![daniel-nigro-the-point-1.jpg](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2023/03/12/6129e610-34f2-41a7-9ea5-e5cc2394d2b6/thumbnail/640x360/c64a0c05de1f9b4554734a30d987c471/daniel-nigro-the-point-1.jpg?v=25685eaa472b1a5dbb5bd46ae506d232#)
The Point: Lithium-ion battery dangers & Manhattan's rent crisis
Lithium-ion batteries are an increasingly explosive problem for New York City, and so is the housing shortage.
Watch CBS News
Marcia Kramer joined CBS News New York in 1990 as an investigative and political reporter. Previously, she was the City Hall bureau chief at the New York Daily News.
Her reports on the local, national, and international level have garnered her multiple honors, including two George Foster Peabody awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards, nine Emmy awards, two New York Press Club Golden Typewriter awards, and a first-place award from the Associated Press for her investigative reports. Her work has been recognized in editorials in the New York Times and the New York Post, as well as in a piece entitled "Marcia Kramer: Journalism at its Best," which ran in the New York Observer in March 1998.
Kramer broke a story exposing the improper use of lights and sirens by city government officials. Her story led to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's crackdown resulting in the removal of lights and sirens from hundreds of vehicles. Other credits include a report on people stealing school supplies and selling them on the black market, a story on schools that served old food past its freshness date, and a film exposing school board members vacationing in Las Vegas on taxpayer dollars. She has also been cited for her reports on the Swiss banks and Nazi gold that culminated in a decision by the Swiss to finally give back the money. Kramer is also known for her 1992 interview with President Bill Clinton in which he confessed he "never inhaled."
Lithium-ion batteries are an increasingly explosive problem for New York City, and so is the housing shortage.
A larger protest was held in front of police headquarters by those in favor of a ban.
Feds starting national probe with review of Memphis Police Department following beating death of Tyre Nichols.
Mayor Eric Adams has laid out a new blueprint for coping with a problem that has created a humanitarian crisis.
Police are looking for a man they say fatally shot a deli worker and is linked to at least three other robberies.
The approval process is best described as byzantine. It can take up to 300 days for a nonprofit to get paid.
Adams says more needs to be done to prevent these types of fires.
Zeldin may have lost the governor's race, but he led a red wave in New York that helped Republicans take control of Congress.
The $20 million in new initiatives build on $370 million already allocated in the budget for mental health programs.
The city agreed to pay each defendant $21,500, plus an additional $2,000 if they were arrested and ticketed.
Hizzoner espoused his personal beliefs, drawing a quick response from the executive director of the NYCLU.
The Republican presidential primary came into view this week when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Staten Island.
Gov. Kathy Hochul calls the move "disgusting."
State Sen. James Skoufis, a Democrat from Newburgh, has a plan to get his bill passed.
Potential presidential candidate says "We do not surrender to the woke mob. Our state is where woke goes to die."