tweeted kathy hochul is arrogantly shooting intoxicated on power and causing mass confusion.s inconsistent. unscientific and driven narcissism, i wonder where she learns that from. andrew cuomo 2.0, that rhymes. kathy hochul took over after he resigned in disgrace, he should be in jail, she's fighting to keep tasks on everyone's faces after her win in court today, she said the statement as governor, my top priority is predicting the people -- so that was in there. in the mask mandate stay in effect for how long? we got man panel tonight, conservative strategist and vice president is fair and from look at the hockey. former democrat, congressman cohost of the five on the fox news channel, harold ford junior is back and director of the libertarian institute, one and only, scott horton, welcome, everyone. this is very confusing, i don't know what's happening. masks are the hill everyone wants to die on. if you're mad about the mandates, you refuse to wear a mask on planes but if you are governor like kathy hochul, you ignore from your constituents asking to make those decisions

in penn stations, governor hochul, go there sometime and you tell me how things are going.it really does -- you don't recognize this country in that place. i stepped over two bodies. i wasn't sure if the people were alive. homeless people are there all the time but they were on their face down. you can't believe that this is new york city. the greatest city in the world. so yeah, look, i know that the president is going to be coming to new york next week, harris, to meet with the new mayor, eric adams but he has to denounce governor hochul and her rhetoric or the manhattan d.a. he won't of course. you look at the three biggest speeches of joe biden's life. victory speech after his election win and inauguration and you cannot find in any of those transcripts any mention of the need to beef up police and their forces all over the country. any mention of the urgency to address skyrocketing violent crime in cities and towns across the country. the need for police reform is what he has talked about. he has been an absentee president to -- where does he declare as commander-in-ch

we are waiting new york governor kathy hochul's first state address as governor.ant to bring in shelly banjo on what to expect. one of the headlines?--what are the headlines? shelly: this will be kathy hochul's first state of the state address to new york since she took over from andrew cuomo when he resigned. she is looking at health care, taxes, lowering taxes for the middle class residents, helping out with things like childcare and filling gaps in areas of health care that we have seen crater during the covid crisis. alix: and then to that point, it looks like specifically accelerating tax cuts for the middle class new yorkers, things like ending the 421 rental tax abatement, $10 billion for new york health care and bonuses. is this going to go over well? are people going to like these initiatives? shelly: the think she has going for her is the state has a lot of pandemic stimulus money. she has room for programs without having to find money for that elsewhere in no way her predecessor had to do. things like health care, that will help her shore up support fro

. >> carley: and governor kathy hochul is putting bragg on notice.ls "the new york post" editorial board she knows full well the powers the governor has and she will have a conversation with bragg "to make sure we are all in alignment." next week president biden heading to the big apple to meet with eric adams and ways to fight gun violence, carly, todd. >> todd: they don't want to wait a week but demanding action and answers right now. our next guest did something about it. take a listen. >> there is no reason why the these two officers had to die appear they were babies. >> i stay up at night and try to figure out who's fault is this? time to take back our city. >> when is enough enough! >> such passionate speeches yesterday. our next guest doing this passionate fake blood outside of officer bragg's office a symbol of the city's victim. nationally acclaimed artist and muralist joints me now, scott. this is pretty graphic but why did you choose this method? >> look, or it is to provoke emotion. piece behind me. unfortunately, sometimes art has to be

governor hochul says that is not in the plans for now. we're not there yet. but i also know all the tools at our disposal going to invoke them. >> in the case. what's necessary in the meantime, new york city mayor eric adams begins his first today leading america's largest city. these. >> has to use of city road is including educate his agency personnel and all the women and men who keep new york running have made sacrifices for the city again and again despite the mounting difficulties posed by covid-19. >> adams is hopeful. we're going to win because we made up of the best stuff on earth. we are new york us. new york governor kathy hochul says new york state is ranked in the top 3 when it comes to testing people for the coronavirus. >> she says that the state is working very hard to make even more tests and testing locations available. >> for anybody wants and needs in harlem. i'm steve kuzj news nation. >> a 4th covid-19 vaccine could get authorization for emergency use here in the united states as early as next month. novavax submitted its final data to t

