Good morning and a very happy new year.

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world for a special edition

of The Situation Room.

I'm Danny Freeman in for Wolf and Pamela.

And new this morning, Zoron Mamdani is officially the mayor of New York City.

The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist was sworn in around midnight. It makes history as the city's

first Muslim and South Asian mayor. Mamdani stunned the political world with his victory in last

summer's Democratic primary. He ran a campaign focused on affordability, featuring problems or

rather promises for a universal child care program, rent freezes, and making city buses free to

all passengers. Now, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce Mom

Donnie at a public ceremony this afternoon. Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office.

For more on this, let's go live now to CNN correspondent, Gloria Pasmino here in New York

with us.

Gloria, what more can you tell us?

Well, Danny, happy new year.

You know, certainly the hardest part comes now, right?

And that is, of course, governing for the next four years for Zora Amdani, who, as you said,

made history last night, taking the oath of office right after midnight, becoming one of the youngest

mayors elected in a century, the first Muslim, the first South Asian. And he will be having

his inauguration ceremony this afternoon at City Hall.

There is going to be some big democratic progressive names there, including Bernie Sanders

and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

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