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Is the mid to westside of central park there and 8th avenue all the way west. thats all residential area. you put this in one of your monitor so we can show you better. there are tens of thousands of people who live in building that do not have backup generators. its 85 degrees in new york city at:30 at night. -- at 9:30 at night and people are miserable. some of them are stuck in elevators. they are trying to make sure there is nobody still stuck in some of the subways. broadway has gone dark. ...

Safely. incredible. investigators say it could take months to figure out what caused a blackout that left the west side of manhattan in the dark. last nights power outage trapped new yorkers in subway cars and elevators and forced people to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals. at one point, 72,000 customers had no electricity. new york governor andrew cuomo says an explosion at an electrical substation is to blame. check this out. a french inventor flew around the ch...

Dark except for their emergency lights. well take a look up 6th avenue, it would normally be packed with cars. its now packed with people and empty with cars as police shut down a number of intersections to allow the fire department to get through to 44,000 customer without power. thats customers. that could be a single building without power and people stuck in the elevators. the new york fire department saying they are dealing with multiple reports of people stuck in elevators across the upper...

The hope is to have everyone restored, they say, between midnight and 2:00 a.m. eastern time. it is now 11:15 on the east coast. for many new yorkers, the power outage brought scary moments when elevators across much of the city stopped working and people got stuck inside. this is what that looked like inside the knickerbocker hotel on 42nd street and broadway, right after the power outage. you can see those firefighters there working to rescue people who were stuck in the elevator at that hotel...

Manhattan. we dont have any reports of people stuck in elevators, et cetera. but you have senior citizens, you have people with medical equipment at home. >> right. >> that they need functioning. you have hospitals in that area that are operating on backup generators, which are only designed for short-term use. so its the cluster of public safety issues. >> and, governor, i want to go back to something you said a bit earlier. you said that you were going to view the transforms tonight and that t...

A potential press conference. todd, well let you continue to make your way west through the pitch black streets of new york city. todd, we appreciate you being with us. for those of you have joining us, its we are three are sent to a blackout that is affected much as an midtown manhattan people stuck in subways for an hour and people still stuck in elevators. the new york police department and the new york fire department with emergency crews as they look up into the sky and see the lights of ne...

That is not to say the entire area the affected by the blackout. it goes to 72nd street. but it gives you an idea of the number of people impacted. my colleague confirmed what i had heard regarding the mta. theres no one reported stuck on any trains but the trains on many of the west side stations are not running at this hour. and you hear about the buses being packed. the port authority bus terminal, a major entry point for commuters coming from new jersey. thats operational. buses coming from ...

That i have. jon: one of the biggest questions is whats going on under ground. we know some trains were stuck. do you know if they have those back up and running again? >> the five lines i mentioned, im told they are not running currently and they wont run until they restore the power to the swath of manhattan from the lower west 40s to the west 70s. but one of the concerns i heard from thing mta is when the outage happened there were individual successway stations that lost power. so they held ...

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...