late today, new york governor kathy hochul announced a partnership with the police and atf. the news comes as one of the two new york city police officers shot on friday now fights for his life. just before we came on the air, the officer transferred hospitals. he and another officer were both shot while answering a call, but one died. across the country, gun violence against civilians and police officers is on the rise. phil lipof leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, a somber show of respect on the streets of new york city for nypd officer jason rivera. killed in the line of duty. as the governor announces a new interstate task force to combat illegal guns. the governor saying we have to do everything we can to fight the scourge of illegal guns on our streets. the news coming as the body of 22-year-old rivera was transferred from the hospital to a funeral home. his partner, 27-year-old wilbert mora, critically wounded when police say they were ambushed by armed suspect lashaun mcneil in a harlem apartment. >> let me get a bus here asap. >> reporter: a third officer shooting

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>> we've been in close contact with governor hochul. she and her team have been very helpful providing resources, but that is the biggest concern. if you lose power here, you lose heat, that's a dangerous situation when you're looking at temperatures that are going to be with windchills below zero at this point for tonight. so we've encouraged people to call our 311 hotline if they do lose heat or power. fortunately, the power numbers, the outages have been low at this point, which is very good, and we've got to continue to monitor that because it is a life-threatening situation when you're talking about temperatures this low. >> indeed. all right. steve bellone, suffolk county new york executive, thank you so much. all the best to you and everybody there in suffolk county, long island. >> thank you. >>> all right. coming up, a new face in the u.s. response to the crisis between russia and ukraine. president biden says he's ready to send u.s. troops to eastern europe in the near term. icking, so we gotta hurry. there's new rotisserie-st

>> well, look, governor kathy hoe -- hochul has the interstate task force, illegal guns are moving from the southern states to new york. yesterday, 23-year-old was indicted in the bronx for trafficking and selling 73 illegal guns, including semi-automatic weapons, he allegedly brought from tennessee. manhattan's controversial district attorney alvin bragg is being criticized for being soft on crime. appointed a new gun violence prosecutor and promised to prosecute gun crimes, including possession. the governor issued a warning saying she's prepared to step in if bragg's progressive policies don't work. said "there are options and that she's going to be monitoring the situation". the two will reportedly be meeting tomorrow, griff. >> brian outside of st. patrick's cathedral for us, brian, thank you very much. you know, sandra, it's fascinating as we cover day in and day out the violence spiralling out of control across the country. seems all eyes are on things happening in your city there in new york and what the solution will become. >> sandra: a heartbreaking scene as the casket was br

. >>> por lo que se comprometieron la gobernadora hochul y alcalde adams que ademÁs, de poner mÁs policÍasi cae una persona a la vÍa, llame al 311, si nota que viene un tren encienda la luz de su celular para llamar la atenciÓn del conductor y este detenga el tren otra recomendaciÓn. >>> me apoyo aquÍ, cualquier persona me puede empujar o siempre estoy alejada que el tren por lo menos venga llegando un minuto. >>> segÚn cifras de ya policÍa de new york en hasta lo que va de aÑo se han reportado 96 crÍmenes en el transporte pÚblico del la ciudad en comparaciÓn al mismo periodo el aÑo pasado. >>> cosas que pasan cuando alguien estÁ mal de la cabeza. >>> que te aquÍ reno, esto que me tire no. >>> reportes muestran que una reducciones de 26, 2% en cuanto a crÍmenes en Últimos dos aÑos. >>> especÍficamente el sistema estÁ mÁs seguro en 30 aÑos, necesitamos que los pasajeros vuelvan al sistema. >>> mire, incendios dejan luto en el bronx en new york, esta vez en un edificio de 3 pisos, falleciÓ una mujer de 77 aÑos y otras dos, estÁn en el hospital en condiciÓn estable, son hermanas, dicen que a

on friday, police arrested at least 16 protesters who blocked a busy intersection near governor hochul's manhattan office. >> i am prepared to do whatever it takes to help protect my neighbors who are most at risk of being homeless because the governor won't act to provide stronger protections to tenants. >> people are dying and the governors doing nothing about it. until she does something, we will not stop. amy: workers have started removing the statue of president theodore roosevelt from in front of the american museum of natural history in new york. the city's public dign commission voted last june to take down the monument amid nationwide protests and a reckoning with the racist legacy of the u.s. the statue depicts roosevelt on a horse with a native american man and an african man standing beside him. in a statement the natural history museum said -- "the statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy the museum and members of the public have long found disturbing." the statue will go on long term loan to north dakota's theodore roosevelt presidential library, despite the objections

