continuous with our larger vehicles. so we ve been able to sustain a pretty good show as the storm has gone on and made sure we ve done so, the calls we need to. however, with the sustained winds that continue through the morning and the rain continuing, i don t think we re out of this yet. so the advice for people tomorrow is just to hunker down for another day? absolutely. and then we re thanking the federal government for not being open so we can do the work we need to do in our city. chris geldart. we appreciate it. let me bring in jonathan dientz, reporter for wnbc. he s been covering the tri-state area here. you ve been in since early this morning, john than. thank you for sticking around. let s go through major things we ve been talking about in this area. maybe the most dramatic visually is that crane. you have this super high-rise. they call it a billionaires apartment building in manhattan. what happened there? what s the situation now? 2:30, 3:00 this afternoon,
are investigating because none of this appears to be a crime here in colombia. don? interesting. so, listen, lieberman joined some other voices urging the white house to look into its own people, those that were down in colombia. what do you think about the white house advance staff that was in colombia? we know that there were five of them, don. three men and two women who would have been here, possibly, and most probably working with the secret service advance teams and the military advance teams. we contacted two of them by phone. one told us that he actually couldn t speak to the press, wasn t authorized. the other, a woman, told us that she could not confirm or deny anything. again, there are just five and now we have representative king, senator grassley all asking if any of these white house people were involved. it seems it would be an easy yes or no answer, but we have not gotten it yet from either the white house or from anybody else down here. all right, drew
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