Better starting today. Want to remind everyone to check on your neighbors. If you have neighbors who are Senior Citizens or disabled. Check on them, see if they need anything. Make sure that youre there for them. Now, we go over the city talking about new yorkers about the challenge i understand what everyone knows on the car, where theyll put the snow. What we want people to talk about here, first of all with the car, dont think this is business as business as usual because it is not business as usual. It is an emergency. If you dont need your car, leave your car where it is. We have cancelled alternate side parking all the way up to saturday. This is a rare, rare situation and it means if you dont need your car, unless you have a real urgent need for your car, leave it. Leave the snow on it. Dont move the snow off of it. Let Mother Nature help you. It will be warmer. There will be sunshine. Leave it so it doesnt end up in the street. If you put all of the snow back in the street and then your street is not passable, sanitation cant keep up with that if every time and again people keep putting more and more snow from the side of street in the middle of the street. It will block off the street. Had i is a common sense matter. Matter. We want streets to be clear for emergency vehicles. Everyone has a responsibility here. If you do not, absolutely need to use your car. Leave it where it is dont shovel it out. Things will, in the next few days, with the help of the weather will help some of the melting off of the snow. It will make it easier. Same with sidewalks. You dont need to clear your whole sidewalk. Clear 3 or 4 feet, enough that someone with a baby stroller can get through or a wheelchair can get through. You dont need to clear it all. 3 or 4 feet will do. If you clear your sidewalk 3 or if people dont clear the sidewalks, well start the process of applying fines. We need the sidewalks clear, walk safely and not have to go into the street. But, again, as youre clearing your sidewalk and i say this, some of you have evidenced inning snow shovelling skills first happened. If youre a home owner, clear the 3 or 4 feet wide path, put the snow off to the side. Dont throw it out in the street. Youll make it harder, again, on sanitation to keep up with all that they have to do. Theyre dealing with the most snow theyve seen in a long, long time. Help them out. Everyone has a role to play in this. For anyone with Health Issues please, weve now lost five people in the course of the storm who were snow shovelling. Five deaths related to snow shovelling. That is a whole lot and that is very, very sad. Very tragic, anyone who has a you should not be shovelling. Dont shovel. Dont shovel. A family member, friend, neighbor, pay a young person from your neighborhood. Dont shovel if you have a Health Situation that might compromise you. We want to emphasize businesses in particular, you have an obligation to shovel out enough of your sidewalk so people can pass, again, even if if it is a 3 or 4foot wide area of the sidewalk. Were going to definitely be focussing today on businesses that arent doing that. Well be applying fines to any business that does not shovel out. We have some businesses, particularly, weve seen parking lots, gas stations where theyve put a huge amount of snow out in the middle of the street. That is not acceptable. Were not going to stand for that. That will definitely be fines for any business that is making it worse on their neighbors by shoving snow out into the street. We want to remind anyone, again, who is having problems with heat or hot water. Call 311. Not dealing with your heat or hot water issues, call 311 so we can get you help. Again, emphasize, i want to do a few words in spanish, hear from colleagues. Emphasize up of the important messages, alternate side parking cancelled all the way to saturday. No reason to take your car out unless it is urgent. Think outside of the box. Mass transit is running. Work with your friends and neighbors, car pool, but try not to use your car if you dont need it and in terms of school zones, as we said, today, tomorrow, if youre parked in front of the school where it says no Standing School zone, leave your car there today and tomorrow. We want to not put a lot of snow on the street. Leave their cars so we can get this job done. In spanish. I want to bring up two of my colleagues. A Woman Working hard and sleeping very little, our sanitation commissioner catherine g. You also sleep very little. Thats true. He emails me at 2 00 in the morning. As the mayor says we have 2,000 pieces of equipment city wide today. We have over 900 pieces in queens but more importantly weve moved over 170 front end loaders into queens because some of those streets, a plow is not effective. The snow is too deep and there is not enough room so were literally going in, dragging it out. Queens is our First Priority for today to make sure that we get all of those small streets open. And we are going to begin piling and hauling operations which means well literally put the snow in dump trucks and take it away. Some of that started in the other bureau you hads and operations throughout the city. The focus is on the closed streets. Piling and hauling. Bus stops and crosswalks and anywhere near a school. We have 920 snow laborers as the mayor mentioned. I believe were making strong head way on the unplowed streets. We have more work to do and were moving very quickly. It is very slow. We have to use two front end loaders moving end to end down a street to take the snow out. I just want to thank everyone for their patience as we continue to effort this storm. Thank you very much. I want to bring up our transportation commissioner pollee trottenberg. She has been getting at different areas that we have to clear, crosswalks and other areas of the city and she will give us an update on the. Thank you mr. Mayor, d. O. T. , i was actually able to visit with a lot of my crews yesterday. Queens. Were really tackling our bridge and pedestrian overpasses, working with the contractor to clear all of the bus stops, working with the bids and other groups around the community to clear the pedestrian plazas and the central teams are out. Weve responded to 500 requests to fix signals and signs. We have our folks all over the city. The statton island ferry has continued to run so were making contract. Give them the people on the street numbers. How many people do you have . I have now, i think i have about 400 folks on the street now and we certainly, as the mayor mentioned, we could use day laborers if people want to pitch in. I want to remind people, again, for all of the day laborers, 13. 50 an hour, after 40 hours, goes to 20. 25, a great opportunity. We need as many people as we can get, as quickly to help us to do the work. Topic of the storm first and then well go to other topics. Lets start with questions related to the storm. Grace . Regarding, you talked about Additional Resources going to queens now. In advance of the storm were there extra resources put in queens and can you explain what makes that borough in particular so difficult and is there anything more that could have been done in advance of the storming how challenging it. Were talking about 2. 3 Million People and the reason i say that is different parts of queens had different realities. I went myself to see. Story of long island city, south jamaica, flushing looks good. Corona did not. Sunny side did not. We should be careful and realize it is neighborhood by neighborhood. Second, parts of queens got more snow than other places, third, narrower streets. Melinda cats and history one contributing factor is smaller streets, harder to plow. We had substantial assets. Catherine can go over the what commissioner garcia did which did not happen in the past efficiently enough in my view. I remember 2010 when i was public advocate going all over the city. We all remember that storm. The city didnt make adjustments as quickly as it could have and it took days, my block, i remember, was at least 2 or 3 days after the had finished my block in brooklyn had not been cleared and is not passable. The difference is were sending the equipment where the need is greatest. As manhattan and brooklyn and bronx got secured, all of the additional equipment was moved off to queens to reenforce the queens effort. Yesterday when i was in corona, i saw some unpassable streets. I went back, they were fully passable because the reenforcements helped. When this is over, well look though it is one of the biggest snow falls weve had, well do an after action report to figure out where there were problems we could do better on and what adjustments we want to make. Im becoming an expert on blizzards the last couple of years. We make an adjustment every single time. The team therefore is figuring out how to do things better. Kathy lynn, you want to catherine you want to talk about how we started that was mayor de blasio. Good afternoon, youre watching Eyewitness News at noon. Im ken rosato. Dave evans is off. Cheryly alacott. You heard about the challenges in dealing with the response and how he is not happy with the response in queens. Streets are still buried. A viewer showing too many school buses stuck in the snow this morning. This is on 80th street and in school because streets are snow showered. The mayor asked residents to be efforts. Partial trains have been restored on Long Island Railroad. Refreezing delayed efforts to get all of the trains in place. And we have four reports reporter drave clark. Live in elm hearst, queens. As you heard there a moment ago, a lot of discussion about queens there in the news conference. The mayor talking about the size of the borough. Queens being the larmgest in the city. It has largest in the city. It has more people, more roads and the hardest hit in the storm. Is there were a lot of concerns here about keeping the schools open. Some thought the mayor was being a bit ambitious in allowing the schools to remain open considering there were so many streets and sidewalks that remain untreated we actually followed some students to is five here in queens this morning and it was not an easy walk for some of the sidewalks had a lot of snow. They were slipping and falling and other cases they had to walk in the street because the snow had not been shovelled. Now, carmen, the School Chancellor ordered or requested that schools shovel the sidewalks and entry ways but the problem was kids had to walk to school from distances that were far away from the school so that presented a problem in the way of their safety and in terms of perhaps staggering the time for coming to school, she said it would be too complimented to notify complicated to notify school. If the trains are moving and the buses are moving, you can go ahead and have school. Here is more from the School Chancellor who we heard from earlier this morning. It is kids to be. I mean, being in school is really, for many parents, a real reassurance that all is well with the world. For the kids, too. Now, you heard the mayor is in queens and here is a reason why. This is one of those streets that remains untreated in queens. We spent all morning long. This street has not been touched there are a number of cars there on the block that are buried in snow. You heard the mayor talk about how it is complimented for some of the plow complicated for some of the plows to go down the psychiatry. A plow cant get down the street because it is mayor. Theyll be using a front end loader. This is a situation playing out in other parts of queens as well here. Back here live now outside of isfive. You can see this is the past that the kids had to walk. You can see the snow, it is still it is shovelled a bit but it is still snow packed and slippery. Once you get up the block there, beyond the snow hill it is shovelled so there is a clear path right there in front of the school but nonetheless, these