. >> greg: on monday a long island judge ruled against governor hochul's mask mandate for businessesut she quickly filed an appeal and today a judge granted a stay in the state's lawsuit meaning the mandate remains in place, schools have to enforce it. that sucks! this new york governor, the last one, couldn't keep his hands off your body and now this one wants to touch your face. last week, hochul whose eyebrows are really intense made a mask comparison that made zero sense. >> my daughter had a meltdown over having to puts speakers on to go -- sneakers on to go to kindergarten. she got used to wearing sneakers in school. they adapt better than adults do. >> greg: the moral, kindergartners are stupid. what a terrible analogy. wearing masks is like putting on sneakers. unless you're tying sneakers over your nose and mouth, this analogy blows. speaking of masks and things that make no sense, virginia school districts are suing the governor over his executive order that makes them optional in schools but finally a tiktok video -- aren't they all -- reportedly showing two ladies moonlig

governor hochul said they're in the process of trying to clear that up.ore percent of the flights at laguardia canceled, all the others delayed or canceled here in the new york area, and expect those to continue tomorrow. jon: nice to see it quit snowing anyway. alexis mcadams live in new york city, thanks. a couple of hours north some parts of massachusetts are seeing more than 17 inch os of november and -- inches of snow. robert ray is in gloucester. robert. >> reporter: yeah, jon, good evening. you can see i'm firmly rooted in this snow drift here right on the atlantic ocean in this historic fishing vimmage of -- village of gloucester, about 30 miles northeast of the big city, boston, here in new england. and what a day it's been, jon. we have had wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour with blizzard conditions lasting all afternoon. and here til midnight we're going to see that. just tremendous. and the snowfall and the snow drifts. earlier today, jon, i ventured out in the four-wheel drive to try and capture some images, and what i saw was remarkable. peo

. >>> and then new york governor hochul is speaking, let's listen in on this update. >> -- update and understand that things are looking very good and give credit for that because if it doesn't, they bl blame you. so enjoy that. and i know you had a very good experience, he just told me that he was coming down giving people sdw directions on the subway so he is a hands-on leader. and from the epicenter, our commissioner of d.o.t., an incredible leader as well. so you will be hearing from her shortly. so let's see what we're looking at right now. this is a very serious storm. very serious. we've been prepare being for this, this could be life-threatening. and we want to make sure that we took all the steps, but we believe that they were necessary including starting with the declaration of state of emergency early on in the process. yesterday we announced that it would go into effect at 8:00 p.m. yesterday. and that allowed us time for the d.o.t. to deploy their trucks, bring in all the plows. but also the utility workers. because this is as we've seen from past storms, this is a huge p

. >> in new york, governor hochul says states are coming together to launch a new task force to curb gun violence. it is comprised of more than 50 agencies across nine states and is set to meet later this week. >> we have to do more to fight the scourge of illegal guns on our streets. and we need washington teaming up with us to get it done. >> back to that officer shot overnight in washington, d.c., he was treated at the hospital and has been released. >>> president biden is reportedly considering sending thousands of troops to the baltics and eastern europe. non-essential u.s. embassy staffers have been advised to evacuate ukraine. conditions could deteriorate with little notice. >>> also in europe, violent protests against covid-19 mandates. demonstrators in brussels clashed with police. 15 people were injured. and in washington, d.c., thousands gathering to protest covid vaccine mandates. meanwhile, dr. fauci says most states will have reached a peak of omicron variant cases by the middle of next month. he says cases are still rising in the south and west. but have already peaked

where is governor hochul on this? it is happening in her state. masking 2-year-old and codling criminals in new york city she turns a blind eye and it is happening and affecting our state. >> bill: rob, thank you for your time and we'll see the next time you acquire one of these videos. a lot of times when things like this start to leak other people start talking and we'll see if that's the case. the governor will have to answer at some point, perhaps today. thank you for your time. u.s. coast guard finding believed to be one of the migrants whose boat capsized by florida. the latest in a string of suspected human struggling attempts off florida over the past several weeks. phil keating live in miami with the latest. what happened, phil? >> good morning, bill. this is the latest example of suspected illegal migration by a boat coming into florida. the searching does continue this morning by the u.s. coast guard and navy and other assets on the sea as well as in the air looking for any potential survivors in the atlantic among the 36 migrants still

