Live Earthquake Coverage: MTA Chair Lieber, Calls from the Epicenter & More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Brian and WNYC host Sean Carlson provide live coverage of the earthquake, including a press conference with Mayor Adams and other officials, calls from listeners all over (including near the epicenter), seismologists Antonios Marcellos (from Hofstra University) and Benjamin Fernando (from Johns Hopkins), and officials including MTA chair Janno Lieber and NYC Commissioner of Emergency Management Zach Iscol.
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| 0:00.0 | And this is WNC, I'm Brian Lehrer with special coverage of the earthquake that hit the New York Metropolitan Area and really well beyond the New York Metropolitan area at 1023 this morning and joining me in the |
| 0:16.2 | studio for ongoing coverage at least for a little while is our Sean Carlson. |
| 0:21.4 | Hi Sean. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey Brian. |
| 0:22.6 | Feels like one thing after another, doesn't it? |
| 0:24.9 | Yeah, and then an eclipse on Monday. |
| 0:26.8 | Do you have any immediate update for us? |
| 0:31.4 | We did take the governor's statement live saying there are no reports of any major damage anywhere and that the |
| 0:38.8 | MTA is continuing to run. They're doing inspections. There may be delays on various things |
| 0:45.4 | while they do some inspections and obviously we want everybody to do due |
| 0:50.1 | diligence and not worry about you you know, getting somewhere five minutes faster in place of that. |
| 0:56.9 | But anything new to report? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, so as you'd imagine with an earthquake like this, you'd think things would be more disrupted but right now and |
| 1:05.1 | I should say WNYC reporters are working hard pounding the pavement to get all this information |
| 1:10.8 | and folks can listen throughout the afternoon |
| 1:12.7 | we'll have more during all things considered with continuing coverage of this but |
| 1:17.1 | right now N.J. Transit reported at 11 a.m. that there were 20 minute delays so they |
| 1:21.7 | could inspect bridges. The Holland Tunnel briefly |
| 1:24.1 | shut down for an inspection but it reopened 15 minutes later. I actually just |
| 1:28.5 | went through the Holland Tunnel so I can report that it is currently open. |
| 1:31.2 | NYC Public Schools are operating as normal. |
| 1:34.0 | In fact, they did send out a text that said dismissal will happen as normal today. |
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