kids have to walk back home message is, to those students and parents is to take your time, be careful and do not walk in the street. It is just too dangerous because some of the streets, although theyre clear, theyre also very slippery as well. Queens, still very much in the process of cleaning up after being hit by the storm in a major way. Were live in elmherst. Partial service on the Long Island Railroad resumed on some branches after tracks froze again overnight. Riders packed platforms this morning, some waiting for hours. The big question is what will the afternoon commute be like. Long island reporter kristin thorn is live in mineola. We dont know about that just yet. What i can tell you is that the delays are now down to 10 minutes which is great new as you mentioned, a lot of confusion this morning. People got here around five in the morning hoping to get on the trains. This platform began to fill with people. If you take the train and dont like crowds, today would have been one of the days to work from home. Youve been waiting how long . About an hour. Wow. The other train was packed. We couldnt get on. The larr says it would be back and running by 5 00 this morning but when 5 00 a. M. Came around, the railroad said it wouldnt be until some trains got through but quickly the delays started to build with trains sometimes zooming by, already packed with riders. How long have you been waiting . Not too long. The delays grew to an hour on some lines creating packed station houses, platforms and trains. I think it will do us a Better Service by telling us were not running. And drive by treacherous service. I see people leaving after two just tell us youre not running. I once dpram manas i once came from manasa, my wife drove me here and im waiting over here. It hasnt been a great morning. No. The coffee is not bad. The larr blames the back up on continuing problems from the blizzard. It is unclear if riders there have to deal with the same conditions for the evening rush. It is not possible to get anywhere here. Youre trying to get on. Youre trying to squeeze in. Yup. It is just not possible. You cant even squeeze in there. They issued a statement saying the lirr should have been more up front with riders about what is going on with the system as well as making it more clear what was going changes in service. The Port Washington line remains suspended as does the hempstead, West Hempstead long beach and far rock way line. They hope to have full service tomorrow morning. Were live in mineola, im kristin thorn. Eyewitness news. Governor andrew cuomo spoke moments ago who spoke well of the crews who got the lirr back and running. There was a lot of snow out there. Dont kid yourself and there was a lot of snow on tracks and a lot of frozen signals and my guess is they ran into more complications than they expected when they actually put the trains back in service. The city of newark remains virtually shut down, city hall courts and schools all closed. Many streets, a mess, and the mayor is asking for patience. The blizzard dumped more than 28 inches of snow on that city. Eyewitness News Reporter rob nelson up stands. Reporter good afternoon, ken. We all thought this storm would be a blessing hitting on a weekend but even with the extra day to clean before the work week, look behind me. You can see the conditions of so so many residents we talked to today say theyre angry, frustrated and increasingly impatient. Look at these impassable side streets and it is easy to see why even two days after the storm on a normal morning commute for some was impossible today. People need to get the act together so people can get back to normal. You cant get in your own house and we pay taxes over here. Reporter here along hiller parkway, the side streets are like icy obstacle courses forcing many residents to search for Public Transportation or skip work all together. Just really bad. Really, really bad. Ive never seen it like this before in a long, long time. Reporter we found this group of people who have been waiting for more than four hours for a city bus and didnt even have any luck when they reached out to cab companies. Interest there was quite a few other people here and theyre leaving, going back home. This is not right. Theyre not cleaning the streets. I didnt think it would be this bad. No transportation, really . Not everybody has a car. Reporter at the intersection of dickerson and 3rd streets. The situations are so treacherous that they abandoned the cars. The side streets need help, get dump trucks and do like new york does. Get dump trucks and dump the snow and throw it in the hudson river. That is what you need. Reporter residents are beyond frustrated saying they have never seen things this bad or the city take so long to clean the st. And back here live, i want to give you another live look at the street along hillers parkway. We understand the mayor will have a press conference in a few minutes at 12 30. We did get an email from city hall saying, look, 28 inches of snow fell here, newark has 40 miles of streets. So far theyre saying 4,800 miles have already been plowed but clearly, so many side streets. They have not gotten the attention they need and that theyre adding more plows by the minute bringing in private contractors to get this job done even faster. For many, theyre clearly frustrated and waiting for progress. This simply can not suffice for people to get to work and get back to the routines following this blizzard. But again, we expect homage from the mayor coming up in a few minutes. Well have the latest on that online as well as later newscasts. Rob nelson, channel seven, Eyewitness News. Quite a situation. Thank you, rob. Like for all of those people behave for uncle pete. Bye, see you guys later. [boys screaming] now Time Warner Cable makes your internet go faster. Up to 300 megs. Are you having fun . Yeah its ok. Its good. 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