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
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virtually identical. i was sitting in my office. i heard someone say a small plane hitted the world trade center. i looked out the window. my office faced down 6th avenue at the towers and i saw virtually everything after that moment. the one moment i ll never forget was watching the first tower collapse because the twin towers had been such a permanent fixture on our landscape and this skyline and i kept wanting to believe that it was going to emerge from the dust but it never did. a massive structure was gone in an instant. it was the moment in my life when my brain did not believe what my eyes were showing me. and frankly, it was that day changed my lifer, the life of millions of americans and it was out of that day i wanted to rededicate myself to national
smjt other very important notes right now, nypd mentioning within the last few minutes that they plan to have extra officers sent out and deploying them to intersections all throughout manhattan and outside some major retailers for safety and security reasons. and that really, joyce, is an important thing right there. while it s all good right now and everybody s hanging out and meeting their neighbors and it s kumbaya, they do want to make sure that this remains safe. it was, i think, encouraging to people to see that law enforcement was out in force. there was no indication that ambulances were actually treating patients. it seems clear that these were heads-up precautionary measures. and the crowds, as you walked, for instance, down 6th avenue were very good-natured were, very orderly. it was obviously getting hot. but people seem to be still in that cooperative spirit, as you
hi. reporter: where are you coming from? buffalo, new york. reporter: why was it important for you to be out here today? it s such an absolute nightmare what we are going through and i had to be out here with my daughter and my sister to show our support for daca and for, you know and against donald trump. reporter: so many issues. this has become an umbrella movement for all of that. we re marching down 6th avenue, second annual women s march in new york city. back to you. mariana atencio, thank you very much. vanessa ruble and theresa. vanes vanessa, let me start with you. it was characterized as an umbrella movement. how is this march different from the one last year, either deliberately or as of what s happened here over the last year? look, i think last year it was the birth of the movement. and we ve seen a real development in what s happened since then. so i think the huge numbers that came out in 2017 really inspired