in the empire state. senior correspondent laura ingle has that story for us tonight from long island. good evening, laura. >> the request for private businesses to only allow people who are vaccinated into their establishments isn't an orator but rather a strong suggestion from the governor on new york on how they should operate moving forward. >> i'm asking and suggesting to them, go to vaccine only admissions. >> businesses are asking customers and employees to pony up the proof that they've been vaccinated and then attempt to stop the spread of covid. the mayor of new york city also making a plea to the public to get vaccinated on monday. >> if everyone was vaccinated, covid would exist but it would do very little harm in the scheme of things. we want to focus on vaccination. but we're not taking any tool off the table going forward depending on what the data and