Now is in the southern section of puget sound, which is the Washington State and Pacific Northwest great inland water. When the Transcontinental Railroad came, there was talk about one day being able to stand puget sound. It was not an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. Federalhe depression programs, like the building of the coulee dam, there were big projects happening in the Pacific Northwest. Mid1930s there was talk about creating a bridge over puget sound. It would reach from tacoma to the kit sap peninsula. This bridge was opened on the first of july in 1940. After two years of construction. Bit of aa narrows is a wind tunnel. People working on the deck began to notice movement. Lifts like airplane wing in the bridge. Almost like Horizontal Movement they began to feel a vertical lift in the bridge, especially in the center span. Bridge,s no suspension anything like this, anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Unfamiliarity of how a big thing like this was supposed to behave. People were excited about this. There was a musical gracefulness about a bridge like this. There wasted to think not anything wrong, that it was normal. Once they got the concrete on the deck they thought it would all go away. As we went out of summer and began to get into fall and the winds picked up, our prevailing wind out of the southwest, which blows almost directly across the bridge deck, they began to notice that there was an undulation in the deck. Fall, soldiers were coming out from the military base for the novelty of riding the bridge. It would go out and kick their feet over the railing and stand on the outside of the bridge and lean out as far as they could. The center deck of the bridge would be rising, not just inches, but to a point where the undulation was so severe that or a truck and, an automobile coming in opposite directions, the headlights of the vehicle coming at you would disappear under the rolling hill of the deck. People,conservative something was horribly wrong from the very beginning. For a community that was proud of their new bridge, for the many people that participated in building the bridge, it was unthinkable that this was wrong. But the engineers began to work on the idea of some stiffening of the bridge. They thought the railings on the side could be converted into certain deep high beams and that would add some rigidity to the bridge. Structuralse minor additions, modifications were implemented, or were about to be implemented as we got through october of 1940. Onlyrly november of 1940, four and a half months after the bridge was completed, the weather begin to shift into its winter patterns. That really was the bellwether of what was about to happen. On the morning of november 7, the winds kicked up to 40 miles per hour, and they were fiercely directed right at the site of the bridge. As if the way the wind comes over the wink on an airplane wing on an airplane. Instead of the normal undulation of the bridge, the deck began to twist, began to turn, and everybody noticed immediately that that was a behavior people had not noticed before. Early in the morning of the were hundreds, if not, thousands of people who came out to watch what was happening. They started to watch this behavior. The bridge keepers, it was a toll bridge, so the bridge keepers decided they would close the bridge. That it was wrong and was not safe anymore. It was just not an action that should happen with an inanimate object of this size. One last car was coming across the bridge, even though access to the bridge was shut off. There was one less car, a man coming from his summer home, heading towards tacoma. He had a cocker spaniel with him in a car. By the time he got to the most severely moving part of the bridge deck he cannot control the automobile. The car screeched around and ended up diagonally across both lanes on the bridge. He jumped out and ran and got off the bridge. Minutesnext 30 or 40 the bridge went into a Violent Movement that no one had seen before. All of the crowds on both sides all closed in and just watched. I think everyone started to suspect that the impossible was about to happen, that the bridge was going to fail. With no one really on the a universitygely, professor who had worked on trying to solve the puzzle there was enough time for people theout there University Professor ran onto the bridge to try to get the dog out of the car. There is great footage of him. It looks like a Steven Spielberg movie. Today you watch that footage and you cannot even imagine that somebody would run out onto the , with this tearing debt, tearing deck. The dog was too scared to get out of the car. He finally got off the bridge. In the food in a few moments tour awaywed the deck from the hangers and witnesses talk about it being like listening to gunshots because. He jewels, these big bolts the cable comes down, goes through the deck and there is a big bolt to keep it from going out. Those began to pop and the cables began to snap under the force. The light standards on the bridge are just swirling across rapidly and catching on to cables. The connectiont, between two sections of the ail and there is a violent twist and tear of the deck. In the moments that followed that, huge sections began to fail. Most of the center span of the bridge underneath the big suspension cables falls way, it drops away from the bridge and plunges into puget sound. No one is killed in the incident. No one is even hurt. They demolished as much as they 1940. November of they begin to think about having to reengineer the whole thing. The clouds of war close in of the second world war. By that time they realize there is no way that they will