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And wherever we can. i want to thank secretary walsh, marty, for leading that task force. thats why i want to see the congress pass the pro act and send it to my desk immediately. thats why i want to extend collective bargaining rights to state and local government employees and why transit workers, first responders, healthcare workers and other essential workers and guess what? the public seems to agree with that, as well. the government should never be a barrier to workers organizing. its gove...

Steelworkers in portsmouth, virginia, and ibw workers and iron workers and nurses and grocery store workers in cincinnati, plumbers and gas fitters in maryland, aft teachers in virginia, and by the way, of course, i sleep with a member every night. the same one. jill had her first day of full-time teaching yesterday, this year, back to school. look, ive talked with union transit workers, machinist and labor workers in wisconsin. weve had teamsters here in the white house and the teamsters have a...

Authority, mta, port authority, all of our first responders embedded with the local teams here and throughout long island, nassau, suffolk, putnam, rockland counties have suffered some form of loss. we also have pumping systems in place, taking care of the subways, literally removing the water physically. i want to thank, first of all, everyone who was involved last night. but our transit workers are heroes, especially all the bus operators who had to be deployed to literally take people from st...

Embedded with the local teams and throughout long island, nassau and putnam we wanted to make sure our crews were on the ground. we have pumping systems taking care of the subways removing the water physically. i want to thank everyone who was involved last night but our transit workers are heroes. especially all the bus operators who had to be deployed to literally take people from stations to where they needed to go. it was an extraordinary rescue operation just a few short hours ago. moments ...

Staircases of our subway just last night, most of the service has been restored. that wont have any effect on our schools. the kids will be fine going back. our communities will be back to normal. you have to give credit to people like a bus driver who i went and thanked because she drove -- pictures of this went viral. she drove with four feet of water not just on the streets but in her bus and there were people clinging to the ceiling on their seats to not be swept away while on the bus. so i ...

Declaration requesting support from the federal government for 14 down state counties. president biden said, kathy, whatever you need, well get it to you. just tell me and well get it there as soon as possible. were working on that. were still not out of the effects. its a beautiful day in new york and what a contrast from a few hours ago, but were not completely out of the woods yet. >> when new yorkers stop asking leaders like yourself when well be back to normal in the covid context and in ot...

First responders embedded with the local teams here and throughout long island, nassau, rockland counties all of those have suffered some form of loss. we want to make sure ow crews were on the the ground. we also have pumping systems in the case taking care of the subways removing the water physically. and i want to thank everyone involved last night. but our transit workers are heroes. especially all of the bus operation that had to be deployed to take people spr stations to where they needed ...

The night here. >> not may -- shimon, theyre going to have to spend the night. i want you to keep going. let me read this, okay? this is from mark morales. this is cnns mark morales. the new york city evacuations are ongoing. first responders continues to safely evacuate people from the new york city subway system after a historic and challenging night. our customers and transit workers and the ceo jano says in a statement, flood roads causing disruptions. new yorkers should not attempt to trave...

Hochul, who is joining us by phone. of course, governor, i imagine youve been up all night. what can you tell us about what the latest after this catastrophic flooding that hit new york and the rest of the northeast? >> well, yes. this has been absolutely stunning on a scale, people were caught off guard and so shocked. the residents who thought they would safely be able to go down to their basements or take the trains all of a sudden just this absolutely unprecedented storm event changed everyt...

Discussion between the two leaders, between president biden and president putin. there is historical issues of hacking then. the fact it is still going on now. microsoft pointed thought cyber attack took place within the last week. it is within the past few days really that activity like this is still being taking place. they mentioned that it was the same group of hackers. they believe theyre responsible for the solarwinds hack, the u.s. administration has made it clear that it believes because...