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Attacks. mayor bloom burg was there. the nba is our red cross, our 911 all rolled into one. they did an incredible thing. >> okay. >> time now to take a look at the morning papers. we will start with the detroit free press. a massive power outage if detroit tuesday left about 100 buildings without power. water been called a major cable failure shut down a major power grid shutting off fire stations, office buildings, police stations and a want who. a football of schools in the area were forced to close for the day. do you remember when they had water issues this summer? i mean, this is a joke....

Downtown detroit. government offices, hospitals, not to mention traffic lights all dark right now. the cause? city officials reportedly cause a major cable failure. rick leventhal has the latest. how does this happen? what happened? >> well, we're still trying to figure all that out. even the airport lost power for a while. it's back on there now. the city's public lighting grid suffering, as you said, a major cable failure that caused the entire grid to lose power. the utility says that it's isolated the issue. it's working to restore electricity as soon as possible. we're waiting to a press ...

As if bankrupt detroit doesn't have enough problems, a power outage plunged detroit into the dark today. rick is monitoring the situation from our new york headquarters. >> reporter: as of late this afternoon, about 75% of the city's vast -- this was a serious shut down in the heart of one of america's biggest cities, a major cable failure caused an entire grid to ruse power, cutting power to fire stations, and numerous schools. in fact the entire public school system closed down before noon. parents whose kids don't ride busses had to bupick them up. eight to ten people were stranded on eleva...

As waiting to kind of see where house republicans are. the big question will deal with funding. there is nothing about what they will do. one plan is to fund many departments of the government except for homeland security to give a little more time for them to see what they could do to respond to the president. and these executive actions. the idea is it makes it harder to enforce any of these new steps. andrea? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. we are following breaking news out of detroit. power outages crippled parts of the city. the students are being let out early. the public lighting grid s...