Finally come. Day 100. Day 100 since we had the first case in new york. The first coronavirus case. Case in new york. The first coronavirus case. That is when we started counting. Day 100. When we first started, all of the experts people who studied this across the world. I said, where are we going to go . Nobody knew. How fast you could control the spread of the virus. It will depend on what people do. Whether or noton people take it seriously. If people except the warnings, understand the virus and understand how serious it is. I am so proud of how new yorkers have responded. I can say this. I am a born and bred new yorkers. New yorker. New yorkers heard the message and they did what they had to do. They did it with discipline. If you told me 100 days ago that we would be reopening, when we did not even know how bad it was going to get. We had dire perfections. Early productions said it would overwhelm our Hospital System by doubling the capacity in the Hospital System. Beds and,000 hospital they were projecting that we would need over 100,000 hospital beds. It was frightening. New yorkers did it. It is that simple. We lit up the city then marks toh the colors of the state, say thank you. We are not out of the woods, but we are on the others, certainly. That is why we are studying the reopening in new york city and other regions of the state. Fornt to thank the people what they did. New yorkers rise to the occasion always. In many ways, new yorkers unity. Nt courage and when things are tough, new yorkers are tougher. That is what they did here. I am so proud to be governor of new york. I want to say thank you to the people of the state. Thek you to all of essential workers, the firefighters, the health care workers, the nurses and doctors. If those essential workers had not shown up, you would have had total anarchy in society. If they said, well if it is so dangerous, i am going to stay home as well i am not going to open the grocery store, the pharmacy, i am not going to drive the truck to bring the groceries to the grocery store, i am not going to drive the train i am going to stay home like everybody else. If they had done that, you would have seen bedlam. God bless the essential workers. I would like to thank my team. 100 days. They have not had a day off. We have done these briefings one hundred days, sometimes twice a day and it has been hard. Dealingeen exhausting, with the unknown. We have never gone through a period like this. Never anything like this. They did an extraordinary job and i want to thank them. Guys werethank you talking to me, every day for 100 days. The joy of our interaction and dialogue. The joy that i had, dealing with you. We can discuss that over a beer sometime. Congratulations. We are back. Back, but wewe went from the worst situation in the nation. Frankly, one of the worst situations on the globe, to not only flattening the curve, but bending the curve. We had to stop the increase. We did not just stop the increase. Broughtthe curve and we the spread down dramatically. Look at where we are 100 days later and we are continuing our decline. The rest of the country is still spiking. How remarkable is that . How remarkable is that . Congratulations to new yorkers. Its also day 15 of the civil unrest after the murder of mr. , and we are dealing with two situations simultaneously and in many ways, they both compound each other. It is not just the protest, it is protests happening during the covid situation. We have to deal with both. The states, they were by and the protests continued yesterday all across the state. They were by and large peaceful. But the protesters are basically right. Not just a new york state phenomenon or american phenomenon, its happening all across the globe. I mean, it is amazing. I was watching this morning, protests in rome and spain. Its all across the globe. And people are saying enough is enough, and it is enough. It is. It has been the same point over and over and over again. Bring reform to the criminal justice system. Bring reform to policing. We have seen the same situation happened 20, 30, 40 times. How many times you have to see same you have to see the situation before you act . And we are going to act in the state of new york. Transparency of records for Police Officers, which, by the way, the records of Police Officers will no longer be exempt from disclosure, so the records of Police Officers will be like every other public employee. They will be like teachers, they will be like csea employees, d. C. 37 employees. Their records will be available. And if people make complaints about them, they will be in the record and they will be released. Ban chokehold. We went through it with eric garner, how many times . To pass a law that says that, the attorney general special prosecutor five years ago i did an executive order with the attorney general to investigate cases where police kill an unarmed person. Why . Because a local District Attorney and i have tremendous respect for a District Attorney, but a District Attorney works with the police force day in and day out. How do you expect the public to think that the local District Attorney as an arbiter is going to be unbiased . Attorney