>> i know what's happening in rockland county, the numbers in rockland county. on that specific situation with the muncie community, doctors have spoke with them. >> i spoke with the community, explained the need to abide by the six-foot distance and also the issues of social distancing and to stay at home and reiterate all the points that the governor made over the course of all these press conferences with everyone there. >> on a separate -- >> excuse me one second. >> i spoke to county executive ed day. i think there was a little bit of a disconnect between the locals on the ground understanding the authorities that gave them on the ground. they have health public section law 12 and 12b and the local building code they can enforce. there are civil and criminal penalties associated with that. that's the last-case scenario, issuing tickets. they do have teeth behind the executive orders. i'm not sure they understood the full force of the weight. >> in new jersey there's been some -- governor murphy said basically stay in your primary residen residence, don't go

hudson valley has westchester and rockland. we had a significant problem in westchester and less so in rockland. when you see 1.2% in the north country, 2.6 mohawk valley, capital district, you see a much different situation than when you are looking at in new york city where you are in the 20's, right? different situations, different strategy going forward. state,coordinating as a coordinating with our neighboring states, but you still have to take into consideration the variations across the state. that is what we are trying to navigate. by race, you see the percent for asians has picked up. african-americans is actually down. latinos went up 10%. nobody can explain what caused that jump in this survey, and it is something we are going to watch. we are doing more testing in lower income communities and african-american and latino communities as we have discussed. -- it isbreakdown fairly consistent with where it was. > so that is where we are today in new york. new york city, obviously, high point. number of cases in the coun

and the orthodox community in rockland. i get the issue. also, they understand what happened in new rochelle. the new rochelle cluster, which is where we had that explosion. one person in a gathering. whatever the gathering. look, we are coming into palm sunday, easter week, passover. i had to cancel the st. patrick's day parade. you know, that's -- a lot of people got offended at that. but you can't have large gatherings where you could have one or two people infecting people. and just because it is a religious gathering, the virus is a nonreligious enemy. let's take one more. reporter: the tesla plant in buffalo. elon musk said 9, 10 days ago that he was going to start producing ventilators there as fast as possible. have you had any discussions with him, with tesla, and is anything going on at that plant with ventilators? gov. cuomo: does anybody know? i have been a little hyper focused. sec. derosa: we have been talking to tesla. they are not talking about making the entire ventilator, they are talking about a part of the ventilator. th

people from rockland coming to work in new york city, and have been to suburban community parts of rockland and suffolk, the bedroom communities so to speak for new york city. that is a far out of any second-home theory. >> states have guns apart from other states in terms of ventilators but is there anything new for that consortium? gov. cuomo: we talk about preparedness. this was -- i don't want to get into a retrospective when you are in the middle of the game, right? we are still in the middle of the game. so, it is not the time to start to do a retrospective on how the game was played when you are in the middle of the game. together. play let's finish the game and then we will talk about what could have been done differently and should have been done differently. excuse me one second. we are in the middle of the game and the game is going to go on for a period of time. there may be another game right after it if any of these rumors about second waves are true or the spanish flu second, third wave. the supplies, the equipment is a real issue to address. now, there's different ways to do

but rockland-orange certainly. it will be the entire state, not just rockland orange. it is going to be upstate new york, mid hudson. reporter: is there a problem with how county executives feel? toward the plan or anything like that? gov. cuomo: yes, but the closedown plan was a statewide plan. every school district had an opinion. every county executive had an opinion. many did not agree. and i'm sure there will be county executives that do not agree with this plan. if everybody agreed with it, some would probably be wrong. happy easter to everybody. [indiscernible] >> can you say that? what if i get coronavirus? >> yes. what is your plan. cuomo: my plan is to do this from home. [laughter] happy easter. regarding the federal coronavirus response to new york, president trump tweeted this prior to governor cuomo's briefing. is that emptyign hospital beds are becoming more and more prevalent. deployed 400- doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists from the hospital ship comfort and the javits convention center to hospitals in new york city and state. . have more bed c

it has been about seven, 8% of the cases that we had in the state and westchester rockland we had aninitial significant problem and remember westchester had the largest hottest cluster at one time in the country and 11% so literally somewhere in between new york city 21 and which again, supports what we knew anecdotally and long island, 11.7 so not that far behind new york city and it is significantly worse than us just rockland. we been talking about westchester rockland and nassau suffolk is basically one but there is a variation with the long island numbers. by race, asians about 11.7%, african-americans 22%, latino hispanic, 22%. multiplan on their 22%, white 9.1% and this reflects more the regional breakdown. african-americans and latinos are in this survey disproportionately from new york city and new york city is that 21% so the african-american number, latino numbers is 22% but and the upstate whites, you talking more upstate witches nine but it is 3.6 in the survey. by age, nothing extraordinary here. we did not survey anyone under 18 so it starts with 18 years old, 18-24%,

