People need certainty of clarity so they can plan. I need cord maordinated action with the states. One month will continue to close down policies. What happens after then . I dont know. Well see depending on what the data shows. What does it mean . Tell us what our infection spread is. Is it. 9, is it. 7 . Tell me what the hospitalizations rate is and the experts will tell us the best course of conduct based on that data. No political decisions. No motiemotional decisions. Data and science we are talking about, human lives here. As relatively simple and possibility annoying as it seems, wearing a mask is one of the best things that we can do. And i understand i am getting a lot of not happy phone calls off what i said yesterday about wearing a mask in public, but i am sorry if it makes people unhappy. I do not consider a major burden and it really is a simple measure that can save lives. Yes, people say it is a personal intrusion on them. Again, it is not just about you, right . I have rights also. My kids have rights. Your kids have rights. And, you have a right for another person to take responsible safe guards to not get infected. The masks work. We said in public today, i am going to include Public Transportation systems, private transportation carriers for higher vehicles and any operator of a public system and operator of a private carrier and for higher vehicles must all wear a mask at all times. What does it mean . If you get on a bus, you need to wear a mask. If you get in a train, you need to wear a mask. If you get into a private car server, uber or liyft, the operator needs to wear a mask. A private bus, the operator needs to wear a mask and you need to wear a mask on a private carrier. So, is this inconvenient . Yes. But you are in a closed environment by definition and you are not socially distancing by definition. You are the front seat of the car to the backseat of the car. You are one seat in a bus to another seat in a bus. This is a precaution for everyone that i think balances individual liberties with a social constant. This is in effect by 8 00 p. M. It is not about government or anything else. It is about what people decide to do and what people have decided to do. They have to brought this infection rate down. It is that simple. Nurses and doctors did a phenomenal job and essential workers did a phenomenal job. That rate came down because people changed their behavior. Thats what happened. It is about the behavior of our people. It is how we educate our children and how we are of others. What we are willing to do to save ours and Others Health in our community. Thats what makes all the difference in what we are doing. And it is the simple things. It is wearing a mask and washing your hands. It is the Hand Sanitizer and social distance and making sure your children understand what to do and whatnot to do. It is all of these simple procedures that is almost in g significance but on a collective basis making the best for the world. I am going to get out the house, i need to do this and this. I know, be smart and engage what you are doing relative to everyone else and relative to the overall goal. But, i will tell you and i dont know about people truly really appreciate this. I dont know if i did. Of all the unique aspects that we have learned going through this, the most positive and most surprising to me has been how people responded. The policies that i have communicated are not worth the paper they are printed on. I can stand up here as governor and say we must do this and we must do this, these are some of the most lifechanging policies government has ever issued. Think about it. This is not government saying here is your task rate and here is age of voting. This is the government saying stay in your house, dont touch another person. Wear a mask. I dont even have the ability to enforce these measures on any scale if people said i am not willing to do it. So, these policies which are difficult and lifechanging, they are being implemented by people because people are choosing to do the right thing. It is that simple. What this is all about today, the masks on transportations. I trust in new yorkers. You know i believe if the facts are presented to the people of this state, new yorkers will do the right thing. Whats the right thing . There is always a right thing. It is the appropriate task thats socially and immorally correct and new yorkers have a very strong right thing quotient. They know what the right thing is. All i am trying to do is give them the facts and information to explain why i am suggesting these actions. They decide whether or not to follow them. I cant put a mask on 17 Million People. 17 Million People will decide whether or not theyll do it. They have done it. Because they have the facts and they have the information and they understand the risks and they understand the rewards and they understand the consequences and what they have done worked and it will bring this nation forward. Thats new yorkers at their best. Thats because we are new york tough. New york tough is more complex than words suggest. It is smart and united and disciplined and loving. New yorkers have proourch that. Time and time again everyday for 46 days. Questions . Lets not have people talk over everyone. I will make sure we answer and i will get to you to answer your questions and lets start with jesse. At least ten nursing home residents have died from covid19 and 15 residents at the windsor living facility, how many Nursing Homes have reported outbreaks and where are they . Is the state advisiing Nursing Homes to transfer patients elsewhere. Okay, i dont know we have hundreds and hundreds of Nursing Homes in the state. I dont know whats happening with every nursing home in the state. I dont have firsthand knowledge of what happened with the nursing home in new york. Well get you today list of information by nursing home to the best we have and as we get that updated, well get it to you. Jesse . On the economic toll of this, mayor de blasio talked about 7 billion in terms of tax revenue. Have you discussed with the health of new york and 1. 