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Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New Yor...

System that is designed that if a substation malfunctions there are other substations that pick up that power shortfall. and certainly that one substation disturbance doesnt ripple through the system. weve been through that before. >> right. >> and that is not -- the system is designed to prevent that. so, i want to know first hand what happened. these are dangerous situations. you know, you have that density of population, that many moving pieces, that many vehicles. having a six-hour blackout,...

Mcavoy to get an update from con ed. >> hi. good evening. thanks very much. my names john mcavoy. i represent con edison. we experienced a significant disturbance on the west side of manhattan at one of our electric transmissions stations at roughly 6:47 p.m. but eventually it interrupted power to approximately 73,000 customers. we provide the electric system into what we call networks which is roughly equivalent to neighborhoods. it interrupted power to six networks. we have expedited the recov...

System is always one hundred percent operational all the backups are in place, the best design is in place, so it is one substation fails you dont have a domino of over substations this is not the first time that i have been with mr. mcevoy going to look at substation in a failed, right? i have seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but doesnt ripple, and we have to have a system that has redunnedancy backup we are lucky tonight the emergency wor...

Other european banks by their governments over this weekend so that they do not take billions of dollars in losses, and it doesnt ripple throughout the financial world. thats the best we can hope for at this point. megyn: wow. stuart, thank you. >> reporter: sure. megyn: going to get back, now, to our top story this afternoon. we are awaiting specifics on the alleged suspects involved in this suspected terror plot. one is reportedly a u.s. citizen. according to our research team here at fox news...