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De Blasio on Declaring a State of Emergency in NYC: ‘It Means I Have Extraordinary Powers’

‘Look, I am not using all of the powers immediately’

EXCERPT:

DE BLASIO: "Wolf, it means that I have extraordinary powers to determine where people can be when, to determine what kind of gatherings are acceptable or not, where parts of the city, how we handle who goes in and who goes out. Look, I am not using all these powers immediately. The one that I am acting on and Governor Cuomo is acting on is to cancel any gatherings of over 500 people for things like sports events, concerts, those unfortunately now, we have to take those down. And then for under 500 people, whether it is, you know, a cultural event or whether it is a restaurant, a bar, we are saying we want indoor spaces to be at 50 percent of their legal capacity or less, because we just want people to spread out.”

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