be able to get the bridge rebuilt. Than pearl harbor happens. Critical,rds become a strategic thing. The focus shifts away from public works projects. In fact, the towers and the steel on the bridge is removed and brought into the war effort and is recycled and turned into and whatever actually, sections of the bridge, of the steel are used on the alaqsa on the alaska highway to build a bridge. It ties with the northwest in alaska. Remnants sit in the channel. Its only after the war that they begin to reconstruct another suspension bridge. In 1950, the second tacoma narrows bridge is complete. Thats the bridge we see in the distance here. The steel bridge that is standing with the steel towers in the distance. Textbookhat there is a or a reference book written about bridge into nearing bridge engineering that does not include tacoma in the index because of the tacoma narrows bridge. Its impossible for me to imagine that engineering students all over the world have seen the film of galloping gerties collapse. It is one of those spellbinding moments in engineering history. One of those disasters, those utter failures of design, that is completely captured on film. It is amazing. It is still job dropping to see hugewdropping to see a endeavor like this. A physical object move with almost, moving out of the parameters of the original design. Americaities all over there were cities that were safe havens for gangsters. Chicago. F but more than any of those other cities was st. Paul. It was estimated that 50 of minnesotans were involved in making bootleg liquor in those days. The other 50 were buying it from them. This minnesota area was also well situated to make bootleg liquor, to break the prohibition law. We had a lot of germans, and germans know how to make beer. We had more breweries per capita than almost any city in america. When you break the law and make illegal liquor you need water, you need fresh water. We had the mississippi river, only a few yards from where we are standing today. We are very close to the border of canada, so liquor could be imported and exported over the canadian border. Area was a, this safe haven for bootlegging and public enemies and gangsters. The history of the building we are in now, which is today called landmark center, but in the 1930s, the public enemies era, it was called the old federal courts building. The history here is incredible. On the fifth for is the offices of the Prohibition Bureau. The man who headed the Prohibition Bureau was the man who wrote the american prohibition law. The volstead act. It was andrew. , a congressman from it was andrew. Andrew volstead. When this was pretty old to bankd, they turned robbery, kidnapping, labor racketeering, extortion and murder. That is what this building became. Fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, with j edgar hoover, had this building as their headquarters. If these walls could talk, what notorious stories they could tell. Every majors, it gangster, kidnapper and bank robber in america lived and worked within a three block radius of where we are standing today. John dillinger. Babyface nelson. Alvin creepy carpets. All were here. People dont know that. There are no statues of these gangsters, but this was the epicenter of 1930s crime in the era of John Dillinger. The police in st. Paul, at the sent thehe century, word out to bankers, bank robbers, kidnappers, come to st. Paul. You can be here, you have to promise not to kill or rob anyone within the city limits of st. Paul. And of course pay a bribe. As long as you are under your good behavior, you are welcome in our city. The deal between the crooks and the gangsters was tolerated for almost three decades. And the people of st. Paul would see the most notorious gangsters in america, wanted men, lightbank robber don jill and dillinger walking across the street. It was like seeing a celebrity. You would not fear for your life in the 1930s because you knew they were on their best behavior. Its march of 1934. The most wanted man in america, public enemy number one, bank robber John Dillinger is living behind us in apartment 303 of st. Pauls Lincoln Court apartments. He regrouped to get his bank Robbery Group ready for a crime spree. He was here enjoying time with his girlfriend. They went to the movies one block away from us. Gained is getting weapons, getaway cars and which banks they can rob from the home base here in st. Paul. The fbi did not know this was John Dillinger, but they got hints that a strange man was living in this apartment building. The shades were always drawn to the bottom. Dillingers neighbors never got his mail. But when John Dillingers girlfriend, a beautiful menominee indian woman from wisconsin would come out on this grass and hanged up John Dillingers laundry, dressed in a halter top and short shorts. I talked to men in their 80s 70 years ago, when dillinger was here, they said, oh my god, this girl was so beautiful. They still remember dillingers girlfriend. The fbi sent a crew to knock on dillingers door. They thought it was carl hillman, which was john livedgers alias, but he above at 303. You are walking towards John Dillingers apartment. Its apartment 303. All you know it is there is something suspicious and apartment 303. This is dillingers door. He is in there with his girlfriend. She opens the door, peeks out and the fbi goes, we are here to speak to carl hellmann. The deer woman forgets her own alias. My says carl, carl, oh, husband. She says the fbi says they are staying here. She says, the jig is up, its the fbi. Your clothess, get on, he gets a machine gun, comes to this door, opened it slightly, leans out, grins at the fbi and starts firing machine