“Come From Away”: Transforming tragedy into art, darkness into light

2026-09-06 11:11 AM EDT / CBS News
By David Morgan

One of the most affecting stories to come from the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 – one that instills a faith in humanity in spite of the horrifying events of that day – was about the generosity of the residents of a small Canadian town towards several thousand stranded, anxious travelers.

In the wake of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all air traffic, forcing 38 international flights headed to the United States to land at an airport in Newfoundland near the small town of Gander. The locals responded to the emergency by providing aid and comfort to seven thousand passengers and flight crew members, many desperate for news from home. The locals’ individual and collective acts of kindness became the basis of the acclaimed musical “Come From Away.”

A scene from the original Broadway production of “Come From Away.” Matthew Murphy, “Come From Away”

With book, music and lyrics by the husband-and-wife team of Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the show features an ensemble cast of 12 actors playing all the characters, from the “plane people” stranded on the island, to the Newfoundlanders who took them in. Sankoff and Hein conducted research while visiting Gander during the 10th-year reunion held in 2011. With a book and lyrics taken from their interviews, and a score infused with folk music, “Come From Away” bowed in New York in March 2017, and went on to win three Drama Desk Awards (including outstanding musical and outstanding book of a musical) and a Tony Award (for best director). It played on Broadway for 5 1/2 years (with a break for COVID), and has been produced around the world ever since. A live capture of the show featuring the Broadway cast is currently available on Apple TV+.

Sankoff (a native of Ontario) and Hein (born in Saskatchewan) talked with “CBS Sunday Morning” about the origin of the show, and about the impact it has had on the people of Gander.

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Conception

Irene Sankoff and David Hein in 2017 in New York City. Walter McBride/Getty Images

Sankoff and Hein, who were living in New York City in a residence for international students on September 11, 2001, said they were not aware of what was happening at Gander at the time that Manhattan was shrouded in the dust of the collapsed World Trade Center: “All of our neighbors came out and took care of us,” Hein said. “There’s a lot of musicians there, they played music, we had meals together, they checked in on us. My cousin was in the towers, but fortunately escaped, she was on the first floor. And so, we were all waiting for news together, and this community, this international community, came together to take care of each other.

“At the time, one of the residents actually said thank you to us for taking planes on that day, and we didn’t even know what they were talking about. But later, when we heard the story of what happened in Gander, it resonated with us because, not only the kindness that we saw in our immediate community, but in the kindness and generosity that New Yorkers showed on 9/12 and the days afterwards – giving blood, being there for one another – and that the theater community did as well.”

In interviewing the residents of Gander and the passengers, what was your initial intent, or did you not have one?

Sankoff: “Well, we had been commissioned to write a musical for Sheridan College out in Oakville for the very new Canadian Musical Theatre Project. I remember being afraid, like, there are so many stories, this cannot be, like, the typical musical. How do we do this? I think maybe this is like a ‘Laramie Project’ sort of play.”

Hain: “But I had grown up on Newfoundland music, and everyone we interviewed out there brought out an instrument, and brought up the music that they played growing up. Music is how the Newfoundlanders get through hard times. They have terrible winters out there, and they all come together in kitchen parties and play music and tell stories, and we knew that they had entertained everyone who had been there [on 9/11]. It was this amazing story of music and art, and also generosity.”

Sankoff: “It was at a benefit concert to give back to the survivors of 9/11 and the family members, and so, as soon as that music started, I turned to David, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re right, it is a musical.’

“As soon as we told people this is what we were talking about, they wanted to talk to us. They wanted the story told, and at that time, you know, we were doing this for a college, and they still would travel two hours on the train to come out and talk to us in person and say, like, you can’t understand how smart and generous and kind these people were, and this story deserves to be told. And that was really what fueled us: okay, these people who experienced it firsthand and are so grateful want this told. We’ve gotta do it. We’ve gotta tell it.”

Using people’s testimony as book and lyrics is reminiscent of “A Chorus Line” and “Studs Terkel’s Working.” What were the models for you in translating the interviews with the Gander locals and the plane people into book and song?

Hein: “We did talk about ‘Chorus Line,’ I remember when we did a lot of the direct address, and obviously the testimony, [and] Irene’s memories of seeing ‘Chorus Line’ as a kid. We obviously looked at ‘Laramie Project,’ because it was about interviewers going into a community that had, you know, dealt with a tragedy, and also finding some hope in the middle of it. ‘Into the Woods’ was a strong one. It was group storytelling, and it was a group that goes through an experience and comes out changed on the other side. ‘Once’ told us that that musical vocabulary could be on a Broadway show.

Sankoff: “‘Peter and the Starcatcher,’ the direct address into scenes, you know, and just the theatricality of pulling things out of nothing, which is a very big Canadian thing to do. But, you know, we just didn’t know if that was a Broadway thing to do. But the other thing was, we weren’t aiming to Broadway at that point.”

Hein: “We thought Canadian high schools would be forced to do the show as some sort of Canadian high school project.”

Sankoff: “Well, having been in New York after 9/11, I was, like, no one’s gonna wanna see this. No American is gonna wanna see this. And I’m like, okay, well, you know, the story deserves to be told. The people who it happened to want the story told, so even if we’re just doing it for them, we’re gonna do it. Like, we have to follow through on this, and see what happens, you know? And it was kind of freeing to know that like, okay, well, we’re not aiming for Broadway. This isn’t gonna be a regular musical. We just wrote it the way that the story could best be told, and that meant the music propelling us forward into sort of montage scenes, and not having one lead character. I mean, it was a lot of fun. It’s a lovely world to live in as you’re developing it and, you know, having these voices in your head. I remember going back to Gander, like, four or five years later, and talking to Oz and Bonnie and Claude as if they were old friends, because they were in our heads for four or five years. But you know, they’d forgotten we’d ever gone out there to interview them, so it took them a minute to be like, why are you here? And these are Broadway producers? What’s happening? It was a very unique journey, I think, not like a lot of shows going to Broadway.”

Was there consolidation of real people into single characters?

Hein: “We often say that we were telling the story of 7,000 passengers who were on the tarmac and 9,000 locals in Newfoundland, so we were telling 16,000 stories, so to make it just coherent for people, we met a lot of women named Diane and a lot of men named Kevin, and we had to consolidate some stories together.”

Is that why you had two Kevins?

Hein: “There actually were two Kevins! And the firefighter’s name, Hannah’s son, is Kevin as well, and we refer to him as Kev. I think we only refer to him once by name. And some stories shared themes of faith or food or translation. There were two translation stories that we found a way to combine. But we always wanted the real people who experienced the story, the plane people around the world, who saw that kindness, to say that’s actually what happened. So, when we made small changes, it was always to try to illustrate larger stories that actually happened.”

Sankoff: “Even something as silly as, like, Captain Bristol, or the doctors cleaning the bathrooms: we were sitting with five women from Gander Academy, the teachers, and I think we were the first people to interview them, so they were completely fresh, and just, like, stream-of-consciousness talking to each other, and then they just say like, ‘Oh, remember the doctors, you know, the most educated people were cleaning the toilets,’ and just their excitement about them, and then this one teacher’s excitement about the captain. Okay, so what does that look like? Let’s have some fun with that. Captain Bass, she’s very much, that’s her story. ‘Me and the Sky’ is verbatim, pretty much.”

