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Good morning and welcome to Good Day Weekend. It's Saturday, April 12th. I'm Richard Giacobis here in the Fox 5 newsroom

Thanks for joining us live here on the Fox Local app. We begin this morning with the latest on Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil

an immigration judge in Louisiana, ruling that Khalil can be deported for his role in pro-Palestinian protests

on the school's campus last year. The judge claiming the Trump administration established clear and convincing evidence that Khalil can be deported

Lawyers for Khalil say they will appeal. The NPSB, meanwhile, has started its investigation into Thursday's chopper crash in the Hudson River

the crash killing five members of a family from Spain plus the chopper's pilot

Divers will be back in the murky waters today searching for more wreckage in the site

The main and rear rotors still have not been found, a key piece of evidence that could ultimately lead to the cause of the crash

Checking now on the forecast today, a raw and wet start to the weekend

Rain coming down pretty steadily now. The heavy stuff moves out later this morning, but the drizzle will stick around through tonight

Tomorrow, mostly cloudy for much of the day, with the potential for some sun late, we hope

Highs reaching the mid-50s. It's been a whole week of pain and agony in the Dominican community

hundreds of people gathering in Inwood last night to remember those who died in the collapse of a

nightclub roof in Santo Domingo. So much pain in the days following this tragedy. Here's Duarte

Geraldino. Under a white tan in Quisqueya Plaza, people came together to mourn the lives lost in

Santo Domingo, among them legendary singer Ruby Perez, who was performing when the nightclub's

roof collapsed. Please join me, because Ruby is in heaven right now. And also, I went through that

This disaster happened more than 1,500 miles away. But here in Washington Heights and Inwood

home to the largest Dominican community outside the island, it felt like it happened around the

corner. One man held a photo of his cousin, Lorraine Fernandez Vargas. She also died at

the jet set. City leaders stood beside grieving families. And the tears that we see are reflected in all of the rain that we are seeing this evening

But it's important that everyone know that God is still with us

More than 200 people were killed. The pain here in New York runs deep

Sometimes, you know, they hear the numbers like 221. Sometimes, you hear the number 220

I try to think of it as one person died 221 times

I think that a person died 221 times. That's a heavy, heavy loss

Sunday, I will be leaving to go to the Dominican Republic. As the mayor of the largest Dominican community in America outside the Dominican Republic

Mayor Eric Adams says the city will help assess survivor needs and explore how U.S. resources can help

A night of prayer and pain, a community standing together remembering those they lost

In Inwood, Duarte Deraldino, Fox 5 News. Heartbreaking to watch that. The MTA this week reaching a milestone

Busy Queensborough Plaza is now more accessible. A new entrance at the north side of Queens Boulevard includes a wide staircase and new elevator

Officials say this marks the first completion of a zoning for accessibility project, giving developers working on projects near transit hubs incentives to include upgrades to these projects

Well, the weather may not want to cooperate, but nonetheless, it's pickleball season in Central Park

Wollman Rake now holds 14 pickleball courts which are open daily from 8 a until 9 p Despite the rain pickleball is considered the fastest growing sport in the United States It combines tennis badminton and ping pong If you never played before we have the best coaches and introductory clinics that will have you rallying within 10 minutes

I promise you, you will have a blast. And if you have been playing for years, come down and join one of our leagues or some of our advanced programming

This will be the third season of the sport in the park with more than 130,000 people visiting the courts over the past two years

So if you're the type of person who constantly worries your phone's battery is about to die, you're not alone

A new study finds what's being called America's panic percentage. The majority of people frantically searching for an outlet when the battery on their phone drops to 38%

Those who are a little braver wait until it falls below 20% before they start to feel anxious

I do it, I think, at 60%. Well, with just one photo or selfie, AI, artificial intelligence, can help you preview a possible new hairstyle

or even give you a glimpse of what your future self could look like

But there's a new photo search gaining popularity on chat GPT that will make a likeness of you in the form of an action figure

Fox 5's Teresa Priolo has a look at how it all works. A goldfish

So scary. Two weeks ago, the hot AI trend was creating Studio Ghibli images

Now it's discovering your alter ego as an action hero. This is how you're going to use AI to build your own custom action figure

It's Amanda, a book lover, Natasha, your bestie, or Elena with her sarcasm and a caffeine addiction

It's fun, it's free, and it's a harmless way to pass the time. For a long time, we've had AI models that can generate images

But now they think of the images in the same way that they think of the text

So you can control the image generation much better. And this is the new thing

And that's really up the game. It is pretty impressive what artificial intelligence can do

and how close they can get to what you actually look like. For example, I uploaded this picture of me at the anchor desk

