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Why? >> escort you off the property. >> and im staying here? >> not anymore. >> allegations of racial bias at an oregon hotel. his lawyer says the only thing hes guilty of is calling his brother while black. welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> im joe johns. it is friday, december 28th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. i looked in the sky. it looked like "independence day" or "ghostbusters." was it an alien invasion? it wasnt. the skies over new york city lit up with an eerie blue glow. a tra...

Up with the eerie blue glow at the power plant in queens. a substation experienced a brief electrical fire after a couple of transformers tripped offline. it did not seem routine to folks seeing it. >> holy [ bleep ]. oh, my god. >> it takes an a lot for new yorker to get rattled like that. this was the view miles away in manhattan. the light visible as far as new jersey. the unearthly effect enhanced by the low cloud ceiling. the explosion is powerful enough to shake buildings and windows. ther...

Lobby. his lawyer says the only thing he is guilty of is calling his mother while black. >> doubletree owned by hilton. what will they do to make sure it doesnt happen again? >> im joe johns. welcome to "early start." >> im christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. it looked like an alien invasion. see for yourself. the skies of new york city lit up with the eerie blue glow at the power plant in queens. a spokesperson telling cnn a substation experienced a brief electrical fire after a coup...

Hilton. a black guest asked to leave the lobby. his lawyer says the only thing he is guilty of is calling his mother while black. you wont believe it. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> im joe johns. 30 minutes past the hour. it looked like an alien invasion. it wasnt. so were told. see for yourself. the skies of new york city lit up with the eerie blue glow at the power plant in queens. a spokesperson for con-ed telling cnn a substation experienced a brief electrical fire af...

Brilliant blue light that lit up the new york skyline. i could not believe these pictures when i saw them. at the end of the day, it was a transformer at the airport. >> reporter: well, jim, we spoke to comed this morning and they clarified a lot of the confusion last night. that blue light, the source of it was actually a malfunctioning piece of electrical equipment in this substation right behind me. that piece of equipment had 138,000 volts attached to it, so when the malfunction happened it ...

And they were about to learn a lot more about michael. he was beckys oldest son. he and his brother chris were from a prior marriage. and michael came with a history of trouble, mostly drugs. so, thats gotta make your nose twitch a little bit. >> most definitely. hes on the scene when we get there. hes had a lot of problems in the past with drugs. so that raised a lot of red flags. >> reporter: opportunity to get quick cash? >> most definitely. >> drug habit? make a buy? >> you know, they gotta ...

>> reporter: investigators in grovetown, georgia, now had a murder case on their hands. kay parsons had been assaulted i and killed in a home invasion. and the house of her good friend becky next door had been ransacked too. is your door to door, your canvassing, coming up with anything? >> no. nobodys seen anybody, you know, out of the ordinary in the neighborhood. >> reporter: so they turned to the first person in the neighborhood to notice something was wrong. the contractor whod alerted 911,...

>> shepard: our reporting continues open the alaska earthquake. were getting new information now to our west coast news hub. trace gallagher is standing by there. trace? >> its amazing, shep. now were being told the train system all across alaska has been shut down because the main substation in anchorage was flooded. that has shut that whole thing down. so across the state of alaska, if you want to take a train, youre out of luck. we talked about how the airport is accepting incoming traffic. t...

Thats why shallow quakes are so much more devastating and damaging than deeper quakes. deeper quakes are felt over a wider area. as you noted over the past 2 1/2 hours, more than ten -- 40 after shocks, ten of them stronger than magnitude 4.0 or greater. neil? >> are you getting any reports that the fact that train service throughout the state, forget anchorage, you how long -- its a big state. >> its a big state. what happens is, you have this major substation flooded in anchorage. that control...

To and from the airport are open. so the roads earlier were closed. now people are making a big point saying the airport is open. come back. the train service across the state of alaska is not operating and might be a few days before its back online. mostly because a major substation was flooded. alaska as you may or may not know is the most earthquake prone place on the planet. they get an earthquake everyone 5 minutes. most you cant file. some you can. this one was felt for a 400 mile wide are...