Hein: “Yeah, we interviewed her for, like, four hours, and we were ready to make ‘Captain Bass: The Musical.’”

Sankoff: “But it may happen to a different captain. So even someone like her, like, it’s all stuff that happened. Maybe happened to somebody else, and maybe happened slightly differently, but we didn’t exaggerate the kindness, the events. It was more like, okay, [Nick and Diane] kissed on a bus, not on a plane. Like, those were the liberties we took, nothing like let’s make them look nicer. If anything, we had to hold back, because we knew people wouldn’t believe it, you know?”

The bravery of being kind

The show is very much about first responders, though they don’t treat it as their job or their calling; the show simply depicts it as the locals’ common-sense response to an emergency. Did the plane people appreciate how uncommon that might be? And did the Gander locals?

Hein: “No. The plane people told us how extraordinary the response was; the locals in Newfoundland told us how ordinary the response was. They said, ‘This is just what anyone would do.’ And what’s been amazing has been, time and time again, people from around the world saying, ‘This was extraordinary.’ It renews people’s faith in humanity, and reminded people that there was good in the world, and that’s what the stranded passengers saw.”

Sankoff: “To them, it just made sense. As Claude said, you know, we could have 7,000 scared, lonely, angry, and then he said hangry people sitting on the edge of town, but instead, just by treating them with respect and humanity, we had 7,000 friends. And then eventually, when they left, it was 7,000 new family members. So, I mean, to them, it just made sense to be like, okay, come off the planes, and let’s put you in some community buildings. They got off the planes, they went through some processing by mostly volunteers of the town, they got given a juice box, they got given a sandwich, they got put on a bus, and they got put in different community buildings. And then they said, ‘Oh, you’re eight months pregnant? You’re 87 years old? You’re not comfortable. Come to my house.’ You think of it, it just made sense. And they’re still a little, like, ‘What is wrong with the rest of you, that just doesn’t make sense?’”

The kindness and compassion, we’ve seen before with natural disasters, like hurricanes and wildfires; the community helps out. But this has the added dimension of a traumatic event where the people don’t know what’s going to happen, they don’t know what’s going to happen to them, they don’t know where they’re being driven to, and so forth. So that tension is really butting up against the generosity, where people want to help, and one guy is worried that they’re gonna take his wallet. That tension was very humanizing, in terms of telling their story, and that’s the bridge that had to be crossed between the two parties.

Hein: “I think there was so much unknown on both sides. People were getting off the planes, and they still hadn’t seen any of the images [of the attacks] by that time, after being cooped up on planes for 28 hours, and then eventually winding up in a hall with TVs set up. But on the other hand, the locals were also just getting the news, and were being told that any of the planes might be bomb threats, and yet still people were climbing into the holds to take care of the animals, and they were welcoming these people into their homes without knowing who they were. It’s a type of bravery that we rarely see or talk about these days. It’s the bravery of being kind.”

It’s 25 years later. Many in the audience weren’t even alive when it happened. And yet the show is still meeting success. It’s not like it only has something to speak of to the people who were there, who remember, who had experienced it at that time. How do you understand younger audiences taking away this story if they didn’t live through it themselves?

Hein: “I think we’ve been surprised that the show resonates with young people and old alike, for people who weren’t alive at the time when 9/11 happened. We’ve seen kids come up with Captain Beverly Bass on their shirt. A young Muslim woman said that this show helped her understand why the world changed that day, and what actually happened. It helped them give context to that event. And it’s been a safe way for teachers to explain 9/11 to their classrooms by starting off by saying there were people helping. And that’s extended to – time and again, unfortunately – tragedies around the world.

“People are able to take this story and say, this is how you respond to a tragedy, and to always look for the helpers in the background, because there’s far more of them than there are people trying to hurt people. So, I think it’s resonated with kids, when they see dark times, and remembering that this is how we can respond.”

I understand that the interview subjects were able to approve of their characters’ depictions. Was there anything they had objected to – not necessarily because they thought it was wrong, but because they wanted to be private about it?

Hein: “We were very lucky that when we first went out to Gander on the 10th anniversary, so many people were remembering the stories, and the people who wanted to tell the stories and share their stories, were the ones that came out and who we talked to. Obviously, they didn’t know this was going to be a musical, they didn’t know it was going to be a Broadway musical, and that it was going to go around the world, so I think they thought we were a bunch of kids who didn’t know what they were doing. And luckily, they then would come to workshops, and we would watch them from the back of the house and worry about what they thought, and time and again, they told us that the story needed to be told, and they approved it.

“There were small details. I remember Nick and Diane telling us that they kissed on a bus instead of kissing on a plane, and we said, ‘You know, we don’t have a scene on a bus right now, so it would really be better if you could kiss on the plane.’ And they’ve, you know, accepted those small alterations. But overall, these were people that we made friends with. We got ‘screeched in’ with Nick and Diane and Beverly Bass.”

You kissed the cod?

Hein: “We kissed the cod! But Irene, who has a slight fish phobia, could not kiss the fish, and Claude, Mayor Elliott, who was running the ceremony, very graciously said, ‘I’ll make you a deal: you can either kiss the fish, or you can kiss me.’”

Sankoff: “And he gave me a wink, like a very, whatever you do is gonna be fine.”

Hein: “So, Irene kissed the mayor, and then the next day we had an interview with him, and I said, ‘Hi, I’m David, and you’ve already kissed my wife.’”

Sankoff: “I will say that we were sensitive, though. When we were first talking to Kevin T, I remember asking him, ‘Are you okay if you’re in the story with your boyfriend, or do you want us to not include that?’ And he thought about it for a second. He was like, ‘No, no, it’s okay.’ And then with Ali, that’s actually based on five men. At least one of those men that we spoke to, you know, they didn’t want to be identified, and that’s fine. He’s seen the show, but he doesn’t come backstage, he doesn’t take part in anything else, and we just sort of keep his identity secret.”

Hein: “We had one, strange moment where we had a character in the show who was the boyfriend of another character, and we hadn’t had the opportunity to talk to them, and in the middle of doing the workshop in Seattle, one of our actors got an email saying, ‘I think you’re playing me in a musical?’ And we finally got to meet him, and fortunately, he was a musical theater fan.”

Sankoff: “His email address was the address of Grey Gardens. And I was like, ‘Oh God, we’re in trouble! He knows musical theater, he’s gonna know this is happening!’”

Hein: “But he was very gracious, and it was wonderful to meet him. We’ve always tried to have the real people believe in the show, but also believe that we were doing right by them, and that this was their story. And so, if ever there was something that they didn’t like, I think they felt comfortable coming to us. But also, we were telling their story with their words, and that’s what’s important to us.”

What was the reception to the show when it was performed for the first time in Gander?