>> reporter: rockland county executive assistant d.a.n was on the case from the beginning. >> ira actually got in the car with the informant. >> how are you? >> and started talking about how he wanted his wife killed. >> the lesser you two know, the better. >> right, i agree. >> it was a game changer. >> reporter: wasn't that enough to arrest him right then and there? >> no money had been exchanged. in new york you do need an overt act. and we had some stuff, but we did not want to jump the gun on this. >> how are you? >> reporter: so they arranged another meeting, hoping ira would show again. he didn't. but something big happened. kelly finally handed over money for the hit. >> so how much are we talking right now? >> two. >> reporter: a $2,000 deposit. >> nice doing business with you. >> nothing until we give you the go-ahead. he said just be on stand-by. >> reporter: as detectives waited for ira and kelly to give the go-ahead, this melodrama took a new turn. kelly added two new targets. >> kelly shows up to one of the meetings and say

. >> have you spoke to officials in rockland county? there was concern about the growth of the viral -- virus there. can you give us an update on that? gov. cuomo: i know what is happening in rockland county. we see them everyday. on that specific situation with the muncie community, doctors spoke with them. >> i spoke with the community, explained need to abide by the six foot distance and also the issues of social distance and to stay at home and read or write these points the governor has made. >> i have spoken to the county executive. i think there was a disconnect ground the locals on the understanding the authority that executive order 202-11 gave them on the ground. got the local building code that they can enforce and there are civil and criminal penalties associated with that. obviously, that is the last case scenario. they do have teeth behind these orders and i'm not sure they understood. jersey governor murphy has said stay in your primary residence. don't go to second homes. there has been concern that people are going from

why do you leave out rockland in orange county -- and orange county? pennsylvania, ohio, vermont, massachusetts, and rhode island? gov. cuomo: that is too many pieces to coordinate. it is not -- when i talk tri-state area, what we did on the closedown was the entirety of the state of new york, the entirety of the state of connecticut, the entirety of the state of new jersey. we are also going to work with pennsylvania. pennsylvania was very involved with a marijuana regional pact, but obviously there is less interaction on a day-to-day basis with pennsylvania than those other two states. it will be a statewide plan for all of new york, all of new jersey, all of connecticut. that is the optimum. i am not promising that. that, am sure if we do not every local government in new jersey, connecticut, and new york is going to agree with every aspect of the plan. they did not agree with every aspect of the closedown. we had a lot of school districts unhappy with the closedown decision. but you do the best that you can to come up with mutuality. at a point, yo

in rockland. that skews that number. but when you see 1.2% in the north country, 2.6 capital district, you see a much different situation than you're looking at in new york city when you're in the 20s, right? so different situations, different strategy going forward. we're coordinating as a state. we're coordinating with our neighboring states. but you still have to take into consideration the variations across the state and that's what we're trying to navigate. by race you see the percent for asians is ticked up, african-americans actually down. latinos went up 10%. nobody can explain what caused that jump in this survey. and it's something we're going to watch and we're doing more testing in lower income communities and african-american and latino communities as we discussed. the age breakdown is fairly consistent with where it was. so that's where we are today in new york. new york city, obviously high point number of cases in the country, higher than some countries globally. and upstate new yo

rockland, a percent, 6%, 7%, 7%. is the area that is growing.you see it long island goes from 16% to 22%. new york city is actually dropping as the number of cases in long island increases as a percentage of cases within the state. trackinghis is about the virus, tracking the spread of the virus, and then deploying .s the numbers suggest in terms of beds, the 2500 bed is going tojavits make a major difference. that has to work. the white house agreed to make facility.id positive originally, the javits center, which is a state convention center -- we worked with the federal government. they constructed a 2500 bed facility that was supposed to be non-covid. i spoke with the president and transferred that with his intervention to a covid facility . the federal government will staff that and the federal government will equip that. thatis a big deal because 2500 bed facility would relieve a lot of pressure on the downstate system. is a significant number of beds. and that facility now has to make the transition quickly. a