2 Million People are napplyin for unemployment in the state. Yes, it is simple. It is every county in the state and every local government in the state. And the short answer is we cant do it. I have 10 or 15 billion hold. I am not in any position to help any of them. Thats why i said this is where the federal has government has step in. The federal government is going to say we passed major pieces of legislation, pat us on the back to protect the economy and move the economy forward. But you dont fund states and local government . It means state and local government has to turn around and cut everybody that relies on them. It is not smart. It is not right, it is counter productive. I understand you dont get the same political credit when you Fund New York state and new york city or National County or suffix county because it does not represent any voters or any people. It is a government. I get that. I get that politically. They like to pass legislations where they can call up someone when they get home and say hey jesse i got a check for you. I understand that, at one point you have to put politics aside and say we have to do something to actually make a difference. Can you pretend you are addre addressing this crisis when you are starving the state and government. Thats not democrats to republicans. National association headed to a chairman whos a republican, governor hogan, great guy and great governor. We sent a letter to the legislation. I say it to my democratic members, i said to senator schumer and senator gillibrand, you passed a piece of legislation that starves states and local government. You are not helping the country. You are just not. And well, we have to get to yes. It does no matter to get to yes if the bill does not do what the purpose is. Bernadette. Why has it taken so long to get information about Nursing Homes . We are putting it together. We are putting it in practical reality here. You have hospitals who are dealing with hell everyday and you are saying make sure your report is not late. Thats what the department of health says. Make sure your report is on time. Look, i have been on the phone with niethese types of faciliti. They say i understand, make sure my report is on time. I have people critically ill. I am short staff and i dont have enough ppe. You are giving me a hard time about reports. In the balance of things, i understand the degree of difficulty. How many Nursing Homes are there . 613 Nursing Homes so you are not talking about one phone call. We are getting the data. It is coming in. When will we have it . Do we know . Today. We had the highest number of positive cases since testing started. Are you concerned of those numbe numbers . Testing is not indicative of anything in my opinion. It is not as ransom sample. It is a function of how many tests you were doing. The more tests you do the more positives you will find. Testings are not random. People who believe they are positive as they are exposed. You are getting people who you think are positive and more testing you take, the more positives you are going to find. The hospitalization rate of any of these rates, the most indicative is the hospitalization rate. What is telling you that these are the people who are infected and were seriously ill. Thats what the hospitalization rate tells you. It does not tell you the rate of infection spread and whether it is increasing or decreasing. It tells you how many people walked into the hospital who were positive after they were tested. Thats the only number you have that statistically represented. President trump accused of new york city patting the numbers because they changed the way theyre reporting. Theyre saying they added Something Like 3800 new deaths based on inhome deaths. What do you say to that . Do you think the president is correct in saying that and when is the state going to start having that separate category . Yes. Melissa knows this better than i do. What you are seeing is i dont know what the president says and his words and why would new york city want to inflate the death toll. Bad enough as it is. Look i dont know, it is more bizarre than usual than anyone would want to do that. The changing the cdc put out different guidelines about what number you must report. We have always said all we really know are deaths in hospitals and Nursing Homes. Could people be dying at home because of the coronavirus and we are not counting it . Yes. Was it a rough estimate . Yes. It is more of a reporting process. Melissa, do you want to add more . The cdc put out guidings on reporting so it is the president s own cdc that put out the guidance. The city was very clear. They did not tackle on that number. They created a new category thats called probable deaths. It gets murky because a lot of people are dying of various things. If it is shortness of breath or fever, there is a lot of assumptions going on behind the positive. The number is not precise, the city did not put that number into that death count number. So thats what it was. They have not had the numbers. This is the cdc directed category. The presumed test of somebody dying to respiratory illness as opposed to covid19. Law enforcement were getting the raw data, hey that could be potentially a larger number. Is that misreporting. I am saying conflating. There are possible death. They confirmed after they died that they had covid. Probable is a category. If somebody dies based on symptoms, they believe it could have been kcovid. To answer your first question the city have not had the number. They created a separate category to address the probable deaths which is directed to the cdc. I dont think the city pdc pe numbers together. Now there is a shortage of dialysis shortage of dialysis machines . We have heard that. We are looking into that. And regarding having kidney failure as a result of having coronavirus, even when people get that ill and end up in the intensive care, multiple problems, kidneys are one of the arguments which takes the hardest hit in this one. We have heard about individuals but there are surges that are and everyone need dialysis machines. We are working on that. If they have a shortage, theyll call us. If any hospital has a shortage of anything on a daily basis. They let us know and we find that and we have been able to find that equipment for them or ppe so nobody has an actual smort fall. Shortfall. If somebody has a problem not having dialysis, they would let the state know. The does the mandate applies to kids. Depends on how you define kids. Yesterday when referring to the mask mandate you said it is not that inconvenient. You said whats the big deal. For many people we have learned it is a big deal to wear a mace mask. They feel it is a government control. Regular mask and the cloth mask do little to protect you from coronavirus. Do you feel you are under playing the impact of your mandate. No, i am not under playing. I said that i know there is a lot of omnivore serious conditiocond it is a face covering. It is a face or a cloth covering of the nose and mouth. It does not have to be a mask. I understand that people do not like it. Some people think it is an inposition over reach. I understand that. Some people think the close down order was the government over reach. Some people think this is all a fabrication and a political conspiracy. To them i say, if you dont think 600 people died yesterday and if you dont think thats a problem, i disagree with you. If you doubt that 600 died, i will bring you to see the 600 people. Is there a fabrication . 600 people died yesterday. Thats the reality we are dealing with everyday. We want to see fewer people die. I am asking new yorkers to wear a mask not just to protect yourself but other people from you. If you have the virus, you can infect other people. And you have a liability of responsibility not to infect me because you are sick. Thats when a mask would help. I understand the opposition. My phone is ringing off the hook with the opposition. I also understand what 600 deaths mean. I understand the toll on the healthcare system. I understand the nurses and doctors who are stretched to their limits and i understand Police Officers everyday who are out there and asking new yorkers to wear a mask at this time is more than reasonable. I understand people disagree. The governor of new york andrew cuomo giving his update briefing at the end pushing back on critics who opposed a new policy requiring new yorkers to wear a mask or facial covering when they get into transportation or Public Transportation. 600 people are dying, we are going to continue this. A major announcement, even as he says new york is spending the curve, intensive care use is down and hospitalization rate is down. Hell lead in effect of the pause through may 15th of the economic shutdown through may 15th. Los angeles extends their shutdown until may 15th. The nations two largest cities and the nations capitol exte extending their shutdown until may 15th. The president plans to reopen the economy as of may 1st. A confrontation there. As we bring indica kaitlan coll to discuss. Hes working on regional states. The way governor puts it, it sounds like, delaware and pennsylvania and new jersey have agreed to go along with him to extend the shutdown through may 15th and not what the president wants to hear. Yeah. He says theyre going to Work Together on when they are going to be opening those other businesses and opening their economy and moving forward. Thats notable. Just within a few hours, the president got a call with governors, thats where they are expecting to freeze these new guidelines. These are the first guidelines since the president says he wants to reopening the country on may 1st. Thats something they have been working on internally outside the white house. While they are not expecting to have the entire country to open at once. Theyre putting out these guidelines. We have been told by sources as they are moving forward to put these together. They have been focusing on states specific guidelines and telling states if they are ready to adopt, they should move forward with that. If not, keep doing what they are doing. The wild card here is the president whos insisting he does have the authority to tell states what to do. If a governor is doing something he does not like, he has the authority to close it. The question is going to be what is the president response to this. Hes been watching these governors and taking his own steps and not just new york but on the west coast as well. Those states are forming a pack on how they want to reopen the country. New york is really one of the last target sees seem to be. They express caution to the president that new york is nowhere ready to reopen. It is notable that this announcement that theyre extending that and new york does come just a few hours before this call that the president is going to have. All right, the governor iss getting ahead of the president. The governor of new york, regional pack regional pact is what hes talking about million may 15th. Sir, well make the call when our states reopen. Another thing the president is upset about is this end of the money for the Small Business program right now. The administration had new business program, the money ran out. They want it done today. Cnns Phil Mattingly is with us now. The money is gone, give us another cash confusion. Nancy pelosi says there are other things i want in exchange, right . Exactly right. Democrats have been cleared from the start. Speaker pelosi and schumer making clear that hospitals and state and local government also need aids as well. Republicans have been firm. This is just an interim package. They were not willing to negotiate. Here is whats going on behind the scenes. The degree we know it at this point. Mnuchin does have a good working relationship with the speaker and the democratic leader in the senate. His team had been woshrking wit the democratic staff to see if there is as card forward. Nothing can be passed unless it is proourven unanimously. Issues that republicans are having problems with. Where do things stand right now in the senate is about to meet in 2. 5 hours. They hope to have something to pass to give money to sba program during that session. It appears unlikely thats the case. That means the program will be shutter through the weekend into next week and some of the concerns i am hearing right now are that it could go longer than that unless some type of breakthrough occurs soon. One final point of what this program is. In