Sankoff: “There’s not words in the English language. Just joy. At first, it was very quiet in the lines outside, because Newfoundlanders, they used to be the butt of jokes in Canada, so I think everyone was very like, How are we gonna be represented? And as soon as we got into the chorus of ‘I’m an Islander, I’m an Islander,’ people started, like, stomping their feet and clapping their hands, and oh my gosh, it was so fun. There’s an old folk song in the middle of ‘Screech In,’ where it’s a call-and-response song, but we’ve forgotten to tell the cast that.”

Hein: “So, when the cast sings, the entire audience yelled ‘Heave Away’ back at them, and everyone burst into tears. It was an extraordinary experience bringing the show back to Newfoundland the first time.

“We were doing a benefit concert in the world’s largest walk-in refrigerator, which is their hockey rink where they stored the food at the time. And the entire town came out, and we were so worried. The actors were so worried about getting their accents right; we were so worried about sharing the stories that had been shared with us. By the end of the show, in the final song, everyone stood up. Thousands of people in Gander stood up and started cheering.”

Sankoff: “The show wasn’t even over yet, but they were just like, we don’t even care. We couldn’t hear the actors.”

Hein: “We were all in tears. It was the best. Everything after that is a cherry on top. There’s nothing that will be better than that night. And bringing it back now to Newfoundland means the world, because we’re not just bringing the show back, we’re bringing the world back. We’ve shown people around the world, and they are coming to Gander, and they are filling the hotels, and filling the restaurants, and showing them, in a million different ways, that they’re thankful for the inspiration, for the hope that we saw the first time in 2011.”

The Apple TV filming of the show, with the Broadway cast, was recorded just as we were coming out of the COVID lockdown – a similar trauma where, just as the passengers didn’t know what was going to happen, we didn’t know what was going to happen with COVID, how long the lockdown was going to take, and so forth. So, what was it like to finally get back into the theater with people and have this story performed live?

Hein: “It was amazing. We had been working on ‘Come From Away’ potentially as a movie, and so when COVID hit, it was mostly awful, because our show and the theater community was struck so hard, and everyone was out of work. We very quickly tried to pivot to how do we bring people back to work, and doing a live capture of the show was a wonderful way to bring our band and our cast and our crew back. It was insanely challenging to bubble everyone in a hotel, to bring them over, to bring an audience in, all masked. I remember on the day when we had the audience in the theater, there was a shooter in Times Square, and we had to lock the doors, and everyone had to get their cell phones back, and tell their families that they were safe. And so, it was a tense, worrying time, with a lot of fear. And it was so joyous to bring our family back together, to bring these people back to work, and to create some art that had something to say, that reminded us that there can be light after darkness again. I’m so glad we were able to do it.

“It’s the most-produced show in the world now, I think, at least in North America.”

Sankoff: “There’ve been productions in Korea and Sweden. We’re just sort of signing a contract about China that’s sitting in my inbox. You can’t shake a stick without hitting a production of ‘Come From Away’! I was in, like, Colorado, and someone was like, ‘Your show’s playing 40 minutes from here,’ and they were like, ‘We want to go!’ And I was like, ‘Alright, let’s go!’ It’s remarkable. It’s insane.”

Hein: “And what’s extraordinary is seeing the show in Buenos Aires or Korea. In Japan, the cast told us that they weren’t affected by 9/11 very much, but they had their 3/11, which was the tsunami, and the show was about that. It was about how their community responded to that tragedy. And seeing the world say, ‘This inspires us, this moves us’ in the same way that we were initially moved when we came to Gander, is so affirming. It means that we all believe in the same thing. We all want to be good people and want to be good to one another, and it’s been an incredible gift.

“And to have the show resonate now, especially – we’re here in Canada, but our second home is Newfoundland, and our third home is New York. I mean, we have many homes now, thankfully. But, to have a story that reminds us that our two countries can work together, and we’re there for one another, is another reminder that we can be better than we are right now.”

To watch a trailer for “Come From Away,” featuring the Broadway cast, click on the video player below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77C4zUkjs

Come From Away — Official Trailer | Apple TV by Apple TV on YouTube

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Live Concert

On Sunday, Sept. 13 in New York City, former Broadway and national tour company members of “Come From Away” will reunite for a free, one-time-only concert event to commemorate 25 years since 9/11. “Come From Away” in Concert: Sounds of Remembrance, an open-air concert, will be performed at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan, across from the 9/11 Memorial.

To watch rehearsal video featuring the cast of “Come From Away in Concert: Sounds of Remembrance,” click on the video player below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitP_WZQw5o

Rehearsal for “Come From Away in Concert” by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

Remembering 9/11: Robert De Niro on helping revive Lower Manhattan after September 11

September 6, 2026 / 10:08 AM EDT / CBS News

Film legend Robert De Niro has lived or worked in Lower Manhattan for years. “You know, the East Side is another world to someone like me who’s Lower Manhattan,” he said.

So, for De Niro, the attacks on 9/11 hit especially close to home: “I was just about to fly to California. I was at a meeting in Midtown, and instead of going to the airport, I came back down here, and saw the tower, the North Tower, the smoke coming out, and so on. And then saw the South Tower fall. I couldn’t believe, I couldn’t believe it. I looked to my left where I have a big television and so confirmed it on CNN.”

“You had to look on the TV to confirm what you were seeing?” I asked.

“What I was seeing with my own eyes, yeah! It was weird.”

Robert De Niro and correspondent Tracy Smith in Tribeca. CBS News

And in the weeks that followed, he saw his old neighborhood become a ghost town. “The thing I remember most is, right up here it was with the dust that was wet down, as I say, every day, every few hours maybe, with the sanitation water trucks to keep that stuff down.”

In fact, most of Lower Manhattan was covered in the dust from nearby Ground Zero, a poisonous plague that drifted through the air, and into people’s homes and lungs. De Niro taped up his windows, worried that the dust was toxic. Which it was.

An ash-covered street near Ground Zero, after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Anthony Correia/Getty Images

But when the dust finally began to settle, De Niro and his longtime business partner, producer Jane Rosenthal, started to look for ways to pull Lower Manhattan out of the ashes.

Rosenthal said, “As a mother of two little girls. I was scared: What’s going to happen again? I mean, it’s all those feelings. But it’s also like, okay, how can we help? If we can help, if we can do something, then something good will come of it.”

They’d kicked around the notion of starting a film festival in Tribeca before, but after 9/11, it took on a new urgency as a way to help heal a shattered city.

In May 2002, only eight months after the attacks, the very first Tribeca Film Festival opened, drawing big crowds and even bigger names, like Nelson Mandela.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, shakes hands with Hugh Grant at the opening ceremony of the Tribeca Film Festival on the steps of City Hall, May 8, 2002, in New York. Joining them are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, festival co-organizer Robert De Niro, and Whoopi Goldberg. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

De Niro said, “It just seemed like the right thing to do.”

Rosenthal said, “How do you give your neighbors a hug and say, ‘This is going to be okay?’ How do you say to everybody, ‘Okay, we need something to look forward to?’”

And for the 150,000-plus people who lined up for the first festival, that’s exactly what it was.