i am a police officer who has a house in rockland, but i work in new york city. i am a firefighter who lives in rockland or orange, but i work in new york city area die live in new jersey, but i work in the city. -- new york city. i live in new jersey, but i work in the city. all those connections, if you are going to do these tracing operations, you cannot do it just within your own county because you will quickly run into people who are cross jurisdictional. understand that going in. blur the governmental jurisdictions because they don't really make sense. put everybody together, work together. harder done then said, but 100% right, no doubt about that. we are going to take the initial tracers people have now. the state has about 225 today, rockland has 40, westchester 50, .hey are going to work together mayor bloomberg is going to start with that core, but we have to build on that because we will literally need thousands. suny and cuny have medical students we will draw from. we need to put together a significant operations because the number gets very big ver

this will not include rockland hospitals because we have a real covid problem there. it will not include your account he or albany county -- include eerie county or albany county. on testing, people need to understand this issue because it is going to be determinative and and hasmplicated and -- been somewhat politicized. here are the simple facts on testing -- testing is something that no one would have expected as an issue. testing, we do in this country and no one really notices. it is a private sector system. when you went to the hospital and the doctor said, "you have to have your child checked for this," you go get your blood tested, that was the system. no one imagined the system would system-- the testing would become hyper relevant to survival and would need a capacity of 20, 50 times what the system was doing. this came out of the blue in many ways. it is one of the many lessons we will learn. how does it work? you have national companies that are private manufacturers of laboratory equipment. their piece of equipment can operate their test kits. there are a

long island 14, new york city is up a couple of points, rochester/rockland is up a couple of points. basically the rest of the state is flat. this is infection rate by region. people hear new york, they think new york city. yes, we have new york city. we also have upstate new york, north country, which is predominantly rural or suburban. and you see different situations across this state. this is not a homogeneous state, so the mohawk valley, 2.6%, north country, 1.2%, hudson valley 10.4%, but that has westchester and rockland in it. hudson valley, we had a significant problem in westchester, less so in rockland, so i think that would explain that number. but when you see 1.2% in the north country, 2.6 mohawk valley, capital district. you see a much different situation than you're looking at in new york city where you're in the 20s, right? so different situations, different strategy going forward. we're coordinating as a state, we're coordinating with our neighboring states, but you still have to take into consideration the variations across the state, and that's what we're trying to

a lot about new york city and the situation in new york city and long island and westchester and rockland. virus presents a slightly different problem in different parts of the country. it also presents a different problem in different parts of the state. overall, the total hospitalizations are basically flat from where they were yesterday. you see the overall curve is on the way down. that is good news, certainly. the net change in hospitalizations is down. not down as much as we would like. change in into bashan's -- tubations's down. that is good news. 80% of the time someone is on a ventilator, do not come off the ventilator in 6 -- eight in a successful way. the number of new people who were diagnosed with covid is 1300. that is down. that is good news relative to really bad news, which is what was happening until then. we have to remember our calculus of good. our definition of good has changed. terrible, but on an absolute scale. 1300 people walk into the door with covid on a single day in the state of new york. that would not be good news in any other context besides the context w

westchester/rockland, we had a significant problem.emember westchester had the hottest significant cluster at one tiemtd, 11% and new york city near 21, which support what's we knew anecdotally. long island 16.7% so it's not that far behind new york city and significantly worse than westchester/rockland. we've been talking about westchester/rockland and nassau/suffolk basically as one but there's a variation with the long island numbers. by race, asians, about 11.7%, african-american 22%, latino hispanic, 22%. multi nonother 22%, nine, 1.1%. this reflects more the regional breakdown. african-american and latinos are in this survey disproportionately from new york city and new york city is at 21%. so the african-american number, latino number is 22%. but -- and the upstate whites -- they're talking more upstate, which is 9 but 3.6 in the survey. by age, nothing extraordinary here. we did not survey anyone under 18. so it starts with 18 years old. 18 to 24, 8%. 45% to 54-- 45 to 54, 16. 55-64-year-olds. and then 75 plus. how many 75-year

