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Shannon Powell, a
Democrat and member of Indivisible and Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor and
former Republican, join News 12’s Scott McGee to discuss the
state Supreme Court justices mask ruling and the governor’s
appeal.

Shannon Powell, a Democrat and member of Indivisible and Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor and former Republican, join News 12’s Scott McGee to discuss the state Supreme Court justices mask ruling and the governor’s appeal.

Hudson Valley

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For another look at your hyper local forecast as we continue to watch the storm heading into our area. And Alex, I'm seeing some parts on this map showing that snow is expected in some parts of the Hudson Valley on the back end of it, Nadia. Tomorrow morning, we will have a couple of flakes fly and yeah, even some accumulating snow weight of the north and west. But let's first talk about the rain coming in our direction this afternoon. It's still tucked away pretty far to our south. And so we're good here in the Hudson Valley for the morning. We have some areas of fog, but we also have some areas of sunshine. So we'll take it. And certainly if you have any plans before noon, you're good to go. Wind is pretty light for the first part of the day. You would have no idea that a storm was coming except for the fact that it feels a little different out there, it feels a lot warmer than it usually is. This time of the year, we even have temperatures in the fifties in some spots this morning that above average for the afternoon when the afternoon arrives. Now we're starting to kick in some showers. This is two o'clock, four o'clock. Look, we've got some rain passing through at six o'clock still and we continue to see the rain pretty much all through the evening. Some of the worst of the rain will be eight to about midnight or so tonight, it's also quite breezy, 20 to 30 mile per hour wind gusts. You factor in several hours of rain and now you've got some trees coming down, release some branches and that could knock out power. Here's four o'clock in the morning. If you're a really early commuter, you're still dodging rain. And if you're in Sullivan and Ulster County, the high elevations of Ulster County, we're looking at cold enough temperatures for a few snowflakes and then a few flakes will mix in 6 a.m. But at this point, things are drying out. It does stay breezy pretty much all day Monday. In fact, some of the worst wind will be with the sunshine Monday afternoon. I wanna show you two different models here. This is one model showing you the rain all the way up to midnight about an inch or so in White Plains and Yonkers and then it picks up to two inches but notice how close we are to that really heavy rain over Connecticut and Long Island. This other model actually will bring in some of that heavier rain off to our east. I'm gonna show it to you coming up on the other side of the break. But I also wanna show you the winter storm warning in effect for the higher elevations of Ulster County and the advisory in effect for Sullivan. I thought that was kind of important to get to. So I will show you the difference in the rain totals coming up. But a little more good news once we get through Monday, it's totally dry for work week.

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Long Island

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All right time. Now for another look at your hyper local forecast and Alex, we are expecting rain to move through and also some pretty, pretty bad winds. Yeah, the late afternoon, the evening, the overnight, it's gonna be really rough, but it's not bad out there now. So, run your errands and do what you have to do. It's actually a pretty good morning. But by the end of the day, 2 to 4 inches of rain that's gonna bring some street flooding and wind gusts 40 to 60 MPH. We're expecting some power outages with that. So let's got you through it. So majority of the morning, we're just looking at sprinkles around lunchtime, some pockets of heavy rain. Wind isn't really too bad here yet and the rain is scattered. I am expecting though that you will absolutely need the umbrella by noon time and the rain will continue throughout the afternoon. Throughout the evening, there will be a few little breaks, but a lot of this rain is very persistent. This is 6 p.m. Now we're starting to get in on a little bit of wind about 30 mile per hour winds at six o'clock, 78 o'clock. Now we're upgrading to almost 40 mile per hour winds. There's some break between the heaviest rain. We probably have our first round in the afternoon and our second round in the evening time, this is 11 o'clock at night. A squall line sets up across the island. I think it really gets its act together somewhere over eastern Nassau County or Western Suffolk. And then it just pushes through very slowly overnight. So, while we're sleeping tonight, we dealing with some really decent downpours and rumbles of thunder as well as the wind. It's going to be ridiculous. So again, a little rain this morning, but not much. You see the rain totals by four o'clock or still under an inch for many of us. But there could be some localized flooding around dinner time. Here's what one model has for the heaviest rain. So it kind of sets it up more to Nassau and Western Suffolk where you see the red color that's localized flooding without a doubt on your streets. This is another model and some really solid heavy rain, but this is a little bit more toward Western Suffolk. So expect the rain all the way through the evening. It's 100% guarantee. And then for morning commuters tomorrow, early morning, we still have some issues with rain. But by the time you get to the mid-morning, it's out of here and it is still breezy on Monday, it'll be sunny and it will be windy all day. 45 is your high feels like 30. So, and the whole work week looks dry. So once we get through today, it's gonna really clear out the air, that's for sure.

