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Zohran Mamdani declares NYC emergency, bans all travel during blizzard threatening city
Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered a travel ban and school closures to ensure safety during a blizzard expected to drop up to two feet of snow, with emergency crews fully mobilized.
- On Sunday evening, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency and ordered a travel ban from 9 p.m. Sunday to 12 p.m. Monday, also closing New York City Public Schools for a snow day.
- Meteorologists warned the nor'easter would intensify into a bomb cyclone producing blizzard conditions with 18-24 inches in parts of the city and nearly 54 million people in the storm's path by Monday morning peak.
- More than 2,000 snow plows and over 2,600 sanitation employees worked 12-hour shifts while New York Governor Kathy Hochul activated about 100 National Guard members and flights faced widespread delays and cancellations.
- Officials expanded sheltering, moving 84 people into shelters and urging homeless New Yorkers indoors, while millions were confined at home under a travel ban allowing exemptions for essential and emergency workers but penalizing violations as a Class B misdemeanor.
- Forecasters said blizzard conditions will continue through at least 10 a.m. Monday, easing by Monday evening with snowfall tapering into the afternoon, after a recent deadly winter storm linked to more than 100 deaths.
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A heavy snowstorm paralyzes parts of the northeast of the USA. t-online correspondent David Schafbuch reports on the exceptional situation in New York.
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A powerful winter storm with blizzard conditions keeps the northeast of the United States paralyzed, leaving record snowfalls in New York City.
New York closes all schools and bans all car traffic. Even the UN is on pause as the blizzard moves in on Monday. The storm could be the worst in a decade – and the city's newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani's first real test.
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