we're watching rockland, nassau and suffolk. the numbers have come down in new york city. but you look at the concentric circles around new york city, the natural spread, natural central circles are towards the suburban communities, westchester, rockland, nassau, suffolk. westchester, we had problems already. one of the first hot spots in the nation was new rochelle in westchester. now we are seeing numbers creep up in rockland, nassau and suffolk. we're watching those areas. we sent additional equipment last night. and the overall point is you stay at home and you save a life period. stay at home, save a life. i know new yorkers who are born and bread, the instinct is this is good news. now i can relax. by the way, i have been dyeing to relax and get out of the house and end this groundhog day reality. yeah, you're not out of the woods. and now is not the time to misunderstood what's happening. we have done great things, and we've saved lives because we have followed these policies. the moment you stop following the policies, you will go right back and see that number sho

if the surges in rockland, we move assets to rockland. that is the only way we are going to do it. the federal stockpile has 9000 or 10,000 ventilators. that is not going to be enough for a nation. you're going to have to get states cooperating and shifting and moving within the country. new york will be first. as soon as we get through this end we have any flexibility in our system, we will be there for any other state like they have been there for us. we will lead the charge. the way we always have. hurricane katrina, we were the first ones there. when anyone needs anything, we are there. right now, health care wide, i am going to get on the phone with hospitals now. there is no hospital that needs ventilators that does not have ventilators. there is no hospital that needs ppe that does not have its within the system. -- that does not have it within the system. again, they are all going to say they are running low because they are, but nobody has -- nobody doesn't have what they need to do their job. and that is my point on perspective. are we managing this situation the best? ye

so far nassau, new york city, westchester, rockland. you cannot make a decision just within new york city without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region, because it all works together. when we decided to close the schools i spoke to nassau, i spoke to suffolk, i spoke to new york city, i spoke to westchester, and we closed all of the schools at once. any decision to reopen them also be a coordinated decision. the mayor has an opinion on new york city. the county executive of nassau have an opinion on nassau. latimer have an opinion in westchester. i want to coordinate all of those opinions and reopen them at the same time. i would also like to ideally coordinate that with connecticut and new jersey. atwhatever we do, we do all the same time. position, mayor's itches he wants to close the -- them until june. we may do that. makes no sense for a locality to make a move that does not coordinate with others. hedidn't close them, and can't open them. it happened on a metropolitan wide basis. we are going to act on a me

i'm a police officer who has a house in rockland, but i work in new york city. a firefighter who lives in rockland or orange, but i work in new york city. i live in new jersey, but i work in the city. i live in the city, but i work in connecticut, right? so, all those interconnections, if you're going to do these tracing operations, you can't do it within just your own county. because you'll quickly run into people who are cross-jurisdictional. so, understand that going in, blur the governmental jurisdictions, because they don't really make sense. put everybody together, work together. harder done than said, but 100% right, there's no doubt about that. we're going to take the initial tracers that people have now. the state has about 225 today. rockla rockland 40, nassau 60, new york city, 200. they're going to work together. mayor bloomberg is going to start with that core, but we have to build on that, because we will literally need thousands. suny and cuny have 35,000 medical students that we're going to draw from, but we have to put together a significant ope

. >> governor, have you spoken to officials in rockland county?reat deal of concern in rockland county about the growth of the virus. there was some suggestion you were not aware of the situation in rockland county. have you spoken to them? >> i know what's happening in rockland county. you do, too, because we see them every day. in that situation with the muncy community -- >> you are listening to new york governor andrew cuomo. he's giving his daily briefing on the spread of coronavirus in new york state. a quote from it, from what he said this afternoon, this early afternoon, we won't lose a life if we can prevent it. we won't lose a life if we can prevent it. he's talking now about some of the local communities, rockland county in new york and other communities outside of the apex of the virus spread in new york, which, of course, has been new york city. new york has seen the largest number of deaths of covid-19 in the united states. it has become the crux of where the virus has hit. a couple of things, a couple pieces of news that governor cu

island,owards long westchester, rockland, rest of the state proportionately. upstate is low to everything else in the state. this is something we are watching. this is the number of deaths in nursing homes. beenhe nursing homes have an increasing issue. the nursing home issue was flagged by the first cases we had in the state of washington because that is the vulnerable population in the vulnerable place. we happen worried about nursing homes from day one. as we saw in the state of washington. you see the percentage of loss-of-life is getting higher in nursing homes compared hospitals. lives lost yesterday, 778. that number is up and that is, to me, the most painful number, and it has been the most painful number every day. those new yorkers are in our thoughts and prayers. you look at the past few days and the number of lives lost is , at a devastating level of pain and grief. everything else we are seeing, which is basically a flattening at this level. -- statisticians will say number of lives lost is a lagging indicator, which is a nice scientific term, but

