• The View aired a uncommon dwell broadcast with out a studio viewers.
• Whoopi Goldberg identified that there was no crowd Monday morning amid a state of emergency in New York Metropolis.
• "We hope that everybody watching is secure from the storm that walloped a number of the nation this weekend," Goldberg mentioned.

In a uncommon transfer that led to a sequence of haunting photographs on Monday's episode of The View, the present mounted a uncommon broadcast with out a dwell studio viewers amid a state of emergency in New York Metropolis.

On the high of the most recent dwell version of the discuss present, cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin walked out to set, with some waving to an empty set of viewers risers with nobody in them.

"Howdy, good day, and welcome to The View, y'all," Goldberg mentioned as she took her seat within the moderator chair, earlier than addressing the dearth of studio viewers members within the room.

"I’ve to let you know, we hope that everybody watching is secure from the storm that walloped a number of the nation this weekend," the 70-year-old mentioned, including, "So, we really don’t have any viewers immediately."

Goldberg cited the state of emergency beforehand declared by Gov. Kathy Hochul, as New York Metropolis was pummeled with a number of inches of snow amid a serious storm that swept the nation over the weekend.

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The Ghost actress joked about the truth that the one different folks within the present's Manhattan-based studio had been crew members, together with producer Brian Teta, who was "working back and forth, screaming," because the star joked.

Goldberg additionally referred to as out "our fantastic digital camera operators and all the parents that work on this present" who "are right here giving us a number of help" amid the inclement climate.

"We additionally wish to say thanks to the clear up crews who've been working their behinds off to clear the roads, to clear the highways, to get stuff executed so folks can get again to work," the EGOT-winning performer continued, earlier than attending to the day's Sizzling Subjects — together with the cohosts' impassioned condemnation of presidency officers over the capturing demise of Minnesota nurse Alex Pretti.

Goldberg's deal with remembers an identical occasion when the moderator greeted an viewers of empty chairs throughout a March 2020 broadcast of the present, after the studio crowd was absent as a result of rise of COVID forward of the worldwide pandemic.

"Properly good day, good day, good day, ya'll!" Goldberg mentioned on the high of the present because the digital camera panned towards the again of the set on the present's former studio dwelling, revealing rows and rows of vacant chairs. "Welcome to The View!"

The View airs weekdays on ABC.

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