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Everyone not to use the elevators at this time. 10 minutes later they must have cut the generator. im i am 20 floors up thinking how am i going to get into work trampling down 20 flights of stores to make it in to see you guys. 10 minutes later they get on and say we can use the elevators again. i get down and start walking through for midtown. leland: anna roe quick i just need to stop you to tell you what we are seeing on the screen. these are aerials coming in from our affiliates who have the...

Anybody in elevators or subways? reporter: we are hearing a lot of those rescue calls are coming from the upper westside. the hotels evacuated their customers to the streets. he pointed to the bus service. folks are wondering how do you get around tonight? they are being told to avoid underground subway stops. but five major subway lines for midtown manhattan are shut down. that would have had a larger impact on a weekday evening. in hells kitchen area where a lot of tourists come, trying to che...

Establishments. you can see as we look up 6th after through, a city shut down, crippled on a very busy packed summer night. and its hot outside. we are told there are countless folks trapped in underground subway cars and elevators as well. we bring in bill stanton, security and safety expert. bill, obviously you have a plan for everything when you are the nypd. whats the plan for this and whats happening at blackout plus two hours? >> they have contingency plans working with all other emergency...

37,000 customers are without power. the word that we got from the speaker and from other officials within the last hour in new york city that there was some sort of explosion, a transform he explosion on the upper west side of manhattan. and officials are still trying to deal with that. in the meantime, there are people stuck inside of elevators, trapped there in the subways. the lincoln central had to be shut down. you see times squaer right now, busy on any given saturday afternoon. it would a...

A nice summer afternoon like this and with the temperature the way it is, you have got all sorts of elements out there. you have got good people doing a lot of wonderful things and they are trying to celebrate. but you have unfortunately a criminal element that would try to take advantage of a situation scenario like this. but again without being overly redundant, i can tell you law enforcement in new york specifically, they have contingent plans to handle scenarios and situations like this. i t...

Manhattan. >> that is a big concern, all of us can imagine being in one of those elevators when the power goes out, and how scary that would be. chad myers thank you for that update. shimon prokupecz is with us. i know youve been in touch with officials from nypd and the fire department here, what are you learning? >> the most important is for people to know that everything is under control. the nypd, the fire department, obviously responding to different calls, people needing rescue, are stuck ...

Confirmed by the nypd. no foul may but a mechanical issue. the fire department currently responding to people with most urge end needs. especially those stuck in elevators. one of our reportes embedded in iowa, i know you just spoke with the mayor moments ago. he addressed the cameras whafrlt did he have to say? >> he told us that he is in iowa campaigning. he told us that there was an electrical fire. no foul play. it is unknown if there are any injuries. but he said it is a little early to tel...

In lower east side lasted through the night very much like this, for tonight this lasted about four hours the investigation, now will begin, they have to power back but as you said do not know steadily why on evening in which the power supplies was not necessarily overload because it was a saturday night, new york city offices not a workday, why did this happen in the first place? that investigation just beginning. we expect new york governor andrew cuomo to be a here will get a tour of the site...

Theyre doing a great job, the elevators are stuck, its real warm weather, when you lose air conditioning, and youre stuck in an elevator, especially if its crowded. it could be threatening to folks that are older and dont have that -- are healthy enough to with stand it. emergency management does a great job in this time also they have lists of all the people that need electric, when electric is lost. you have police, fire, guys running around nuts trying to help as many people as they can. and ...

Reports of people stuck in elevators, traffic lights all around this part of new york city are out right now. and traffic in new york city is notoriously bad. we also know the subway stations arent necessarily working the way theyre supposed to with new york city transit authority tweeting out moments ago, theyre advising everybody to come out from underground if theyre trying to take the subways, theyre trying to get those working as well. polo sandoval is out and about, gathering more informat...