Pleasure to be up with everyone this morning. In corona queens. It was a pleasure to get out of the state capital and talk to the people who are actually doing the work. I am a queens boy, so it is coming back home for me. Corona queens. It was called corona queens before the coronavirus. There is no connection between corona queens and the coronavirus paid let me introduce my colleagues. Pat foy is chairman of the mta. Sarah fienberg runs the new York City Transit bureau. Is deputyodes superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. Saturday. I know it because it is on the slide. Therwise, i may not have known i follow the dazed by what is on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, that we have never been here before. And that is true, but even when you are in Uncharted Waters, that does not mean you just seed blindly. You get whatever information that you can, because you want to stay informed. Even in the old days, when sailors would sale into Uncharted Waters, this is before gps and radar, they would throw out a piece of lead with a rope, that would fall to the bottom, and they would call back to the captain how deep the water was. The lead had on the very bottom a piece of wax that would pick up what was on the ocean bottom, whatever sand, rocks, etc. , so the captain could tell, basically, where he was. So Uncharted Waters doesnt mean it means getly, information, get data at the the you can get data, best you can, and use that data to decide where you are going. Especially in a situation where you have so much emotion, so much politics, you have personal anxiety that people feel, social anxiety, social stress, lets stick to the facts, lets stick to the data, lets make sure we are making decisions with the best information that we have. So we do a lot of testing, a lot of tracking to find out where we are. We test the number of hospitalizations, every night we find out how many people were in the hospital the day before, we have been tracking that. The good news is, that number is down a tick again today. The net change in hospitalizations is down a tick. Ubation intubations are down, that is good news. The new covid cases walking through the door, the number of new infections, is also down a little bit, 831. It had been relatively flat, at about 900 every day, which is not great news. Yesterday was 831. We will watch to see what happens with that. The number that i watch every is theich is the worst, number of deaths. Remaineder has obnoxiously and terrifyingly and it is still not dropping at the rate we would like to see. It even went up a little bit, 299. 289 the day before. That is bad news. 276 deaths in hospital, 23 in Nursing Homes. The mostomes are where vulnerable population is, and the highest number of the most vulnerable population. Data, use the data to determine actions, not emotions, not politics, not what people think or feel, but what we know in terms of facts. Sampling all across the state to determine the infection rate, so we know if it is Getting Better or getting worse. And we have done the Largest Survey in the nation testing for people who have antibodies. If somebody has antibodies, it means that person was infected. That is what the Antibody Test does for you. It tells you that person was infected, they have now recovered, so they have antibodies. I went through this with my brother chris. He got infected, he now has the antibodies, so if you test him, he tests positive for antibodies. We have been doing Antibody Testing across the state. We have the largest sample dow, over 15,000 people, which is an incredibly large sample. The 22nd, weed on had 2900 people surveyed, we had about a 13. 9 , just about a 14 infection rate statewide. 14. 9 . Went up to about 12. 3 . Ay it is down to this iscians will say all plus or minus in the margin of error, but it is a large sample. 14. 9 . To 12. 3 is indicative. And we test about every four or five days. We have so much at stake, so many decisions to make, that we want to get those data points as quickly as we can. To 12 , itit go down may only be a couple of points, but it is better than seeing it go up, that is for sure. And this is outside the margin of error, so this is a good sign. And it is 15,000 people surveyed, a large number. You can then start to look where in the state, who in the state, so that will inform our strategy. You can see that it is a little bit more male than female, not exactly sure why. City, the number one from 21 to 24 and is down to 19. 9 . That is a good sign, always want to see the number dropping. The bronx york city, 19 ,gh, 27 , brooklyn manhattan 17 , queens 18 , Staten Island 19 . We are going to do more research to understand what is going on. Why is the bronx higher than the other boroughs . Statewide it is basically flat. Issues predominantly an for new york city, than long island, than the northern suburbs, than the rest of the county, whiche he is buffalo, new york, has been problematic. Ie county,ounty er which is buffalo, new york, has been problematic. We are seeing who is paying the highest price for this virus, what is happening in poorer communities, what is happening with the racial demographics overlaid over the income demographics, and also if there is information in different ages that could be instructive. About 900ll getting infections every day walking into the hospital. That is still an unacceptably high rate. We are trying to understand exactly why. Who are those 900 . Where is it coming from . What can we do to now refine our strategies and find out where those new cases are being generated, and