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Employees in a briefing. they are still demanding answers on how a plane simply vanished with their loved ones on board. also some breaking news overnight in new york city. officials just confirmed at least six people dead after a fiery gas explosion flattened two apartment buildings. nbcs chris malone has the latest developments. >> reporter: as night fell on new york, firefighters efforts intensified to find at least nine people missing since a deadly blast occurred. theyre picking through w...

They found the last one about a couple of hours ago. they pulled -- we dont know if its a woman or man, so seven total. right now, they do believe it was a gas leak that caused this. the explosion was so strong, it shook the earth for blocks away. it shattered windows. and as you said, seven dead, more than 70 injured, and many more that are still unaccounted for. now, fire teams and investigators are in that rubble trying to pinpoint exactly what went wrong. 15 minutes before the explosion, whi...

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Security and the rest and after it is all over, and one of the principals in our administration said, do you want us working with con ed? we usually dont do this? he says to leon, the secretary of defense, can you get generators in to con ed? well worry about how you pay for it later. lets get this up and running. he just cuts through. he makes a decision and he stands by what he does. in contrast to governor romney, you never know where he is. everything with him depends. depends on the moment,...

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Domestically. >> greta: explain it to me one more time. sorry to be so dense. whatever it is we fear that would interfere training here i wonder if anybody has the same technology it interferes with the gps so we can spot targets and hit them. whatever technology we are arguing about here in the united states, whether our countries not friendly us to might have that same technology so theres a broader national security issue that we are not looking at. >> there are other countries that do have s...

Fact? i still have not been able to get an answer to that question. the long island power authority lipa charges the highest public utility electricity rates in the country and right now about a half million of their customers are without power. new york city did better. con ed reporting a few problems and theres a big problem, though, with americas infrastructure in general. irene was not a catastrophic storm. but one of the largest utility companies in the country, lipa, could not handle it. i...

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