C Concourse News Today

Obviously you want to get to the other side of it. >> what about the before the renovation? >> right. >> right, remember before the renovation. if you went into that c-concourse in laguardia, i mean, you had buckets collecting water on a regular basis. it was an embarrassment. and hats off to the port authority of new york city, they took the measures and steps needed to have basically a new airport built. and thats what a number of airports are doing right now. ohare is a good example. the seco...

Necessities. so this work continues until power is restored. i also want to show you over here. just look at all of the baggage. people have to reclaim their bags. this is a sense of what it will be like when this airport gets back up and running. again, getting water the people very important. so you see water cases throughout the airport. and this is where many people are staying the night. people who have been strand heard for hours at a time, unsure of what happens next. one person that i sp...

You very much. as police there are trying to get answers, i want to go to kiara dobber, inside that arena. saw the explosion. kiara, what did you see? >> yeah, they had just started letting everyone out. the music had just gone off. there was a massive, massive explosion, there was a bang. there was smoke coming up from it. there was smoke coming up through the stairs and everyone was just screaming, saying that it could be a bomb. there were people shouting to their kids, there were people shou...

Struck. explain what happened. you could hear the wind. you knew there was some destruction. and then you got a phone call. right? >> yes. it kind of went really dark. you heard this loud noise. i was in a concourse and the tornado actually hit c concourse. within about 15 minutes i got a phone call telling me that the tornado had hit my house. so i left to come home and i had to hike in because power lines were all down. i came across the top of that hill and i looked to see my house and all i ...

It. today we should be back at a 90% operation. were pretty comfortable. we had to totally close the c concourse and relocate those air carriers. thats what were working through today with american and cape air, operations were totally devastated. so theyre up and running today. and tomorrow. they should be at 100% capacity. the rest of the terminal up to 100% today. >> were looking at pictures of the tsa agents running for their lives through these hallways. >> looked like they made it there by...

Of people that were at the airport and the type of damage that we have. again, as you mentioned, we have a high percentage of windows blown out in our c concourse that serves air tran, frontier and american airlines. we had a number of windows blown out in our terminal one, our historic terminal, that was built in 1956. and then a lot of the pictures youre probably airing this morning are some of the damage outside of that terminal, which we had a lot of cars impacted. i know we had a shuttle va...

Concourse, that is cent percent of our total capacity here in the airport. we are going to have more of a struggle is with the c concourse, carriers on the cconcourse are american and frontier and cape air . i am missing one. air tran. thank you . and with those carriers well be working after this press conference to relocate them. it is going to take a while before the c concourse is functional and a good portion of the roof is gone, every window is out of that and extensive damage in the resta...

With that. particularly on the roadways, we are working on the traffic control devices and find the structures that are damaged by the storm. here in this facility, we are booding up windows, you will see that as opposed to windows going back in and well get it completed quickly as we can. in general, the c concourse is going to be the only item here that by tomorrow, well not be able tute. that will take time to restore that back to the actual use . so working with the airport and the airport d...

Functioning tomorrow. >> reporter: and probably at about a 70% capacity, compared to what they normally run, based on the damage that you saw. the largest concentration of damage is over in the c-concourse and affects airlines like air tran and american and case air. so, if youre flying those airlines in and out of st. louis tomorrow, check the airlines because there may be a problem with you being able to use those tickets tomorrow, but the rest of the airport, if they can get electricity back ...

Heights in the community center. it has capacity for 200 folks. we have about 20 there at this point, but we have plenty of capacity. many of these folks are going to neighbors, to family members, and theyre also trying to get back into their properties so they can assess their own damages. >> in terms of cleanup, can you have an idea how much this is going to cost and how long its going to take? >> no, i couldnt -- id say its going to be in millions of dollars and not in tens, hows that? i can ...