WBFO Brief Jan. 18, 2021

A preview of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first ever budget address with correspondent Karen DeWitt reporting she’s ready to use a surplus to help small business, fight COVID, and increase health care and child care spending. Also today, a look at the state’s environmental goals , and Siena Poll’s annual survey of race relations shows more New Yorkers’ feel the state of race relations, has improved marginally since last year. BTW there was a snowfall record, ( 16.2 inches) at the airport weather station Monday