The Update- July 12th

The Update with Brandon Julien

Is your yard ready for summer entertaining? A new survey polling 2,000 U.S. adults with backyards found that 81% would look forward to hosting parties in their backyard, but 14% admitted that they would need some time to prepare given the current state of their space. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a 3-year-old girl crossing a Harlem street with an adult and two other kids was struck and killed by a driver who jumped out of his car and carried her to the hospital, cops said. It’s too hot to trot — and now New York City’s horse carriage drivers are the ones getting cooked. Horse-drawn carriage drivers say they haven’t been able to work a full day since July 5 due to the unforgiving heat – an “unusually long” work stop order from the city that’s affecting their bottom lines. And in Washington, President Biden used his closely watched news conference to deliver a forceful defense of his foreign and domestic policies and batted away questions about his ability to serve another four years, declaring: “I’m not in this for my legacy. I’m in this to complete the job.”