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Concerns Over Subway Crime In New York Continue After Rush Hour Shooting

Assessing NYC's new subway safety measures

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has touted the success of a pilot program pairing MTA police officers with mental health professionals in an effort to make the subway systems safer. The subway co-response outreach teams, also known as the SCOUT Program, focuses on getting New Yorkers with severe mental illness connected to services and supportive housing. Since the program launched last fall, the SCOUT team has moved nearly 100 individuals out of the subway system and into care. CBS News New York reporter Elijah Westbrook has more.

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Boeing Starliner launches and other top headlines

Here are some of the top headlines of the day, including Boeing's first ever launch of astronauts aboard the Starliner capsule bound for the International Space Station, a look at how President Biden's new order restricting asylum claims is impacting immigration processing on the U.S.-Mexico border, and why a controversial congestion pricing plan in New York City is being postponed indefinitely. Mark Strassmann, Lilia Luciano and Elijah Westbrook report.

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