gun bullets out of the store. The police and the fbi start firing back. This door is chewed up by bullets. John dillinger, not a master criminal, not a single bullet from dillingers gun hits any fbi agent. But one bullet from the fbi and the polices gun hits dillinger in the thigh. Incredibly, John Dillinger has escaped from the shootout. He lays down fire, and comes out this door. Dillinger was wounded in the leg. Here, stands youre holding a submachine gun in one hand and a gun and the other and tells his girlfriend to get the getaway car. The most wanted man in america is standing here, bleeding like a stuffed pig. Sees a man whoor he recognizes as John Dillinger, reaches under his bed, takes out a shotgun and aims it at dillinger. The kid is seconds from becoming the boy who killed john when his mother, hearing the shots, tackles her son, throws into the ground, and dillinger is not killed in st. Paul. He gets in the getaway car with his girl and he goes to wisconsin for a little rest and relaxation at the little but kenya lodge Little Bohemia lodge. The deal between the crooks and a cops fell apart. Bank robber John Dillingers tried,end was successfully, in this room. The four she was found guilty of harboring her boyfriend, John Dillinger, she tried to escape. She said she had to go to the labor of had to go to the ladies room. The federal marshals followed her. But the federal marshals stood back, allowing her to go to the bathroom, at which point she simply kept going down the hallway and tried to escape. Fortunately, the federal marshals overcame their shyness about a female, soon to be convict, grabbed her, and make sure she did not escape. The fbi was concerned that the dillinger gang would try to come here, with their machine guns, and free dillingers girlfriend. That you see by my head, federal marshals were armed with sawedoff shotguns and some machine guns, waiting gangse any members of the would show up to liberate their comrades. It never happened, but you could imagine what it was like in this room, in the sweltering heat of the summers of 1935 in 1936. When all the gangsters were here and everybody was waiting to see if other gangsters with machine guns would try to free them. In this building is the inception of prohibition that led to widespread organized crime all over america. Thats how al capone got his start as a bootlegger. 1936, this was the building where the bootleggers and bank robbers were tried and sent to how could trys, leavenworth prison, and other prisons across america alcatraz, leavenworth prison, and other prisons across america. Oklahoma is where i was born. Its one third indians, one third negroes, and one third white people. I hit the road when i was 13 years old and i did our jobs all over the country. I was amongst these people so i picked up a lot of songs. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island from the redwood forest and the gulf stream waters this land was made for you and me he is most famous for writing this land is your land. In 19 we are very proud to have his work back in oklahoma. He was an advocate for people disenfranchised. For those people who were Migrant Workers from oklahoma, kansas and texas. Themselves inund california, literally starving. He saw this as a vast difference between those who were the haves and the havenots and became their spokesman for the music. Center wasuthrie open in april of 2013. It started from his daughter, nora guthrie. The plan was to have this Research Facility in tulsa. As the concept grew into the idea of opening up this archive to a new generation, and teaching people about woodys important part in American History, this museum came to be. We consider it a place to inspire people. We want them to investigate what woody did with his talents. And inspire people to go do something of their own. When the sun come shining and i were strolling people displaced were looking for a better way of life. Some of them have lost their farms due to foreclosure. Others lost their farms due to the death toll, the drought, and all of the winds that blow their soil away. They had nothing. They were promised this garden of eden, and plenty of work. Come to california and we will have plenty of work for you. Its a wonderful place to be. When they arrived, they found out thats not what was going on. They had been the victims, often of a marketing ploy by large land owners who were trying to get very cheap labor. Because they knew if they had an over abundance of labor, they did not have to pay them much. Arrived and saw that, it did not seem right. In our country of plenty, where so many have so much to allow families to struggle so horrifically, and to degrade them in a way that makes them feel less than human, is just not acceptable. This area of the center focuses on the experience. It was such an important part of who woody was, and really started his work. Its a significant thing for us to mention. Its such an important part of our history as oklahomans. We want to make sure our young people understand the resilient people they came from. The way that they persevered in the face of this natural disaster. That was actually manmade. Had the planes not been found my they were and over cultivated, then it would not have then the death toll would not occur as it did. In this area we have some dorothy elling photos. Migrantsut the distal and what they were dealing with. Of him going to california. Then one of his scrapbooks. Its one of my favorite pages. Answershort notation, an to articles posted about him. He says, i will do everything i can to help the folks from oklahoma, dont you worry. I think that really speaks for who he was and what he was