this woman here, she s a nurse s aide. she was coming from work. trying to get home. and this is the way folks get home here. most of the people can t afford cab. can t afford an uber. so this is what they rely on. it s been very upsetting for a lot of people. they ve been spending the night here. i came here around midnight or so. it s been the same people here for the last several hours who have just been sleeping here, sleeping on these benches. some other people here all along the staircases and a lot of people are just frustrated. one thing that s been happening here, no mta representatives have come here to talk to anyone. there have been these overhead announcements saying that service is limited. and that there is no service at this particular stop. but that s about it. but people are still streaming in here. in the last hour or so people trying to get to work have been streaming into here thinking
york but new jersey, car were stranded in the road as well. people left them because there was really no other option. we expect a lot more delays this morning as people are heading to work. we re seeing a ton of people walk by us here in times square. we ll check back to see how the subway is running, if those delays are getting any better shortly. now, i want to go to the acting chair of the metropolitan transit authority. of course you have been up all night, i imagine, dealing with these evacuations of these subway stations as you saw these videos of water rushing in. what can you tell us about what the status is right now? you just heard shimon s report, people have been under ground in the subway stations since about 10:00 p.m. last night. kaitlan, your reporting has been spot on. this historic storm did a number on all of the infrastructure in the new york region. and the subways are no exception. we starting last night suddenly
you ll see police tape blocking off the turnstile. you can t go in. you can t go on. officials are still saying they can put this thing back together. but they re in the process of taking a very long time. and that rain last night it really knocked out this transportation system. just earlier on our air we heard from the head of the mta saying 15 to 20 trains were stranded last night by that train, by that rain. go down, take a couple hours to go rescue people off of those train cars. so right now, officials are saying, this system is not yet ready for people to come back on. it s been a hard message for people to hear. we ve seen a few people try to come on and walk down the subway, see it s closed and come back up. try to figure out something else to get to work. what they re saying in new york right now is don t go to work right now. try to stay home. leave the streets free. leave the system free for crews to get down, clean it up and fix it up and get things moving again. this hist