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Westchester

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Power & Politics: The future of mask mandates in New York

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here to add some perspective on these stories to political analysts for Shannon Powell democrat and member of indivisible and dan Shore a former prosecutor and former Republican dan and Shannon, thank you for joining me today. Thank you scott. Nice to be here. Good to have you here. Let's start with this new york judge who ended the mask mandate saying basically he agrees with the sentiment But not the way the governor did it unilaterally without the legislature in the absence of an emergency order. So that order is now under appeal. But the mask mandate itself scheduled to expire anyway February one, we're just a few days from that. The governor had this to say about I don't want to keep any requirements for safety in place a day longer than necessary, but I will not do it a day before we can do it safely. Alright, dan, you're a former prosecutor. What do you think of the judge's order? There's two very separate issues here. That's important to separate. One is should there be a mask mandate and two does the governor have the legal authority to unilaterally implement a mask mandate. Governor cuomo was given very broad emergency powers at the beginning of the pandemic. But the legislature last march passed a law saying that they were pulling back these emergency powers and this judge was saying that governor hopeful doesn't have the power on her own to just implement the statewide mask mandate that she needs to go to the legislature, have them pass a law. She could sign it and then they can have this and the judge specifically said in his decision, he wasn't ruling on the merits of the mask mandate. He said it was well intentioned but that she just didn't have the legal authority to implement it on her own. So that's very different than whether or not the judge agreed with the public policy benefits of the mask mandate. Pretty much the sentiment that the judge said, I agree with what you're doing. I just don't like the way you're doing it. Do you think that she should, let's assume that this mask mandate expires on Tuesday as it's supposed to do you think it should be extended as these numbers from democrats start going down? Well as the over crime numbers go down, we certainly need to find an end to the mask mandate. I understand it's there to protect people to keep people healthy and protect lives. But at the same time we don't want Children growing up wearing masks for a long time in school. So I think there needs to be some metrics based on science to reduce masking maybe in conjunction with local case rates, vaccination rates. So it's not going to be pulled back completely while we have the omicron wave still going on. But we definitely need to find a sunset for at least some of them asking for people who are vaccinated in areas with lower rates, which hopefully the rates will go down. But it would be best if these policies are set through law through the legislature, not just the governor on her own deciding whether there's a mandate or not Janet? Well, the mask mandate is about keeping people safe, keeping businesses and schools open until the threat of this latest variant subsides, which the good news is, it is um, you know, as President biden said, look, 96% of schools are open, they're open here in Westchester. This is because, you know, we have mandates like that that are keeping people safe. So why throw the baby out with the Bathwater? Um, 95% of New Yorkers now have had at least one shot of the vaccine. Um, this is great. I mean, the anti-vaxxers making all this noise or a very small minority of people, who when you look at the numbers are way outside of the mainstream. but as Kathy huckle said, governor hopeful said, you know, she's trying to do what's in the best interests of the people and she doesn't want to do it any longer than she has to. And I do think having some metrics is a good idea and I trust that she will do that. Yeah, let's sort of talk about that a little bit more Shannon talking about what dan just said, we've had parents in Westchester on Long Island, all over the place, basically all the suburbs, a significant group of parents are saying, we don't think kids should be wearing masks anymore. What do you think about metrics or some other things so that the kids in school can go without masks? Because the parents, the kids, a lot of folks are tired of it yet. Some are really concerned about their kids going to school without masks on. Sure, exactly. And I think there's a vocal minority of people who are making the most noise and getting all of the, all of the news coverage. When I think there are a lot of parents who are concerned and don't want to go have their Children be exposed and are again interested in in the, you know, public health benefits of having a mask on. And so again, schools are open. That's what we want. We don't want to have to close schools, we don't want to have kids get sick. So I do think that there should be metrics, but again, it shouldn't be up to parents who are not health professionals. This should be left up to health professionals. People within the Department of Health, working with other government agencies to come up with something, not people who aren't medical professionals. They are not the ones who should be making decisions that impact the health of new Yorkers

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