Jordan and her husband Frank are among thousands of Newark residents urged to use bottled water until further notice. Recent tests by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed the 38,000 water filters handed out by the city might not be effective in removing lead from Newark's water supply. "We had our water tested and it's three times the federal action level," Yvette told CBS News. The lead is suspected to be leaching into the water from old pipes in predominantly lower income and minority neighborhoods. The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which is suing Newark for violating federal safe drinking water laws, estimates that 30 million Americans drink community water that contains lead.