. >> (speaking french): >> veronique (speaking french): >> veronique: >> a day of somber language... states to a grinding halt. ♪ ♪ >> my name is dan rossi, i live in new york and i'm a vendor. you know, we sell hot dogs in front of the metropolitan museum of t. and we've been there about 13 years, but i've been in the business 40. 40 years. we got hit hard. you go down new york city, you expect mobs-- there was nobody. it was like a ghost town. you know, people did what they had to do. but we got hit hard. and that location, in front of the met? it's basically a tourist destination. and the only thing these tourists want is a new york hot dog, and it can be pretty, uh... rough, sometimes, you gotta really move sometimes, real fast. everyone's talking their different language, you don't know what the hell anybody's saying, but they point to a picture and you give them a hot dog-- it's fun, it is, you know. ♪ ♪ uh... i said, well, in two months, i'm in the red. i need maybe $2,000 or $3,000 a month. to get us through, i'm gonna borrow that money, i'm gonna fi someone and borrow the mo