i'm a police officer who has a house in rockland, but i work in new york city. a firefighter who lives in rock land, orang rockland, orange, but i work in new york city. i live in the city but i work in connecticut. all of those interconnections, if you're going to do these tracing operations, you can't do it within just your own county. because you will quickly run into people who are cross jurisdictional. so understand that going on. blur the governmental jurisdictions because they don't really make sense. put everybody together. work together. harder done than said but 100% right. there's no doubt about that. we will take the initial tracers that people have now. the state has about 225 today, rockland 40, westchester 50, nassau 60, they will work together. mayor bloomberg will start with that core but we have to build on that. we will literally need thousands. suny and cuny have 35,000 medical students to draw from but we have to put together a significant operation because the numbers get big quickly. today is will the 50th anniversary of earth day. when yo

suffolk, nassau, new york city, westchester, rockland. you cannot make a decision just within new york city without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region, because it all works together. so when we decided to close the schools, i spoke to nassau, i spoke to suffolk, i spoke to new york city, i spoke to westchester, and we closed all of the schools at once. any decision to reopen them will also be a coordinated decision. the mayor has an opinion on new york city. laura curran, the county executive of nassau, will have an opinion on nassau. steve bellone will have an opinion on suffolk. george latimer have an opinion in westchester. i want to coordinate all of those opinions and reopen them at the same time. i would also like to, ideally, coordinate that with connecticut and new jersey. so whatever we do, we do all at the same time. i know the mayor's position, which is he wants to close them until june. we may do that. but we are going to do it in a coordinated sense with the other localities. it makes no sense for a

we have been watching for growth outside of new york city, long island, rockland. that has basically been flat. there have been hotspots here and there. the department of health has been good and aggressive on jumping on those hot spots and tamping them down. test, isolate, trace. you see the numbers by region across the state. proportionately, down in the -- downstate new york, which is what we have been talking about. growth towards long island, westchester, rockland, rest of the state proportionately. upstate is low to everything else in the state. this is something we are watching. this is the number of deaths in nursing homes. and the nursing homes have been an increasing issue. the nursing home issue was flagged by the first cases we had in the state of washington because that is the vulnerable population in the vulnerable place. and we have been worrying about nursing homes from day one. as we saw in the state of washington. you see the percentage of loss-of-life is getting higher in nursing homes compared hospitals. lives lost yesterday, 778. that number is

we are joined next by a representative from rockland county. welcome to "washington journal" this morning, thank you for calling in. want to get your thoughts about how your community is doing. we hear so much about new york, new york city in particular, so tell us about it. guest: as you know, too many neighbors, community leaders have been ill. people have been laid off. at unprecedented rates. i have spent too many hours on the phone trying to access uninsurance benefits. access insurance benefits. my district has received hundreds of calls, emails from constituents who just cannot keep their businesses afloat. others, as i said, trying to get unemployment. now i am proud of what we have done so far in the congress with three bipartisan bills that i have helped to shepherd through congress, providing

wor worse chester and rockland where we have real problems. new rochelle, but westchester, rockland, upstate new york is about 7% of the cases. sop we're watching for a potential spread in other parts of the state. but so far we have contained it and we have controlled it. nursing homes are still our number one concern. the nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for the virus. vulnerable people in a facility where it can spread like fire through dry grass. we've had, really, disturbing situations in nursing homes and we're still most concerned about the nursing homes. the worst news of all for us to live with every day, and an everyday tragedy, we lost another 507 new yorkers. those are not just very large numbers we see. that's every number is a face and a family and a brother and a sister and mother and a father and people who are in pain today and will be in pain for a long period of time. so we remember them in our thoughts and prayers. but on this sunday, day of reflection, thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of all ne

