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Mayor, i'm a lt. gov. i appreciate everybody talking about the federal government's role here. the next can sandy boat load of cash to the states. at the end of the day, it's the relationship between the relationship between the state and the county and the cities. that's the bottom line. that's how you move the money. oftentimes those federal dollars comes in the doors and they get locked in at a certain point at the state level and they do not reach their way down to cities like baltimore. that was a part of the struggle that i know i encountered in working as lt. gov. i know that's the stru...

Community, we welcome it, and we will participate and we will suggest that there be tangible, serious recommendations. so the president's task force, we look forward to making suggestions and recommendations to them so that those recommendations might be part of the recommendations that are sent to the president in 90 days. there's a process in place. but i would also, wolf, issue a call to local elected officials, to mayors, to county executives, to those that actually are in the criminal justice system or in the case of mayors who hire and fire police chiefs, to make this issue of reform. re...

State really is because of the suburbs on long island because they're no longer republican strongholds. they are now swing -- they're swing counties. if they're swing counties, well, the numbers just don't add up. is that a fair assessment? >> that's fair. but all of the suburbs except for suffolk county have republican county executives. >> but they can't run up the margins they used to run up, which was part of the problem in the rockefeller era. right? >> right.

Out that they don't get clobbered in upstate, that they're competitive in upstate. but it isn't all homogenous upstate. western new york a little bit different than other parts of the state? give me a little bit of description that sort of diversifies the, quote, unquote, upstate region of new york. >> well, the large up dstate cities in the erie canal corridor, rochester, buffalo, syracuse, are the largest. they have traditionally been democratic but they elect republican county executives sometimes and even republican mayors. turnout has to be much higher in

Minutes ago had barricaded herself along with others inside a store. we're not saying which store. she saw the shooter and believes he was dressed in black and possibly -- she got a quick glimpse of him before running to hide but believes a tactical or bullet proof vest. but again, the headline right now, the shooter according to county executives, believed to still be inside that mall. now this began at 9:20 or so. multiple eyewitnesss and witnesses who heard the shots tell us the shots began to ring out around 9:20. we've had multiple different reports. people have said they heard four shots...