Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New York City. When we first came on air several hours ago and they said that it was only about 20,000 customers, i knew that number was wrong, just based on the sheer topography. You have more than two square miles in New York City where people are in the dark. Now were being told by con edison officials that 90,000 customers which could mean hundreds of thousands of people
are in the dark right now at 10 00 at night. Just to do a quick reset for anyone who is joining us now. What we are facing out is
replacements for workers who went on strike two months ago. one person who is not happy about that is the president of the united states, joe biden. he released a statement today saying, quote, permanently replacing striking workers is an existential attack on the union and its members jobs and its livelihoods. jorming me now is the former labor secretary robert reich and co-founder and professor at california, berkeley. what is your reaction to kellogg and their decision and the employees to say no and they turned it down? well, zerlina, they have been working, as you pointed out, 80 hours a week. kellogg s has been doing gangbuster business, record profits. so it s surprising kellogg s
president? i think he s highly profiting. some of his properties like the doral country club in miami are not doing as well. you look at the hotel just down the street from the white house, the one he and his family got out and took a turn on the street when they were going from the inauguration to the white house, that place is doing gangbuster business. businesses and foreign governments that want something from the trump administration go there to pay tribute. it s doing very well. but, you know, this claim, he went on to talk about lawyers and how they cost him that much. to spend $3 billion on lawyers at $1,000 an hour means you have 1500 lawyers on the payroll for a year. that s an entire large law firm. it s absurd. he just makes it up. david cay johnston, thank you so much. just ahead, a reporting you re only going to find on
halal guys and all of the hot dog vendors and the regular street vendors, they are doing gangbuster business as well. but it s great to be able to know at least for the most part that it has been a fairly safe night. we have endured at least four hours of this blackout. it has brought many, many people together here in new york city. and we hope that everybody else remains safe while they finally get to restore the power in these parts. kendis, we just got breaking news that five of those six power networks have since been restored. but take me for a minute where you are outside. you said there are very few people outside now. but who is out there? is it law enforcement vehicles or are they pedestrians? who exactly is out there with you? reporter: i ll tell you for the most part these are just tourists, people who are just bewildered at what they are experiencing at this hour that, it is mostly tourists, and usually, you know, this is a big business area, as you know, morgan, on mo
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