De Niro says he never had a doubt: “I wasn’t thinking, I was just being, We’re going to do it.”

Nearly 25 years later, a new documentary about the history of the festival, “Tribeca 25,” premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, Sept. 11.

Since 2002, the Tribeca Festival, in addition to films, has grown to feature concerts, filmmaker talks, industry panels, podcasts, virtual reality and games at venues throuhgout the city. Tribeca Festival

De Niro is famous for bringing a certain level of passion to his film roles, and he’s just as fiery off-screen when it comes to politics.

He joined in the nationwide No Kings rallies last spring, and told the crowd in New York City, “We’re going from the streets to the ballot box, because we all deserve a country with no kings.”

The Tribeca Film Festival was created as a reaction to real-world tragedy – the 9/11 attacks – and the founders say they’re still on a mission to use art as an antidote to what they see is real trauma in America. Rosenthal said, “We’re a festival that was started because of an act of war. It was to say to the rest of the world, ‘We’re still here.’”

De Niro called the creation of the festival “an act of defiance,” and says it continues to be one towards the Trump administration. “Well, it is, it is,” he said. “And we felt if anyone was going to start coming at us or coming in with the nonsense, we’re going to be ready for it. And we now see more and more how insane this administration is, how insane Donald Trump is, and he has to be gotten out. And we’ve got to get back on track with this country. That’s all. So, however we can do something with this festival to oppose him and all the destruction he’s responsible for, we’re there.”

The administration’s usual response to De Niro’s criticism is that he has “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Asked to comment, De Niro replied, “‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is because of what he’s done. They revert it. He reverts things and inverts them and twists them around. It’s a lot of silly nonsense. A three-year-old could do it. That’s just a way to deflect, and we all know that. But the point is, things being said now here have to be allowed to be said.”

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De Niro’s a little less willing to talk about all he’s done to bring downtown back, but the city speaks for itself – and he says he never feared it wouldn’t recover from 9/11. “I always felt it would come back,” he said. “It could never not come back. Like anything, it could take time.”

In 25 years, the Tribeca Festival has brought thousands of films and millions of dollars to Lower Manhattan; helped launch the careers of directors like Ryan Coogler and Camien Chazelle, among others; and, yes, it also helped revive a city. “I’m very proud of what we’ve done,” he said. “That’s all.”

And while there are many film festivals in the world, he admits Tribeca needed this one. “Yeah, we did, I think.”

To watch a trailer for the documentary “Tribeca 25,” click on the video player below:

https://youtu.be/-3ybhlaI2Ac

TRIBECA 25 Official Trailer | Coming to Netflix September 11 by Tribeca on YouTube

For more info:

• Tribeca Festival (Official site)
• “Tribeca 25” debuts on Netflix September 11

Story produced by John D’Amelio. Editor: Steven Tyler.

普拉博沃与佐科互动忽冷忽热 互争下届选举组队主导权

2026年9月6日 22:45 / 联合早报 蓝云舟 雅加达特派员

• 印尼总统普拉博沃与前总统佐科近期互动忽冷忽热，双方正为下届总统选举组队排阵争夺主导权。 – 佐科引用谚语告诫掌权者勿自满，被解读为针对普拉博沃；此前副总统吉布兰座位调整引发外界猜测。 – 分析指两人关系具交易性质且互惠互利，普拉博沃需借佐科人气，佐科方则希望延续搭档连任论述。 – 宪法法院废除议席门槛改变提名考量，加上民调下滑，普拉博沃与吉布兰能否再次搭档仍是未知数。

上个月印度尼西亚独立日庆典上，印尼前总统佐科（左三）与长子、副总统吉布兰（右三）分坐总统普拉博沃两旁，让外界好奇普拉博沃与佐科家族在传递何种政治信号。 （路透社）

台面上一团和气，私下却各有盘算。民调下跌的印度尼西亚总统普拉博沃与仍有人气的前总统佐科，近期互动时而热络、时而疏离。这看似矛盾，却是双方在为下届总统选举中的组队排阵争夺主导权。

已卸任近两年的佐科，时不时仍出现在媒体视野。8月29日，他在一场活动上致辞时，引用爪哇谚语“Lamun siro sekti, ojo mateni”，意即即使握有权力，也不要打压他人。

他接着指出，掌权者不应自满，因为权力和职权都是短暂的。

虽未明言所指何人，但坊间把佐科这番话解读为指向普拉博沃。一方面，佐科告诫掌权者不应对人民无礼，似是对照了普拉博沃率性、语出惊人的作风。另一方面，时间上也发生在副总统吉布兰被“挪位降职”事件后不久。

挪位事件是指今年7月，也是佐科长子的吉布兰在内阁会议上的座位不再按惯例坐在总统旁边，而是被挪到与其他内阁部长并列。总统府方面虽然澄清这是出于技术安排考量，但外界不免把这次突兀的调整解读为普拉博沃对佐科日前开始到各省巡访有所不悦，借贬低吉布兰的位置打脸佐科。

新加坡尤索夫伊萨东南亚研究院客座资深研究员雅努阿尔（Yanuar Nugroho）接受《联合早报》采访时指出，佐科的发言是典型的爪哇政治话术，话中有话，“该收到的人会收到，自己又能撇干净”。

他说：“与其说是佐科对普拉博沃的人身攻击，这更多是佐科重新显示影响力和划清界限，提醒包括普拉博沃在内的雅加达精英阶层，即使佐科家族成员的官方地位明显被更动，佐科还是有份量的。”

就在挪位事件让外界以为普拉博沃和佐科家族关系别扭时，8月17日的印尼独立日庆典上，镜头捕捉到贵宾看台上，佐科和吉布兰分坐在普拉博沃身旁，互动看似热络。

雅努阿尔将这解读为，在挪位一事上，普拉博沃想向各党派显示自己独坐权力中心。但在公共视野中，他仍需借助佐科家族的品牌效应，尤其是因为佐科仍有人气，在中爪哇省也有深厚的人脉。

佐科一方则希望延续和倡导普拉博沃和吉布兰再次搭档、2029年寻求连任的论述，官方地位被降低也得委身求全。

雅努阿尔说：“这是一段经谨慎管理、具交易性质、现阶段互惠互利的议价关系。既不是关系不睦，也不是真正和睦。”

普拉博沃和吉布兰2024年搭档参选，被形容为“权宜联手”，普拉博沃与佐科相互利用。不过，随着印尼宪法法院裁定废除政党推举总统候选人时的议席门槛，政党可更自由地推举人选，各方在支持人选时的考量已和2024年不一样。加上吉布兰在民意调查中的支持率只在单位数区间，远远落后其他政治人物，能否受邀组队参选仍是未知数。

雅努阿尔说：“普拉博沃—吉布兰组合能否走到2029年，决定性因素不只是谁的表现更好，更多是取决于各方到了接近提名时还握有多少议价能力。”

