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

Larra 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, you can start calling right now

212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692.

Listeners, are you an employee or a 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. WNY 2.

2. 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?

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