then get to those areas, get to those people to try to target our attack . We had thember, first cluster in the nation, first hotspot, even before they called them hotspots, new rochellewestchester. Tremendousas a outbreak in rochelle. We sent all sorts of resources into new rochelle and actually reduced that hotspot. Specific placea or pattern generating infections, then you can attack it, but you have to find it first and that is what we are looking outcome especially with this number of new infections. Theyou see, if you look at location of it, it is not telling us much. But we asked the hospitals call,day, on a conference to take an additional to take Additional Information from people walking into hospitals, to find out where these infections are coming from. Are the frontline workers . Or are they people who are staying home . Are these infections that are being spread in the home, or are they frontline workers, which means they are getting up every day, getting on Public Transit, going to work, then maybe they are getting on Public Transit getting it on Public Transit, maybe they are getting it on the workplace in the workplace . But getting more information on where these cases are coming from, where you live, not just what borough, what Community Within the borough. Are there Different Health trackers infecting the new infection rate . Comorbidities . How are they traveling, are they in cars, are they on Public Transportation is it the new York City Transit system, long island railroad, etc. . So we asked the hospitals to collect that data yesterday. We will get it over the next couple of days and that will help us get more information. In the meantime, we know vulnerable populations are paying the highest price, our seniors, Nursing Homes and poorer communities. They are the ones where you have higher infection rates and higher risk and higher exposure. We are going to distribute today 7 Million Masks to just those communities, Nursing Homes, poorer communities, people in Public Housing in new york city, new york city housing authority, so we will do that today. 7 Million Masks is a large number. There is about 9 Million People in new york city, so 7 Million Masks will make a big difference. We are also funding food banks. The more this has gone on, the longer people are without a job, without a check, basics like paying rent and buying food become very important. We have addressed the rent issue, the immediate urgent need. Nobody can be evicted for nonpayment of rent, and that is through through june. So people are stable in housing. The next a basic need is food. We are operating food banks. We just funded 25 million more in food banks. All the food banks will tell you the demand is way up. And we need help in funding the food banks. There are a lot of philanthropies, foundations that are in the is this of helping people. If you are a foundation or a or aofit or a philanthropy person who wants to help, we could use more funding for food banks. Budget is very stressed with what is going on, so we dont have state funds to do what is needed, but we would appreciate donations for the food banks. The Antibody Testing has been very important. We are going to undertake a survey of Antibody Testing for transit workers. Have been at the frontline. Workers,bout essential people out there every day running the buses, running the subways all through this. There has been a very high infection rate among transit workers. You, and we thank appreciate what you are doing, 1000 times, but i believe actions speak louder than words. If you appreciate what you are doing, help us do what we do. And we are going to be doing that with more testing on more resources. That is going to be going on right now. And to keep our transit workers safe and to keep the public public, we areg going to do something that has never been done, and that is that the mta is going to be disinfecting every train every 24 hours. This is such a monumental undertaking i cant even begin to describe it. The new york city subway system has never in closed. It operates 24 hours a day because we have a 24hour city. We are taking the unprecedented step during this pandemic of fourng the system four hours at night from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. , when ridership is lowest. Ridership is lowered to begin with, down about 90 , but it is lowest from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. We are going to close it, the mta is going to literally disinfect every train, and i just viewed the operations on how they are doing it. It is smart, it is laborintensive, people have to wear hazmat suits, they have chemicals that disinfect, but you have to go through the whole deviceith a misting and they sprayed disinfectant on every surface. This virus, they are just studying it now come up the there are reports the virus can live tour three days on surfaces like stainless steel. The inside of a subway car, the rails, the bars, they are all stainless steel. To make sure trans workers transit workers are safe, the writing public is safe, the best thing you can do is disinfect the whole inside of the car, as method a challenge as that is. But that is what the mta is doing, and they are doing it extraordinarily well, and it is just a other sign just another sign of the dedication, the scale of our transit workers, which is indicative of new york. They are stepping up in a big, big way, and not just the cars. They are also doing stations, all the handrails, etc. , and it is good and smart for transit workers who have to work in that environment, but is also