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11:00, 12:00, 1:00 a.m. when you would like to be home. you have kid at home with babysitters. you have older folks who are hot and miserable on the streets, things could change pretty quickly. we are looking at a live picture where there is police tape up and we see a lot of new york police officers heading in. this is the transit center in new york city. this is where the transformer was? this is where the transformer blew that is cordoned off, and its dark everywhere around there. and it look...

Lessons we can learn about how to do that even better in the future. i want to thank some of the officials who are here today who played a very important role yesterday, first deputy mayor dean foolihan, deputy of operations lauren england. youll hear from the president of con ed, but thanks to mila blair. i want to thank the elected officials who were there working to help their communities, both as speaker of the city council and as a council member representing the affected area, speaker cory...

Devastated. here we go. >> citywide power outage. were going to interrupt this event. >> im very sad. >> and it actually has rescheduled that show for monday. lets get right out to alexandra field. you just heard from officials. what are they saying? >> reporter: hey there, ana. con-ed regrets the disruption. five hours in the dark. the power outage affecting some 40 blocks in manhattan on the west side. but they are saying it will take months to figure out exactly what went wrong as they take a...

Travelled into the city for the concert to question how they were going to get home, if they could afford to pay for hotels overnight and really if they were stranded in manhattan with no options. and theres also the concern, of course, that while things are dark, crime levels are higher. governor cuomo alluded to this in his remarks. he said that policing is more difficult in the dark, which is why he indicated that hes sending more law enforcement professionals immediately to the city to try t...

Perfect system but they really do a good job. they really rely on the people in the building to look out for these folks that need medical help. leland: is you just pointed out we just got no information we dont know whether this is, the blackout is growing or it originally was that con-ed is now saying 61,000, thats an additional 17,000 from the 44 they told us. 61,000 customers without power. that translates into hundreds of thousands if not millions of people because so many of these building...

Conclusions on that. con-ed at the moment is not responding to phone calls. but they did tweet earlier that they are working diligently to restore power. hopefully this comes back online sooner than the black out 40 years ago. jon: that went on for i think almost half a day. jacqui heinrich, thank you. well let you get back to work on the phones. we have a former nypd sister who worked blackouts in this city before. what is the police department doing right now? >> there was a big difference bet...

Derrellation. >> have there been any injuries reported? >> no, thank god. this is an e-americani americai. no reports so far. >> just stay tuned. very important. well know a lot more in the next hour or two. >> wheres the best place to check for information? >> 311. our city website. there is the notify nyc. all media will be put out. >> there you have it. mayor bill de blasio is a presidential candidate. hes been in touch with the new york city management crews and the new york police departmen...

Moment, stood up the command center, key city officials, leaders of the first responder agencies gathered. the elevator task force was activated. that is a preplanned initiative to get people out of elevators. and fdny did that superbly with a very large -- the protocol to check on vulnerable people was activated. because of the relatively short duration, wasnt needed in any way in its fullest, but what we do now -- and we learned this lesson during sandy, during hurricane sandy -- is we have li...

Manhattan. the fire department police department and emergency management responded quickly to the scene and we are working closely with con-ed to restore power as quickly as possible. we have no reports of injuries or fatalities at this time. we also have a list of those individuals that are in lifesaving equipment at work with them to make sure they have what they need. we have put together a joint task force with the pd and the fire department to make sure that nobody is stuck in a net elevat...

Dangerous but perhaps not as widespread. >> it looks like thats the big problem they have right now whether or not they are going to control it, isolated and get it back on in the next couple of hours or so. i guess con-ed has issues with trying to cut back on power in some places so when they do get the power back on they can manage it. i guess the press conference is coming up. soon it should be enlightening with con-ed having a better handle on exactly how bad it is now and in the next couple...