Brian Lehrer Weekend: El Niño; NYC Schools & AI; Jeff Spurgeon

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 5

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Extreme Weather and El Niño (First) | Back to School Report (Starts at  :30) | Goodbye, WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon (Starts at 1:03)

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Photo: Higher-than-normal sea surfaces (red) are visible in the central and eastern Pacific on June 8, 2026, a few days before El Niño was declared. (NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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