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By Katherine Koretski

(CNN) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani banned most travel across the nation’s largest city from 9 p.m. Sunday through noon Monday, an extraordinary measure reflecting the test a historic blizzard hitting the region poses.

Mamdani also canceled classes for the city’s public schools on Monday with no remote learning.

The incoming weather is Mamdani’s second major snowstorm since becoming mayor on New Year’s Day. Once again, the 34-year-old former state assemblyman’s decisions, and how they’ll affect 8.5 million New Yorkers, will be closely watched by supporters and detractors alike.

He drew some questions for having remote learning during the January snowstorm, given the difficulties virtual classes pose for many families. With this storm, he made the announcement of a snow day by posting a screen recording of a FaceTime call with a New York City student named Victoria. In the video, he greeted her with a cheerful “Hi, Victoria,” and shared the news.

“No online school, no remote learning, full classic snow day,” he told her as she cheered. “My only ask to you is that you just stay safe, stay indoors during the height of the storm. Once that has passed, feel free to go out and sled.”

Other nonessential city offices and services, including libraries, will also be closed to the public.

Transportation will also be affected: The Staten Island ferry service will be suspended starting 5 p.m. Sunday and is expected to resume late Monday morning.

At least 18 people died during the January snowstorm and following cold snap.

“We’re going to be doing everything within our power, across all of the city government, to respond to the storm as quickly as possible,” Mamdani said during a press conference on Sunday.

The city has issued a state of emergency and amplified its sanitation response, with more than 2,000 snow plows set to hit city streets as soon as 2 inches of snow accumulates, with more than 2,600 sanitation employees working 12-hour shifts.

But a large focus of the preparations includes enhancing the response for homeless New Yorkers, who made up a large number of the death toll in the previous winter weather event, Mamdani said. The city has enhanced their Code Blue operations, including upping warming centers and keeping overdose prevention centers open overnight.

Some 84 people were moved into shelters on Saturday. Additional reports that come into the 311 hotline of vulnerable people outdoors will be rerouted to 911.

The administration announced earlier this week that they would resume sweeping homeless encampments, but the mayor said in a press conference on Saturday there would be no clean-ups during the winter weather. “So, our focus over the course of this storm is not going to be on physical infrastructure, it’s going to be on people

Por Thomas Schlachter, Ben Church y Mia Fishman, CNN

Eileen Gu ganó su primera medalla de oro en los Juegos de Milán Cortina, defendiendo así su título olímpico de esquí acrobático halfpipe femenino de 2022.

La joven de 22 años se alzó con la medalla de oro en la segunda manga de la final, antes de ampliar su ventaja sobre la competencia en la tercera.

Gu ya había conseguido la plata en esquí acrobático Big Air y esquí acrobático slopestyle, y ahora suma una medalla de oro a su palmarés en Italia.

La estrella china del esquí, que ha recibido numerosas críticas por no representar a Estados Unidos a pesar de haber nacido allí, obtuvo una puntuación de 94,75 para alzarse con el primer puesto, mientras que su compañera de equipo Li Fanghui terminó en segundo lugar, completando el 1-2 de China.

Zoe Atkin, del equipo británico, terminó tercera y se alzó con la medalla de bronce.

En tan solo sus segundos Juegos, Gu ya cuenta con una increíble colección de medallas olímpicas.

Ahora tiene seis medallas, ya que había ganado dos de oro y una de plata en Beijing 2022.

Ya habían sido unos Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno brillantes para Eileen Gu, pero la esquiadora los hizo aún mejores al ganar otra medalla de oro en el halfpipe femenino de esquí acrobático.

“La razón por la que me encantan los récords es que no se trata de hombres o mujeres”, dijo tras ganar la medalla de oro.

“Soy el esquiadora acrobática más condecorada de todos los tiempos, tanto masculino como femenino. Tengo la mayor cantidad de medallas de oro de la historia, tanto masculino como femenino. Eso demuestra fortaleza competitiva, fortaleza mental”.

“Se trata de poder rendir bajo presión; no tiene nada que ver con si eres chico o chica”, dijo Gu.

Gu, quien ha recibido críticas por representar a China en lugar del equipo estadounidense en los Juegos de Invierno de Milán Cortina, llegó tarde a su conferencia de prensa de este domingo y estaba visiblemente emocionada.

Momentos después de ganar su tercera medalla en los Juegos, Gu se enteró del fallecimiento de su abuela.

“Fue una parte muy importante de mi vida durante mi infancia y alguien a quien admiraba profundamente”, dijo Gu. “Era una luchadora. Y creo que lo interesante es que mucha gente simplemente navega por la vida, pero ella era un barco de vapor. Esta mujer dominaba la vida, la tomó por las riendas y la convirtió en lo que quería. Y me inspiró muchísimo”.

Antes de su llegada a Italia, Gu le informaron que su abuela estaba enferma y que la muerte “era una posibilidad”. “No le prometí ganar, pero sí que sería valiente, como ella lo ha sido, y por eso sigo hablando de apostar por mí misma, ser valiente y tomar riesgos”, dijo Gu.

