msnbc's adam riess joins me right now from times square. adam, we can't say that you have perfect super storms, but this was a perfectly timed superstorm if you could have one. friday night it comes in on saturday, it finishes -- they're cleaning up on sunday and monday folks hopefully will be able to get back to work. >> reporter: right. and today is sunday, gives everybody an opportunity to enjoy it once again. a lot of people coming here to times square as the city and the tristate region sort of starts to crank it back up, get back on its feet. the travel ban ended at 7:00 a.m., as you mentioned earlier. cars were quickly back on the street. trains and buses slowly thereafter. the long island railroad though a major critical transportation infrastructure is still on -- trying to get back on its feet. there was some damage to the train and some of the rails, so they will take some time before they're fully operational. hopefully in time for tomorrow morning's rush hour. the airports, laguardia, runways opened at noon today. kennedy shortl