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Went down -- >> no, we were out all day, thinking we could finally go back to our room and relax and get our phones charged. >> a friend of ours who lives here alerted us and said there's no power in midtown. so they're going to connecticut and we're -- we'll just give it a try over here. >> you'll wait it out for now, hopefully there's an elevator to take you up to the 35th floor to get those chargers to get back on line? >> that would be nice. >> how long are you in new york city? >> until monday. we also have two more kids that are out with their friends from here, we have no contact with t...

To more scrutiny of his company's profits from the kingdom, now and in the past. >> i like the saudis, their vy' very nice. >> reporter: saudi arabia bought the 35th floor of this manhattan skyscraper in 2001. when trump was hard up for cash in the '90s, he sold off this yacht to a saudi prince for a reported $20 million. and that same saudi prince chipped in for a $300 million bailout of another trump investment, the plaza hotel in manhattan in 1995. >> so this is a man who has always looked to the saudis for money, so who has leverage over whom here? we have to really ask a serious question ...

Be out there the thinking they're going to do the same thing? >> well, there's always a potential of a copycat. i'm not aware of any credible threats at all. you'd be crazy not to take adequate precautions. you have to judge from the ground what floor an individual's on. just look at one of these high-rise buildings and guess whether or not you're looking at the 35th floor, the 37th floor. some buildings skip number 13. some have a mezzanine, others don't. there's no way to quickly identify what floor the threat is on so you can respond quicker. we obviously saw that in las vegas. you'd see th...

Humanitarian group youth being mission. chris take us through what happened when the earthquake hit. where were you where was t like? >> i was downtown mexico city on the 5th floor in our offices where we operate out of. we'd just been talking about the drill of -- because they had just did an earthquake drill two hours prior to to the earthquake because today's the 35th anniversary of the massive earthquake. when this happened it took us by surprise. the floor started shaking, the building started moving and we realized this is the real thing. people took off running and heading out of buildi...

>> they are hitting us with chemicals. >> they told us the chemical attacks would only be about 10 feet high so we went to the 5th floor because we thought it could not reach that floor. >> her main concern was for her children. >> my husband got us blankets and we spoked the blankets and towels in water and i covered the children with them. but this did not work. then my son was dying and we started screaming and crying and my husband was slapping his face for him to wake up. he fainted and became unconscious. then i started losing consciousness and i started throwing up. then they took us bo...