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This opportunity to start getting vaccinated. >> we have heard from the united states chief medical adviser anthony fauci from this who spoke with cnn and did emphasize frankly about what little we know. take a listen. >> it's in a fluid motion. we're finding more about it and literally it's something that in realtime we're learning more manned more about. >> is it possible that it's already in the u.s.? >> you know, of course. anything is possible. we don't know that. there's no indication that it is right now. >> doctor, what dr. 4-h said in terms of how concerned we should be at this moment...

Hurricane stronger than ida. joining us now on the line is louisiana's lieutenant governor. thank you so much for joining us. you have so much experience dealing with these storms over the years. you are in baton rouge now. where is your focus in the state right now as the storm slowly moves across it? >> obviously as the stronger part of the storm approaches baton rouge this area of the state has never seen a category 2. usually they die out before they get this far north. and a lot of the homes and structures and mobile homes in this area have never been tested. and so there may be some majo...

Commissioner. what it appears to be, ana, is a specific transmission problem and hopefully it can be resolved in a relatively quick period of time. >> you tweeted out that it was a manhole fire. is that believed to be the cause? >> we're still getting more information. this is very early on in the situation, ana. so we're waiting to get all of the facts. what i'm trying to make clear is it's something within the normal electric grid, something that obviously didn't work. but no other kind of external influence here. this appears to be something that just went wrong in the way that they transmi...

West side. we've seen flickers, the lights went out. no lights, no air conditioning on this hot july 9th for some people. in the theaters that have had to now shut down tonight. no productions and certain broadway shows. ironically tonight is the 42nd anniversary of the famous 1977 blackout. we know some people have been trapped in elevators, the new york city police and fire department are still working to get all of them out. and to monitor what they call crowd control. i spoke to bill de blasio, he's not in the city tonight, he's campaigning in woot waterloo, i. >> we are getting the prelim...

We're told it's all because of a manhole fire. the most important concerns right now are rescuing people who are trapped and working on getting the power back up and running. right now we'll go to mayor bill de blasio in waterloo, iowa on the campaign trail tonight. mayor, give us an update. what happened? >> ana, we're getting the preliminary reports, what it appears to be is a transmission problem. con ed in new york city is working to address it now. we hope to have news on when the power will be restored. the information we have is about 40,000 customers affected. all of our first responde...