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<b>News 12 </b>spoke with Hofstra University's
Larry Levy about what's at stake for Gov. Kathy Hochul as she gets ready to
give her first State of the State address. 

Levy, of the Suburban Studies Dean at Hofstra University, breaks
down what to expect from the address. 

News 12 spoke with Hofstra University's Larry Levy about what's at stake for Gov. Kathy Hochul as she gets ready to give her first State of the State address. 

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And the radar is all quiet behind you j but we're already starting to see the clouds roll in. Still pretty nice evening. We're expecting fifties all the way through the rest of it. And then we drop it into the forties when the sun sets pretty good deal for December. But we do have a flood watch and a high wind watch in effect across the island. Now, both of them go in effect for tomorrow. We're expecting 2 to 3 inches of rain. So that's your flood watch. It could bring flooding in the afternoon and in the overnight and gusts up to 45 you see, especially parts of eastern Nassau into Suffolk at the worst and it looks like the timing here gonna be six pm to midnight. That's what I'm looking at for the squall line to pass through and deliver some potential power outages. So let's bring you right to Sunday in the morning time. Not too bad. We have stray showers, not a bad breakfast or lunch, but then right around noonish, we're gonna start seeing some downpours and it's an on and off rain at that point. We're also looking at wind which starts to pick up to the 30 mile per hour range. Now, these are gusts and a gust is a quick little burst of wind as opposed to sustained winds, which is an average kind of wind speed. So we're seeing quick little bursts of 40 MPH that could knock a tree branch down or two around 67 o'clock, the wind is gonna be coming in with some really heavy rain around 1011 at night into midnight one o'clock or so. This latest model is actually keeping the rain around for the early Monday morning commuters and then things clear out by about 78 o'clock in the morning. So a little bit better there. So the worst of the rain gonna be with a flooding risk at 5 to 2 a.m. and then we see wind at its worst right around midnight. Things look good for the rest of the work week though. It's gonna be chilly.

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INTERVIEW: Larry Levy on what to expect from Gov. Hochul’s address 

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Governor Kathy huckle is preparing to give an historic state of the state address this afternoon. It's her first since being elected, the first woman governor in new york. There's a lot of issues from affordable housing, public safety, Covid so much more joining us now to break it all down is Larry leave is the executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. Larry good to see you again. We know you're in Albany today for the speech and it seems to me there's a lot at stake for this governor and laying out not just this year, but her next four years. Good morning Cathy huckle won by the slimmest margin of any democrat in many, many years. And uh you could say that she has something to to prove, prove that she's in touch with new Yorkers. Uh at least better than the election results showed. Uh and long Islanders have a lot to think about too because they don't have a lot of representation up in Albany now, Khokha lost Long Island, the the Senate and the assembly have supermajorities without a majority of long Islanders. So we're going to listen to this carefully to see what's in store for us and perhaps more importantly, what's not in store for us. Do you think that she'll tailor a certain message specifically to residents in Nassau and Suffolk? Well, without having seen it in advance. I would bet dollars to whatever great donuts you can find that she is going to focus intently on crime because that seems to be the number one issue on voters minds, particularly in the suburbs, where you had an unusual red tsunami when over the rest of the country, suburban communities, trended Democratic. All right, Larry. Lastly, um these speeches, you know, lay out an agenda. You don't know if it actually comes to fruition, but for her to be able to lay it out and then see it through in year one of her first full term is that important? It's very, very important. You always have a narrow window when you're an executive of a state or even a company to lay out your agenda and you have a certain amount of time to get it done in new york, basically the state of the state is followed weeks later by the budget, which really tells you what her priority. But she's already spending political capital defending the nomination of her new chief justice Hector Lasalle. Labor unions are opposed. A lot of progressive democrats are as well. And you don't want to really be getting into a big fight like that before you have to use all your cloud to get your legislative agenda through. All right, Larry, we know you'll be there watching and we'll circle back with you after the speech. Thanks so much. You're welcome

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