we have been watching for growth outside of new york city, long island, worcester, rockland. those have basically been flat. there have been a few hot spots here and there. the department has been very good about jumping on those hot spots and tamping them down. test, isolate, trace. and you see the numbers by region across the state. proportionately, obviously, downstate new york, which is what we've been talking about, but looking for growth along long island, rochester, rockland. proportionately upstate is very, very low to everything else in the state. this is something we're watching. this is the number of deaths in nursing homes. and the nursing homes have been an increasing issue. the nursing home issue was flagged by the first cases we had in the state of washington, because that is the vulnerable population in the vulnerable place, and we've been worrying about nursing homes from day one, as we saw in the state of washington. but you see the percentage of loss of life is getting higher in the nursing homes compared to the hospitals. lives lost yesterday, 778. that nu

but westchester, rockland, long island, upstate new york, is still only about 7% of the cases. so we are watching for a potential spread in other parts of the state. but so far, we have contained it and we have controlled it. nursing homes are still our number one concern. the nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for this virus. vulnerable people in a congregate facility, in a congregate setting, where it can just spread like fire through dry grass. we have had really disturbing situations in nursing homes, and we are still most concerned about the nursing homes. the worst news of all for us to live with every day, and an everyday tragedy, we lost another 507 new yorkers. and those are not just very large numbers we see, that's every number is a face, a family, a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, and people who are in pain today and will be in pain for a long time. so we remember them in our thoughts and prayers. but, on this sunday, a day of reflection, thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of all new yorkers, for the people at northwell have done, the

we'll reach out after this and find out what more rockland county wants us to do. if there's more measures we're willing to talk that. to answer your other question, the deaths in new york city, it's 2,624. outside of new york it's still outside of that. >> 2624? >> yes. >> what policy issues did you want to get done that weren't done with the budget and do you maintain the legislative session is effectively over at this point? >> marijuana, gig economy were two of the more complicated initiatives we wanted to work through that we didn't get a chance to do off the top of my head, unless rob and melissa remember any others. is the session effectively over? it's up to the legislature, but i think it's fair to say it's effectively over. they have a number of people who are infected, and they did a phenomenal job working through all those policy issues and all the budget issues. so i think it's effectively over. let's do -- anyone who hasn't -- everybody has asked a question. go ahead? >> can you please explain why it appears an extender on the child victim's act was n

we've been watching for growth outside of new york city, long island, westchester, rockland, that hassically been flat. there have been little hot spots here and there. the department and health has been good and aggressive in jumping on those hot spots and taming them down. test, isolate, trace. you see the numbers by region across the state. proportionately obviously down state new york which is what we've been talking about, but looking for growth towards long island, westchester, rockland, pro pours nalt natalie -- down sta up state is very low. this is the number of deaths in nursing homes. the nursing homes have been an increasing issue. the nursing home issue was flagged by the first cases we had in the state of washington because that is the vulnerable population in the vulnerable place. we've been worrying about nursing homes from day one, as we saw in the state of washington. but you see the percentage of loss of life is getting higher in the nursing homes compared to the hospitals. lives lost yesterday, 778. that number is up and that is to me the most painful number, and i

it is significantly worse than west chester/rockland. there is variations by numbers. by race.an 11.7%. black of 22.1%. this reflects the regional break down. african-american and latinos are in this survey disproportionately from new york city. new york city is at 21%. latino number is 22%. upstate white which is 9%, 3.6 in the survey. by age, nothing extraordinary here. we did not survey anyone under 18. so it starts at 18 years old. 45-54 is 16%. 75 plus 13%. it is a small percentage of the total. again, how many 75 years old shopping and about. that's the group that's supposed to be isolating. 55-64 also. that's a distribution. the sample were people who were outside the home, we had to isolate that. what does it do to the numbers? if the infection rate is 13.9% then it changes the cheeritheor what the death rate is if you get infected. 50% of the population is about 2.7 million people who had been infected. if you look at what we have now which is the death total. first, it is preliminary data, it is only 3,000. 3,000 is a significant data set. it is still preliminary. whe

suffolk, nassau, new york city, west chester, rockland.ion just within new york city without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region because it all works together. so when we decided to close the schools, i spoke to nassau, suffolk, new york city, spoke to westchester and we closed all the schools at once. any decision to reopen them will also be a coordinated decision. the mayor has an been in new york city. the county executive of nassau will have an opinion on nassau. they'll have an opinion in suffolk. george lattimer will have an opinion. i'd like to reopen them at the same time. i'd like to ideally coordinate with that connecticut and new jersey. so whatever we, do we do all at the same time. so i understand the mayor's position, which is he wants to close them until june. and we may do that. but we're going to do it in a coordinated sense with the other localities. it makes no sense for one locality to take an action that's not coordinated with the others. >> is that action invalid? >> that's his opinion, but h