hochul:: -- dr. walensky: individuals are considered fully vaccinated if they have seen their primary series, but consistent with how historic -- without public health as recommended vaccines, we are now recommending that individuals stay up to date with additional doses. that is available on the cdc website. >> to repeat with somebody -- would dr. walensky just said, somebody is considered fully vaccinated if they received their primary serious. if you think about different requirements -- travel, other examples --, that has not changed and we do not have plans to change that. i think it is important to recognize the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are amongst unvaccinated americans. completing the primary serious is clearly a critical step. with roosters giving the highest level of protection. we will encourage everybody to get vaccinated and boosted. as to the definition, somebody is considered fully vaccinated if they received your primary series. >> jackie heinrich, fox news. >> tha

. >> new york governor kathy hochul gives her first state of the state address. she talked about the coming -- becoming new york's first woman governor, the pandemic, infrastructure, climate change, and education priorities. this is 35 minutes. minutes. [applause] thank you, lieutenant governor. you've done job and i'm proud to deliver for the people of new york. i also want to join them our attorney general, majority leader of the senate, and we do hope he gets well soon. also for representing the girl scouts so well. as i stand before you, i'm well aware of the significance from this moment. the first time in history that a woman has delivered this address but i didn't come here to make history. i came here to make a difference and to show deep reverence for the remarkable past and we are honored by coming together for this assembly chamber. the leaders joined together to serve the public and one time governor teddy roosevelt who said it's not the credit that counts, the credit belongs to the man or woman who's actually in the arena and to my colleagues in the

hochul has to face the fact and the country has to face the fact that we are talking about systematichange. all of the laws that we pass our rendered to nothing if we do not put them into a system that actually operates as president biden said last week, dealing with issues directly. point, case and point, and owner of property that has done a wrong, like to myself and my service dog putting us out of my house in less than 30 days. a court can order someone into court for 15 days and put you out of your home in 30, but why can we bring the brutal cop in? or the hater in in 15 days? we need to put new coffee into new filters. host: ok. we appreciate the perspective. perry in chandler, arizona. you are next. caller: good morning. you just had doug ducey on and i want to talk about the leadership here in arizona. we have hoffman, who has signed on as a forgery to the certification of the election, we have kyrsten sinema, who is a so-called democrat, which my wife and daughter voted for, but will not be voting for again. because, of her status against voting rights and filibuster. i just

and because of that, new york governor kathy hochul is now expanding the vaccine mandate for health care workers. this morning, the nation experiencing an alarming surge in covid cases. the u.s. seeing more than 4 million new cases over the past seven days, the highest weekly case numbers on record. health officials saying vaccination is still the best defense against the omicron fueled surge. pediatric hospitalizations are up with children under 4 who are not eligible for the vaccine making up more than 4% of all covid hospitalizations. >> please, for our youngest children, those who are not yet eligible for vaccinations, it's critically important that we surround them with people who are vaccinated to provide them protection. >> reporter: for older children, ages 12 to 18, a silver lining, a new cdc study finding a 91% protection rate after two shots after a rare condition causing organ inflammation that could show up in kids weeks after a covid infection and the fda authorizing moderna booster shots five months after completing the original doses replacing the six-month interval. acro

. >>> new this morning, a new york state supreme court judge striking down kathy hochul's mask mandateor schools and for public locations. the judge says the mandate is unconstitutional and that it violates state law since the governor no longer has emergency powers. cnn's jean casarez is joining us now on this. really interesting development that is going to change how people are living their day to day lives. some of them there in the state. tell us, jean. >> it's very interesting and came down late yesterday, brianna. a new york state judge struck down new york state's mask mandate saying it is unenforceable, ruling that the governor and the new york state department of health, they didn't have the authority to do this. that any mask mandate had to have the signoff of the state legislature. nassau county supreme court judge gave the basis for his decision that new york was no longer under that state of emergency at the time the mask mandate was announced. so the governor did not have the authority to order it. so it's really procedurally based. the governor kathy hochul is saying sh

