life. we saw but the world trade center in flames, big gaping hole all the way in the top of it. we could see people jumping from the top of the building. at midday, the financial district of lower manhattan looks like a war zone, with no idea if another attack is imminent, hundreds of companies throughout new york sent their workers home, bridges and tunnels across the hudson river clothes, mass transit shut down. there are over thousand rescue workers, probably about 2000 deployed, trying to get into the building, trying to find people trying to search for people, the governor and i spoke a couple of hours ago, the governor has deployed the national guard to relieve meant, because people are going to need reinforcement pretty soon. but right now they don t want to leave because they are searching, they are searching for innocent citizens and they re searching for some of their brothers and sisters. one rescuers finally got inside the trade towers, the damage left many of them
law enforcement officer. reporter: the streets desserted, mass transit shut down. as police search for dzhokar tsarnaev. turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness. reporter: between the shootouts and the car chase last night and of course the capture tonight of this second suspect, there was this. much of the boston area was on a police lockdown. authorities asked everyone, stay inside. they were out searching for this younger suspect, younger brother who had yet to be caught. now have so many schools in boston, not shutti inting their. train, bus services were halted. it was almost erie trying to be
news. tracking sandy. hurricane sandy, the visitor nobody wants but who s coming anyway. don t try to go out there and be a hero or anything as if there s nothing going on here. tonight sandy poised to turn into a monster and no more business as usual. schools are closed, and so is mass transit. good evening. i m sade. and i m bill ritter. the city that never sleeps tonight, at 11:00, basically shut down, shut down by a storm that has already killed 65 people. and the main reason, the subways are shut down. that s why the city s shut down. all 378 stations closed since 7:00 tonight. times square station, one of the busiest, now like a ghost town. mass transit shut down. matt kosar is at penn station where some people are now stuck.
since 1888 that a weather-related event has caused a two-day shutdown. the last time was a blizzard that left drifts as high as 40 feet in the streets of new york city. chris, there have been plans to allow electronic trading to go forward today on the new york stock exchange. as we were just hearing a moment ago, with all the mass transit shut down in and out of manhattan, the risks were determined to be too great. we have to wait and see what happens tomorrow. this wide swath of the east coast, the mid-atlantic up into my neck of the woods in the great lakes area, a lot of people not going to work. a lot of people not out shopping. what do we know about the potential financial impact? the impact we ve seen so far is the u.s. dollar is higher, so a lot of commodities are under pressure. wti is even getting hit because this is an interesting thing. because concerns are mounting about the economic impact from sandy. gasoline is jumping higher at this stage because you have refiner