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At this hour. if we continue to turn around, you will see the other story that were following. normally, all of this behind here. that you see here. were victims to this blackout here in manhattan, like so many people. we heard a boom about 6:45 eastern time. and then the lights went out for a quick seconds. you can see, were the lucky ones. there are many who may be stuck in a subway or elevators. our own kathy park has made her way outside where there are many traffic lights not working and ci...

They write, please be patient, call 911 only if you have a true emergency because theyre being flooded with calls. obviously people are scared and wondering what they need to do, what they need to know. and people are caught in elevators, thats one of the things theyre responding to. cory johnson, new york city council speaker, do you, sir, know what caused this, was it anything nefarious? >> well, we dont have information on that yet. we know where it initiated from, which is a neighborhood in ...

Cars have to be directed quite literally by hand at every intersection. all of the streetlights and traffic lights are out. its right now 85 degrees, heat index of 86 degrees. if people are stuck under ground in subways or upper floors of apartment buildings or elevators, it will begin to get very uncomfortable very quickly. with that we bring in bernard kerik. former nypd commissioner who was through the terrible times of 9/11. you have to think, you can tell us more by the. contingency plans o...

Of this, despite a little bit of panic and chaos, people stuck in elevators, people who have life-saving equipment that need power, obviously, impacted by all of this, in which they said theyve been in contact with those people. they have a list and theyre also doing some inspections to make sure people are safe. thank you, polo, for your continued reporting on this. brian stelter is also out and about on the streets. we see the flashing lights behind you, breinian, but are t streetlights return...

Intersections because the intersections have now turned into four-way stops. crossing guards have arrived at intersections right away and fire departments are arriving at buildings right away to get stuck elevators reopened, a very quick response from fire trucks and emts to make sure people are out of elevators. as richard is mentioning, right now it is still light out, one of those long summer days. i think an hour from now well see a lot more tourists starting to head home. the people out on ...

Some of these customers could have been huge buildings, condo buildings, apartment buildings. people were trapped in elevators, people were trapped on the subway with the fire department helping to evacuate the subways. i can also tell you a lot of things that are very popular and common in new york city were disrupted. several broadway shows were disrupted or canceled. you had some performers, for instance, from the musical "come from away" coming out on the street and performing songs from the...

As you mentioned, this happened shortly before 7:00 p.m. last night on a busy saturday night in one of the busiest parts of manhattan, the west side stretching all the way from madison square gard madison square garden up through times square, up past columbus circle. more than 70,000 customers in all lost power. that doesnt sound like a lot, but thats buildings and businesses, so were talking about thousands who lost power. as usual, new yorkers took everything in stride, some directing traffic...

The strongest, the toughest, the most resilient of any people anywhere. and when adversity shows up, new yorkers deal with it in an amazing way. as we saw and weve seen in other situations as well, people immediately looked out for each other, made sure that anyone who needed help was getting it. it was another moment to be proud of the city the way people handled it. and thank god the incident lasted five hours only, but during those five hours, new yorkers distinguished themselves. also crucia...

These euphemisms because we dont want to even name it. >> we dont even really want to name that fear. and partly because as journalists and as reporters, thats not the story, right? thats not whats happening. but it is the reality of the fear that belies some of that concern, especially for a lot people the city. so i think, joyce, you kind of name what did that feeling is so eloquently. and of course our hearts go out to people like that bride you mentioned to who are inconvenienced in a way th...

So there were two locations where there were outages, transformers went. and that caused this outage that stretches from the 40s to about 72nd street. fifth nu. it runs up the entire west side. so there are sections of the west side that are without power. and many of the west side subway lines are not running at this hour. and according to the fire department. now, the fire officials tell us theres no one they have reported trapped in a train right now. but they do have multiple reports and cal...