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The infrastructure of new york it remains in all of the infrastructure pockets so the world trade center site, the paths are filled with 5 feet of water going back to new jersey. and the battery tunnel is filled. in the subway tunnel is where the utility company, con-ed, has the wires and trance formers so to get the pour we -- power on you have get the water out of the tunnel. president obama made us a priority to receive health from the corps of engineers a special team that pumps and they wor...

>>guest: the only thing worse is con-ed is a dopey company, and they have an electrical plant on 14th street that is always closed. >>neil: you are trying to justify your simple thoughts. >>guest: you dont know my simple thoughts. >>neil: why want to know. we disagree on this, and you know, it is a qualm among friends. but he just made his last appearance. a lot is ride on a smooth open of the markets tomorrow with investors watching closely and we will have the latest on this in preparations be...

And they will continue to work around the clock to get their systems fixed. our administration will move heaven and earth to help them so we can get back up and running as quickly as humanly possible, but the damages they face really are enormous. heres the information that we have as of this moment. regarding con ed and the mta, the most resent report has approximately three-quarters of a million new yorkers without power. there are something like 326 buildings and public housing developments w...

To you. clearly this is the weather incident of unprecedented proportions. and it really remains so today. the people who lost power, 8 million in total, you know, 3 million in new jersey and the 1 million nearly on long island learned today they could wait 10 days to be reinsayed the -- reinstated. the only good news manhattan and brooklyn will wait four days. it take a look behind me at the water here at the base of the brooklyn battery tunnel which is the connector between new york and brookl...

-- telling people it was okay to stay and not evacuate. chris christy said it was the wrong thing to do. if things are bad in new jersey he is prepared to sign a executive order to reschedule halloween for the kids of new jersey. >> well go to maria molina who is looking at the weather that has come and the weather in front ofulse. a major transformer blast. this picture said it all. check out the big apple left in the dark. in the bottom that is manhattan before and after the outrage. con ed sa...

On, the weather cycles have chged. keep your politics out of my face, the weather cycles have changed. no one is passing judgment. the weather cycles have changed and we have to think different. does con-ed put their systems down in the subway? can we still construct subway systems and bridges and roads and tunnels in the same as the past in now we know this can happen in the northeast where this does not happen. a lost big thoughts coming. >> the fact i am sure people across the south, and i ha...

Electric company bob goul joining us. tell us the magnitude of the power outages. >> we outages that extend through out the baltimore area. not on the scope yet of what perhaps we would have seen. we were on the right side of the storm, though. certain parts of our service tear tore real moving up i 95 toward the delaware line certainly got hit the hardest. that is understandable given the path of the storm coming over at one point across the maryland delaware line. >> how long will it take to g...

An explosion at a con-ed explosion plant. we go to bob mcgee from con edison. mr. mcgee, what is the state of the power supply in new york city now? >> the explosion that your your viewers ew probably looking at, i cant see it, i imagine its one that ive seen, essentially wound up taking out power south of 39th street in new york city. there had been a couple of networks that had been taken out before in lower manhattan. the battery park network and the fullton network and that affected to that ...

Returned, electrical power? >> caller: basically, almost everyone south of 34th street, included -- is without power. we probably have another close to 50,000 people in the other burroughs probably more than that without power as well. when power is going to come back on is a question, depending -- a different question if youre someone like me who -- con-ed actually turned our power off p proef laek tickly and that will be maybe tomorrow or the day after. they turned it down so it wouldnt get fl...

Milling about and not even knowing what all the dangers are at that time its going to be an interesting morning. we also, chris, have to deal with another high tide thats starting to come in. not expected to be anything near like it was last night, but with the water, you know, still very high and with a lot of the subway systems and tunnels already filled with some water, it certainly cant help with another high tide and the storm still sticking around. residents here in this neighborhood, many...