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That was never a question for other generations. all of a sudden, we're questioning whether we should make those investments. >> governor dan malloy. you're in the thick of it. thank you for your time tonight. we appreciate it. >> thank you. i have a modest proposal. how about this? sometimes power goes out because of transformer explosions or water. more frequently power goes out because a tree falls down on the power line. how about we do a big stimulus project. wherein all of the places where the power went out because of hurricane sandy or something else in the past year where the power ...

Make those investments, at least some of us, i'm not. >> governor dan malloy, we know you're in the thick of it. thank you for your time tonight. we appreciate it. >> thank you. i have a modest proposal. how about this, so sometimes power goes out because of transformer explosions or because of innun san diegos of water. more frequently because a tree falls down on the power line. how about we do a big stimulus project for the country, infrastructure structure project wherein all of the places where the power went out because of hurricane sandy or something else in the past year, the trees a...

Stations and transformers. if you were on the west side of new york city, i took this picture last night, walked down to riverside park along the west side of manhattan, you can see covering those benches, that's just one of -- i can't even count how many tens of transformer explosions in new jersey that would light up the sky. you can see that explosion in the sky and then you see an entire town go dark right along the river in new jersey. that's a power station explosion down in the east side of manhattan. but it was just incredible and continued all night from darkness until i went to bed a...

>> did you see that light flash? left to the middle of the screen there. the flash lit up the early morning sky. now we have isolated it by freeze framing it. it happened thursday morning and it caused -- whatever caused it is still a mystery. utility officials say it was not a transformer explosions. forecasters say it was not lightning. >> okay. well, we will just check for aliens in the downtown area. [inaudible] >> we need to know where to spread the panic. >> harris: of course he was kidding. people say reminded of another flash people reported seeing in phoenix another mystery yet to be ...

Over the safety of one particularly vulnerable facility, located within miles of the big apple, julie bandaras, live in our new york city newsroom with more on that, hi, julie. >> reporter: in light of the catastrophe in japan, concerns are deepening for new yorkers living in a 50 mile radius of indian point, power plant, calling for renewed called for it to be shut down, governor cuomo saying it is too vulnerable to earthquakes, in the nation, and in the 40-year history, the westchester county plant experienced radiation leaks, useless warning sirens, transformer explosions an oil spills. its...