I prompted ChatGPT to generate an image of a news reporter that looks like a Barbie in an action figure box

with accessories and lighting in my likeness. What I got was perfectly coiffed in a white dress

with my trusty computer and a camera nearby. There's also this version prompted as a vintage collectible

And then there's me on breaking news, braving the elements with a camera, a cell phone, a mic, and an earpiece

You're only limited by your imagination and the prompts you provide. But it also makes you question how much personal information we're uploading

I think you should assume that whenever you input something to ShadGPT or Google Gemini or Claude or some AI model, you should assume that it is being used in some way to train on it

They say they're not doing it. And I don't know if they're doing it or not, but they might be

Teresa Priolo, Fox 5 News. That is something I need to try

Well, retro vibes are always working their way back into our pop culture

And now a video store is opening up in Brooklyn that offers a nostalgic experience so you can get your hands on some old school media

Fox 5's Kendall Green goes to videotape on this one. The line wrapped around this block for the soft opening of Night Owl Video was packed with customers waiting to get their hands on pieces of classic nostalgia

Physical media forever. That's what it's all about. The vintage video store is the brainchild of Jess Mills and Aaron Hamill

People, you know, in this very digital age, I think there's a lot of interest in and nostalgia for a world in which you could touch the things that you were buying to watch

Hamill and Mills are going against the grain, ditching the idea of streaming

Going back to the classic experience folks got at a store like Blockbuster in the 90s

We come from the independent film world, so Blockbuster to us is a little bit too corporate

but you know that's that is a brand that people are familiar with and have a lot of fond memories

of customers can dive into their collection of anything from dvds cassette tapes laser discs

to vinyls with new releases and instead of having you know an algorithm of a streamer

giving you suggestions on what to watch you can either be someone who works here one of us or

maybe you meet some friends in store that can kind of give you some hot tips on some gems of movies you can find after their soft lunch saturday there a ton of interest in the business making its official big debut over the weekend There were so many people who came up

with a big stack of movies and just complimented the, both like the look of the space

and also the curation of what was in the inventory. The shop features an aesthetic fit from the 90s

with a modern updated appeal. I want it to feel like it's 2025

and you know, you can see, You know, the latest things on UHD, for example, as well as these older titles

As the duo are part of a wave of entrepreneurs revitalizing the film and distribution industry, one tape at a time

Now, I don't know the last time anyone at the station has done anything like this, but here at Night Owl Video, you can do this beginning Friday at noon right here at 288 Grand Street, Brooklyn

That's the latest here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Kendall Green, Fox 5 News. And it always makes it look fun

Well, a final check now of the forecast today. Windy and chilly with rain

I feel like that's the forecast forever now. Tonight, the rain sticks around. Tomorrow, finally, some sun

Late in the day, temperatures reaching the mid-50s. Don't go away. We'll be right back with health news

This week on the 5 o'clock news, Dr. Rabia De La Torre from NYU Langone Health

joined Fox 5 to discuss the debate over fluoride in drinking water and the development of a tiny

pacemaker. Here's a look at that conversation. All right, doctor, thanks for being with us

So walk us through the contours of this debate, what the plan is and what you think about it in

general. So this is not a new debate. This debate has actually been going on since the 1950s. So

the issue is that at very high concentrations, fluoride can be a neurotoxin and it can impact

potentially impact infant brain development. But the only way to get fluoride, not the only way

but the best way that the government decided many decades ago to make mass available fluoride

was to put it into the water. And so this is meant to prevent tooth decay, and it's been found in

multiple studies to decline the amount of tooth decay in the general population. And so the

controversy is kind of around informed consent. Do people actually know that they're getting

kind of synthetically injected fluoride into their water or not? And also, like, could there

potentially be other sources of fluoride, like toothpaste or milk or salt that are better

as opposed to just putting it in everyone's water? Now, other countries do the same thing

Australia does this. And then there's countries that don't do this. Many countries in continental

Europe don't do this. And what we see are higher rates of tooth decay. So that's kind of where the

controversy is. I think that we've been doing this. We don't have significant data to prove

that this is causing harm. And so this is a really effective way to make our teeth healthier and our

oral health healthier. Yeah, we don't have a lot of times your dental insurance isn't included. So

it's important to keep the teeth in good shape for sure. All right, doctor, let's move to our next

topic here. Scientists at Northwestern University have designed a tiny pacemaker. We're looking at

it right now. It is smaller than a grain of rice. It can be inserted with a syringe. Walk us through

