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The power went out in lower manhattan. that included nyu medical center, and their backup generators did not function properly. they had an emergency on their hands. they had so many critical care patients they had to get out and get to safety. many of them on respirators. when you look at the video of the 20 babies that the nurses and doctors carried down dark hallways, very slowly and delicately. some of them, they needed respirators, and so you saw nurses actually manually pumping air into th...

>> atlantic city mayor lorenzo langford. sir, thanks for taking time out for me. i appreciate it. >> youre welcome, god bless. the stock markets are open for the first time since hurricane sandy hit. new york city mayor michael bloomberg rang the opening bell this morning. [ bell ringing ] now, power out in much of lower manhattan, the new york stock exchange is running on its own backup generators. it was closed on monday and tuesday, the first time since 1888 that trading was halted for two ...

The stock exchange ran on backup generators without a problem. by the closing bell, the dow and the nasdaq were each down 11 points. the s&p 500 was up just a fraction. and facebook shares dropped nearly 4% today on this first day facebook employees can sell their stock in the company. thats it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." gm is back! chrysler is the fastest growing auto maker in the world! and whats happened? whats ryan and romneys response? desperation. des...

219, 220 people have been evacuated from the medical center at nyu. taken to mount sinai and taken to sloan kettering. we are talking about kids from the neonatal pediatric critical care unit adult critical care unit as well as op stet tricks thats where the most serious ones were taken to the other hospitals. apparently the hospital lost power sometime around monday evening. so they are operating on generators a couple backup generators. we have seen those also. fdny are observing those who mad...

Situation? >> there were a number -- there are a number of health care facilities and in consultation with the health care facilities not to evacuate them to begin a number of days ago discharging patients who were healthy enough to be discharged, moving patients on ventilators to other facilities in case, god forbid, something like this happened. so we really tried to reduce the number of people and take those who couldnt get off out. we believe most -- we believe the facility had excessive bac...

a suicide bomber. new developments in the probe into a deadly terror attack. wolf blitzer is off today. im candy crowley. and youre in "the situation room." the battle for the white house now centered in the state of ohio. president obama paid yet another visit to what both campaigns see as a must-win state. and today the president came armed with a new report on tax policy that he used to hammer away at mitt romney. our cnn white house correspondent, dan lothian, is traveling with t...

Grid. trains at a stand still. shear what commuters saw indefinite late. businesses forced to shut down. businesses and hospitals making due with backup generators. sweating out the heat in eight northern states in india. some cases without water. indias demand for energy has soared along with population. which is now at more than a billion people. were told it took about 15 hours for everything to get back up and running. but, get this. 40% of the hundreds of millions of people in india do not ...

community has. were here to represent a lack of fear of what this individual tried to cause. were trying to show with our presence to the community that yes, hes here, but were here also. the man was a coward, were here to show we have strength, and now were willing to fight back. >> at some point in the near future, also, we anticipate that the defense will ask for a comp taenls hearing to see whether he is mentally well enough to go through a trial. kyra? >> the judge has imposed the...

Thanked the fans, the downed trees and heat. >> those are committed fans, the ones who showed. >> yeah, i mean, it was really bad. it was really bad down there. i had friends coming up from d.c. and friends who were leaving new york for d.c. that night who were overnighted on an amtrak train. >> my parents and my sister were stuck in west virginia. they called me. they had no cell service. they could only send text messages. no air-conditioning, no food, none of the stores where they were had ba...

Was the cause of some of those tornadoes. it looks like that has flattened but that is more your territory. >> the radar is storms over the national weather service so the actual storm may not look as impressive. >> it has a history of being a veryan >> buckner and they had to go to backup generators. >> lbj is okay now. >> bonnieville is open new. >> trying to open up but it is a parking lot with a backup of three miles westbound and 2.5 miles from i-35 to the i-45 interchange. we are transitio...