As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the Fire Department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. It was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. The disruption is significant. And we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if youre tuning in at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. 6 00 p. M. On the west coast. A massive power outage that has taken place about 6 45 p. M. Thousands of people are without power. Weve been watching new yorks times square where you can see to the left of the scene. Many buildings are without power. They have not been restored of yet. Con ed is telling us that full power will be restored by 10 30
p. M. Eastern. The other big story is Tropical Storm barry. It is moving at eight miles an hour, slowly making its way me andiering through new orleans. It is Dumping Rain On Ruining Rouge Biffle the time
A 50-year-old woman jumped off the 36th floor of a condominium off EM Bypass in Kolkata. She was rushed to CNMC Hospital where she was declared dead. The woman, Sumana Pal, had been suffering from acute depression. The exact reasons behind her decision are yet to be ascertained.
11 people, in fact, nine we re told have minor injuries, two with serious but not life threatening. one of those is a firefighter. and we hope that that will be it in terms of a number of those injured. take a look behind me. that building that you see wrapped in orange, that s what we re talking about that s under construction, that crane that s on the very top of it. that s where the accident came from, and as tim comes back down, i think we should show some pictures of how amazing it was, this video of that fire, and witnesses talk about what it was like to be here in this area when it all happened. take a listen. all of a sudden, i heard kaboom, and all of my windows in my apartment shook. i have floor-to-ceiling windows. and then as soon as i focused my eye on the window, i saw this big crane falling. i immediately grabbed my phone, and i went up to the top of our building, 36th floor, and that s when i saw just towers of smoke,
politics and money. the real tense moment came when he focused on the specific allegation when carroll said trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1996. he asked her to go through the sequence of events that took place that day, how they ended up from meeting in the lobby going up to the escalator to the 6th floor where the lingerie is, and ending up in the dressing room. he was going hard at carroll, asking her why she didn t scream? they spent a lot of time on this question, if she was fighting home run her fighting for her life, why she didn t scream. and carroll testified, you can t beat me up for screaming. he said, i m not beating you up, i m asking questions, ms. carroll. carroll said, if her voice cracking, i m telling you, he raped me, whether i screamed or not. then later on in the series of questioning, the attorney said,
e. jean carroll has been on the stand for just more than an hour. out of the gate, she told the jury i m here because donald trump raped me. when i wrote about it, he said it didn t happen. he lied and shattered my reputation and i m here to get my life back. she went on in detail to describe the events of the day in question that she said occurred a thursday in the spring of 1996. she described how in a department store she ran into donald trump as she was leaving and he was walking in. he said to her, you re that advice lady. she said, you re that real estate tycoon. she said they continued to joke around and he asked for advice. she looked at some handbags and looked at hats. then he suggested they go upstairs to the 6th floor in the room where the lingerie is. they continued joking around. she thought this would be a great scene to tell her friends at a dinner party. she was with donald trump, who shea she thought was funny.