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She was once of the most powerful people in state government – Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide. But her fall from grace was tied to his scandal and resignation.

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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Power & Politics: A conversation with former top Cuomo aide Mellissa DeRosa

She was the governor's top aide. But when Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign amid scandal, Melissa de Rosa was out of a job as well. Arturo Rosenbloom sat down one on one with the former secretary to the governor. If you could go back in time to March of 2020 what would you have done differently as it relates to the handling of the nursing homes? You know, look, it's such a, it's such a hard conversation to have and it's something that it's so painful to so many families on such a real level and these were decisions essentially made at war time, you know, where people are making decisions with the best, with the best information that they have in that moment. And part of what I talk about in the book was that, you know, the March 2020 nursing home admissions policy was actually done through the Department of Health. It was not an executive order done by the governor or myself. This was done by medical experts in consultation with other medical experts based on what we thought was going to do to, to keep the hospital system from collapsing. And when you look at how COVID gun to nursing homes in every other state and in the country and every other country on the globe. The answer comes back the same, which is that the unfortunate reality that no one sort of wants to acknowledge is that COVID was brought into nursing homes by the staff and by visitors at a time when we didn't even know COVID was here. Right? We now know COVID was here in January and February and so COVID was coming into those nursing homes. Well, before we were even aware that it was here. And so, you know, I think that the topic of nursing homes got so politicized and so weaponized. And if there's something that I truly regret it, that it was never communicated properly and that people's real life pain was able to be sort of butted around through a political lens. You also confirmed something that was the subject of so much speculation that Andrew Cuomo was, in fact considering a presidential run back in 2019. Um but you claim Joe Biden talked him out of it partly because of his age. Was that a mistake? Should he have run? Would he have won? If he did? You know, look should have would have could have, I mean, I think that Andrew Cuomo was exactly where the country needed him to be in 2020 I think that if he was running for president, when COVID hit, then the decisions he was making and the way that he was dealing with it would have all been viewed much more politically and I think it would have hurt our ability to respond to that pandemic and that crisis as effectively as we did. The Bidens and the Cuomos. There's so much history there, there was such a, a solidified friendship. There. Were you surprised when Joe Biden came out and called for Andrew to resign? Yes and no, no charges filed at the time? Yes and no, I mean, look, Biden has his own. Me too problem. Right. Tara Reid had accused him of sexual assault in the spring of 2020 he sort of skated around that, you know, seven or eight other women came out and accused him of varying levels of impropriety, similar to stuff with the governor, by the way, you know, like kiss on the cheek and on the waist. And so I think that when that report came out and he rushed out to call for the governor's resignation without reading the report, which he said in his remarks, he said I didn't read the report, but I saw the press conference and it's 11 and he has to go. I think that was about Joe Biden's self preservation as much as anything else. But at the same time, I mean, obviously, you would expect that a friend, a close friend would care about the details. And I think of Joe Biden as someone with very high moral character. And so it was very disappointing, if not surprising. And you can see more of Tara's interview on our website News, twelve.com. That's all the time we have this week on power and politics. I'm Rich Barab. Have a great rest of your day.

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