Mayor Bloomberg: 'People Just Don't Understand How Strong Nature Is'
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke to New Yorkers Tuesday morning, announcing that city schools would be closed Wednesday and saying it might take up to five days to get subways running. Runways at the city’s airports are flooded, many in the region are without power, and 6,100 residents are staying in emergency shelters. “We expected an unprecedented storm,” the mayor said. “That’s what we got.”
As the mayor’s star sign-language interpreter, Lydia Callis, translated, the mayor provided additional updates: