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Do not go near downed wires. even if you think that they are dead. dont go near downed trees or downed tree limbs because sometimes they can cover wires. >> juliet: im a lot of twitters. folks here our anchors say con ed may turn off power. >> turning off power? hold on a second. can you just kind of explain lower manhattan, for instance, there are a lot of folks down there, but thats also the wall street area. >> sure. >> juliet: trading potentially could go on tomorrow. we dont know about that...

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...

Closed on september 11th, 0 and monday, and they never t opened up on that tuesday, september 11th, they wouldinnt open up again until the following monday, september 17th. dick grasso was the man who ran the new york stock exchange at e time, he was the guy assigned with the almostmpossible and unenviable task of getting our capitalist structure back up and running, it did, but dick grasso, i remember at th vividly, you know that more than anyone else what a herculean task that was, huh? >> nei...

Northern virginia to the national mall in d.c., to the beaches of the jersey shore, the city pools in new york and pleasure bay in boston, the goal was simple. >> beat the heat. >> reporter: some people enjoyed a long holiday weekend. not everyone got to lounge around. this construction crew in new york put in a day of hard work under a blistering sun building scaffolding on manhattans upper east side. >> really tough. you sweat all day. >> reporter: it is serious. during a 2006 heat wave, 46 pe...