three-term mayor who left office according to a "new york times"/cnn poll with a 53% approval rating. joining me is howard wolfson who served as deputy mayor under bloomberg and was bloomberg's eyes and ears. howard, thanks for being here. let's start off with the snow. snow can trip up a mayor's approval rating in the blink of an eye. is de blasio's administration ready to deal with this major storm on your city? >> the day before the general election, then mayor bloomberg called his senior staff in and said i want to run the world's greatest transition and make sure that we do everything we can to help prepare then mayor-elect de blasio for coming in on day one. he said you know, look, they may have to face an enormous snowstorm on his first or second day in office, and we want to make sure they handle it as well as they can. so that premonition has come true. the fact is that new york city has the world's greatest snow fighting force. we've got sanitation department that eats storms for breakfast, eats blizzards for breakfast. these guys are prepared.