general, statewide elected official, who can do the investigation of Police Misconduct and give the people of the state confident that it is a fair investigation. And a banning of false, race racebased 9 11 report. We worked with the legislature over the weekend, i think we have an agreement on the bill that are going to be introduced. If they pass, i will sign the bills and i will sign them as soon as they are passed. I want to thank both of them for their leadership. This is a difficult time. People are angry. People are angry on multiple issues and feelings are intense on multiple issues. In the midst of it, you have to find out what is right rather than just what is politically expedient. And i want to praise the Senate Leader and the Assembly Leader for their leadership, and i hope we have a good, productive week this week. But this is not about what an individual state can do. Its actually broader than that. New york state will take this legislative action and i hope it then becomes a model for other states to follow. Weve done that in new york a number of times. We did it with marriage equality, free college tuition, raising the minimum wage. It provides a spur for progressive action by the rest of the country. But this is also bigger than what states can do. What this protest really is about is systemic racism and systemic injustice and systemic inequality. Yes, when it comes to policing. But frankly it is worse than just policing. It is the fundamental institutions in our society that systemitize discrimination. Its the fact that we have two education systems, one for the rich and one for the poor, and poor children receive a different education than rich children. Because there is a gross funding disparity. Its the lack of portable of an Affordable Housing agenda where the federal government just doesnt provide Affordable Housing anymore. They used to provide section eight vouchers so you could build, they used to build public housing. That has all stopped. That has all stopped. Its the health care system, what we saw with covid19. You have inequality in the health care system. And the neighborhoods where the covid ravaged are the neighborhoods that have Less Health Care to begin with. Thats not a coincidence. Thats the fundamental cause of the injustice, and thats what we should be addressing along with policing issues. And there is a moment to do this. There is certainly a National Moment for that change. Carpe diem . Carpe momentum. Seize the moment. Its a moment. Change comes in a moment. When did we pass gun safety . Right after sandy hook. Why . Because people said enough is enough. People are saying enough is enough again. Seize the moment and end the systemic injustice inequality. Education, health care, housing, policing, criminal justice. Reopening of new york city, we did it all based on data and facts, there was no political ideology at work here, we talking about a virus. The virus doesnt do democrat or republican, liberal or conservative. It is based on facts and we have followed the facts and look at where we are now with our testing results. On sunday, we did 58,000 test across the state. We are 1. 2 positive, the lowest level in the state since march 16. That is a fact. Over the past few days, 58,000 tests we did on sunday, 1. 2 statewide. Saturday, 60,000 tests. 1. 3 . Friday, 77,000. 1. 4 . Why arent we reopening . Because these numbers say we cant. We can. There is no ideology, based on the numbers, we can reopen. Were doing more test than any state in the united states. We are doing more test than any country in the globe per capita. Thats why i have confidence saying we can do this. Based on yesterday, 58,000 tests, that is a lot of tests, that is a large sample. And i feel confident making a decision on these numbers. Now, we can change the numbers just like we changed the numbers the first time and reduce them. New yorkers get sloppy, you can see those numbers go back up, because they are purely a function of behavior. You tell me what new yorkers do today, i will tell you that number tomorrow. And we literally study it on a daytoday basis. If you look at yesterdays numbers, just yesterday, across good state, new york city, nine weeks ago, 59 testing positive. Four weeks ago, 10 . Two weeks ago, 4 . Yesterday, 2 . Just yesterday. And you see these other numbers for the other regions. Mid hudson, 1 . Long island, 1 . Capital region, 1 . Thats how we are making decisions. Rocklin, we will interphase two tomorrow. Long island is on track for wednesday. What does phase one reopening mean . It means companies, businesses can reopen pursuant to specific guidelines. This is not reckless reopening. We know what happens when that is done. This is by the guidelines, construction, manufacturing, wear masks, no congregant meetings. In terms of businesses, Curbside Pickup. How Curbside Pickup happens, instore pickup only if curbside is not practical, and that has to be with prearranged orders. You are just going into the store to pickup an order. Thats because you cant do curbside, thats all that is. Curbside in new york city is obviously a different phenomenon then curbside in other markets with less traffic. But that is what store