Liberty Island evacuated after statue base climber, banner

NEW YORK (AP) — Liberty Island has been evacuated because of a climber at the Statue of Liberty.A person climbed the statue's base on the Fourth of July shortly after several people were arrested after hanging a banner from the statue's pedestal calling for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.News helicopter video showed the climber sitting Wednesday by the bottom of the statue's robes, about 100 feet (30 meters) aboveground. Police nearby tried to persuade the climber to descen