THE BENEFITS OF THIS AND, YOU KNOW, HOW IT WORKS? YES. SO 1% OF CHILDREN ARE BORN WITH

CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS. AND WHEN THEY NEED SURGERY, MOST PEOPLE WHO NEED HEART SURGERY

MAY NEED A TEMPORARY PACE MAKER AFTERWARDS. SO THE THOUGHT IS THAT THIS WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THOSE

NEWBORNS AND THOSE REALLY SMALL CHILDREN WITH SMALL, LIKE, ADORABLE LITTLE HEARTS WHO NEED

TEMPORARY PACE MAKERS. AGAIN, THIS PACE MAKER THAT'S BEEN DEVELOPED HAS ONLY BEEN STUDYED IN ANIMALS AND DECEASED

DONOR, HUMAN HEARTS, AND SO IT HASN'T BEEN USED IN LIVE HUMANS YET

BUT THE THOUGHT IS THAT IT'S A very tiny pacemaker and it's paired with a wearable device that essentially sends it electrical

signals that can then allow light pulses and basically stimulate electrical activity in the

heart if an arrhythmia is detected or a bad rhythm is detected. And so it's the general trend

in medicine as someone who does advanced endoscopy and endoscopic surgery is towards minimally

invasive things. Actual pacemakers are, you know, devices that get implanted under the skin

they have long wires that need to go into the heart. And it's kind of fraught with complications

especially if you need it temporarily. Something like this would be perfect and amazing

if it is proved to be safe within humans. Wow. This is pretty remarkable. Yeah, it does look

pretty remarkable Yeah that wild Wow All right doctor we appreciate it Thanks so much Thank you And we be right back with a look at what you missed this week on Good Day New York But first here a look at the forecast for the weekend

Welcome back to Good Day New York. Another look at your Saturday forecast today

Windy and chilly with some rain that'll taper off as we go through the day

but it'll stick around tonight. A little drizzle on and off tomorrow. will clear late with temperatures reaching the mid-50s

The month of April is National Donate Life Month, and there are many ways you can help someone in need

Our own Ryan Christopher shares a story about his sister-in-law who was in dire need of a life-saving liver transplant

Thanks to the help of her platform Pain Into Power, Erica vulnerably shared her story on social media

and inspired over 400 mostly random strangers from across the world to sign up to get tested to be a potential donor

After four months of waiting for the right match, Erica finally got that call that she had been matched with the donor

She can actually do the surgery. And, you know... Yeah, it's a lot. I mean, I'm so happy

It's a lot of process? Yeah. I know, you know. This is like the best phone call

It's just like not what I was expecting right now. Erika underwent her 10-hour life-saving surgery on June 18th of last year

And despite recovering on the same floor of the hospital, the identity of the donor was not revealed for three months

out of respect of the privacy and health of the patients. But eventually, Erika met her angel on earth in Jenny

So happy to be here. It's so good to meet you. This mom of two from Massachusetts saw Erica's story on Facebook

and felt moved to give part of her body to give Erica a second chance at life

And here she is in studio, our sister Erica. We love you, E

So, so happy. Everything is okay. You're feeling good. So how are you doing

I'm doing amazing. I've been sick since I was a junior in high school

So I never really know life before being sick. Since getting my transplant, I've gotten so much energy

I feel like a completely different new person. And I'm able to just do the simple mundane things of life without having to worry that I'm going to be sick one moment

Or if I'm even able to get out of bed that morning. Isn't it amazing

Like somebody you didn't even know came in and basically saved you

Yeah. I am amazed by humanity every single day. My faith in humanity was completely restored

When we had first put the campaign out that night, I was keeping a little list in my phone

of the donors that had reached out saying, you know, I signed up to see if I can be your match

And the list started so small. The first 30 minutes, I got like 17 people

The next half hour went by, and I couldn't even keep track

Nice. Powerful. So have you been in contact with your donor? I have, yep. And

We talk. We met for the first time in September, and it was a really emotional day for my care team, for my family

And just to be able to see this person who has become an angel to me and literally saved my life in person, be able to give her a high glimpse

You saw her in the hospital, obviously. We saw the video there. Yes. When was the last time you saw her, though

I haven't seen her since the day we met. Yep, that video in September

Right after the three months after the surgery. Damn, I wish we could make that happen again. I know

Can we make that happen again? Ryan, do you know people? I don't know. Is Jenny here? Can we bring Jenny out

Jenny? There she is. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God

What a beautiful story that is. For more information on how you can help, visit DonateLife.net

We'll be right back with a look at what you missed this week on Good Night New York

But first, another look at the weather for the week ahead