shopping is. These guidelines work. They have been enacted in every other region in the state. Those other regions have entered phase one, follow these guidelines, and there has been. There has been. There has been no spike. We know that it works. It was followed. The same guidelines apply to new york city and if we follow those guidelines in new york city, there should not be a spike, just like there hasnt been a spike across the rest of the state. We are also going to keep a special eye on new york city to see what happens. We will do 35,000 tests per day in new york city. Take a snapshot every day. If you see any increase in the infection rate, react immediately. And 35 tests, 35,000 tests per day is a healthy snapshot, a healthy sample, and watch it literally every day and calibrate what youre doing. Again, im asking all the protesters to please get tests. That is a new question that has been dropped into the mix. We had all these at home measures and then we have thousands of people show up to protests. Did that affect the spread of the virus . We dont know. We dont know. So im asking the protesters, please, go get a test. It is free, it is available. But there is a chance that you were in proximity to people. Again, weve gone through this. What they call a super spreader. One person in a crowd of 100 people can infect dozens. Weve seen it. Please, we have 15 testing sites in the new york city area that are prioritized just for protesters. We are also focusing on the hotspot neighborhoods in new york. These are zip codes where we know there is a much higher infection rate than other parts of the city, and it is dramatically high. 19 , is about overall, the infection rate in new york city is about 19 . Some of these communities are over 50 , so we are targeting these hotspots, more testing, more treatment in these hotspots and more awareness. We are also setting up additional testing, thank you very much, north well health, and community care. More testing sites in those zip code areas for people in those zip codes to get tested. 240 testing sites alone in new york city. You can get a test. It doesnt cost anything, and there are 240 sites available, so there is no reason not to do it. There is a website where you can go to the website, punch in your address, find the availability, call and set it up. Im asking the protesters tested get tested. S to and take as a precaution, act as if you have been exposed, and you may want to tell people that who you are interacting with. Stay away from people who are in a vulnerable population until you take the test and you know that you are not infected. People in those zip codes where you have that high infection rate, get tested. Get tested. Thats all on the website. Also, as we are working through this, we are going to extend the deadline for filing property taxes by 90 days. That gives Small Businesses some assistance, we are going to restart elective surgery and ambulatory care in new york city. The mta is reopening. Roman tory asked me on an interview, how do you know the subway is going to be safe on reopening day . I said because if it wasnt safe, i wouldnt ask anyone to go on the subway. I make these decisions and for me it is very simple, i just assume im making the decision for myself and i said if the subway isnt safe for me, then i wouldnt ask anyone else to go on the subway. Today i took a ride on the seven train. The mta has done phenomenal work. Im old enough to remember the bad old days in new york city. When we would talk about how dirty the cars were and the garbage that was in the subway cars and the stench, frankly, that was in the subway cars. The subway cars are cleaner than they have ever been. In my lifetime. I mean, they had to disinfect the subway cars. Just think about that. I mean, its almost a bizarre task, right . We are going to disinfect a subway car. For so many years, they couldnt figure out how to get the newspapers and the coffee cups out of the subway cars. Now they are disinfecting it and they are disinfecting the cars and the stations. Theyve done 30,000 stations, 500,000 subway car cleaning disinfections. Theyve applied antimicrobial thetment to the surfaces in subway cars and the stations. They are using Uv Light Technology to clean facilities. They are doing everything they can. We are giving them an additional one Million Masks and 25,000 gallons of Hand Sanitizer that we make in the state, 500,000 two ounce bottles. I have about 10 that i collected. Masks are mandatory when you are riding public transportation, subway bus, stay six feet away when possible. Use the Hand Sanitizer. Use the Hand Sanitizer and observe the guidance that is on the trains, etc. They are also launching the its up to us, new york campaign. You will see this if you are riding the subway and the buses. How do you stop the spread . It is what we do. Are the subways safe . It is how we act. Are the sidewalks safe . It is how we act. If you are wearing a mask, if youre keeping distance, yes, it is safe. But it is a function of us. Each one of us. And us as a collective. While the ridership has been reduced, there was also an opportunity in the reduced ridership, right . One of the ongoing