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Related to this power outage. i can tell that you several nypd officers have kind of created this perimeter around 30 rock. i was just in 30 rock. it was a scary situation. it is something that i experienced. if you are in this situation, avoid the elevators. a lot of people didnt know what was going on. they took elevator and got stuck. outside, it is a saturday night. a lot of people are out and about and these folks are tourists. were panning over to them right now. the scene is not very tens...

Reporter: jon, the power company cant explain what caused that massive blackout, why it was so widespread or what triggered it. they are only saying it was a mechanical failure at the transformer substation, but they were able to rule out high demand terrorism or cyber threats and the blackout lasted from 7:00 p.m. to just before midnight spanning 30 blocks from midtown manhattan to the pupper west side, hundreds of thousands of people were impacted police and fire responded 400 stuck elevators ...

They let us out, the street lights, all of them off. civilians were jumping in to direct traffic until governor cuomo dispatched a couple hundred troopers to direct traffic. but this is new york city, so imagine all of these huge buildings with all of the lights out, no air conditioning, no elevators, no street lights, no traffic signals. so, a lot of disruption for those five hours. it wasnt citywide. it affected the west side. im standing at one of the dividing lines behind me. everything nort...

Leland: there are tens of thousands people out on the streets. we heard some restaurants saying dont worry about the check, just leave. folks trapped in elevators. not to diminish the seriousness of this. you have got 45,000 of customers, and hundreds of thousands if not mills of people without power. but as we think about a blackout from 50th to 70th street from 6th avenue over to the westside. it seems like its a more manageable situation than when we had the blackout of the entire northeast a...

Precaution. the fire department was also responding to calls of people trapped in elevators. most of them are out. i do not have a final tally on the number of people who were called in for that type of assistance and whether any remain but that there were multiple calls about that throughout the evening. but the headline now is con ed has a goal of midnight to get the power back on, and a press conference is scheduled for about 10:30 on west 64th street with police fire con ed officials to prov...

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...

Out of buildings. they get stuck in elevators, or the high-rise rescue so to speak. i would advise people open your windows, stay where you are. and you dont want to overheat in a circumstance like this. and let the first responders do their job. leland: when you look at the fdny and fdny twitter accounts. we are awaiting a press conference 20 minutes from now at the command center for all of this as they take a look at why this transformer blew and how long it will take to restore power to all ...

Related to high demand and not related to terrorism and not related to cyber threats, the blackout lasted from 7:00 p.m. to just before midnight spanning 30 blocks from midtown manhattan all the way to upper west side, 73,000 accounts in the dark, police and fire respond today 400 stuck elevators and two tubway train carrying 2800 passenger that is couldnt get into the station, luckily nobody was hurt, recues did prove difficult. police directing traffic by hand. hotels and theaters with massive...

By all accounts before this area was plunged into darkness. it happened just before 7:00 at night as you mentioned. a huge stretch of the west side of manhattan affecting 73,000 customers. now, that may not sound like an impressive number. but those are individual buildings. youre talking hundreds of thousands of people in new york city plunged into darkness, broadway shows had to close down. there were no streetlights, no stoplights. so regular citizens were jumping into direct traffic. the nyp...

Power outages in manhattan. he says, due to a manhole fire earlier this evening, disruption, he says, is significant. well have updates soon. we are hoping to talk with the mayor here any moment now, as we get some live pictures from new york city and video as well. theres still power outages, its spotty. its not all of maen m manhatta significant because the part of manhattan where its impacting people are touristy spots, high-rise buildings, people trapped in elevators doesnt, so theres major ...