right for the riding public. We want people to know that the andays and buses are safe, the essential workers who have kept this entire society functioning have done an extraordinary job. That weant them to know are doing everything we can do to keep them safe. This was a delicate balance all along. We need to do new yorkers to understand how dangerous this virus was, and we communicated that early on, so that when we said stay home, people understood they should really stay home. New yorkers can be a cynical bunch, and just because the governor says stay home, they are not going to stay home, unless they understand why they need to stay home. So we presented this fact. But at the same time, we are saying to essential workers, after hearing how dangerous the virus is, you have to put to work tomorrow. And they did. And if essential workers didnt, then you would have seen a real problem. If you dont have food on the shelves, if you dont have power a homes, if you dont have sick services, if the police dont show up, if the Fire Department doesnt show up, if emts dont show up, if ambulances dont run, if nurses dont show up, if the doctors dont show up, then you are in a place where you have never been before. So after communicating how dangerous the situation was, the next breath was, but frontline workers, you have to show up. And they did. And they did. And they did their job. And that is an extraordinary, extraordinary example of duty loveonor and respect and for what they do and who they their mothersfor and sisters in the immunity. They demonstrated it. They didnt say it. The demonstrated it every day, when they got up to leave their house. So god bless them all. But we also have to do what we have to do to do everything we can to keep them safe, and this heroic effort on cleaning the subways is part of that. Wewill continue it because are new york tough. But tough doesnt just mean tough, that means smart, united, disciplined and it means loving. You can be tough and you can be loving. They are not inconsistent. Sometimes you have to be tough to be loving, and that is what new york is all about. Questions. Reporter given the homeless will have to leave the subway system, what actions are your administration taking to find hotel room funding or other resources to make sure they dont move the problem from one area to the other . Governor cuomo i have worked with the Homeless Community since i was in my 20s. I ran a notforprofit it was the largest provider for homeless families in the country. I then went to the department of housing and erlichman and urban development, which is in charge of homeless programs for the federal government, came up with a new program to help the homeless nationwide and implemented that, did more for the homeless than ever before. Of helping the homeless is sufficient. I know there is a lot of politics about helping the homeless. You do not help the homeless by letting them stay on a subway car and sleep on a subway car in the middle of a global pandemic, when they could expose themselves or others to a virus. That does not help the homeless. Sense, to the extent people need a safe place and shelter, you should provide that. Even more, to the extent people need services, Mental Health services, substance abuse, job training, we should provide that. So the notion, you should let everybody sleep on the train, the Homeless People, it is good for them. It is not good for them. Owewed them better we them better. We are funding an unprecedented to mounting housing and services for the homeless. Part of the problem has been connecting a homeless individual with those services. Becausethe difficulty, Homeless People who have an underlying issue have been homeless for a period of time, it is not as simple as saying, come with me and i am going to help you, i am going to bring thato a group residence, connection is very difficult. It is not that we are funding services. You have to get that homeless person to a position where they trust and accept it. Opportunity to engage homeless men and women who have been sleeping on train, some of them for years, for years. Now, to disinfect, you have to get the people off the trains, you have to engage homeless men and women with the appropriate skill set, and it is an opportunity to get them off the trains and actually connect them to services they need. Reporter there has been talk of using fema money, money from hud to pay for hotel rooms for the taken anyhave you action to make those Resources Available . We are working through local governments. It is up to the local government to provide the best strategy, but i think that is an opportunity. Reporter on an f train this morning, there were three men spread out, sleeping in the car. You think you can realistically increase outreach to push them out, will we see an end to that realistically . Reporter governor murphy i will separate Governor Cuomo i will separate the issue. Can you end all Homeless People . No, i dont believe you can. You always have a certain number of people who are homeless for one reason or another going back decades, not like it is today, but you always at some people who for one reason or another wanted to sort of get away from society, drop out, had an issue they were dealing with. I dont think you will help everyone when hundred percent everyone 100 , but i dont know that is the real question. You help everyone as much as you can. And this will be the first time i can remember that every homeless person, by definition, has to get off that train at some point. To disinfect the trains, everybody has to be