challenges on construction is to do construction, you have to reduce the train usage. If you reduce the train usage, you inconvenience commuters. When the ridership was reduced, the mta smartly increased their construction. Because the ridership was reduced, so fewer riders were inconvenienced by the construction. And they accelerated 2 billion in capital projects. Rehabilitating the f train, using the lessons they learned in the ltrain, i want to applaud the team for setting a record in smart government construction. Smart government construction does not have to be an oxymoron, you can have smart government construction and generally they showed that. They are accelerating 11 stations, 22 new elevators. Accelerating steel and concrete the 2, 3,d leaks on 4, 5 complexes in brooklyn. New yorkers did what many experts told them was impossible. 100 days. I dont think ive had a good nights sleep in 100 days. Knowing some of the things they told me. New yorkers bent the curve by being smart. We are celebrating, we are back, we are reopening, we are excited. Our mojo is back, our energy is back, great. Stay smart, stay smart. Look at facts around us. Other states, the spike is going up. California, the numbers are going up. Florida, the numbers are going up. Texas, the numbers are going up. Look at the reopening dates, and look at what happened after the after they reopened. That is a cautionary tale, my friends. The gentleman on the subway car just said to me in arizona they reopened and they are seeing a spike. Hes right. Look at the spike in arizona. You have to stay smart after the reopening. Because if you dont, you can see a spike. That is the last thing that we want to see. But i dont believe we will because we are new york tough, smart. Right there. Second word, smart, right after tough. Smart, united, disciplined, the last word is for me, loving. Questions . Reporter other states that saw a spike, they dont even have mass transit, they dont have subways. By definition, given the setting of the subway, as clean as it is, dont you expect new york to see a spike . My. Cuomo are you a cynic, friend . Are you a pessimist, my friend . Reporter i am not. Gov. Cuomo the subway has been open all during this time, for 100 days. We have the highest infection rate in the country. We have the highest number of cases in the country. We had the highest hospitalization rate in the country. Subways were open. We went from that point 100 days ago to now, one of the lowest infection rates, and one of the best downward spirals with the subway. If we stay as smart, as disciplined as we have been for the past 100 days, we will be fine. If we change our behavior, if we revert, if we get sloppy, if we get cocky, then we will have a problem. But were not going to do that because we are smart. Behavior,even good people in masks on the train, if the ridership picks up just a little bit, they are not six feet apart, and they are unable to maintain gov. Cuomo if they are using the sanitizer, using the masks, it will be ok. Reporter taking the lead now in terms of passing Police Reform gov. Cuomo excuse me, one second. If we are going to have a problem, the variable here is the protests have an effect . I dont know. And i dont want to speculate, thats why im asking protesters to get tested. But we will have the masks for all essential workers and if we keep the discipline, we will be fine. Im sorry. Reporter the state is passing these bills as you go, some of which have been bottled up for many years, have not been available. They will be out publicly by wednesday, im told. Do you think the department itself needs to have its own internal reforms . Would you like to see changes within the nypd itself . Do you think the Current Leadership Team there is up to it . Gov. Cuomo look, mayors run their local Police Department s. I think this is a wakeup call not a wakeup call. This is a transition, transformation moment of the country. People are saying it has to stop. We have to change, right . When they are saying defund the police, what are they saying . They are saying we want fundamental change when it comes to policing. And they are right. They are right. They are saying mr. Floyd, mr. Gardner, enough is enough. They are right. Our state legislative packages will do that. But i also believe you will see that in every police that is now operating. They understand they are operating in a different reality with different perceptions, so i think you will see a shift all across Police Departments. I think Police Department to dont hear it and dont get it will have a real problem. And the Political Leadership of that Police Department will have a problem, right . And those local mayors. You look at what is going on in minneapolis now. I think the mayor, the elected official, they will get the message and it will be up to them whether or not there Police Department has done it. I would like to see us go further than that. Yes, theres discrimination, institutionalized in society and its manifested in the criminal justice system, but its worse than that. Its actually worse than that. Education is where it starts. Housing is where it starts. Health care is where it starts. You want to make