at the michigan law school also with me emerson contributor melissa murray, she is the frederick high grace still to professor of law at nyu. faculty director of the beer and bow woman s network. melissa, i find this carroll case so fascinating, sort of the number of things that had to line up to bring us to this moment. talk us through how she was able to sue again over the same allegations? it is exactly a confluence of different factors, as you say alicia. and first of, all the initial suit that jean carroll filed as a defamation suit on those defamation had defamed her when he denounced her statements and said that she was quote unquote lying and this was a con job. she subsequently filed this second lawsuit because there has been a change and the new york state law that allows the adult survivors of sexual assault to have a reprieve from the general statute of limitations that ordinarily would apply. starting from november 24th, all individuals who want to pursue claims under
amtrak service is shut down. people are waking up to a ghost town in most of this area. and i m talking about not just watertown. waltham, belmont, newton, cambridge and alston and brighton remaining indoors. everybody is asked to remain indoors. if you see anything, if you see anything, you are asked to call 911 immediately. businesses are going to be shut down for the day. they are being asked not to open. all vehicle traffic is banned completely in watertown. the streets are empty. colleges, harvard, mit, brandeis, boston university, eme emerson and suffolk and northeastern and all schools shut down and classes are cancelled. boston public schools have cancelled all activity and all classes and all because of the one man on the right side of your screen, the man in the white hat, he is still at large. he is reportedly according to nbc s pete williams 19 years old and he is the one who allegedly
shut down to the city and have seven of these communities completely locked down. something he said he thought was probably unprecedented in a major city. oh, he s undoubtedly right, willie. i mean, what i m looking at the i m watching you now on the tv. the entire area is shut down. watertown is adjacent to belmont, massachusetts. these are all communities that lead out of boston. watertown, belmont and then next to belmont there is arlington and then lexington. which is, obviously, where patriots day began and was celebrated last monday here in new england, here in boston, massachusetts. mika, i want to bring everybody up to speed. mit is closed and harvard and emerson, boston college and bu, u mass boston and suffolk university.
marathon bombings. mtba entire system including commuter rail is shut down. amtrak is shut down and residents in watertown, waltham, belmont, newton, cambridge and brighton to remain indoors. businesses are asked, directed not to open. in watertown, all vehicle traffic is banned. look at this. colleges. harvard, mit, brandeis, boston university and boston college and emerson and suffolk and northeastern all have classes that are closed today. and all boston area public schools cancel all classes and all activities. they are setting the scene to comb every corner of this area for this guy. we have a pretty remarkable eyewitness account. a guy we talked to earlier this morning reporting explosions and a massive gun battle between the