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The power went out in lower manhattan. that included nyu medical center, and their backup generators did not function properly. they had an emergency on their hands. they had so many critical care patients they had to get out and get to safety. many of them on respirators. when you look at the video of the 20 babies that the nurses and doctors carried down dark hallways, very slowly and delicately. some of them, they needed respirators, and so you saw nurses actually manually pumping air into their lungs to keep them alive, get them down the stairs and to ambulances on standby to take them to ...

>> atlantic city mayor lorenzo langford. sir, thanks for taking time out for me. i appreciate it. >> you're welcome, god bless. the stock markets are open for the first time since hurricane sandy hit. new york city mayor michael bloomberg rang the opening bell this morning. [ bell ringing ] now, power out in much of lower manhattan, the new york stock exchange is running on its own backup generators. it was closed on monday and tuesday, the first time since 1888 that trading was halted for two straight days because of weather. ron insana joins me to talk about this. this was a huge concern a...

The stock exchange ran on backup generators without a problem. by the closing bell, the dow and the nasdaq were each down 11 points. the s&p 500 was up just a fraction. and facebook shares dropped nearly 4% today on this first day facebook employees can sell their stock in the company. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." gm is back! chrysler is the fastest growing auto maker in the world! and what's happened? what's ryan and romney's response? desperation. desperation. in the last hours of this campaign, i just came from ohio. in the last hours of this c...

219, 220 people have been evacuated from the medical center at nyu. taken to mount sinai and taken to sloan kettering. we are talking about kids from the neonatal pediatric critical care unit adult critical care unit as well as op stet tricks that's where the most serious ones were taken to the other hospitals. apparently the hospital lost power sometime around monday evening. so they are operating on generators a couple backup generators. we have seen those also. fdny are observing those who made central business. they are making their way to where we are. we are in the east to mid town. we a...

Situation? >> there were a number -- there are a number of health care facilities and in consultation with the health care facilities not to evacuate them to begin a number of days ago discharging patients who were healthy enough to be discharged, moving patients on ventilators to other facilities in case, god forbid, something like this happened. so we really tried to reduce the number of people and take those who couldn't get off out. we believe most -- we believe the facility had excessive backup generators, et cetera. for whatever reason, that has become a problem at nyu so in an orderly f...