So after that special coverage of the mayor and his team with their live news conference about the tech outage this morning, 10 minutes late.

This is the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. And we'll start in a minute by explaining more about the global tech outage going on this morning.

And we'll invite your calls to help us report the story locally. In fact,

you can start calling right now. 212-433, WNYC, 212-433-9-6-9-2. Listeners, are you an employee or customer of a bank

that's affected, an airport or airline that's affected, any other kind of

company that's affected.

Certainly in this news conference we've been listening to, they've made it sound like city

services and MTA services are very minimally affected.

Is that your experience, everybody?

Or are you hearing stories from friends or relatives or colleagues who are affected in any area of life?

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9692.

What might it help your neighbors and others to know about what you can or cannot do right now.

And we'll ask our guests in a minute how what outage at one company, Microsoft in this case,

can affect so many systems around the world.

Is concentration of services good or bad for the way the world functions in the 21st century.

Anyone listening who works in tech and who can give us some insight into what actually

happened here?

And that larger structural picture, that question, you're invited to, to help us report

this story, 212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-692, call or text.

We did check early this morning and all our system seemed to be working, our phones are working, our text message service is working, all the connections to the transmitters seem to be working. So all heads up for us,

thumbs up for us, as far as I could tell. I will say that as your calls are starting to come in,

I'll tell you that also today on the show, we have Brooklyn Congressman and House Minority Leader

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