It is brutal. It is bone-chilling. We warned this to be dangerously cold and it's been unrelenting.

Yeah, Governor Hokel there. Later we'll play a clip of Governor Cheryl, kind of gloating that it will be a traditional day off from school.

And much of New Jersey,

unlike in New York City today.

I know schools are closed in a lot of the region other than the city.

We'll talk about that later in the show.

But are you one of those people who went out to play in the snow yesterday?

Like the person I saw in New York one, who I think was skiing down 9th Avenue in Manhattan and another one skiing across Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn or of course out with your kids

or are you more the type who was perfectly content to stay indoors and watch the winter

wonderland out in your window and just stay as warm as you could and kind of chuckle at other

people who are going out in it or had to go out in it because have you been working? We always

try to remember on the show all of you who have to work on days like holidays and during

snow and ice storms so everyone else can take a gap. Or maybe you're a New York City teacher or a school kid yourself getting ready for a

remote learning day or someone from most other school districts in our area, which are closed.

We'll talk to New York One chief meteorologist John Davitt to start the show today to explain

where our region is at,

how it got this way, and what happens next with the extreme cold. And then we'll have

controller and former Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine on. He'll talk about providing

city services to vulnerable people, the really serious part of the storm, as well as general snow and ice cleanup.

And also what we originally booked Mark Levine for, he's got some very bracing news for Mayor

Mamdani and the city council about a budget gap that they will have to deal with immediately

and the choices regarding city services for all New Yorkers that they may have

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