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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...

Missions is to make sure the system is always 100% operational, all the backups are in place, the best design is in place. so if one substation fails, you dont have a domino of other substations. this is not the first time that ive been with mr. mcavoy going to look at a substation that failed, right? ive seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but it doesnt domino, it didnt ripple, and we have to have a system that has redundancy and has backups....

Situation tonight. people came together and we handled it pretty well. thank you. >> wheres mayor bill de blasio? should he be here at this point? >> hes running for president and hes in waterloo, iowa. >> i would like to just thank everybody for coming out here tonight. as you can see, we have one network that is still down. we are going to continue to work closely together with pd and fire and con edison. well get that up as soon as possible. the cooperation here has been excellent. thats why ...

>> were going to take a quick break and continue our rolling coverage of this blackout that has taken place in the city of manhattan. the city of new york. it started that 6:45. at this hour, there are a lot of people still without power. many people who are trapped in elevators. subway stops are shut down at this hour. but a reminder. were keeping an eye on the situation in the gulf. take a look at where tropical storm barry is right now. it is now moving a little faster. north northwest at eig...

Many buses coming north have been packed. the safest way to get around this evening is on a surface bus. there you see a fire truck. were seeing lots of fire trucks going to buildings. helping people out. there might have been people stuck in elevators. it is that kind of thing. so far people taking in it stride here on the upper west side. >> not much of a choice here on a warm evening in new york city. >> this is a live picture on the left-hand side. this is the upper west side of manhattan. n...

Possible. but that is seen as a good sign, because i count at least two buildings that were dark for the last three hours that are now lit up. and if you look off in the distance here, this hotel, looking at the manhattan, at times square, one of many hotels you find in the region, you also see some light inside and then finally, im not sure if we might be able to perhaps go over to the building across the street, where you can also see at least one light thats on. that building was completely d...

This early hour. well see if the show does go on. >> well keep our eyes on it. you can see on the left-hand side of the screen, it mostly dark. especially in the northern side of the story. weve seen a lot of the hospitals have been disrupt. people have been traptd inside the elevators. theyre losing food and money. it has been a deep impact for the city. it is typically a very prosperous saturday night. >> as we continue to look at this, and we see the numbers have ticked up a little bit to 45,...

Leland: 44th and 8th is almost main and main of times square. as we go farther into the westside. we are watching some of the nypd brass walk out here by where this transformer exploded. we are hoping to get a news could be forensic in the next couple of minutes. well break in when that happens. core midtown, 6th after through, times care still has lights. but west into the residential areas there have to be hundreds of thousands of people in walk-up buildings with no power, no mcgenerators, stu...

Restoration. well hear more about that at the press conference. well hear from police and fire about the emergency calls they received. we have no reports so far of any injuries. and we should get an update on the number of people they had to rescue from elevators. again -- jonathan im going to interrupt you because we got this presser from con ed. well go there live. >> responded quickly to the scene and we are working closely with con ed to restore power as quickly as possible. we have no repo...

Them are still dark. this is a site that you dont ever see in your city. not to diminish the suffering of folks who are stuck in elevators and more of the residential areas. in this part of midtown manhattan there are a lot of hotels and a lot of the things that have stairwells and announcements for folks to evacuated they got people out into a safe place. a lot of places have generators. in the neighborhood residential areas thats where you are having to call for the fire department to go up an...