off the is an and i think that opportunity to actually engage Homeless People, find out what they need and try to link them with services and help. Will you help everyone . No, but you help everyone that you can. Reporter [inaudible] reporter governor murphy Governor Cuomo if somebody cant pay the rent now, they cannot be evicted by the landlord. Period. You cant be evicted for nonpayment of rent. It is called an executive order, but is basically a law, so a landlord cannot evict a person for nonpayment of rent. If you can pay the rent, you should pay the rent. I am not saying dont pay if you can pay. There is a morality in this. And manyu cant pay, cant pay because of economic circumstances, you cant be evicted. And that is a law in place through june. And in june, we will see where we are and figure it out. Reporter can you describe how many more employees and police are going to be needed . And what about people who travel between 1 00 and 5 00 a. M. , any help for them . Reporter yes. I will turn it to them to give you details. Let me talk about the return to service plan and sarah will talk about the plan for closing the subways from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. Let me say this. When the pandemic began, we reached out to the hospital associations, labor unions and trade associations to get data on where their employees live, what hospital they went to, what operation facility, as an example of where they went. We did that in march. As a result, we have very granular data as to the number of passengers that travel from 1 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. From 1 00 a. M. To five eclectic a. M. , approximately 10,000 of our customers travel. Done in connection i andlosing the subways, colleagues reached out to the transit workers union, the hospital association, 1199, the building traits, Grocery Stores and grocery unions. That is a partial list. We are getting very granular data about where their employees or members travel from en that from an employees are members travel from and to. Sarah 10,000 to 11,000 of our writers travel between 1 00 and five apply 10,000 to 11 00s s travel between 1 00 and 5 00 a. M. We are going to prioritize bus service. We are going to be running a law of buses. We are going to have bus services that matches subway headways. If you depend on subways, we are going to try to match bus service so you can face a similar weight and to commute. We are going to have a website with Additional Details we provide in the next couple of days. People should know that if they were counting on a subway, bus service will be provided, taxi and Livery Services are end option for hire vehicles are an option. We are not going to leave behind the folks who need to use the system overnight to go to hospitals, medical centers, jobs, we are going to make sure we take care of them, but we have to do everything we can to make sure our workforce and our are safe. So we will clean every single car. We have a team of 900 cleaners, heroes, essential workers who do really difficult work in difficult moments. We also have additional folks we are going to bring on as contractors to make sure we can get this all done. The systemho ride during the day, they will see a lot of cleaners they probably didnt see before. If you ride to the end of the line, you get out at the end of the line station, instead of going to the platform end up stairs, one thing you will see is a bunch of cleaners boarding the train immediately and starting disinfecting work right then. That is happening during the day. That hasnt happened as much before. The yard, got cars in cars on layup and cars in the system. Cleaning happening 24 hours a day, the goal cleaning every single car every day. Some cars will get cleaned more than once. This program is based only on the mayors commitment and a Robust Police presence in clear in terms of closing the stations from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. Mayor de blasio zoomed into the governors meeting in albany earlier this weekend confirmed that was sustainable, a robust and sustainable nypd presence that will make this program possible. Governor cuomo to be straightforward, this has never been done. We have never closed the subways you have to 5 00, never tried to disinfect trains, never tried to disinfect every train every 24 hours. Nobody has been your before. When you do something different, there is always a position, someone who raises the other wee, especially in new york, love to argue about everything. So yes, we are closing the trains. Yes, they will have service, but somebody may have to take a bus instead of a train. Ridership, in a time when you have the lowest ridership and probably a century, but you still have people who have to take a bus instead of a train, and they will be inconvenienced. Except that we have no option. Im not going to say to essential workers, you need to come every day, food workers, come, doctors need to and i dont know if i can tell you for sure that the trains and buses are clean. Essentialling to tell workers, please leave your home so others can stayathome, work in a grocery store, work in a hospital, put yourself at risk, and i cant even tell you the buses and trains are clean. Whont ask transit workers are seeing a high rate of infection, who are dealing with difficult circumstances, i need you to work on buses and trains, but i dont know that the buses and trains are clean. Im not going to do that. No new yorker is going to do that. Yorkers live by, do the right thing. What is the right thing . It is hard to describe, but