you're watching kron. 4 news at 6. 34 people governor hochul last year. >> wouldn't cameras help withs crazy to me that we don't do that. >> now it's 6 another push to try to fix our most violent freeway problem after this week's deadly shooting. law enforcement officials in the east bay are pushing for increased surveillance on freeways. good evening, everybody. thanks for being with us tonight here on kron. 4 news at 6. i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. the california highway patrol continues to investigate deadly shootings along oakland freeways in the past months. the most recent one being the alameda county sheriff's recruit killed along 5.80, earlier this week. now the call to install freeway cameras is ramping up. and as always, it comes with privacy concerns. kron four's. is that reports? >> i know that in contra costa county, they have a series of cameras that they put on the freeways that have worked very well in solving crimes. and i'm quite honestly amazed that that cameras does not exist in alameda county. the alameda county sheriff's office is making that call for

mayor adams and governor hochul know that.is not just having more police officers in the subways which i know some on the left, overwhelmingly is something that new yorkers do want to see in their subways especially when you have fewer commuters and fewer eyes in the subway to begin with during the panpandem. that's number one. this man appears to be suffering some mental health challenges and of course most people who suffered from mental health challenges never become violent. there is an issue in new york city and elsewhere we need pet better and more services to service population who of new yorkers who are mentally ill and are not living in shelter or refusing to come into shelter or need more services. that's something mayor adam is going to have to work closely alongside governor hochul to accomplish because the city needs states services in order to set up that mental health infrastructure. and so the state and the city are going to have to work hand in hand which is something we did not see with governor cuomo and for

. >> now new york democratic governor hochul gives her first state of the state address.ame governor after the resignation of andrew cuomo and talked about becoming new york's first woman governor as well as the pandemic, infrastructure investments, climate change and education priorities . this runs 35

charlie: ashley, governor hochul thought she had the business community locked up and it looked like had it locked up, in terms of support for her to run for governor next year, and remember she's probably going to get a primary challenge from tom swazi, a congressman from long island, a moderate democrat. she's also got two republicans that are fighting for the nomination that one willow pose her, rob astorino, the former westchester county executive and lee zeldin, another congressman from long island, but it looked like she had the whole thing locked up, support on our side, big business community in new york city particularly was lining up behind her, and then you had this brag controversy where alvin brag, the manhattan d. a. came out and said he's not going to put anybody in jail unless you kill somebody. that's essentially what his new policies came down to. just random attacks, do not necessitate felony convictions or charges, plus there's no jail type. you go down the line. it's one of the more progressive and crazy progressive policies out there and now, hochul is coming un

. >> reporter: overnight governor kathy hochul saying her administration strongly disagrees with the ruling and the new york state education department telling superintendents across the state, schools must continue to follow the mask rule while they appeal. many republican leaders applauding the ruling. >> i think it's a great victory for the people of the state of new york. it's a great victory for our schoolchildren, and it's a great victory for both the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of new york. >> reporter: the debate over masks in schools also playing out in virginia where seven districts are suing the new republican governor over his executive order, which allows parents to opt their children out of school mask requirements. in california, schools in los angeles are now tightening requirements telling students they must wear a noncloth mask with a nose wire at all times including during sports events. >> children are getting covid at record numbers, which means classes and schools are shutting down because of it and also they're spreading

kathy hochul said she disagreed with the ruling and would pursue options to reverse it., the supreme court agreed to hear two cases against u.s. colleges for allegedly peey penalizing asian american applicants. the high court is combing cases led by students for fair admissions. a group challenging policies at harvard and the university of north carolina. the admission programs at both schools were upheld by lower courts with harvard arguing gpas cannot be the only factor considered for applicants and diversity must also be reviewed. violent crimes skyrocketing across the country, the biden administration is now blaming, he quote, underfunding of the police, after many democrat led cities pledged to cut department budgets. watch this. >> so what are you attributing the rise in crime to? >> gun violence is a huge reason for the surge of crime. underfunding from police departments and their need for additional resources, something the president has advocated for, consistently through the course of his career. >> you've been here in office for more than a year and the murde