普拉博沃政府上任初期，在民调中的支持率高达八成，但近期民调显示，民众对政府的满意度已跌至五六成；普拉博沃在一份民调中的人气甚至低于同党的西爪哇省省长德迪。

雅努阿尔说，尽管如此，普拉博沃在近期民调中仍大幅领跑其他政治人物，加上他是大印尼运动党党魁，获提名连任十拿九稳。“真正要关注的是，他能获得多少支持，以及竞选搭档得更强。”

马来西亚烟霾好转 唯砂拉越仍严重710所学校停课五天

2026年9月6日 22:47 / 联合早报

砂拉越星期天（9月6日）继续是全马空气污染最严的地区。首府古晋的空污指数一度达到199点，直逼200点非常不健康水平。 （马新社）

（吉隆坡综合讯）马来西亚烟霾情况明显好转，全国截至星期天（9月6日）已没有空污指数超过300点危险水平的地区。

砂拉越仍是全国空气污染最严重的地区，两个非常不健康水平地区都在当地。当局将继续人工造雨和派发口罩，协助民众应对烟霾。

据马国环境局截至星期天晚间9时的数据，砂拉越空污指数最高的两个地区是斯里阿曼（207点）与三马拉汉（203点），都属“非常不健康”水平。

空污指数“不健康”水平的地区，全国有28个，当中指数最高的八个区都集中在砂拉越，其中以西连警区总部的188点最高。中马雪兰莪、吉隆坡、布城与森美兰也有八个区属于不健康水平，以森州汝来167点最高。

仍然严重的烟霾，继续影响砂拉越学校。砂拉越教育局长奥玛马利星期六（5日）发文告说，受影响的14个县教育局辖下共710所中小学，星期一（7日）起关闭五天至星期五（11日）。所有学生一律在家学习。

此前，砂拉越出现烟霾时，当局在特定地区关闭一些学校。当局这回采取最大规模的停课行动，受影响学生有23万8303人。

森美兰教育局则在星期天晚间宣布，州内所有学校暂停教室外活动。雪兰莪州政府则宣布，空污指数一旦突破200点，州内各级学校须停课。

据规定，空污指数超过100点，所有教室外活动必须停止。若超过200点，学校、幼儿园及托儿所须立即关闭。

副首相及国家天灾管理机构主席阿末扎希星期天告诉记者，古晋与斯里阿曼等地的空污指数仍然居高，但人工造雨已明显改善当地烟霾情况。

Remembering 9/11: When Gander provided safe haven in a time of crisis

By Conor Knighton

September 6, 2026 / 10:19 AM EDT / CBS News

The small Canadian town of Gander isn’t near much. Located on the island of Newfoundland, Gander is home to around 12,000 residents. Even fewer people lived here on September 11, 2001, when Gander’s far northeast positioning made it an ideal landing spot for grounded flights.

“Once you leave Europe in the morning, once you get halfways across, the nearest airport is Gander,” said Claude Elliott, who was mayor of Gander on 9/11. By the end of that day, 38 planes had landed at Gander’s airport, something for which there was no contingency plan. “None,” Elliott said. “We have an emergency plan, every municipality has it. But there’s nothing in that plan to tell you what to do with 7,000 people if they decide to drop in for four or five days.”

Thirty-eight international flights were grounded at Gander International Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when U.S. airspace was shut down. Rogers TV

Once it was clear that the planes wouldn’t be taking off anytime soon, Gander had to scramble to figure out what to do with its influx of temporary visitors from all around the world. Elliott declared a state of emergency. Calls went out for supplies. Churches and schools became shelters. Even the local hockey rink was put to use. “We got truckloads of food and we put it all in the community center on the ice surface, and we used it as a refrigerator to keep the food cool,” Elliott said.

Shelter was given to 7,000 stranded passengers and crew members in schools, churches, and private homes in Gander.

Locals referred to the new arrivals as the “plane people.” Offers to help poured in. Elliott said, “The greatest asset that your community has is its people. And we had our people. Everybody came out.”

One of those volunteers was Gander resident Beulah Cooper. She told us, “I said, ‘Thank God they’re coming here, ’cause I know they will be looked after.”

Cooper volunteers at the Royal Canadian Legion in Gander, which housed 67 people from an Aer Lingus flight. She brought sandwiches, shuttled stranded passengers to pay phones around town, and even invited some to sleep and shower at her home.

Cooper said it was helpful to her to be helpful: “Oh, my gosh, it does so good in here [tapping her chest] to know that you’re doing something to help somebody. And that’s what I’m all about anyway.”

Cooper is one of the people who provided the inspiration for characters in the musical “Come From Away,” which premiered on Broadway in 2017. It tells the story of how Gander rallied together to help – which former Mayor Elliott didn’t initially think was going to make for much for a story.

“I had to confess I had never seen a musical,” he said. “But in my mind I’m trying to visualize, how are you gonna make a musical out of sandwiches, soup, blankets, boxes, pillows?”

But the seemingly small story resonated in a big way. “Come From Away” won a Tony Award, toured around the world, and has created at least one new musical theater buff: Mayor Elliott, who says he has seen the show 139 times: “I’ve seen it in six countries: Canada, United States, Australia, London, Madrid, Spain, and New Zealand.”

And, most recently, right here in Gander. “Come From Away” has come home, with a professional production staged during the summer months at the local arts center. Actor Peter Halley, born just a few hours away, in St. John’s, plays Mayor Claude in the Gander production. “It’s the only cast where Newfoundland characters are played by Newfoundlanders,” he said. “So, that authenticity of the show is really there, and felt here.”

Scenes from a production of “Come From Away,” performed at the Joseph R. Smallwood Arts and Culture Centre in Gander, Newfoundland. CBS News

The play’s title, “Come From Away,” is a reference to people who visit Newfoundland. “You’re just coming to see us and to experience the province, and you are from away,” said Halley. “And you’ve come from away. So, ‘CFA’ is just an expression that I think I’ve known forever.”

And now, thanks to the show’s global popularity, Gander sees a lot more CFAs. The aviation museum has an exhibit that highlights those days after 9/11, featuring thank-you notes written by grateful passengers. Metal beams from the Twin Towers were sent to Gander. The Legion regularly hosts “screech-ins” for tourists, a tradition portrayed in the musical, in which visitors can become honorary Newfoundlanders by taking a shot of strong rum and kissing a cod fish.

Beulah Cooper is usually on hand to help out. She’s still getting used to her celebrity status. “All they want, ‘I gotta hug Beulah. I gotta hug Beulah,’ and the tears running down their face,” Cooper laughed. “And I thought, ‘Take it easy. It’s only me!’”

But ordinary people stepping up in times of crisis is exactly why the story of what happened in Gander resonates. “Come From Away” considers itself a “9/12 musical.” It focuses on the acts of kindness that happened the next day.

“You talk to people like you like to be spoken to, and you treat people like you like to be treated,” Cooper said. “And if you see somebody that needs help, if you can help them, you better do that.”

