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Dark. >> yeah and its not just that one manhole. its just the start of it and it goes in sequence and thats the problem they are having right now trying to get it back on. as one goes off line comes back on and another one pops so the issue is very complicated right now and is the number grows thats what makes me more concerned that they dont have a handle on it. hopefully they will give us some better information. they dont want people to panic but its 40,000 so quite an increase. you would hop...

Of mta system in new york says its currently operating on or close to schedule in or out of penn station. they say they will provide updates should there be any impact to service resulting from the new york city power outage. corey johnson, the speaker of the new york city council is also with us on the phone. speaker johnson what can you tell us about the situation from your point of view? >> i am told this started on west 49th street between 11th and 12th avenue. its on the far side of manhatt...

Generators, including st. lukes hospital does have a generator. but that hotel we were talking about does not. as we come up here, 9:30 eastern time in new york. as well as out west at 6:30 in the evening. heres what were following. there has been a major blackout. no other way to put it. major blackout here in manhattan, midtown and upper west side of new york city. con edison, the utility company, says they are working feverishly to restore power by 10:30 eastern time. the impact, tens of thou...

As far as the bus service for the port authority. you will see the mca bus service trying to account for some of the loss of subways. a lot of this will be determined how long con-ed, the power company, says it will take to turn the power back on. if its the matter of an hour, or if its a bigger problem they will go into a more robust response. jon: where the numbers continue to increase, con-ed the power company that supplies power to manhattan and much of the rest of new york city is saying we...

♪ just a small town girl living in a lonely world ♪ >> what did you learn about this outage? >> con-ed is apologizing for the major disruption. it will be months before new yorkers have answers as to what exactly went wrong. we know there was a failure of a transmission substation in western midtown, affecting five other substations putting a total of six networks the a loss of power but con-ed says the specific failure will have to be investigated. that means looking at all the pieces of eq...

Small area of -- of -- really west of the theatre district 9th avr in 40s used to be all happened hells kitchen older bigdz used to be former tenements and the light lights spill still out con-ed is trying to work ineffective richley to restore power lights are on in, everyone is back home, picking up feet on couch maybe popping up a cold bruschi, and that this is over. >> over for many we understand at least in that area you were talking about eric, that there are a number of folks walking arou...

Power outage for a couple of days until they can rebuild it? >> there are so many different things that can go wrong. but sometimes we see cases where con-ed brought in a portable generator. its tough to say whether they have the capacity to bring portable generator should that be needed. leland: this is on the very westside of manhattan between 70th and 50th street. if we do a split screen from where the transformer blew, its totally dark with the exception of emergency lights. the buildings ha...

Learnless on these from this so it doesnt happen again later in the summer. >> quick eric, just doing a fabulous job out there through this, there when power came back on cuomo said we were very lucky tonight and he made that point -- i would say he seemed angry -- but certainly almost lectured guys head of con-ed in that press conference, saying this cant happen this is unacceptable. is this been an issue in new york that cuomo has been talking about and a problem that con-ed is dealing with? i...

Leland: one second jackie. these are aerials and to give you an idea where jackie was looking at her picture earlier as this camera pans around you see on the left-hand side of your screen its pitch black and those are the areas over on ninth and tenth avenue west side highway that are residential that dont have emergency generators where its pitch black for blocks. that means people are trying to drive, people are trying to walk home and people are trying to get out of their sweltering apartmen...

Out. take a look at that bus. just packed as people make their way home during the blackout. >> i know that bus very well. it goes straight to the upper west side. >> people are probably looking at this and saying it is coastal. you have thousands of people, possibly hundreds of thousands without power. there are many, many people were told who are trapped on subways, trapped in elevators. you have a lot of elderly people who may not be with any sort of help right now. so this is going on more t...