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By Dana O’Neil, CNN

Milan (CNN) — Outside the arena here, it felt like all of Canada had arrived, not so much for a hockey game but for a statement.

This, this sport played on ice, belongs to us. You Americans may keep your football; we get hockey.

And so, they sipped their beer, using cans and sippy cups and bottles, and chugged their Canadian whiskey and wore their red and took over Milan, spilling into seats with their maple leaf flags hanging and lofted into the air.

Amid simmering tensions between the United States and its usually cordial neighbors to the north, a hockey game had taken on all sorts of subtext and meaning. But at its core, it was about hockey. About ownership of a sport that has sent the Stanley Cup on a tour of the US, in Florida and Las Vegas of all places, not resting at home in Canada since 1993. About rosters equalized by NHL players finally delivering true bragging rights and settling a score.

Except the US had its share of emotion in this one, too. Subtler, perhaps, but even more meaningful.

Since they arrived in Italy, the Americans have hung a jersey in their locker room. It belongs to Johnny Gaudreau, who would have been proudly wearing it had he not been tragically killed in a New Jersey biking accident in 2024. Gaudreau’s parents, Guy and Jay, his wife, Meredith and his oldest boys, including John Jr., who just turned two, came to Milan to represent Johnny and to support the teammates he loved so much. The team, in turn, made sure the Gaudreau family was part of their Olympic experience

Blood, indeed, is thicker than water. In a taut game that did the rarest of all things – actually delivered on the hype – Team USA claimed its first gold medal since the Miracle kids of 1980, winning two minutes into three-on-three overtime.

Zach Werenski stripped Nathan McKinnon – who had missed a gloriously open net with 10 minutes left in the game that could have put Canada ahead – near the right face-off circle. He then zipped a pass to Jack Hughes, who lost a tooth courtesy of a third-period high stick from Sam Bennett. Hughes crossed Jordan Binnington to his right and then slipped the puck through the five-hole and into history.

As he celebrated, Hughes flashed his gap-toothed smile that now can have a golden replacement.

The US version of the Golden Goal sent the Americans into delirious bedlam, crashing and collapsing into each other on the boards directly in front of the section, it turned out, that included the Gaudreau family.

Minutes later, Brady Tkachuk and Werenski brought Gaudreau’s jersey out on the ice and skated around with it. Werenski and Dylan Larkin fetched Johnny’s boys and brought them to the ice to make the family picture complete. When it was time for the national anthem, the players wrapped their arms around each other’s shoulders, but also kept Gaudreau’s jersey aloft.

“We talked about playing for him, making him proud,’’ Werenski said. “We did that, and so it was super special to see them all on the ice. It was a huge party. There’s really no words for it.’’

Not exactly a miracle

Words, in fact, don’t do it justice. This is a game turned better in images – of the joy etched on American fan

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By David Wright, CNN

(CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, launching a book tour widely seen as a prelude to a presidential run, discussed with CNN the possibility of running against former Vice President Kamala Harris, another longtime figure in California politics.

“What happens if and when those parallel careers intersect and collide?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Newsom in an interview that aired Sunday.

“Well, I’m San Francisco now, she’s LA,” Newsom said at first. “So there’s a little distance between the two of us. You know, fate will determine that.”

“I’ve never gotten in the way of her ambition, ever,” he added. “I haven’t. And I don’t imagine I would in the future.”

“But if you run against each other for president,” Bash followed up. Newsom responded, “Yeah I just – that’s fate. I don’t – you know, you can only control what you can control.”

Newsom has been forthright about his interest in the 2028 presidential race. Harris opted out of running to succeed Newsom as California governor but has left open the possibility of a third presidential bid.

Harris served as district attorney in San Francisco before being elected the California attorney general and then a US senator before serving as vice president. Newsom was San Francisco’s mayor prior to becoming lieutenant governor and then governor.

The two have collided at times – Harris wrote in her most recent book, “107 Days,” that when she called Newsom to ask for his support after former President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Newsom texted back, “Hiking. Will call back,” and never did. (Newsom, who did endorse Harris quickly, later told reporters the call came from an unknown number.)

Speaking to Bash, Newsom emphasized that he would carefully weigh the decision with his family. Asked if his family was on board, Newsom responded, “I don’t know. It depends on the day.”

And he shared concerns from one of his sons about a potential presidential bid.

“My son … it was very powerful, texted me a few months ago when there was some headline that suggested that I made some decision, and he goes, ‘Dad, are you running (for) president?” Newsom said.

He continued, “I said, no, we’ll make this decision as a family. And he goes, you can’t. And I said, why? He goes, ‘I’m too young. You need to spend more time with us.’

“I mean, how do you deal with that one?” he said.

“How do you deal with that one?” Bash responded.

“Exactly – I’m asking you,” Newsom replied with a smile.

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