intending to do. Woodywe have lyrics that wrote. Nod toto tom joad, a John Steinbeck and the joad family. [applause] then, if you aint got the do about how people would be greeted at the border. It were told if they did not have money they cannot get into california. The, especially the young and old, died because of this pneumonia. Woody recorded very few songs of his own. We have a listening station that features 46 of his songs in his own voice. When people hear Woody Guthrie songs, they are not woody singing them, they are someone else. He spent his time traveling, in a Migrant Workers camps, in Union Organization rallies, so he did not spend a great deal of time in recording studios. Thats what makes the recordings that he did make so significant and important to us. Woody definitely had beens had themes to his writing. He wanted to make sure people were well represented in his artwork and lyrics. There are some sketches here, city of los angeles, no children wanted. He had the hoover bill over here with the shining city in the background. There is one consolation left, the children raised in the sun will always be the brightest. What he was working with the migrant displaced workers woody was working with the migrant displaced workers. He felt the one way to create workers were rights was to unionize. It was a pretty dangerous concept. It was not so much of an option without facing some kind of violence. 1913 massacre a party werebout Union Members were joining during christmas. Man created a panic by saying there was a fire, and then locked the doors. It was in michigan. Deana i think woody would go into history and research other events that were still pertinent to the struggles that the workers were still facing. In the first line he says, take a trip with me. He makes it clear that he is , and he is telling the story of the massacre that happened in 1913. He is pointing out that this fight they are facing, for workers, for the displaced oklahomans, the problems they are facing are still alive today. Faced thise who disaster should not be forgotten. Artist andy was an used his artwork in a playful way. Other times for commentary. Often times a combination of both. He had almost a little story that he tells about the hands of the workers. , theand thinks it over basiles cops the boss yells cops, the cops come. Hand is charged with trying to overcome government. Then, joined the cio. If you have these troubles, join the union. Centerin the area of the dedicated to this land is your land. That is the song most people recognize as a Woody Guthrie song. For ourimportant theme country. It celebrated its 75th birthday february 23 of this year. We have the original handwritten your handwritten lyrics on display. Recognize the song as a singalong from our Elementary School days. Usually that did not involve singing the fourth and sixth verses, which were meant as social commentary about things could be improved in our society. He paints this gorgeous landscape of the things he saw as he traveled from coast to coast. He also points out things about the people and how we are treating the people and how we should be taking care of each other better. There was a big high wall there that try to stop me the sign was painted private property on the backside it did not say nothing this land was made for you and me owner the idea of a land seeing people who were starving outside this beautiful land that you haved saying, no, to keep out, this is private property, did not go along with demonstrated as our beautiful country and what we had to offer our citizens. This land was made for you and me deana its important to note that woody was a class worker. In a day that so many artists were not. He was a person that gave a voice to the voiceless. This land was made for you and me the experience of driving into the state park is as it has been for thousands of years. All of a sudden you, across this huge drop into the earth. Even today its a shocking experience. The fact that i get to see this every day, i have to stop and take it in, and just make sure i am appreciating how lucky i am to be here every day. The canyon has been forming for about a million years or so. The bulk of the formation has happened in the last 100,000 years. It runs from here close to the sound to the town of silverton. Like 100 20 miles. Its the second largest canyon in the United States after the grand. Its not a single canyon. Many canyons branch off to the side. We are standing in an area where we can see three canyons where we are now. Its a much bigger system than people realize with a visit to the state park. I grew up here. S a young kid i came out as soon as i got my drivers license i was driving out here and bringing friends. We would explore the caves. I can tell you, its much bigger than what you think it is. When you get down into the canyon, and you get your hiking stick and boots on, you better make sure you have a lot of water, because its farther than you think. There are all kinds of treasures we have been searching for. One of the draws is being around extreme nature. This is extreme nature. There are so many places where you can see the beautiful cliffs. When i was growing up, the only footage you had were helicopter shots that the local television stations would do. Got popularnes several years ago, i had to be there. Its another one of my shortcomings, i have to have the latest gadgets. Of course i have my drones out here. It is just amazing. It helps having the experience and knowledge of where to go to k at these things from from spending my life looking from the ground up, i knew all the places i wanted to go to get the view from the air down. I already had