ago, and the union station at last check still evacuated. also in cleveland, shock waves from the earthquake there forced the major league baseball game there between the mariners and the indians that we are told that there were some concerns there, so folks there in the stadium were on standby for a while. there was not an official evacuation, but a concern that they would evacuate that stadium and again at this point, no new information on evacuations, tamron. all right. thank you, craig. now, over to lester holt who is in midtown manhattan in the center of the city, and what are you seeing there, lester? well, i actually came back from downtown manhattan and i was at ground zero shooting a story at the new memorial, and so it is a construction site and i did not feel it. i came outside and noticed people standing around the buildings and as we are around manhattan in the office buildings, and people who have been evacuated by force or on
their own and we passed by what appeared to be a day care center of some sort where they had taken cribs out on the street with the children, and the workers were caring for the chidren and certainly no sign of damage and you would not expect it in a earthquake of this magnitude, but people here will not react in tokyo or california, because it is a rare event in new york city. i m now going to greenwich village and seems like a normal day here with people going about their business, but clearly around the tall office buildings, people were taking precautions and standing out there to waiter for some kind of instructions and even those who felt it were not sure it was an earthquake, because it is not the first thing that goes through your mind in the part of the country. but as i said as gi go through cl chelsea and greenwich, a lot of the people in thatt earea is beg more cautious in.
spent many years in los angeles, it was nothing to her, and no doubt that it was an earthquake to her, but for those of us who lived in washington for decades, this is not something we are used to feeling here, and it started out very gently, and we could feel our building rumbling. it was as though you were in an area where a freight train was passing by is the only feel i can come to it, and then it became clear that it was an earthquake and i have to admit to you that i did briefly dive under the desk having seen all of the public service announcements about what to do. you did the right thing. i did briefly dive under my desk, and then when it was pretty clear it was over, we started to working the phones, but so far, no reports of damage here in the d.c. area. well, you know what, pete, i m looking at twitter right now and to your point people are processing this in a number of ways and it has now been upgraded to 6.0. and jonathan capehart one of the analysts did the same t
so, a lot of this is new to us on the east coast, but i m sure a lot of the viewers on the west coast are saying, welcome to the party. right. but that is a considerable, and that is a considerably going to affect obviously the afternoon commute and potentially tomorrow morning for amtrak and the northeast corridor, and secondly, a homeland security official tells me that a quick pulse around washington, d.c. finds no reports of any damage or any injuries from the earthquake here in the washington area, tamron. all right. thank you, pete. now, over to bill kcahill with the port authority in new york. and bill, start off with the information of where things stand right now. the federal aviation administration evacuated its control tower at john f. kennedy international and newark international airport after the tremblers hit. they are going to do an inspection to make sure that the
not a usual thing for folks who live in this part of our country. absolutely. a 5.9 earthquake is not a small earthquake. a 5.9 earthquake over a populated area in los angeles or san francisco could cause an enormous amount of damage, and from the first reports we are getting, it seems we escaped this bullet with a lot of luck here. it seems that there is not as much damage as there well could have been from a earthquake of this magnitude in the part of the country, and yes, people felt it and millions of people felt it when it occurred, but it seems that we are lucky with the minimum amount of damage. there are however, reports of flight delays in almost every airport up and down the east coast now as because you mentioned that the faa headquarters evacuated and a lot of the control towers and everything has slowed down to make sure everything is safe before you proceed with the normal operations, so it is causing a lot of disruption and causing a lot of people to have left their of