. >> reporter: in new york governor kathy hochul says states are coming together to launch a new task force to curb gun violence. the group is comprised of more than 50 agencies across nine states, set to meet later this week. >> we have to do more to fight the scourge of illegal guns on our streets. we need washington teaming up with locals to get it done. >> reporter: governor hoke plans to work with others to stop the stem of gun violence. nypd says they're bringing back a plain clothes anti-gun task force. >>> eight years ago today there was a shooting at a high school in michigan. now students return and the principal offered up a youtube video to lend support. >> stuntds, we love you. we can't wait to see you monday. it's a great day to be a wildcat. we're oxford strong. >> four students were killed. a fellow student and his parents all face charges. >>> former attorney general william barr has spoken with the house committee investigating the attack on the capital. the chairman of the january 6th panel confirmed the conversations with barr without revealing what was discussed.

but black mayor eric adams and governor kathy hochul spoke to residents of the apartment building in a nearby school as they were being registered with the red cross impact of this >> is going to. really. bring a level of pain and despair and now city the numbers ripped doors of family. >> who are in such grief who are in pain? to see it in a mother's eyes. i held her. who lost her entire family it's hard to fathom what they're going through. the governor saying there is such a need for donations and already. >> a gofundme page has been set up help your neighbor. people are in need. as tensions between russia and the u.s. reached a new high as russia continues to beef up its military presence. >> on the ukraine border this week. u.s. and russian officials are to undergo high stakes talks in geneva to try and de escalate that invasion. raquel martin joins us live in dc with the latest. good morning workout. good morning. will all eyes are on these talks which just kicked off this morning. now it's definitely a high stakes situation. we know that russia >> has ramped up its military pr

. >> now new york democratic governor hochul gives her first state of the state address. she became governor after the resignation of andrew cuomo and talked about becoming new york's first woman governor as well as the pandemic, infrastructure investments, climate change and education priorities . this runs 35minutes . >>. [applause] >> thank you lieutenant governor. you have done such an outstanding job in a short time and i'm proud to haveyou by my side as we deliver for the people of new york . i want to join him in thanking my partners in government , state comptroller, bramante, our attorney general tish james . majority leader andre stewart cousins of the senate . majority leader stokes and we do hope that the speaker of the assembly pile hasty gets well soon and i want to thank pastor solomon dean for representing the girl scouts so well. as i stand before you, i'm well aware of the significance of this moment. the first time in new york's history that a woman has delivered this annualaddress . but i didn't come here to make history. i came here to make a differen

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today, new york governor kathy hochul warned residents that the danger will not end with today's snow and wind. >> the ice will take longer to go away because of the frozen temperatures, the frigid temperatures. and, again, wind chills of zero to minus ten are dangerous for people, but they're also very challenging for people to salt and get the roads safe again so they're not slippery. >> sreenivasan: forecasters warned of freezing temperatures and wind chills tonight and tomorrow extending as far south as georgia and alabama. the omicron variant causing a surge in reported covid cases is apparently slowing in some parts of the u.s. but is still setting records. the new york times" database shows a 31% decline in cases over the past two weeks, and hospitalizations are also dropping. worldwide, the virus and its variants are plateauing, but the "times" shows more than 3.3 million cases on average every day. in russia, officials reported an all-time daily record high of more than 113,000 new infections today. in austria, protesters opposed to a nationwide mandatory vaccinn policy takin

. >> reporter: governor kathy hochul also announced the state is requiring healthcare workers to geted with no testing option. >> reporter: los angeles just hit a pandemic record of new daily covid cases, and now california is joining at least 23 other states in activating the national guard to help. many hospitals across the nation are canceling surgeries that are not emergencies. and starting today, new york hospitals, 40 in total, 40 total new york hospitals, are having to push nonessential procedures for at least two weeks. irika. >> sargent: lilia luciano in los angeles tonight, thank you. now here in chicago, a bitter standoff over covid safety concerns between chicago public schools and its teachers' union. after three days of canceled classes for one of the nation's largest school districts, tonight, no deal or even a timeline for students to get back to class. we turn to cbs' charlie de mar. >> reporter: two days after chicago public school students returned to the classroom after the holiday break, they were sent home. the teachers' union says it's not safe to be in class w