you know it when you see it. To do the right thing, essential workers are doing the right us,g i. S. Thing by showing up, putting themselves at risk. We have to do the right thing by them. Trains and buses should be cleaned, for transit workers, public, every essential workers who gets on. End of story. We will figure out to do it figure out how to do it and it is hard, but it is the right thing to do, it has never been done before but we will step into it. Look, everything we are doing here has never been done before. How do you do 15,000 tests . It has never been done. I know, but we have to do it. How do you come up with a tracing system to trace positives . You need thousands of tracers . And by the way, there are no tracers . I know. We will figure out how to do it. That is where we are in this moment. We are called upon to do things we have never done, and either we rise to the occasion or we fail. And we are not about failing in new york, we are about rising to the occasion. We get after 9 11, we did after superstorm sandy, and we are going to do it here to. Here too. There was a protest of people who want the economy to reopen and they were blatantly ignoring social distancing and refusing to wear a mask. What message do you have to people who are ignoring social distancing at demonstrations or parks, beaches . Suffolk policet were there but were not given anything to enforce social distancing, so what do you want to see happen when it comes to enforcement . This is a highly politicized time, we know that, having nothing to do with covid. It was highly politicized before that, everything democratic, republican, left, right, that was the environment. I have worked very hard to keep politics out of this situation. We have to make a lot of tough decisions, we have to make them fast, and the worst thing that could happen is politics collides with what we are trying to do. Take even today, cleaning trains. If you want to take a politicized view to that, people will argue just because now they are supposed to. Because it is politics i have stayed one supposed to, because it is politics. Awaye stayed 100 miles from politics. I have made it clear i have no political agenda whatsoever, because people are always ready to look at politicians and say, this is interpersonal interest. I have no personal interest. I am not going anywhere. I am here until they fire me. I have no political interest, and i think that has been very helpful. Peopleserstand frustration with the economy not being open. I want the economy open, for my family and the state, by the way, has a tremendous financial problem, and the faster the economy comes back up, the better our financial situation. So i get it. I disagree with people who say, open the economy even though you know there is a Public Health threat. I disagree with that. I am not going to put dollar signs over human lives, not for my family, not for yours. But i understand their point of view. And i understand the first amendment, you want to make your argument, god bless america. You dont have a right to jeopardize my health. You want to jeopardize your health, god bless you. You have no right to jeopardize my health. The mask is not about your health. The mask is about my health, and my childrens health, and your childrens health, and that is ift you have to wear a mask you are in a situation where you cant state six feet apart. I have said to Law Enforcement across the state, enforce the mask executive order. I Said State Police would help you if you cant enforce it, so i believe it should be enforced because it is reckless, irresponsible and it is not about your life, it is about other lives, and you dont have a right to do that. [inaudible] i believe in new yorkers. Im a lifelong new yorker. We have many your purse who have moved here, and that is great. I was born here, bread here and i am going to die here bred here and i am going to die here. I am so impressed with what they have done. We communicated the facts, but they closed down in a way that is just markable. The curve dropped in the projections of the number of cases. That curve didnt drop. New yorkers grabbed the curve and end it down. That is what happened. That number was going like this. That is why the projections were wrong. New yorkers grabbed it, pulled changed that curve because they stayed at home, they wore masks, they closed, etc. At the same time new yorkers understood how dangerous it was, essential workers, pw you, food workers, nurses, doctors, showed up for work, beautiful. Masks and compliance, it is extraordinarily high, the compliance. And with warm weather, people come outside, you can stay indoors all the time. So people will come outside, and that is great. Use respectk, but and social distancing, and where the mask. And new yorkers are doing it across the state. I am going to go to work. Thank you for being here. Stock buybacks . You rule out raising taxes on the ultrawealthy . . On the ultrawealthy . Every new yorker is in your debt. God bless you. Thank you. Florida governor ron dissent is visited a barbershop in orlando to talk with salon owners about challenges they are facing in reopening their businesses. Here is a portion of that conversation, followed by a press conference. Desantis we can go around and introduce, i will pass it off to the mayor and we can discuss what we are going to do. You guys have done a great job, thank you for your hard work. You look at how Orange County thinkr this, i dont anyone would have predicted what has happened. You guys at the Health Department have been great. Thank you. It has