the shot set up in my mind, and executed as many as i could. You could stay on the trail and be suitably amazed with everything you see. There is plenty to look at and take photos of and experience. But there are so many other places that are off the trail. Duro canyon is a story of edges. We are on the edge of a lot of different ranges from plants and animals. We are on the edge of the kenyan, and its a place on the edge of battles, conflicts of different cultures. For the vast majority of the history of this area and of the canyon, the people were nomadic. They did not build permanent structures. They had temporary structures that they could move with them as they traveled. In the earliest days there were large, extinct species of bison, mammoth, the ice age mega fauna that no longer exists. Later than that we get into a late prehistoric period when they were like your typical image of what you think of when you think of native americans. This was the Southern Plains region. The tribes included the southern cheyenne, the comanches, the apaches. Towards the ends of the life in this860s and 1870s, became a stronghold for people the bisonescape hunters and people trying to take their lands. Because this was in the center of comanche territory, it was hard to get to and the native americans had thousands of years of knowledge of this area. People coming into the area did not. They used it as a stronghold to escape. There were a series of battles in 1874 that became known as the red river war. The most decisive battle was the battle of palo duro in september of 1874. The comanches, some cheyenne set up winter campgrounds, like they had done for years on the floor of the canyons, they were under the mistaken impression that they would be left alone. They did not realize the government sent five separate troops in the area to look for them, to try to force them back onto the reservations of oklahoma. The fourth cavalry of the United States of oklahoma discovered in 1874,p, and early ,hey dismounted their horses led them down into the canyon floor, and then remounted them and charged into this village. Its not a battle that had a high casualty count. Its more of a route. Imagine waking up and youre laying there with your wife, your husband, your aunt, your grandmother, your children, all these people are with you, and you wake up to armed soldiers attacking your town. What would you do . They did the only thing they could, which was to flee. They ran, setting up Little Pockets of resistance to try to hold off the soldiers long enough to escape and most of the native americans were successful in getting away. The problem was in their flight, they were not able to take much with them. Gave the cowboys motivation to come back and destroy their camp and destroy their when i, destroy their camp and destroy their winter supplies, and destroy their horse herd. They slowly trickled back into and that ended, the Southern Plains way of life. A new group came in at some the opportunity of this empty place empty of people at least and they set up branches. Charles good night set up a ranch that would later become the ja. It grew and into one of the largest of its size. A lot of that encompassed parts of the canyon behind us. This was great grazing land for bison, and it worked great for the cattle as well. Period in this spot where we are standing lasted from 1876 until 1933. This was a working cattle ranch, and in 1933, through a bond, the state of texas purchased about 15,000 acres that became the pallet duro state park. The people of this area had a really strong desire to have a park here. Prior to this being a park, if you did not owe someone know someone who owned some land, you had to trespass to go see it. Sometimes tens of thousands of people would show up in the 1920s and 1930s just to see it. A huge drive for not only the canyon, butlo amarillo is also close, and other cities wanted a park because they knew not only how important this place was to protect but how they would have people coming around to see it. Ranching continues all around us, but we are on this sort of pocket of public land that people can visit. That is part of wakes it so special. We would not have a park here if it were not for the civilian conservation corps. They were a new relief effort. One of the many groups started by president roosevelt in the 1930s in response to the great depression. They arrived here shortly after the creation of the ccc. They arrived at pallet a row, one of the oldest parks and texas, also across the nation. Ofy got here in the summer 1933 and set up their camp. One of the first projects they work on they worked on is the road into the canyon. Obviously, you cannot build the rest of the structures until you have access to it. It is a reminder to myself all the time when im driving down in my work every day that they built this road by hand, basically for 30 a month, a dollar a day. Thatanged their lives and they were able to feed themselves, their families, they learned a lot that served them later in life, and it also provided infrastructure because we have so many structures, the road into the canyon. Without their work, we would not have every thing we have today. Being up here in the texas panhandle, theres not a lot of written history. Theres not a lot of history you can go back to and actually look at. This is one of those places that you can go back and look at some of the history. You have the mortar stones. Somes a rock that has indian art from probably 1000, 2 thousand years ago that you can still go to, and it looks im sure its not as vivid as it was back in the day, but it is still pretty vivid. I like that connection of being able to look