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马国首次成功野放闯入甘榜的马来亚虎

2026年9月6日 22:59 / 联合早报

西马半岛野生动物及国家公园局星期六（9月5日）将这只今年7月捕获的雌性马来亚虎“卓勇”，带到肯逸湖附近的登嘉楼国家公园原始森林放生。 （马新社）

马来西亚半岛野生动物及国家公园局星期六（9月5日）将之前捕获的马来亚虎，野放到肯逸湖附近的登嘉楼国家公园原始森林。这是当局首次捕获闯入甘榜的老虎并成功野放的案例。

据《光华日报》报道，当局今年7月22日在霹雳和丰的甘榜卓（Kampung Choh）附近，捕获一只7岁的雌性马来亚虎并命名“勇卓”（Yong Choh）。

半岛野生动物及国家公园局人员随即将勇卓送往霹雳宋溪国家野生动物拯救中心接受治疗。当局对勇卓进行兽医检查、血液检测及疾病筛查后，确认勇卓健康状况良好，适合重返野外。

天然资源及环境永续部长亚瑟古律星期六在登嘉楼国家公园主持野放仪式时说：“这是当局首次有人与野生动物冲突中获救的马来亚虎，通过科学及规划重新放归自然栖息地。”

亚瑟古律说：“这项计划是为了加强野生动物保育工作，并协助缓和人与野生动物之间的冲突。”

据介绍，半岛野生动物及国家公园局希望恢复野生动物在自然栖息地的数量、提升被放归动物的基因多样性，并支持濒危物种的长期保育工作。

除了马来亚虎，当局计划捕获及野放的野生动物，还包括黑豹、马鹿、赤麂、穿山甲、椰子狸、小鼷鹿及大鼷鹿。

当局也成功将一些曾受人与野生动物冲突影响的大象放归野外。

网红教师吁取消英语主科地位 中国再掀“英语降权”之争

2026年9月6日 23:08 / 联合早报

• 辽宁调整中考科目后，网红教师汤家凤呼吁取消英语主科地位，称崇洋媚外历史该结束，引发舆论争议。 – 胡锡进批评汤家凤偏激狭隘，指将英语问题高度爱国主义化只会导致不必要的意识形态争议和混乱。 – 网民观点分化，支持者认为职场用英语少且AI可替代，反对者强调弱化英语教育或削弱国家竞争力。 – 学者熊丙奇指出单降分值难解教育问题，应聚焦改革应试模式，学科存废之争对改革并无实际意义。

中国网红教师汤家凤在社媒平台“今日头条”呼吁当局取消英语作为核心课程的地位。 （互联网）

中国辽宁省近日宣布历史等科目不再计入中考总分后，网红教师汤家凤呼吁当局反而应取消英语的主科地位，并称“崇洋媚外的历史该结束了”，再次掀起围绕“英语降权”的争议。

汤家凤是南京大学数学博士，长期从事考研数学教学。此次争议的缘起，是他对部分地区初中学业水平考试（简称中考）改革的担忧。

上月28日，辽宁省教育厅宣布，为优化考试评价并减轻学生负担，今年秋季学期起将历史、地理和生物学这三个科目由考试改为考查科目，不计入中考总分。

汤家凤上星期四（9月3日）在社媒平台“今日头条”写道，看到一些地方已不把历史计入中考分数，在中国纪念抗日战争胜利81周年之际，感觉“心里好沉重”。

汤家凤隔天进一步指出，真正应减负的是英语教学。他写道，“我公开呼吁取消英语作为核心课程的地位！从小学开始，初中、高中、大学，我们的孩子、家长、学校把多少资源、多少时间放在绝大多数人工作之后八竿子打不着的课程上”，并称“中国人崇洋媚外的历史该结束了”。

目前，英语与语文和数学一样，是中国基础教育的必修课。在高考中，三科权重相当，分值均为150分。

“汤家凤呼吁取消英语主科地位”上星期六（5日）登上微博热搜榜首，带动“要不要取消英语主科地位”等多个话题，当中不乏反对和质疑声。

中国官媒《环球时报》前总编辑胡锡进发文狠批汤家凤是“蠢货”，并指将学习英语斥为“崇洋媚外”的其实仅是偏激、狭隘的一群人。

胡锡进认为，英语的地位是西方几百年来引领现代化的结果，而随着中国崛起，以中文为描述工具的发明创造正不断增加，科技和经济大盘也朝中文倾斜；但“那将是一个漫长过程……将这个问题高度‘爱国主义化’，只会欲速不达，导致不必要的意识形态争议和混乱”。

网民的看法则呈现分化。支持降低英语权重的人认为，多数人步入职场后使用英语的机会有限，人工智能（AI）翻译技术也足以满足交流需求。反对一方则强调，英语仍是中国接轨前沿科研领域的重要工具，弱化英语教育可能削弱国家竞争力。

近年来，呼吁降低英语主科地位的声音不时浮现。今年中国两会（全国人大、政协年会）期间，就有政协委员建议将高考英语分值从150分降至100分。

中国教育学者熊丙奇接受《联合早报》访问时说，呼吁取消英语主科地位的声音一直存在，核心理由是学生投入学习外语的时间太长，“投入产出比”不高；近年来又叠加至少两个因素：一是AI发展让一些人认为学习外语已不那么重要，二是网络舆论更多地将学英语和崇洋媚外联系起来，加剧对立情绪。

但在熊丙奇看来，单是降低英语分值并不能解决教育体系面对的问题。“科目减少了，（就会有人说）科目不被重视，那就会再增加；增加后，家长又说负担重，于是又减少……取消几年后又回来，是必然结果。”

他认为，真正待解的问题，是中高考的总分录取模式和单一评价体系所造成的“唯分数、唯升学”倾向；当前应聚焦的是应试教育模式怎么改，学科的存废之争反而对改革没意义。

中国科技媒体“快科技”报道则分析，这场争议折射公众对教育资源分配的反思，未来教育改革大概率不会走一刀切取消英语主科的极端路线，更可能分层分类，允许不同发展方向的学生选择适配的英语学习强度。

What is postpartum psychosis?

September 6, 2026 9:32 AM EDT / CBS News

Ten years ago, Meghan Cliffel was a working mother in New York City. In December 2015, she was back at work, eight months after giving birth to her second girl: “I had taken on a lot of work stress, and not quite feeling like myself, but outwardly, I was functioning well,” she said. “And it wasn’t until Friday, December 4th of 2015, when things just dramatically changed for me.”

On that day, Cliffel says she began to believe she was being “surveilled.” “And from that moment on, I am just lost in a totally deluded, terrifying reality, where I believe the entire city is out to get me,” she said.

Meghan Cliffel was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis following the birth of her second child. Family Photo

Then, she started to hallucinate. “The TV starts to change, and it’s the face of a male relative of mine, and then he says, ‘If she thinks she’s getting out of this alive, she’s got another thing coming,’” Cliffel said.

As her husband, Colin, remembers, the next morning Meghan’s crisis engulfed the whole family: “I felt like I was interacting with a wholly different person,” he said. “Her behavior in those, like, acute 12 hours in particular in our apartment was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. … It just became this sort of epic battle where, you know, she is trying to quote/unquote rescue our girls (who are happily in our bedroom playing), and I literally have to have my back up against our bedroom door to try to keep Meghan out. And then, just like that she turns around and is trying to get to our apartment door, ’cause she’s threatening to go to the roof. And eventually, you know, I’d say she punches like Mike Tyson, and came out swinging and, you know, clocked me twice.”