the difference in america . You want to live up to the american promise, the american dream, let america be america again, every child has to have access to education. Not two educations separate, but equal, separate but unequal. Equal education for every child. Children, even in this state. Poor schools, 13,000 per student. Rich schools, 36,000 per student. How . How . Equal opportunity. We have equal opportunity. Oh, really . Out, 13,000 for education. Your child starts out with 36,000 for education . My child comes from a poor zip code, more problems in the community, often more problems in the household, and that child gets less education, less opportunity, less services. Equal opportunity. Now. And we have not been talking about this for decades, and this is where it starts. The fundamental insanity, you are spending 50,000 a year its more than the tuition of harvard university. How long have we been talking about this . Its a reverse set of priorities. Reporter i want to ask you about Police Reform, and how the Police Unions factor into that. Do you view from the police union as being more making it more difficult, hindering Police Reform . Gov. Cuomo look, every union argues the interests of their employees, their workers, right . Workforce, right . When you go to make education reform, you hear from the teachers union. When you go to reform the Mental Health system you hear from csea. When you go to reform government, you hear from taft. You go to reform, construction, labor, you hear from the construction and labor unions. So, they are arguing from their employees point of view. I understand that. 58 Police Unions are saying if you release personnel records you may jeopardize their privacy. Thats a point. And the bill has Privacy Protection in it. But my point on 50a, which i know the Police Unions are not happy about, look, all it is doing is reversing an exemption on Police Records so now a police employee, Police Officer is like a schoolteacher, is like a csea worker. Its just parity and equality with every other public worker. It is nothing punitive to police. They say, in that file, you all released just complaints, like if you sent a complaint letter about the place it will be released. Yes. But if i sent a complaint letter about a toll taker, but if i sent a complaint letter about a schoolteacher, its going to be released. So, its just fairness and equity across the board. Reporter what would you say about other across the country . Not just in new york do think that would reverberate . Do other unions pose a difficulty or is there a role for them in Police Reform . Gov. Cuomo of course there is a role in Police Reform for the unions. I think the unions will bit will bring the perspective of the Police Officers to the table, as they should. Because when you make any decision, when you are going through reform, you want to make sure that you understand all the issues and perspectives and pick the right path. But everybody has a perspective here, right . Everybody has an interest. So, listen to all voices and pick the right, just tap. Path. Right, just now, this is a hyper emotional issue. I get that. And people have very strong opinions. But thats the art form of government, right . We passed gun safety reform. People were there were thousands of protesters. I had hundreds of Death Threats on gun safety. Everybody has a point. Everybody is an argument. Everybody has an argument. You cant make everyone happy. Its not about making everybody happy. But it is about hearing all sides. That is what it is about. Reporter thank you, governor. We hear that you asked the protesters to get tested. Site forhave a special the protesters. Is there a message . Because we have seen every day there are a lot of Police Officers who are not wearing masks. Gov. Cuomo Police Officers should be wearing masks. The Police Officers are getting tested. I have encouraged them to get tested. We have Testing Available for essential workers were there are prioritized. So, yes there is the same message to the protesters is the message to the police. I have had these conversations with the police several times. Because the police were out there as essential workers all the way through this. So we started a tremendous amount of testing with the police force weeks ago when this first started. Reporter when do you expect phase two in the city . There were boarded up Stores Across the city. How do they affect new york coming back to what it was . Gov. Cuomo look, we had a terrible night, the night of looting in the city. It was terrible. It was destructive. It was frightening. It was bad for the city in a number of ways. I think it scared City Residents. And it scared City Residents of add a at a bad time because were already going for covid and people were nervous about the city, about the density, about the numbers, and then you see this night of looting, which just look like the city was out of control. And it was bad for the communities we are trying to help. People see the pictures of looters running up and down madison avenue in manhattan. There were not as many pictures, but there was just as much activity in the bronx and in brooklyn and in queens between destroying momandpop businesses that are struggling on a good day. Destroying businesses that are providing needed services to or to poor communities. So, the looting was very bad. It wasnt the fault of the protesters. Some people try to put the protesters as looters. Yeah, that would be a way to dismiss the protesters, but its not true. Its not the fault of the Police Officers, right . The Police Officers, its not their issue. Police officers in this city are the best Police Organization in the country, i believe. 