August 14th 2003 News Today

Way as far as we can tell from the start of this at around 4:14 eastern time. it is now just seconds after 6:00 eastern time. that is a remarkable scene unfolding right now in new york. that is the wehawken ferry across the hudson river from the manhattan west side over toward new jersey. those are commuters flooding into the ferry entrance. new york city officials are trying to prevent any kind of panic in the streets. and so far they are doing a good job of it, from all the reports we are gett...

That is the scene at this hour. here are some of the major cities we are reporting blacked out at this hour, its been this way as far as we can tell from the start of this at around 4:14 eastern time. it is now just seconds after 6:00 eastern time. that is a remarkable scene unfolding right now in new york. that is the wehawken ferry across the hudson river from the manhattan west side over toward new jersey. those are commuters flooding into the ferry entrance. new york city officials are tryin...

Its extremely unforgiving. this is a little more unforgiving than that. >> despite this constant maintenance, the aging grid still fails. august 14th, 2003. a cascade of failures plunge some 55 million on the eastern seaboard into the dark. the blackout shuts offices and strands commuters. but within 24 hours, its over. >> if we dont improve our transmission grid, were probably looking at more potential blackouts in the future. certainly if we have a growing population, which we do, and growing ...