Colin called 911, and Meghan spent the next two weeks in Bellevue Hospital, where she was prescribed Lithium. It wasn’t until two months later that she learned the diagnosis: postpartum psychosis, a severe mental illness.

Dr. Veerle Bergink, a psychiatrist and director for women’s health at Mr. Sinai’s School for Medicine, has been studying postpartum psychosis for 20 years. She says it should not be misunderstood as postpartum depression. Bergink calls postpartum psychosis a “psychiatric emergency,” with symptoms that can be extreme: “Mania, racing thoughts, psychosis, losing reality, or depression with psychotic features, being so low that you think everything is your fault, or a mixture of these. And these symptoms occur within a few months after delivery.”

Asked how common are cases where a mother with postpartum psychosis harms herself or her baby, Bergink replied, “Unfortunately, suicide is a major cause of mortality. Infanticide is extremely rare.”

Postpartum psychosis was at the center of the trial of Lindsay Clancy, which has riveted the country. Neither the defense nor the prosecution disputed that Clancy had killed her three children in January 2023.

The prosecution of Lindsey Clancy for killing her three children ended in a mistrial. She had been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/Pool

During the trial, prosecutor Jennifer Sprague argued, “The issue is whether, at the time [Clancy] killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, she knew the difference between right and wrong, and whether she could conform her behavior to the requirements of the law.”

But Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, argued that her undiagnosed psychosis rendered her legally insane: “This is a woman who was suffering from psychosis at the time that she went down to that basement. She had no motive. She loved her children.”

After deliberating for seven days, the jury could not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.

The condition at the center of the trial is considered rare, afflicting an estimated 1 to 2 women per 1,000 births a year in the U.S., potentially affecting up to 9,000 mothers annually, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Bergink said, “It has been known for thousands of years. It has been described, you know, by the ancient Greek, in all cultures, in all times.”

Yet, Bergink says there are currently fewer than 10 research groups in the U.S. studying the illness. “We don’t know how to prevent it yet, because there is no research, there is no funding,” she said. “But then, if you make the diagnosis, we can treat it. Ninety-eight percent in our studies really got better within weeks.”

Postpartum psychosis has no single known cause. Symptoms can shift dramatically over days or hours, and mothers may intermittently appear functional – which can confuse their family and clinicians.

Dr. Jennifer Payne, a reproductive psychiatrist and vice chair of research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said, “Postpartum psychosis is a much rarer presentation, and many psychiatrists have never seen a case.”

Payne hopes the tragic case of Lindsay Clancy will educate the public and the legal system about postpartum psychosis. She notes there has been some change in the nearly 25 years since Andrea Yates was tried for the murder of her five children while suffering from psychosis.

However, Payne said, “I don’t think the legal system has progressed to handle postpartum psychosis cases well. I think that there continues to be an amazing amount of stigma surrounding maternal mental health and psychiatric diagnosis.”

Payne said she would like to see, “when it is clear that a patient has had postpartum psychosis and acted on delusions as part of that illness, that that particular case should not progress to a murder trial, and should instead be relegated to a mental health treatment journey.”

Three years after her recovery, Meghan Cliffel and husband Colin decided to have a third child. “The risk of recurrence was one-in-three unmedicated,” Meghan said. “I actually didn’t want to take medication, ’cause I felt like I’d done so much work on myself and our life. My husband was, ‘Hard no.’ So, I took Lithium prophylactically immediately after birth in the hospital until a year after. And then, honestly, it turned out more beautifully than after my first two. I had, like, so much more joy the third time around.”

Their son is now six years old. And with all the attention surrounding the trial of Lindsay Clancy, Cliffel felt she needed to share her story. “It’s a real illness,” she said. “There’s no shame. And you can get better. It is a beast and it’s hard to heal from, and it warrants time and attention. But take that time, because this is a very real, devastating illness.”

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伊尔汗新东家首秀双响 水手打败淡滨尼捧起社区盾

2026-09-06 23:42 / 新明日报

• 狮城水手星期天晚以2比0击败淡滨尼流浪夺回社区盾，时隔一年再次捧杯，这也是队史第四次赢得该项赛事冠军。 – 新援伊尔汗加盟首秀便梅开二度，上半场接队友传中头球及抽射破门，助球队迅速确立领先优势并锁定胜局。 – 淡滨尼上半场错失三次得分良机，前锋东川续射门击中门柱未能扳回一城，下半场防守疲于奔命最终零比二落败。 – 临时主帅莫雷诺赞扬团队职业素养，称阵容深度足以应对五线作战，保持全员健康是漫长赛季的关键所在。

我国神锋伊尔汗·范迪（17号）在为新东家狮城水手的首场比赛中就梅开二度，助球队捧起新加坡社区盾。 （李冠卫摄）

本地足球豪门狮城水手（Lion City Sailors）在星期天晚（9月6日）实现复仇，以2比0完胜老对手淡滨尼流浪（Tampines Rovers）夺回社区盾，开启新赛季的漫长征程。

两队在上赛季的社区盾、新加坡杯和新超联赛中均展开了直接交锋。淡滨尼虽然以4比1战胜水手，队史第六次捧起社区盾，但水手在新加坡杯和新超联赛冠军争夺中击败流浪，蝉联国内两冠王。

水手今夏大幅补强，11个签约中引进了郭家溍、伊尔汗·范迪（Ilhan Fandi）、莱汉·斯图尔特（Ryhan Stewart），以及法汉（Farhan Zulkifli）四名国脚，其中郭家溍在为淡滨尼效力三个赛季后，此役反戈旧主。

水手还签下了巴西中卫戈麦斯（Gomes）、锋线悍将费顿（Phaeton）与曼斯（Mance），以及曾在利物浦（Liverpool）青训营受训的荷兰前锋阿德坎耶（Adekanye）。

淡滨尼本赛季的最大变化是迎回了昔日队长兼国脚纳兹里·纳西尔（Nazri Nasir）出任主帅，同时以一纸两年合约将前锋东川续留下。这名日本前锋上赛季从日本第三级别联赛球队栃木市（Tochigi City）租借而来，20场轰入19球，荣膺新超年度最佳球员奖项。

水手左右开弓 伊尔汗梅开二度

伊尔汗（左）在上半场再次破门，为狮城水手锁定胜局。（李冠卫摄）

水手今夏的大手笔很快在惹兰勿刹体育场展现出来，和去年大败不同，水手很快便掌握了主动。

第17分钟，志在复仇的水手于左翼打出配合，由葡萄牙籍左后卫迪奥戈·科斯塔（Diogo Costa）找到传中机会，杀到门前的伊尔汗在个人首秀中便以一记头球收下加盟新东家的首球。

