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AP Reporter Explains How NY Radio Served as a Lifeline


Topic: Disaster Relief and Recovery

This video from a PBS Newshour interview between Judy Woodruff and the Associated Press�s Warren Levinson confirms David Donovan�s statement. At minute 10:45, Levinson says, "I was over by the big substation that went out on East 14th Street this morning. And people didn�t have television. They didn�t have Internet. And somebody had taken his big portable radio and put it on the second floor in his window when the governor was giving a briefing. And you had a knot of people, like a semicircle of people, standing around it listening for what�s the latest information."



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