through the transmission line with a surge of power and disrupt other substations. that s what happened here. one substation went down. it then triggered a surge of power, which took down two, three or four or five additional substations. and the system is designed to avoid that. so, that s the question. i m going to view the transformers myself tonight because i want to know exactly what happened. we ve been through this before. the first order of business, though, is this is a big piece of manhattan. it s roughly 40th street to about 60th street, plus or minus broadway, which is basically the middle of manhattan to the hudson river. and people are more than inconvenienced. it s a public safety issue. traffic lights are out. trains are not running. you don t want to have a city in
landing in, i mean it was in the clouds. you couldn t even see the top of it from the ground. reporter: yeah, this was a miserable day in new york. pnd apparently, he was at the 34th street helicopter pad on the east side of the city, waiting and waiting to take off. and he, apparently, decided that it was the time to go, and he was able to take off and move out and they were able to sort of track him. anderson? and what about the helicopter s flight path? because the mayor was saying it s very unusual for the helicopter to have been over manhattan in that way in that area. it s near trump tower, near times square. you don t see that. reporter: it would be interesting to figure out exactly where that video that you showed the at the top is, because so, it took off from the east side of manhattan on 34th street. it went down the east river, around sort of the tip of manhattan, sort of by the statue of liberty, and then up the west side. it s not clear where he was going, but at
around sort of the tip of manhattan, sort of by the statue of liberty, and then up the west side. it s not clear where he was going, but at some point around 40th street, started to come back east, like perhaps he was trying to get back over to 34th street on the east side of the city. something clearly did not go right at that point, and it ended up on the top of that building. so, a lot of questions for investigators, but the good news is there was nobody other than him killed in this crash. well, you and your team have been out there all day. great reporting. thank you, miguel. with me now, a woman who was in the building when the helicopter hit. she s stacy paradise-kuvlefski. here she is. stacy, can you walk us through what happened? when did you realize something weird was happening? i was in the conference floor on the 38th floor of my firm with another colleague, and we were talking, and then out of nowhere, the whole room shook, and it was actually felt the room shake?
let s bring in cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz. i understand you re getting some new information. what are you learning? as you can imagine, the nypd detectives have been at the helipad where this they believe the helicopter originated from. this is the 34th street helipad on the east side of manhattan. and they have talked to people who interacted with this pilot. and what they have learned is that he knew the weather was a concern and that the pilot was waiting out the weather. he was there for some time, waiting it out, waiting it out. and for whatever reason, at some point decided, you know, it was safe enough for him to go up. and he went up, and they had been able to track as he flew around manhattan, hep went south from the helipad, across downtown, around battery park. and then up north on the west side. and then what happens is, they say that somewhere around 40th street, they could see that the helicopter starts to have some problems, and that is when he
2015 and hot new york city day, waiting for a friend, right? this is 40th street and 42nd avenue, three blocks from where otto warmbier way would be proposed, three blocks north on second avenue in front of the north korean mission. and the north korean diplomats every time they go to work and leave they are doing it under the sign otto warmbier way. joe: this is a mission of the people of north korea who have made it a career slitting the u.n. and some of the human rights abuses in the past. this is something they would be unable to avoid every time they work out. as you saw in the picture otto warmbier, wanted to come here and he had his housing lined up, a job wind up and wanted to be part of new york city s finest. amp up for this authoritarian regime, he would have been living that life right now. eric: not many people knew he had a and an internship in the north korean prison but had