不到10分钟后，水手左右开弓，这次由法汉从右侧传中，伊尔汗在禁区内抽射破门，和国家队队友完成连线的同时梅开二度。

淡滨尼全力开始反击，并在第32分钟迎来良机。面对长传，水手门将阿斯纳尔（Aznar）出击失误，令球门大开。而东川续却意外失手，这名日本前锋的射门击中立柱，未能攻破无人把守的空门。

上半场补时阶段刚开始，淡滨尼的鹫见星河突施冷箭险些破门，之后东川续的头球再被没收，半场比分定格在0比2。

错过了三次良机的淡滨尼在进攻端再无建树，下半场在防守端疲于奔命，虽然成功没有让差距变大，但还是以0比2败北。

水手因此时隔一年再次捧起社区盾，队史第四次捧盾和裕廊队（FC Jurong，前称新潟阿比雷斯）并列第二，能够在下星期六（12日）开启的新超赛季中冲击国内三冠王。

时隔四年回归新加坡球会赛场的伊尔汗赛后说：“这种感觉太美妙了。我已经很久没有在新超联赛中感受到如此热烈的球场氛围了。能以梅开二度的方式开启我在狮城水手的新篇章，是一个完美的起点。”

本赛季伊尔汗（右）从泰国联赛回归新超，延续了在国家队的火热状态。（李冠卫摄）

水手不受变帅影响 不惧新赛季“五线”作战

在原主帅卡萨斯（Jesus Casas）赛前五天突然离队的阴霾下，狮城水手助理教练瓦罗·莫雷诺（Varo Moreno）临危受命担任临时主帅。

这名西班牙教头在赛后记者会上高度赞扬了球员和教练团队在动荡中展现的职业素养，他说：“这是新赛季的第一场比赛，过去几周俱乐部发生了很多变化，并不理想。但今晚的表现，向大家证明了我们是一群多么敬业、专业的职业球员、教练和团队。”

捧起社区盾后，新赛季也随之正式揭幕。而水手队中多名国脚在过去的休赛期参与了亚细安锦标赛等赛事，几乎没有休息就要开启一个“五线”征战的赛季。

临时主帅莫雷诺认为球队强大的板凳深度将是制胜关键，他说：“这会是一个极其艰难而漫长的赛季。

“相比上赛季，我们今年的阵容更为庞大，这让我们更有底气去应对人员轮换和密集赛程。如果把国脚在国家队的任务（亚洲杯）也算上，我们相当于要应付五项赛事。保持全员健康至关重要，哪怕有人受伤，我们也有足够的实力人手顶上。”

Letitia James’ Times Square shooting probe draws GOP criticism over New York’s mental health crisis

September 6, 2026 9:53am EDT / Fox News

Woman who fatally stabbed a Bank of America executive had 2 prior police encounters linked to mental health

By Elaine Mallon, Fox News

Letitia James shredded for probing cops who stopped Time Square killer: ‘That approach fails everyone’

Republican Attorney General hopeful Saritha Komatireddy says James “told you exactly who she is” and vows to launch an Office of Civil Commitment which will pair cops and doctors to get known dangerous people off the streets and into treatment.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing scrutiny after opening up a legally required investigation into the police shooting of a woman who fatally stabbed Erin Piacenti, Bank of America executive and a new mother in her first week back to work from maternity leave, in Times Square.

James’ office announced on Wednesday that it will be investigating Pamela Cisneros’ death, who was wielding two large knives in each hand when officers confronted her following the fatal stabbing. She was ordered to drop the weapons but did not comply and was shot when she moved toward the officers.

Under state law, the Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation is mandated to investigate all deaths that were caused by police officers. However, Republican attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy is pushing the Attorney General’s Office to take more concrete steps to ensure that another tragic killing or attack caused by a mentally unstable person doesn’t happen again. She argued that an investigation into police conduct fails to address the real problem.

“The problem is that we have people who are known dangerous individuals, people with documented mental illness,” Komatireddy told Fox News Digital. “They’ve been in the courts before, or they’ve been to the hospitals before. The police know exactly who they are, but we have no ability to take care of them.”

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A split of Erin Piacenti and the Times Square crime scene where she was tragically stabbed and killed on Aug. 31, 2026.(Getty ; Facebook)

A campaign spokesperson for James accused Komatireddy of seeking to “score cheap political points off of a tragedy.”

“Saritha Komatireddy wants to be Attorney General but doesn’t understand the law,” a spokesperson said in an email to Fox News Digital. “Under New York’s Executive Law, the Office of the Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation is required to investigate any incident where a police officer’s actions may have caused a death, including this one.”

However, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has a history of anti-police rhetoric, applauded the officers who stopped Cisneros.

“I want to thank the NYPD officers who stepped in and prevented a horrific attack from becoming even worse,” Mamdani said at a news conference.

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New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch shared that while Cisneros, who lived in Queens, didn’t have an arrest record in the city, there were two times police responded to calls concerning her suffering a mental health crisis.

In March 2019, Cisneros attempted suicide by jumping onto the tracks of the E train and was removed and later hospitalized. In March 2018, police found her in Midtown, where she was screaming, acting belligerent and intoxicated.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Under the state’s Mental Hygiene Law, police and doctors can take a person to the hospital for a psychological hold if they are deemed to be a risk to themselves or others, or they can not meet their basic needs — but often times those with severe mental illnesses are released by the hospital back onto the streets hours after being brought in.

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Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, speaks outside federal court in Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 24, 2025.(Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I was there in Times Square — just a couple of days after this fatal stabbing — and I was walking around and saw severely mentally ill people on the street,” Komatireddy told Fox News Digital. “It’s still happening every day, and we need someone who’s actually going to propose a real solution and way forward.”

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The New York State Office of Mental Health is tasked with overseeing the state’s mental health system, which includes 23 psychiatric centers and 6,500 programs overseen by local governments and nonprofits. In addition, Komatireddy said that, if elected, she’d create a new office known as the Office of Civil Commitment that would target and keep tabs on people who are at most risk.

“The Office of Civil Commitment that I’m going to launch will be staffed with both law enforcement personnel and also physicians, and you need both because, under state law, the law requires that physicians certify that someone has the mental state required for involuntary civil commitment,” Komatireddy told Fox News Digital. “So there’s nothing like that right now in New York state. There’s no office that has both law enforcement and physicians who can work together to get these people off the streets.”

Erin Piacenti, the Bank of America vice president who was tragically killed in a stabbing attack in New York City’s Times Square on Monday Aug. 31, 2026, on her wedding day.(Facebook/Erin Piacenti)

Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky told Fox News Digital that his deputies are not trained to handle psychiatric crises — and that the county has nowhere to send people who need real care. Deputies are constantly pulled off patrol for mental-health calls, he said, then left to put those in crisis in hotels because there aren’t enough hospital beds available.

“Additionally, we really struggle when we have people in custody who we aren’t equipped to handle, and secure beds are even harder to find,” Kusminsky said. “It sometimes takes weeks or months to locate once and when we do, they are maybe on the other side of the state and at an exorbitant cost.”

“Hotels and motels don’t have doctors, don’t have medicine, don’t have therapy,” Komatireddy said. “The state needs to step in.”

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.