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Trees being down and having pulled down power lines. thats more in the boroughs outside of manhattan. as of the early this morning and around 9:00 we had 500,000 give or take buildings out without power. a customer in new york is a building so its not necessarily the same as a person. 500,000. people have begun and buildings have begun to get power back. we could be at 400,000 now. i dont have an updated number. we will see rolling power come back on over the next few days, and con ed is working...

Damage and power damage and other kinds of infrastructure damage how big a bill are we talking about here? >> well, its hard to know how big a bill. i will say since we saw this storm coming and planned extensively, its a lot less than it would have been. the decision to stop the subway from running gave us the ability to move all of the machinery out of the tunnel to higher ground. so the vast majority of the machinery was not damaged in the storm. that is an enormous, enormous difference. powe...

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up first tonight, presidential politics. a major shift in tone. not much new on policy front. mitt romney makes a direct appeal for latino votes. speaking to a national conv convention down in florida one day before the same group hears from president obama governor romney began by asking hispanic voters to remember promises the incumbent failed to keep on immigration and other issues. >> that you dont really have an alternative. i believe hes taking your vote for granted. ive come her...

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need folks to leave. ive been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. >> lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washin...

[ speaking in a foreign language ] [ gunfire ] [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> hello, everyone. this is randi kaye here watching the live events unfold in libya here along with michael holmes. it is 7:00 p.m. in tripoli, where the fight to oust moammar gadhafi just took a potentially momentous turn. within the past 90 minutes, libyan rebels penetrated gadhafis compound which nato war planes have bombed off and on now for months. >> the rebels now have the run of the place. we hav...

Be temporarily blocked from entering the united states because of concern over contamination. the word was that radiation levels seeped into the food chain, milk and drinking water in tokeo being affected, products from japan make up less than 4 percent of all foods imported into the united states. japanese dairy products account for even less at 1/10 of 1 percent. the most popular items are seafood, snacks and sproas dollars fruits and vegetables but even out the fda ban the risk of contaminate...

Government vehicles that are distributing it to residents aid workers say water shortages at some evacuation centers are creating insanitary conditions and this is always a problem in the aftermath of a disaster on the scale of this. now, trains that would normally connect tokyo with northern japan have suspended service, lack of electricity and damaged tracks have forced the famous bullet train to shut down. tokyo commuter trains were up and running this morning but many residents say they are ...

One of the fries. they are diverting one of the cars because there is a two foot wide gap. it is like someone took a knife and sliced it open. we are seeing areas where you can see where the water has come and receded. three-four or five feet. the water came in and there is standing water in a few areas. these are the areas right on the edge of where we saw the massive tsunamies come through a day and half ago. it is more of the mauler part of the tsunami. outlying areas of the sunshine. there i...