beautiful flag. lawrence: i can t wait to meet them. ainsley: i know. steve: they closed down 4th street. if you are for some reason coming into knox today 48th street at sixth avenue is closed. they have been doing it since they started soldier ride on this program in 2004. it all started with the guy he had a dream, a bartender trying to raise money, tony snow was doing fox news radio at that time. he put him on the radio. we put him on the tv. it has grown to an annual event. they were closed down last year because of covid. but they are back today. ainsley: look at that the fire trucks. steve: only here on fox news channel. ainsley: 48th street. our building is to the right of the screen. in front of that you see the cars driving up 6th avenue leads to central park. it s a beautiful site this morning. and that s in our street. sixth avenue is called avenue of the americas. lawrence: that s right. steve: so perfect. people are talking about cozy vs. koozie.
strongest virtuous warriors on earth. you left your families and fought in for faraway lands. you came face-to-face with evil and you did not back down. you return home from war and you never forgot your friends who didn t return, including prisoners of war and those missing in action. speak with the parade lasted for hours on this sunny but chilly day featuring some 25,000 veter, active duty military to my family, friends and high school marching bands across america filling fifth avenue from 26th to 48th street in front of cheering supporters. the grand marshal included three honor recipients and the marine corps, general david berger. what is your message to america today? message to america, i think for a moment, just pause, think of what veterans have done for the country, what they are doing right now. when you see one, shake their hand.
he thanked members and highlighted the strength and spirit of new uniformed new yorkers and celebrated the recent mission to take out isis and syria and praised the heroes as the bravest, toughest, strongest virtuous warriors on earth. you left your families and fought in for faraway lands. you came face-to-face with evil and you did not back down. you return home from war and you never forgot your friends who didn t return, including prisoners of war and those missing in action. speak with the parade lasted for hours on this sunny but chilly day featuring some 25,000 veter, active duty military to my family, friends and high school marching bands across america filling fifth avenue from 26th to 48th street in front of cheering supporters. the grand marshal included three honor recipients and the marine corps, general david berger. what is your message to america today?
york, especially manhattan, is a walking city. you can walk around from place to place pretty efficiently. sometimes more efficiently than taking a taxi. i believe this is the corner of 6th avenue and 48th street, 47th street. a police officer directing traffic. 6th after through was shut down today for a street fair, a street festival. that s why the barricade are up and you don t see traffic on that main artery that bisects manhattan north to south. we are told the power out and started at fifth avenue which is a block to the east. but then you see down, looking up sixth avenue toward central park, not many vehicles there, and most of of those on the road are emergency vehicles. the traffic lights continue to remain dark. some of the office buildings have lights. whether those are the result of
westside, completely in the dark. and large buildings issuing evacuations. we sent one out of our own in mid-town to our building on 6th avenue and 48th street alerting our employees on the upper floors that people were on their way to help them out. luckily we do run on generators, so that energy goes to the crucial areas and oftentimes it s not the elevators. we are working to figure out from con-ed what the cause of this was. the latest update is it s a transformer fire on west end avenue and 57th street. they did not update what they thought might have caused that fire, just as you mentioned, 40 plus years to the day of that new york city blackout that lasted for the better part of a