at history that is more than just your grandfathers history. The texas state park, state nation,l across the these are state lands and we. Ant people to visit them i always ask schoolkids when palletme in who owns canyon, and they always say me, owns palou do who doro canyon . The state that owns it, the people, and we want people to come and see this place. Knows maybe some of the most recognized photographs in the world. Migrant mother pretty much everyone is seeing has become a symbol of the great depression. The whole grapes of wrath, woodys music, steinbecks literature, and langs photographs that have created the image and the mental picture we have in our minds of the great depression. Sayings wasavorite the camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see without a camera. That is what she was all about. Hoboken, new jersey and new york polio which left her with a withering leg, which she always credited with helping to make her nonthreatening, and as she put it, one of the walking wounded, a subject matter she was always interested in, being that she could approach people. She was perceived as nonthreatening and not someone who was invasive. As a teenager, lange decided she was going to become a photographer. With hermother, and best friend at the age of 18 again what would have been and around the world tour. They got as far as San Francisco when all their money was stolen, so they were forced to stay. Job at a local photo developing counter. Inspired her to open her own Portrait Studio. It is an interesting story because its not at all what we think of her work. We have thousands of negatives and prints from her Portrait Studio days. Thekind of highend portraits were kind of highend if you could afford her. Her portraits were more artistic , so if you wanted a portrait more artistic in the 1920s and 1930s, you would end up in her studio. She had a lot of time on her hands like a lot of people, didnt have much income to spend on things like photographs, so the way she told her story of how she got involved with social documentary photography was looking out her window one day menseeing these unemployed aimlessly wandering around San Francisco, and one day she said, if im going to do this, i have to do it now. She grabbed her camera instinctively. This is a photograph called white angel bread line. The reason it is called that is because there was a San Francisco Society Woman nicknamed the white angel, and kitchenthis soup basically established on the San Francisco waterfront. Its really one of langes masterpieces. What i love about it is it was made on the very first trip she. Ade out of the studio she went out with her brother because she was a little all these angry, potentially hungry men out there, but she found that she back withed and came this photograph that almost did not manage to make it. She had an assistant at the time who became a really wellknown architectural photographer, who was developing her negatives for her. She gave him the film role and told him to develop them, but she said dont worry about this one, theres nothing in that, this particular holder, so he took them into the dark room, so he went into the dark room to make sure there was no film in there, and he pulled out there was a little piece of film in there, and it contained this, so if it were not for him, we would not have this photograph. We have the negative collections like we do here, we can see the photographs she took before and after this. You can see right from the beginning of her documentary work, she had this tendency to gettingtiple images closer to just capturing what was essential about the photograph, the image, and that was usually what ended up being the best photograph. The sad thing about this is you will notice theres only one face in the photograph. His eyes are not visible. It is shot from above, which makes it seem really isolated. Little atypical of a lot of the photographing migrant farmworkers. Shes actually famous for shooting workers from below, stature andhem dignity they would not have had otherwise. Her photographs, generally speaking, tend to be ennobling and not concentrating on despair , and really making the case that these were resilient people that were going to make it. All they needed was a little hand. Modern transport poses new dangers of complete, universal contagion. The struggle against epidemics is a global one. The danger of death is worldwide. Aton American History tv, reel p. M. Eastern on ica, a 1948 film wherever you went, the germs stayed. Sunday at 6 00 p. M. John hancock created the entire Continental Congress as a committee together amongst individual caucuses and decide how we should proceed. Do we really want independence . Then he appointed another committee of five men to draft our declaration of american independence. From a virtual tour of with a Thomas Jefferson impersonator directing. I thought if god gave me land it would have been on a small spark of ground, well lighted spark ofa small produce. Gardening is one of my greatest delights. Over the next couple of hours, updates on the Coronavirus Response in three states. First up, new york. Then new jersey and arkansas. Governor andrew cuomo starts his Coronavirus Briefing with an update on the continued decline in hospitalizations in new york. Later, he announces horse racing tracks in the state will begin to open on june 1 but without fans in attendance. This is 30 minutes. Governor cuomo good morning. Happy saturday. Saturday crew is here. Crew. Crew, short stick let me give you the facts. Everyone knows everyone to my farright. Today is saturday. I know its saturday because i dont wear a tie on saturday. Thats how i know it