how fortunate i was that i got to experience a neighborhood that had jack smith on 1st avenue. it had the living theater. it had jonas mekas on 2nd street. anthony: who thrilled you back then? who was doing stuff that you just thought, holy shit, this is really incredible and inspiring. ? kembra: well, gosh, luckily my friends that i was working with were very inspiring. i loved joe coleman s work. joe: the lower east side at that time was a destination for me. there was something, you know, that compelled me to just be there. and i would paint it. squeeze in. anthony: yup. wow, wow!
including security and logistics and the big one, north korea s nuclear weapon program. the president wrote, that the u.s. is committed to the complete, verifiable and reversible denuclearization of the peninsula. that bumps up the report nbc news is reporting, saying that it has concluded that north korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon. our andrea mitchell, host of andrea mitchell s reports at noon eastern time on this very network. i am interested on what you have to report. first of all, where did they eat at tonight? they ate at 38th and 1st avenue. manhattan east side. it is a former residence of a u.n. deputy mission ambassador from the u.s.
you were out there all day on a route that started at the united nations, went south to 42nd street, all the way up fifth avenue. what were you seeing out there today? laurence, it was interesting. we ve been out here for about 14 hours. we saw the first trickle of protesters come in about 7:30. then it was completely packed on 1st avenue by 10:30. 60,000 people already filling the streets by 1:30 in the afternoon. for those familiar with new york, they were intended to walk down second avenue but they filled up lexington. we saw buses in a gridlock pattern. they were empty because there was simply no place to go. the protesters had filled the crevices of all the streets. what s interesting, when i spoke to the protesters they said they were here for a myriad of reasons. they were here because of education, abortion, immigration rights. but they also said they were aware they could not change the results of this presidency. when i asked why they chose to demonstrate knowing that dona
asphalt board walk several feet of sand washed out. if you spin around this way you can see the homes that have been trashed by hurricane sandy. a lot of the houses were pushed off their foundation. that ruptured the gas lines across this stretch of ocean front community so they have been dealing with that issue through this day and we have seen other damages an the island, cars flipped over and buried in sand and 4 of water and 5 of sand on 1st avenue. the water has now receded. we spoke with the mayor who lived on the island since 1943. here is what he said. we were very well prepared but not prepared for the a damage we got. you could now for see this? absolutely. i have been through 1992 which was bad. 87 was bad. march of 1962 storm was bad. but this is the worst.
to be evacuated when the backup generator fail. we re on 29th street and 1st avenue. everything from here on down has been in the dark for many hours tonight as a result of the storm. we understand there was a transformer fire at a con edison station in lower manhattan which could have knocked everybody out of power. it s important to point out there has been no chaos, no panic. it has been a very orderly transfer of patients here from the nyu university medical center. they also had intermittent telephone service and they ve been letting people know that they have not been able to contact the loved ones of these patients as they re leaving. but they re leaving that up to the hospitals that they are being transferred to. because the service here is so intermittent. so they re taking care of these patients by moving them to other facilities where they to have power. chris? now, we re seeing all the emergency lights behind you. other than that, in that area, there s no power at all, is