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to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company and well welcome to this special edition of cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the powerful geomagnetic storm happening right now. all around the world are storm classified as extreme level five out of five phenomenon that last half happened more than 20 years ago. and it s causing the northern and southern lights to dazzle many places that rarely, if ever, see them, have a look at the scene here in atlanta or in the southern us a short time ago, parts of the midwest and even northern california have seen chances of seeing the aurora, the skies over the uk and ireland, lighting up in vivid colors earlier on friday night. and there continues to be a high likelihood of aurora over parts of europe and asia meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis was spotted over new zealanders well as argentina it all started when the sun erupted with a seri ....
person or persons who opened fire at morgan state university in maryland overnight. five people were shot, including four students during homecoming week. you re watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. classes are cancelled today. officials were asked why they lifted the order without a suspect identified. it was a decision we all came together to make. we didn t open the campus up until our swat team cleared the building of where we thought the shot came from. they cleared everywhere twice and after that we realized campus was most likely safe and opened it back up because the shooter was nowhere around that we could find. todd: is that greater community safe? brooke: that is right, the victims are between 18 and 22 years old and thankfully all expected to make a complete recovery. this unfolded last night. it was a large homecoming events on campus. students and families come together each year. urging to stay off campus righ ....
across, not roads, but more like rivers with a few bags in their hands. th they just grabbed a few snacks, pillows. in many cases they were carrying pets. as we talked about last night, still one of the big issues is power. 100% of the island not having power right now, only those that can get to generators, also, the first thing people still ask me is, do you have signal. people desperate to find out the condition of loved ones who they can t get to because of flooding many because of debris? and loved ones who can t get out, because of that same reason. the government has announced that fema has critical supplies right now enroute to puerto rico, and that is via ship. anderson. what are some of the main priorities now that the storm has passed? power for the government. i mean, they have already before maria even came here, the government said that they believed that it would take not days, not weeks, but rather months to restore power. remember, this is a power syst ....
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, we ve been watching a number of different breaking news situations right now. the big news that we re 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 we re 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 ....
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 you re 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. we ve been watching new york s 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 hour, slowly making its way me andiering through new orleans. it is dumping rain on ruining rouge biffle t ....