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Rooms. has the busy saturday. no doubt they were at 90, 95% occupancy. the lights go out and you have people trapped at the 36th floor. that is just one hotel. they may or may not have back-up elevators. >> you saw it. i think ths that question. what is it? is it temporary? and then the practical situation. its warm out. there is no air conditioning. how will people get from point a to point b? how will people eat? you saw a lot of the restaurants surrounding the area. theyre not able to service...

Policies. >> im shocked that the vice president would say that any american -- we think its humane to stuff human beings into a cage and tell them they dont need soap. >> 70,000 new yorkers without power, leaving elevators stuck. and rainfall from tropical storm barry, flooding streets and homes. >> this is the main road. and the trees are the levee. >> its sunday, july 14th. were awaiting the latest poll from "the wall street journal." and i can assure you these numbers are not fake news. trump...

Center area there was a report of smoke in an elevator. perhaps thats why the fire department is making its run up and down 6th avenue. you know they will be getting calls from people stuck in elevators and basements where they do not have lights and do not have air-conditioning. 85 degrees at 16 after 8:00. it was a warm and humid day. new york city councilmember joe borelli is with us. councilman what can you tell us? >> there is a lot of conflicting reports. there is reports that it watch a w...

These conditions. so its really not the end of the world as i say it. as far as the people that are in the streets and stuck on trains, elevators may be you a different situation. but i think they will get this resolved pretty soon hopefully. years ago there was looting and all kinds of stuff. i doubt if any of that will happen. maybe small places here and there. but i dont think that situation will happen in new york. on the other hand, you walk in manhattan, these be restaurants, you dont have...

Had is the heart of tourists of new york city. a lot of the tourists are amused by this, a lot of the residents like myself and family are annoyed. hopefully this is nothing more than a nuisance, some elderly residents for some people who need to get up and down, elevators, this has been a problem, we know the police and fire responded to dozens of calls about elevator outages. im looking out at the nearby buildings. i see, first of all, the moon starting to light up new york city. second, some ...

Your numbers are right, at this moment, the information we have is about 40,000 customers affected. all of our first responders have been deployed now, folks who are in elevators will be responded to by our vice president, our police department. so this situation is being addressed very rapidly, a lot of personnel being sent to the west side of manhattan to address it. what appears to be, anna, is a specific transmission problem and that means hopefully it can be resolved in a relatively quick t...

People in subways and elevators as the city is expecting federal raids to target undocumented migrants and they are expected to go after 2,000 people in at least nine cities across the country. but the president is starting this morning going after a different group. quote, progressive congresswoman tweeting, quote, so interesting to see progressive democrat congress woman who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst and most corrupt or ine...

>> this could have been much worse, when youre talking about a city like new york with significant piece of the city basically suffering a blackout, that could be a very chaotic situation. we saw the exact opposite actually, we saw new yorkers at their best. eric: wow, what a night it was in new york city, imagine if your lights, your television, your air-conditioning and the street where you live goes dark, that did happen without warning here in new york city. we suffered a fur hour blackout t...

We are told that rescue crews from the bronx from brooklyn and queens have been moved in to this area for elevator rescues and to pull people out of stock so boys although there is good news on that. we are told everybody is out of the subway but the new york fire department still responding to all of those reports of people stuck in elevators in the biggest buildings, the skyscrapers in new york have lights on. where there are no flights are in some of these residential areas. todd starnes of f...

To different situations happening across the city. were told a lot of people are stuck on elevators because of the blackout. we were also a victim of this as well. right over here to my left is 30 rock. typically the sign is all lit up. but also radio city hall is right here as well and ill notice, it is typically bright red and blue but all of that is out. traffic signals are out. we have nypd on the seasonable right now. i do want to point out where we are standing. just a couple hours ago, th...