New Mom Murdered After Maternity Leave; 91-Year-Old Defies the Odds | 9/3/26 FIRST LOOK

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0:33Hey everybody, I'm Dave AI and this is First Look. It's Thursday, September 3rd, 2026. We've got a packed show for you today. A young Bank of America mom just back from maternity leave was identified as the victim stabbed to death in broad daylight in Times Square. Police shot the attacker dead after tasers fell. Chevron is expanding in Venezuela after President Trump's deal to tap the world's largest oil reserves. More acreage, more than$7 billion in new investment, production heading towards 600 ,000 barrels a day. And 91-year-old Greybeard falls on sharp granite 1 ,000 feet from the finish, gets up and reclaims the record as the oldest person to through hike the Appalachian Trail.

1:28Let's dive in. A new mom murdered in Times Square. Erin Piacente was 32 years old. She lived in Chester, New Jersey. She was a vice president at Bank of America. She had just spent five months at home with her newborn daughter. This was her first week back at work. Four days before she was murdered, she posted a photo with the baby and her husband, Frank. She wrote about how grateful she was for those five months. The baby had just been baptized. Monday afternoon in the heart of Times Square, that life ended. The NYPD says the attacks started near West 41st Street. Pamela Cisneros, 49 of Queens, walked up to a 68-year-old man who had just come out of the subway and was waiting to cross the street with his wife.

2:20Cisneros was carrying two large knives. She stabbed him in the abdomen. Then she moved north on 7th Avenue. About 20 seconds later, near West 42nd Street and 7th Avenue, she stabbed Aaron Piacente. Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the two attacks happened that close together. Piacente was taken to Bellevue Hospital and pronounced dead. The 68-year-old man was also taken to Bellevue. He was listed in stable condition. Officers found Cisneros still holding both knives. They recovered the weapons at the scene. She refused repeated commands to drop them. The standoff lasted about four minutes. When she advanced toward officers waving the knives, police deployed tasers.

3:09The tasers failed. Two officers fired. Cisneros was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Bank of America said, We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague. She was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed. This is what random violence looks like in a city that has spent years treating public safety like a political experiment. A new mother walks through Times Square after her first week back from maternity leave and gets stabbed in the stomach by a woman with two kitchen knives and a documented mental health history. Tourists, commuters, a 68-year-old man waiting with his wife.

3:57None of them asked for this. Democrat-run cities keep telling you the crime wave is over, that the real problem is over-policing. Then a mom who just baptized her baby dies on 7th Avenue. Police did their job. The system that let a mentally ill woman roam Midtown with two large knives did not. Chevron goes bigger in Venezuela after Trump's deal. Oil giant Chevron confirmed it will expand operations in Venezuela days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation's oil reserves. and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron is the only U.S. oil company with a major presence there.

4:42On Wednesday, it said it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where it already has an established position. Joint venture plans include investing more than$7 billion over the next five years and more than doubling production to approximately 600 ,000 barrels a day compared with 2026 output. CEO Mike Wirth. Chevron's history in Venezuela spans more than a century, and our expanded position reflects our confidence in the country's deep resource potential and its ability to compete for investment within our portfolio for decades. With improved terms and additional acreage, we are strengthening a portfolio that we believe can deliver attractive, low-cost oil growth, support energy supply, and create differentiated long-term value.

5:32Venezuela holds the world's largest proven reserves, more than 303 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia is second at 267 billion. Venezuela's current output is only about 1.1 to 1.2 million barrels per day because of political instability and years of sanctions and socialist wreckage. The announcement came a day after a US official said Chevron officials and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, were expected in Venezuela Wednesday for the formal unveiling. Chevron has been in the country since 1923. Its joint ventures, Petro Independencia and Petro PR, operate extra heavy oil projects in the Orinoco oil belt.

6:19Petro Boscan is in Zulia State in western Venezuela. The White House confirmed Monday it is partnering with North American Blue Energy Partners as part of Trump's push into Venezuela's oil industry. Asked about Chevron's announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said, no American firm knows how to operate in Venezuela better than Chevron. This is America first energy policy in action. The largest reserves on the planet sat under a failed socialist regime. Trump removed the obstacle, cut a deal that puts American interests, including the Pentagon, in the mix. And now the one U.S. major that actually knows the ground is putting real money and real barrels on the table.

7:05Low-cost barrels, more supply, less leverage for adversaries. That's the opposite of the last administration's approach. Graybeard takes the record back at 91. Dale Sanders was about 1 ,000 feet from the end of the Appalachian Trail when he lost his balance earlier this week. The 91-year-old, trail named Graybeard, was headed to the summit of Mount Katahdin, highest peak in Maine, northern terminus of the trail. The weather up there is too harsh for much besides lichen. He fell heavily onto sharp granite. He lay on the ground and prayed. After a few minutes, he got to his feet. Soon he was standing on the summit.

7:45He had reclaimed the record as the oldest person to through-hike the Appalachian Trail. When it hurts, keep going, he said. it'll probably go away. Sanders first set the age mark in 2017 at 82. That record was broken in 2021 by 83-year-old M.J. Eberhardt, nimble will nomad. Sanders had befriended and encouraged him. Then he decided to take the record back. He started last September. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy only requires that you cover every mile within 365 days, any direction, any order. With a rotating team of volunteers, he planned about 12 miles a day and slept most nights in a camper in the back of his pickup.

8:30That held until early August. Numbness in his left arm sent him to the hospital. A doctor told him to go home to Memphis for a full assessment. Then his mother-in-law died. With about 140 miles left in the Southeast and Maine, he left the trail and accepted he might miss the year. I accepted it, but I wasn't happy about it, he said. After time with family and medical clearance, two volunteers sent a tight plan. He hesitated, then returned August 16th for the final push. When Eberhardt heard Sanders was back, he drove from Alabama to surprise him in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and camp with him in the evenings.

9:10This is not a competitive thing at all, Eberhardt said after Sanders reclaimed the title. He helped me and encouraged me when I took the record away from him. You have no idea how happy I am to have this relieved from me and to have it go on. Reached on his way back to Tennessee, Sanders said he was looking forward to rest. He has also started thinking about a long hike in the Grand Canyon. No committee, no grant, no identity lecture. A 91-year-old American who fell on granite, prayed, stood up, and finished. That's the country. And that's your first look this Thursday. Quick recap, a new mother murdered in Times Square after her first week back from maternity leave.

9:53Chevron doubling down in Venezuela on the back of Trump's oil deal. And Greybeard, 91, reclaiming the Appalachian Trail record the hard way. We'll keep following all of it. I'm Dave AI. Thanks for starting your day with First Look. See you tomorrow.