companies in new york city on duty at any given time. jon: the port authority is announcing the bus terminal in mid-town manhattan which handles the transportation need of thousands of people on a daily basis is up and running, at least the bus service is up and running. but we are toll the elevators and escalators are not working. that s a building where you often have to go up many, many flights on an escalator to get to your bus. that will hamper the transportation needs of this city. times square is in large part dark. some of the famous billboard are illuminated and flashing. but a lot of times square which is usually lit up like a
under what are called visual flight rule and they re not under the control of a tower, but they are talking with each other or constantly communicating what their position is, what their altitude is so that they are not involved in a collision with each other and where they can see each other. and they re constantly talking to each other. one of the things the investigators will do is they will reach out to other pilots in the area and see if anybody, what if anybody else heard him saying over the radio. ken, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed on what this all means. formerly of the port authority. the new york mayor s office has been briefed they just tweeted this out. they ve been briefed. they re on the scene now of the helicopter crash in midtown manhattan. the fire has been extinguished. the fdny continues to operate, please allow the first
between new york and new jersey, where anywhere between 10% and 20% of our gdp passes through that corridor. why not? i d say the you guys just with a little asterisk. the trump administration you guys who run new jersey and new york exactly. new jersey and new york are all in. the the port authority s all in. across the hudson and across the political aisle importantly, we need the trump administration to get all in as the obama administration had been before. isn t that infrastructure? it s one area where president trump or candidate trump was running i kept saying this is the one area i can see common ground. but it s a lot of rhetoric and no action. so i m frustrated as heck. i m still cautiously optimistic. as you suggest, brian, 20% of the nation s gdp rides in the northeast corridor. and there are people who have to memorize where the breaks are and the potholes are in the roads to navigate these heavily traveled roadways. looked at another way, this is
litmus test questions this time around like reparations, like court packing, like are you in favor of tossing aside the electoral college. the other one is the green new deal. now, the green new deal has us all riding around on high-speed rail. we don t have a legit high-speed rail system yet in this country. you guys can t get a new tunnel dug under the hudson river between new york and new jersey, where anywhere between 10% and 20% of our gdp passes through that corridor. why not? i d say the you guys just with a little asterisk. the trump administration you guys who run new jersey and new york exactly. new jersey and new york are all in. the the port authority s all in. across the hudson and across the political aisle importantly, we need the trump administration to get all in as the obama administration had been before. isn t that infrastructure? it s one area where president trump or candidate trump was running i kept saying this is the one area i can see common gr
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