Here's how windy it was at the height of the storm as it rolled through Manhattan earlier today: Our offices are on the lower floors of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, a 70-story building. My office, our conference room and much of our newsroom back wall are lined up along a load-bearing pillar that is drilled into bedrock and goes all the way up to the observation deck. Today it was creaking, groaning, ticking and bending. The top gust in Midtown was reported to be 51 miles an hour. My steel doorframe was making noise. A calibrated level app on my ipad actually showed barely-measurable side-to-side movement as the winds blew. It has only happened, to this extent, a handful of times in all the years I've worked in this landmark building. Its a good reminder of 1) how tolerances have to be built into architecture, and 2) who's the boss. And its not us. Not even my division president. No offense, Steve.

I hope you can join us tonight.