previous judges sided with the state and governor hochul says she plans to lift the mask man date if cases continue to drop next month. david? >> erielle, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to russia and ukraine and u.s. military equipment now arriving there. the pictures coming in tonight. and this evening, president biden saying those 8,500 u.s. troops already put on heightened alert to be sent to the region to support nato allies, they may be moving in the nearer term, were his words today. a new shipment of american an anti-tank missiles arriving in ukraine. the russians releasing new video tonight of their troops in training exercises. and what president biden is now saying tonight about personally sanctioning vladimir putin. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell on the ground in ukraine tonight. >> reporter: tonight, american anti-tank and bunker-busting missiles arriving in kyiv as the biden administration steps up military support for ukraine in its standoff with russia. this is the latest delivery of u.s.-supplied weapons and ammunition to the ukranian governmen

. >> reporter: new york governor kathy hochul also announcing an interstate task force, including law enforcement agencies from nine northeastern states and the atf. nationwide, a sharp rise in gun violence. already this year, excluding suicides, more than 1,100 people have died, including at least three members of law enforcement. just this weekend in chicago, 8-year-old melissa ortega killed by a stray bullet walking with her mother. her family says the third grader had just come to the u.s. in august from mexico for a better life. and in harris county, texas, police are now searching for the man who allegedly gunned down 47-year-old corporal charles galloway during a traffic stop. david, a few details from the mayor's plan. plainclothes officers and an anti-crime unit dispersed throughout the city. also, checkpoints around the city. places like port authority, to stop the guns that flow up and down the east coast in that so-called iron pipeline from getting in. david? >> all right, phil lipof tonight. phil, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the cruise ship with american pas

kathy hochul is the governor of new york, and gave this update a short while ago.tops, doesn't mean life gets back to normal. that is when the true clean—up is going to continue and that's when we need just a little more time to take care of the roads safely and again, we all know everyone knows to do that, so let's see if we can follow that and again, our wind chills that i mentioned, this is what is the dangerousness we're talking about. we are expecting temperatures in the single digits tonight into tomorrow morning and this is when frostbite kicks in, look at how serious that can be, so we are trying to remind everybody, take this very seriously. ashley baylor is a meteorologist for wtnh in connecticut, earlier she told me what that the blizzard is currently in. we are still dealing with this storm. we have been tracking some bands of very heavy snow for several hours, especially in eastern sections of our state and since we are talking about that fine snow, it piles up very easily but when you factor in these heavy snow bands with winds that are blowing betwee

reporter: in new york you have governor kathy hochul saying it appears there has been a plateau, onef the earliest states in the u.s. to get hit hard by omicron. it is a hopeful sign that new york is starting to potentially be on the upswing. at the same time, california, more than 140,000 cases reported today which is the highest number of the entire pandemic. perhaps this will start to slow down eventually. emily: what are we watching for next? when did we get a signal from the supreme court? kara: any day, any hour. the rules from the biden administration technique they were supposed to go into effect yesterday from osha. osha has not enforced them. this could come down, legal experts expected the court to weigh pretty quickly given the timeliness. we are watching out for that. emily: thank you for that update. i want to stick with the return or not to the office theme. envoy is helping to transform modern workspaces into safe spaces to connect and collaborate. the company just announced new funding, $111 million. i want to bring in the ceo. talk to us about your technology, i kno

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>> laura: it's antiscience and antichild, to your point, here's what the new york governor kathy hochullained about why she thinks masking kids is vital. this is today. >> my daughter had a meltdown having to go to kindergarten, she got used to wearing sneakers in school. they adapt better than adults do. >> laura: i don't even know what to say in response to this, you take it away. >> they adapt in the sense that they get used too, it's like a child who suffers physical abuse at home. he adapts to it in the sense that he gets used to it, he gets literally beaten down and accustomed to being treated this way to the point where after a while he starts to believe he deserves it. if that's what you mean by a adapt, i would call it damage. the normal thing is for a kid to refuse to wear a mask, something on their face because you try to put a hat on a young child it's impossible to keep it on him. that's a healthy, normal child, if your child gets to the point where they wear the mask without any complaints at all without fidgeting, that just means they have been broken down, their brains h

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