Morning Brief: September 9

Eyes are on Apple today. It's the company's annual fall press event and there's been weeks of hype. Apple hasn't announced new products since  March and the Apple Watch. Now, they're expected to show-off an updated iPhone, improvements to Apple TV and possibly and extension of the iPad line. The event starts a 1 pm.

NEED TO KNOW

Australia to Accept 12000 More Refugees from Iraq and Syria [New York Times]

Hillary Clinton Apologizes for E-Mail Scandal [Newsday]

Study Finds It's Impossible to Live in NYC on Minimum Wage [NY Daily News]

Stephen Colbert Debuts New 'Late Show' [CBS New York]

New NYPD Program Will Expand Services Provided to Crime Victims [DNAinfo]

SPORTS

YESTERDAY

The Mets beat the Nationals 8-7.

The Yankees lost to the Orioles 2-1.

TODAY

The Mets take on the Nationals at 7:05.

The Yankees face the Orioles same time.

Day ten of the U.S. Open.

WEATHER

Partly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm possible, then thunderstorms late tonight, 88/74 [Full Forecast]

ON STAGE TONIGHT

• L7 (with Fort Lean) @ Warsaw

• Cat Power with Willy Mason @ Webster Hall The Grand Ballroom

• Lou Barlow @ Rough Trade NYC

• Blues Traveler (with Matt Jaffe And The Distractions) @ Irving Plaza

• David Broza @ City Winery

• Barrence Whitfield And The Savages with The Fleshtones and Party Lights @ the Bell House

• Billy Bob Thornton And The Boxmasters (with Abby And The Roadsters) @ the Ridgefield Playhouse

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1779, Congress officially renamed the country "United States of America."

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