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Weekend. con ed took 33,000 customers in brooklyn off the grid deliberately to protect vital equipment. in detroit severe storms left 290,000 customers without power. for a look at the weekend ahead, lets bring in pedram javaheri. >> finally getting a break in the forecast after the upper 90s and low 100s. laguardia, atlantic city, even places like bridgeport, connecticut. 99 to 100 degrees. all of these setting or tying records. it is the latter portion of july where we see the hottest temper...

Electricity, con-ed, on high alert after an outage knocked out power to a huge swath of manhattans upper west side this week. and in madison, wisconsin two electric substations catching fire. not the day for it. animals feeling the effect too. from pets too overheated to take another step on new yorks fifth avenue to this emu keeping cool at zoo new england. at illinoiss brookfield zoo the bears and tigers staying close to their icy treats. now, the temperature is meant to get up here in new yor...

Wilting in the hot air. the real stuff. deadly heat. 32-year-old former nfl offensive lineman mitch petrus dead from heat stroke. young, elderly, and those susceptible to heat gathering in cooling centers in new york city. >> with this kind of heat we want people to stay inside, to stay in air-conditioning if at all possible. if youre not in an air-conditioned space to find one. >> reporter: heat and humidity prompting the threat of tornadoes across parts of the midwest. heat waves like this bec...

Issue, an economic issue. its a health care issue. unfortunately nobody ever wants to pay attention to it until the debt happens. >> neil: obviously its a big amount of money committed but as you point out, the more you put it off, the more expensive it will become. new york governor cuomo has already cited con ed is a problem but its not as if you can get another utility in here willy-nilly and swap them out. what has to be done? >> i think what has to be done is every major politician in the c...

>> reporter: a strange sight even to imagine, times square without its iconic lights, but it was plunged into darkness. broadway shows were cancelled. a concert had to be evacuated at madison square garden. people were pouring out on to street corners trying to figure out what was going on. traffic coming to a standstill with the traffic lights out at the same time. the power outage affected some 40 blocks of manhattan. it started with a failure at a substation. five other substations were to bl...

Press conference moments after that big blackout from last night. >> -- which had a very big impact on a part of manhattan, went on for about five hours. youre going to hear in the course of this press conference a lot of detail about what we do know about what happened and how it proceeded, how it was addressed. i want to say up front, youre going to hear a lot specifically from con ed. and they will tell you everything that they can confirm at this point. theres a lot more information to come ...

Without power. thats the latest update from connecticut ed. rp -- from con-ed. it increased by another 20,000 roughly. and at this moment, five subway lines are down. you can see a least first responders on the streets in mid-town manhattan where the big concern right now is rescuing folks who might be trapped in elevators or in subway cars. the city council speaker tweeting subways acfd and m are not running at this time. several stations are being bypassed. a couple of lines are running local ...

Training. no anything, con-ed was in terrible shape -- the city totally different place now than it was then. the attitude of all the first responders, equipment they get the training they get -- >> i am told by governors office hate to interrupt we are being told by governors office about national guard is being brought in to direct traffic freeing up new yorks police department we are told police department had what they called a level three callout to bring in extra officers into the city sai...

Westside, completely in the dark. and large buildings issuing evacuations. we sent one out of our own in mid-town to our building on 6th avenue and 48th street alerting our employees on the upper floors that people were on their way to help them out. luckily we do run on generators, so that energy goes to the crucial areas and oftentimes its not the elevators. we are working to figure out from con-ed what the cause of this was. the latest update is its a transformer fire on west end avenue and 5...

As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the fire department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. it was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. the disruption is significant. and we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if youre tuning in at 9:00 p.m. eastern. 6:00 p.m. on the west coast. a massive power outage tha...