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Why? >> escort you off the property. >> and i'm staying here? >> not anymore. >> allegations of racial bias at an oregon hotel. his lawyer says the only thing he's guilty of is calling his brother while black. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm 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 wasn't. the skies over new york city lit up with an eerie blue glow. a transformer explosion blew. a power plant in queens. a substation experienced a brief electrical f...

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. there were power outages which shutdown laguardia in queens. the airport switched to a back-up generator...

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 doesn't happen again? >> i'm joe johns. welcome to "early start." >> i'm 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 couple of transformers tripped offline. it did not seem routine to folks seeing it. >> holy [ bleep ]...

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 won't believe it. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm joe johns. 30 minutes past the hour. it looked like an alien invasion. it wasn't. so we're 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 after a couple of transformers tripped offline. it did not seem routine to folks seeing it. >> ho...

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 created a huge ark of lightening that was described to us as a lightening strike, if you will. it cr...