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At intersections. and firefighters helping people out of elevators. thats one of the scariest things for people, to be up on the 40th floor and have the elevator suddenly stop. so fire officials were very busy at first, trying to make sure everybody was accounted for. in some of these apartment buildings theyve been handing out flashlights and glow sticks. for most individuals, an inconvenience. but for an elderly resident not able to get down 20 flights of stairs, its a more serious matter. its...

And everybody is in tuned. is there a threat to anybody? i dont think so. its a fire on 59th street, one of the transformers. i think people are starting to understand what the situation is. but you have to take care of the elderly people, the guys on the trains, the people on the elevators. everything that could happen to the buildings in the projects. make sure everybody gets medical attention as soon as possible. everybody has to call. when everybody is calling at the same time its not easy t...

That means there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people affect it by this. we are awaiting a news conference from fdny and nypd on whats going on here. this started about three hours and 15 minutes ago at 6:45. people were trapped on subways for at least an hour and we understand there were multiple rescues from elevators around manhattan. lets take a look around manhattan from a number of our cameras. the upper right-hand corner of your screen is sixth avenue. will we look at sixth...

This. so thats some news from the governors office. he also confirms at this hour, no passengers stranded on any subways or trains. or in mta elevators west heard from the fire department that they were responding to multiple calls about people trapped in elevators. were waiting to hear from the fire department on that. this appears to be the result of some sort of trans former fire. it unclear from my law enforcement and fire department people when the power will officially come back on.

The big issue here, and that is time. its just now getting to be official sunset time, which is obviously going to make the job of law enforcement and emergency services that much harder, both due to the response to this incident but also the typical public safety and enforcement that goes on on any given day, that still has to continue as well in order to ensure public safety. lets talk about what law enforcement is doing and what the public can do to make their jobs easier. the nypd has a 24-h...

Buildings? >> it is a weekend, they can eliminate the office building. so a lot of the office building elevators are generally empty right now. its a tough call to answer. its a good one but a tough one to answer because we only have so many officers and members of the fdny and there are a lot of buildings in new york city. its incumbent to people if they are in elevators and they are listening to stay calm and know help is on the way. leland: its dark and you can imagine how stifling it would b...

They told us they needed to evacuate the building. >> what was the mood of everybody as they were scrambling to get out? >> everyone is confused. they wanted for the safety of everyone to exit. >> was there anyone acting in a panic? it didnt feel like a stampede or anything. was quite orderly? >> i was like okay i guess we are leaving now. and all the ushers and employees at msg helped get everyone out safely. >> and 420 the numbers are going in the wrong direction we just heard from our last gu...

The power company blamed it on mechanical failure at transformer substation, 73,000 accounts were in the dark and when you consider that one building could be one account, youre talking hundreds of thousands of people who were impacted, the blackout span 30 blocks from midtown manhattan to upper west side, 7:00 p.m. to nearly midnight, traffic lights went dark, billboards in time square shut off, direct traffic by hand, stores, restaurants unable to ring transactions and few broadway musicals br...

Three service elevators were escalators rather. of the sold-out jennifer lopez show came to a halt last night. of those as several people were rescued from elevators and dark subway cars and city officials said there were no injuries with the blackout but it put a spotlight on new york citys mayor bill deblasio. he caught heat for being absent, campaigning for his 2020 presidential run in waterloo, iowa, and today hes back touring the substation but the governor did not hold that criticism sayin...

West side. weve seen flickers, the lights went out. no lights, no air conditioning on this hot july 9th for some people. in the theaters that have had to now shut down tonight. no productions and certain broadway shows. ironically tonight is the 42nd anniversary of the famous 1977 blackout. we know some people have been trapped in elevators, the new york city police and fire department are still working to get all of them out. and to monitor what they call crowd control. i spoke to bill de blasi...