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I'm I ready to go. Thank you gentlemen I have this announcement to make at nine forty A.M. I was advised by the weather bureau that the passage of the cold front through the city has made a substantial change in the air mass further these expected than an even greater change will occur this afternoon tomorrow's forecast late afternoon and evening suggest an even greater air movement which should reflect itself and then improve their quality since midnight the levels of sulfur dioxide carbon monoxide and smoke shade have been we do sharply below the level for the two previous days the air pollution index is vary from twelve to twenty point nine at the moment is eight this is comparable with the index usually experience this time of the year in the absence of a of an inversion. On the basis of air quality information for the past ten hours coupled with an encouraging weather forecast the air pollution first alert is here by cancelled we shall however remain on the air pollution watch until Monday Nov twenty eighth when a final decision was made the part of air pollution control continued to report its findings on an hourly basis all day today and on Sunday I shall be in personal contact with my department should there be any need for any further action I am taking this opportunity to thank everyone in the city who cooperated so well with us to achieve our objectives I would like to single out the full cooperation received through all through all through this period from Consolidated Edison and along on Long Island lighting corporation and to those operators of an center raters and fuel combustion unit who followed our suggestion for voluntary restricted use I wish to pay special tribute to the members of my department who work on ceasing only on the trying conditions to meet all of the man in the emergency and to provide continuing information to me to the news media and to the public. Actually Mayor Robert Price I wish to pay special tribute for its prompt and for support of my recommendations for. Smokers and. I'm asking for the the control of all devices involving the emissions of smoke and valving that the meeting the requirements of our law. But. I cannot in a position to comment about this I know it's being looked at. The hospital admissions are being examined and I would hope that before too long we'll have some indication where there was actually health involvement. Which This is of course the C.D.C.. No I have no no way of indicating what this might have cost. To your knowledge and since of those reasons forty three. Ranch. In my opinion I have probably something which. I believe there were perhaps three when you continue to do some years producing what you think is necessary to be no change in our policy position what steps can be taking. This type of situation. Well I think there are basically two steps that we need to take one is that we've got to accelerate our programme of control and we're moving along rapidly second layer of the installation of a continuous monitoring system. The capability of telling me doing all of the information to a central station and with further capability of forecasting levels in advance can only help us. Meet as a similar situation much more effectively because last week. Or so since well I actually made this recommendation that I study was needed in midtown Manhattan to see whether or not changes and traffic patterns were or deemed necessary and this of course involves not only the weather conditions that exist as existed last couple of days but this is throughout the year. Well not course and I wasn't here in fifty three I would say this was somewhat shorter in time as I understand it I think the inversion fifty three or four was for about ten days and we had a much shorter one but we this inversion was a deep one and the. We just simply had little or no movement there were there were times when we had dead calm in the city and as you know with this kind of lack of Mayor movement that. You know the buildup of air pollutants occurred rather rapidly. Which was your last. Well as a precautionary measure in my plot of your we have a weather forecast I want to I want to be sure that the air quality variations from hour to hour reflect the changes in the weather and I want to being in constant touch with what that information. So. Yes sir it's quite alright I'd like to make a comment to you I think is a rather important question been raised with me ever since we made our recommendation to ask for cooperation study to curtail our incinerators and to do something about the change in temperature online specs and staff. Been very active. And like to indicate just what kind of cooperation we have received from the New York City housing authorities we inspected six hundred twenty two incinerators three hundred three buildings. And we found that ninety nine percent of these were not in operation and I would say that our batting average was excellent. This is this we started right after the announcement was made and one o'clock we proceeded there and after well I would say we and the boys worked till about it on a clock in the evening to be followed not only during the day but at night as well. You know I would have to say I we didn't follow it all night long right but during the period that we operated. And that was until about eight o'clock this is the sort of co-operative feedback with respect to temperature control as a reduction in temperature to sixty we have full cooperation in every single one of these factions we made an awful multiple dwelling privately owned operated we in my opinion had very fine cooperation all the in center Raiders with their eighty five percent were down and for those. Adjusting the temperature down to the sixty we had sixty percent cooperation. So you can say that on a voluntary basis with my judgment that we are most successful I feel that that the samples the numbers that were exams were large enough and there were three hundred three establishments with the New York housing authority we looked at three hundred fifteen privately owned units so I am very pleased that through a cooperative effort we were able to make the progress that we did. You know it's all up to. Us we're back to normal so just we are back to normal operating live right now. Yes sir that's quite right we're back to normal operations I want to go any point about the want is to provide continuing infant continuing information into the Parchman to ensure ourselves that we're moving the right direction. I. Will definitely I have. I'm going to be on the program and have something to say about their interlacing ships of the federal state regional and local local programs could've been more appropriately timed I think it's a very desirable conference that cannot but help the overall program. Very difficult for me to do so except that I might say the been more serious. Oh yes it's been and it's been in the make about seven months now. Thank you.