we take a look at what he has been creating in rockland. >> reporter: he's not a carpenter by trade, but the stay at home rather has encouraged him to start a new hobby. >> i have 43 on a waiting list as of this morning. >> reporter: using scrap wood from home projects he is making picnic tables, but these are not your average tables. now, these are "juan" of a kind. >> you put a little treat, squirrels and birds come up. >> reporter: that's right, these miniature wooden structures are for the squirrels. >> and i put it on next door neighborhood app, and from there, people are going nuts for it. >> reporter: pun intended. it's a project he never thought would take off the way it has, but juan's creation is all the buzz saw. >> looks like they're having lunch. another one came in, where they actually painted it, and they did like a checkered design on top of it. >> reporter: so wheel we're being told to brandon off into smaller groups, juan is helping his neighbors and their backyard neighbors feel chipper. >> hopefully it lightens up somebody's day and brings some joy to these diffic

rockland, 8%, 6%, 7%. area that iss the growing. you see long island goes from 19% to 22%.to new york city is actually dropping, as the number of cases in worry -- in new york city -- in long island increases as a percentage of cases within the state. trackinghis is about the virus and the spread of the virus, and then deploying as the numbers suggest. beds,ms of dads, the -- the 2500 ed facility is going to make a major difference. that has to work. the white house agreed to make that a covid positive facility. originally, the center, the state convention center, we worked with the federal government, they constructed a 2500 bed facility and was supposed to be non-covid. i spoke to the president and transferred that with his intervention to a covid facility. the federal government will staff that in the federal government will equip that. thatis a big deal, because 2500 bed facility will relieve a lot of pressure on the downstate system. that is a significant number of beds, and that facility now has to make that transition quickly

and it is significantly worse than westchester rockland we have been talking about that and nassau suffolk as one but there is a variation with the long island numbers. by race asians 11 percent african-american 22 latino and hispanic 22 percent multi- and not another 22 white is nine.1 percent this reflects more the regional breakdown african-americans and latinos in this survey are disproportionately from new york city and that is at 21 percent. the african-american number mit number is 22 percent but the upstate whites is three.six in the survey. by age, nothing extraordinary we did not survey anyone under 18 so it starts with 18 years old. eighteen through 248 percent to 54 is 16 percent 75 plus is 13 but it is a small percent of the total have any 75 -year-olds were shopping? that is the group that is supposed to be isolating because they are the most vulnerable. but that is the distribution. again the sample was by those outside their homes we have to analyze that what does that do to the numbers? but that is a factor that has to be taken into consideration 13.9 percent then it chang

situations. , theres no new york city is new york city, there is nassau and suffolk in westchester and rocklandthe virus does not stop at a border. these decisions are regional in nature. broadway is a microcosm obviously but the overall decisions are all in a regional context and i think it will be the numbers and when are the numbers low enough that it is safe? >> that number wouldn't need to be zero? be. cuomo: i don't needed to zero. it may never be zero. this -- whenatch will we go back to normal? you think there is ever going to be a morning that i wake up again in my life not worried about this in the back of my mind? we are all going to worry about if there's a second wave? you don't think we will all worry about when somebody sneezes in asia, how long until that cold comes here? i don't know that we ever get back to zero do you want to mention something, doctor? >> i concur 100%. hospitals in queens say they don't have the cartridges? operational enough technicians who operate the ventilators? gov. cuomo: they must because somehow they been working. operatingow what the technician is f

so far nassau, new york city, westchester, rockland.ou cannot make a decision just within new york city without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region, because it all works together. so when we decided to close the schools, i spoke to nassau, i spoke to suffolk, i spoke to new york city, i spoke to westchester, and we closed all of the schools at once. any decision to reopen them will also be a coordinated decision. the mayor has an opinion on new york city. the county executive of nassau will have an opinion on nassau. sleep alone will have an opinion on the sussex. george latimer have an opinion in westchester. i want to coordinate all of those opinions and reopen them at the same time. i would also like to, ideally, coordinate that with connecticut and new jersey. so whatever we do, we do all at the same time. i know the mayor's position, which is he wants to close them until june. we may do that. if we do that, we may do it with all localities. it makes no sense for a locality to make a move that does not coor