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As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the Fire Department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. It was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. The disruption is significant. And we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if youre tuning in at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. 6 00 p. M. On the west coast. A massive power outage that has taken place about 6 45 p. M. Thousands of people are without power. Weve been watching new yorks times square where you can see to the left of the scene. Many buildings are without power. They have not been restored of yet. Con ed is telling us that full power will be restored by 10 30
p. M. Eastern. The other big story is Tropical Storm barry. It is moving at eight miles an h ....
P.m. eastern. the other big story is tropical storm barry. it is moving at eight miles an hour, slowly making its way me andiering through new orleans. it is dumping rain on ruining rouge biffle the time all of this is over, and that won t be very long. thank god they have ligts. we re getting people out of those elevators. so it is an emerging situation, i am told by the plarlt. checking in with our federal partners, we see no indication of foul play. very, very important. this appears to be a mechanical problem but it is early ....
Lights on and some do not. at the don t believe it will be out for a tremendous amount of time. they believe it is something they can get their articlms aro but they don t know when all power will be restored. so that s the latest. it they were saying there was a manhole explosion and then the fire department and plarlt saying there was a second incident at 54th street and west end. while you were talking, i don t know if the studio lights is an indication of power gaining back on. but as you were speaking, within the last few moments, he with saw all of this stuff light up. ....
each other through social media. so you have people, officers and detectives who are monitoring those things. a lot of other plain clothes officers. you see how groups are moving through the city. and again, you don t want to make sure the city gets shut down. a lot of the 99% that these people represent use public transportation every day in new york city. we re going to watch the subway angle. that should be happening in the next hour. mike brooks, thank you so much. on top of the hour, watch this. rolling on, i m brooke baldwin. we mentioned occupy protesters are scheduled to descend upon subway stations throughout new york city. they re calling it occupy the subway. also the man accused of shooting at the white house last friday appears in court. today plus, more potential victims in the penn state child rape scandal. and a stunning statistic about women s health. time to play reporter roulette. mary snow, i begin with you at the he said central of this occupy ....
From progressives and the left because they re consistent. they didn t like it when bush did it. they don t like it now that president obama has done it. and at the same time, he has checkmated the right because they know if this was bush or their candidate, they would be gung ho, full support, full steam ahead. what s it say about the republican polling and the tea party polling almost identical? has the tea party hijacked the republicans? well, or have the republicans hijacked the tea party? look, you re absolutely right. the republican party has a major problem, tick larlt republican leadership in congress. they know that seniority rules. they know that they have to be in charge but they ve got this group of new freshmen tea partiers that, in fact, are ....