36,000 strong. They have handled many difficult nights in this city. I said it was the management of the police. It was the management and the deployment. You have to have enough police deployed. I dont send state police somewhere unless i have enough state police to do the job. I said it was about the management and deployment. It wasnt the protesters. Police officers themselves. But its over. It was a bad night. I took action. The mayor took action. Its over. It has not happened again. Have beenotests largely peaceful. There have been some issues. There has been no looting. The boarded up stores from the looting, that was one night. Arrested, it stopped, it is over. A full come back . Gov. Cuomo i think the looting was one night. It was a bad night, but it was one night. And i think new yorkers know how to calibrate this. And look, also, honesty works. Right . You cant get away with inauthenticity in this city. It was a bad night. Bad two nights, alluding twoome looting actually nights. Yeah, it was bad. But i said it was bad. And i said it has to stop and it has to stop now and it was a management, deployment issue of the police, and the management acted differently and the deployment was different and it stopped. So, it wasnt good, but i think it was addressed honestly. It was addressed effectively. And over the past several nights we have not seen any looting. I think new yorkers are past that. Reporter governor, can you tell us about your evolution on 50a. You have been resistant to repeal or amended. I asked you about this a week ago and you were not nearly as definitive as you are today and in the last couple of days. Tell me, what has it taken gov. Cuomo what did i say to you when you asked me the first time . I said theres no need to change 50a, because 50a does not do what the local governments say that it does. Thats true. Remember, new york city used to release the disciplinarian disciplinary records. They released them. Then they stopped. When they stopped, they said, oh, its illegal because of 50a. No, because 50a was in existence when they released them. How did you release them if 50 a stop to you . Reporter very good paraphrase of what you said gov. Cuomo yes. Then there is the councils letter saying that 50a does not stop you. But it was clear that they are not going to do it. Is thelieve 50a strawman for local governments . Yes. But even as a strawman, ok, we will knock it down as a strawman. Yes, a tough question. Reporter this one is for you. Gov. Cuomo that never works. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo as soon as the Senate Starts taking up confirmations, i will send them. Reporter so you are expecting to do that in the coming week gov. Cuomo as soon as they take of confirmations. Confirmations are a different function of the state senate. As soon as they start confirming, i will send them. I have a batch of confirmations that are backed up. Reporter when it comes to reopening and seizing the moment on the city streets like other cities across the world has done, do you think the mayor is doing enough, do you think city officials are doing enough . Really reform the way the streets look in the city . Gov. Cuomo you are factually right. They estimated bus lanes. Ive not heard the mayors announcement, but obviously theres a disparity between what the mta asked for and what the mayor is doing. Do you want to comment on that . From the mta standpoint, 20 miles of bus lanes is a step in the right direction, but we , whichor 60 for a reason is really we want Speed Service so everyone can get more frequent service and everyone can accommodate to growth and to make the social distancing possible. Reporter you announced that they were accelerating a lot of projects. Is there any update on that . And whether or not we will move across the finish line this year . Gov. Cuomo who is we . Reporter you. Gov. Cuomo the federal government has to approve the federal congestion pricing plan. I have spoken to the federal government about it. The mta has spoken to the federal government about it. The mta has not approved the federal congestion pricing plan. Why not . You would have to ask the federal government. I do not believe they have a bona fide reason. Why have they not approve the approved the pricing . I have no idea. Why havent they approved the cross hudson tunnels . Why havent they approved the tunnel from laguardia . Why did they pass salt, which penalized new yorkers and increased the taxes of new yorkers who were already contribute more to the federal government than anyone else . I dont know. Ok, guys, thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. 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