But trump remains defiant insisting he wanted nothing from ukraine and that the inquiry should and. Also students is still under siege at a Hong Kong University as the u. S. Congress approves a bill demanding china respect human rights and a new symbol emerges to represent the diverse groups of people behind the protests in chile. So more dramatic testimony has been delivered on the 4th day of the public. Pietschmann inquiry into u. S. President dont trump and just the past few hours weve heard from the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense laura cooper also david hale the under secretary secretary for Political Affairs but when asked what they knew about u. S. Military aid being withheld from ukraine now in her testimony cooper mentioned that ukrainian officials are asked about the stalled a as early as july 25th contradicting President Trumps defense that they had no idea anything was on hold my staff showed me 2 unclassified emails that they received from the state Department One wa
Tuesday, october 30th, 2012, this is the daily rundown, im chuck todd. Lets get right to what we know this hour. At least 18 people have been killed, early estimates, but the damage from sandy at somewhere between 10 billion and 20 billion, but that figure could rise as people assess in the daylight. Nearly 8 Million People waking up without power this morning. Sandy made landfall as whats being called a post Tropical Cyclone on the Southern Coast of new jersey not too far from Atlantic City at about 8 00 p. M. , sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, thats hurricane force, folks. And hurricaneforce winds extended up to 175 miles from the center of the storm. Tropical force storm winds spread out 485 miles from the center, a 13foot storm surge flooded Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan and that broke a record that had been set in 1821. Records were shattered in sandy hook, new jersey, where tide levels also topped 13 feet. The metropolitan Transportation Authority is calling this the
Whats being called the storm of the century crippled new york city cutting power and plunging manhattan into darkness. More than 13 feet of water wushds over the seawahl in battery park, rushing into tunnels and subways. It could leave the city paralyzed for days. When do you expect the subway system to be up and running again . Four or five days i think. At this point we dont know. If you had to guess, con ed and the subways, three, four days and i would be happy if thats what it turns out to be. The mta reporting that seven tunnels have been flooded announced in our 108 years our employees have never faced like a challenge like the one that confronts us now. 215 patients were evacuated from new York Hospitals when backup yen raters failed. Queens, firefighters battled a blaze that consumed 50 homes. Meanwhile, a crane mangled from heavy winds dangled 80 stories above midtown, manhattan. President obama has signed major disaster declarations for new york city, long island and new jers
Closed today. It will reopen tomorrow. It was the first twoday weather closing since the blizzard of 18 8. It was a night to remember or forget. Theres a mandatory Evacuation Order under effect. Real concern here is to the inland lakes connect to the ocean and wipe out the town in this area. This is a dangerous situation. Police are creating a collapse zone. No cars, no pedestrians around the area of 57th street where this building is under construction and this is crane is dangerously dangling over the street. The storm surge right now, thats just the water rise alone with this, 6. 6 feet. Thats 2. 2 feet higher than irene. Were awaiting that high tide coming up. For example, irene was about right here, all right, and what we could see with another two and a half feet is up through here. No campaigning for the president. He is locked down at the white house, telephoning governors and mayors and meeting with fema. Mitt romney is not campaigning but holding what his Campaign Calls a Hur
One of the most colossal weather events of its kind. Ten states are are under a state of major, six million americans are affected. As we come on the air, if there is any good news, the storm has pushed quickly, landfall moved up, as predicted by hours, and hopefully that will mean less duration for those in the storm zone, because the storm has the power to alter the map of the jersey shore, for starters. Sandy is so large, going across 15 states from flooding in massachusetts to rain reaching all the way from michigan. In new york, all eyes, as we said are on the drama of the massive construction crane, captured on video when it happened. Getting blown over, now left swinging in the wind, on 57th street, picture this, the Stock Exchange is closed, for the First Time Since 911, the routes into and out of the city are cut off. We have a lot of ground to cover here this evening, knowing close to a million potential viewers cant see us right now, as it is because of power outages, we wan