It is two minutes past midnight on the east coast. This is msnbcs live coverage of Hurricane Sandy. Im chris jansing. We will be here all through the night along with meteorologist bill karins. Lets get you caught up on how things are looking and start in new york city right now. Where it is eerily dark. Over pretty much all of lower manhattan. More than 300,000 new yorkers without power. More than 3 million up and down the east coast are i want sesti the dark at this hour. Some of the worst damage here in new york is downtown, by battery park, where a near 14foot wall of water has flooded the streets as well as the brooklyn battery tunnel which connects brooklyn and manhattan. That is one of two major commuter tunnels in new york that flooded tonight. This storm has left a path of destruction in its wake. The Associated Press reports at least 15 deaths associated with sandy. Mostly the result of falling trees. Stormrelated deaths have been confirmed in new york, new jersey, west virgi
Along with the upsurge of, you know, sort of not seeing anti black things going on as well. Reporter Oakland Police are looking at Surveillance Video from the area in hopes of finding the vandals. We do take hate crimes very seriously at the Oakland Police department and the city of oakland. We are a city that stands united against hate and hate crimes. We are investigating this particular crime as a hate crime. Reporter security guards and Oakland Police were stationed at the temple the whole day. Officers have stepped up patrols at other temples throughout the city. Temple members and visitors say they are repulsed by the hateful messages as they welcome in their new year. Its always sad to see, um, actions of hate, um, and hurtfulness and that theres always gonna be individuals who are acting in that fashion. I think, um, what causes Something Like that obviously is, um, lack of understanding, lack of empathy, not being exposed to other cultures, religions, ethnicities and races. Th
They need to be replaced. We dont know what shape they are in overtime. Brianne a number of questions remain. What is leading up to this . Did it have to do with the inspections or does it have to do with procedures happening or is it deterioration . Still questions we are waiting to get answers to. Waiting to hear later this evening from the metro general manager from Paul Wiedefeld regarding service tomorrow morning. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The trickledown on this is huge. Its everywhere. Think about it. Metrorail system funnels from Northern Virginia, prince georges and Montgomery County to d. C. Michelle the heart of the subway beneath d. C. Streets is above where we are seeing the significant impact. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford continues the Team Coverage from southwest washington. Sam . Sam Something Else that numbers in here is traffic. We are at the southwest freeway where there is a lot of traffic in every moving slowly out of the city. F
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Vicepresident cindy wu thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini . Commissioner michael j. Antonini mr. Sanchez, could i ask you the request to buy the supervisors aid to add that language, i think the language is for the purposes of Planning Issues if im not mistaken. For the purnsz of purposes of the planning code for clarification. That sounds right to me and from your testimony and our speakers that our arcade games dont spell trouble. We want to encourage pinball wizards. I want to approve this with modification including the language for the purposes of the planning code as part of the measure. Second. Commissioner johnson . I also have a couple questions, i normally take issue with regulation when its just about cleaning up regulation for one business because it will apply to the ncd in general. Just a question, im totally in support of this but what does mechanical use device mean in this day. We have seen a