In Bar 10, a place at the Westin hotel where Deborah Kathan is hanging out with friends, TV screens flash a phone number, the mayor's hotline, where people can call to get information about the attacks.

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And then, the visitor disappeared in a flash, just as if a TV screen had been turned off.

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