Request to have. they should be able to go to work, go to school, and expect to live. it is as simple as that. listen the mayor has inherited some bad policies from the former mayor bill de blasio and he bought into defining the police. he defunded the budget significantly almost $1 billion. that led to overall retention issues. mass retirements, mass resignations and impacted recruitment. so the nypd is not the police department that it was prior to this defunded movement. as a result, this has impacted the lawlessness that we have seen run rampant through new york city. mayor adams has a very important decision to make. and that is, either you will secure the city including the subways or you will shut the subway system down. people are too much at risk here on a daily basis based on the
If you feel the worst is passed? how long will it take? here is what we have to figure out, how severe the surges are. if we have salt water down in the lower manhattan area and the subway system down in lower manhattan, it s going to take awhile to get the water out. once all the water is out, we ll be up and running around 12 hours later. if we have power outages in the new york area, anywhere along the lines, the subways run on electrical power. we need that to operate. it s critical. right now, i m trying to caution everyone to get back to normal is going to require 12 hours after we have full power and we clean everything out. it s going to take longer than that. joseph lhota, thanks for taking time out for us. we appreciate it. thanks. a gray and ominous day has given way. the wind and rain is making its
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 wall
to shut down the stock exchange. they also plan to take over the subways, the brooklyn bridge, and even the doorstep of city hall. there s a heavy police presence right there out in the streets, as a you can see. more than 50 people have already been arrested. it s a very fluid situation. tensions running high. meanwhile, on the west coast, as you see, more protests and potential problems. you re looking at live pictures there out of l.a. that is where protesters plan to bring traffic to a halt downtown by occupying a major intersection. we got new information today on the child molestation case against jerry sandusky, coach paterno s right-hand man at penn state. the new york times details a series of incidents over a 12-year period that taken together suggest that university officials knew about sandusky s behavior but kept quiet. also, campus and city police are telling cnn they have no record that mike mcqueary filed a report on sandusky back in 2002. you may recall h