This update from mayor bill de blasio. I just want to give an update for people interested in the situation on the west side of manhattan. We have a con edison electrical outage. Very preliminary information says about 20,000 people affected, but were waiting for a lot more information. I spoke to our Police Commissioner, our Emergency Management commissioner, my chief of staff at city hall. Everyone is coordinating. Well have a better picture in the next few minutes or next half hour or so. But all of our Emergency Personnel are being cloudeploye address the situation. It appears a limited power outage, but still affecting a meaningful number of people for sure. So, questions on that or otherwise on anything you want. Again, mayor bill de blasio, hes on the campaign trail, not in new york, but hes in communication with people here in new york city. Were showing you pictures from around the city. I want to get to Cnns Brian Stelter joining us on the phone. Brian, youve been personally
Administrations. They are following yesterdays testimony from this decorated veteran, Alexander Vindman who told house investigators he raised a red flag immediately after hearing President Trumps call with ukrainian president on july 25th and he said that looking at the white house transcript that was released and what he heard it appears parts were edited which the white house denies. Congress gets ready to open the closed doors and start the public stage of this impeachment inquiry. Lets begin with todays testimony. Our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju joins us on capitol hill. Were expected to hear the lawmakers will hear today is more concerns being raised about the role that rudy giuliai played which has been a consistent theme that the personal attorney worked outside legal channels. Even at a key time these officials were trying to strength relations with a key u. S. Ally. Catherine croft testifies about efforts what she was told about this aid being put on hold for