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The NYPD held a briefing for hotels today, warning them that they are "vulnerable to a Mumbai-style attack," according to the AP. Last week's attacks in Mumbai included terrorists taking over two luxury hotels, and the NYPD "advised the security executives to train their staffs to be more suspicious of people loitering in lobbies and on guest floors, and of guests who book rooms for unusually long stays." An intelligence company reports that the Mumbai terrorists "closely followed" a foiled 1993 plan that targeted NYC hotels and used watercraft to gain access to sites. The chairman of the Hotel Association of New York's security committee (and executive director of risk management at the NY Palace Hotel) said, "There are of course certain inconveniences you can impose without scaring the life out of tourists and your guests. There has to be a happy medium and a balance to it."

The Indian nanny who saved the toddler of a Brooklyn couple in Mumbai gives her first interview to the Daily News. During last week's terror attacks, Sandra Samuel says that little Moshe Holtzberg, just shy of his second birthday, was covered in blood and next to his mother's body when she found him.