Morning Brief: August 3

Egyptian Chemist Ahmed Zewail, Noble Prize-Winner, has died at the age of 70.  He was a science adviser to President Obama.  In 1999, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions over immensely short time scales.  In 2009, he became the first ever U.S. science envoy to the Middle East.

NEED TO KNOW
Donald Trump Steps Up Criticism of Khans and G.O.P. Leaders [The New York Times]

Bratton's Replacement Is a Community Policing Veteran [WNYC]

N. Korea Fires Mid-Range Missile Toward Waters Near Japan. [The New York Times]

Officials to Drop Larvicide Tablets in Subway to Prevent Zika, Cuomo Says [dna info]

SPORTS
YESTERDAY
The Mets beat the Yankees 7-1
TODAY
The Mets and Yankees face off again at Citi Field.  Game time is 7:05pm.

WEATHER
Sunny, with a high near 81.  Tonight, partly cloudy, with a low around 68.  [full forecast]

ON STAGE TONIGHT
Erykah Badu @ The Amphitheatre at Coney Island Boardwalk
Shopping w/ Gauche @ Baby’s All Right
Marcia Ball @ Mexicali Live
WFUV Presents: The Lumineers @ Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park

TODAY IN HISTORY
On this day in 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplished the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

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