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Companies in new york city on duty at any given time. jon: the port authority is announcing the bus terminal in mid-town manhattan which handles the transportation need of thousands of people on a daily basis is up and running, at least the bus service is up and running. but we are toll the elevators and escalators are not working. thats a building where you often have to go up many, many flights on an escalator to get to your bus. that will hamper the transportation needs of this city. times sq...

Manhattan because the subways are shut down. con-edison is working to restore power. the power outage was due to a manhole fire. please remain calm and safe. nypd counterterrorism units remain deployed in key locations throughout the city. jacqui, to bring you back in. we heard from bernard kerik who was the nypd commissioner for a while and others, that they are flooding the zone with members of the new york fire department, not only from manhattan, but from the other boroughs coming in for ele...

There are many more people on that one meter, con ed only believes -- its only saying theres one customer affected. clearly there are more than 42,000 people living in this area. with the elevators in the high rises and hotels, there will be a lot of people inconvenienced here, here are the outages here, heres central park. this would be broadway all the way down to times square. and if we zoom in, we can show you how many buildings are here. how many high rises are in the area, and how many peo...

I said essentially a 30-block perimeter. what caused it? >> this is part of a wider investigation right now, david. there were issues that were pin pointed to the transmission line. thats being looked into. the governer has prompted further investigation into what happened. we can rule out an infrastructure problem. the city is coming alive. things are looking like normal. iconic buildings like 30 rock behind me, radio city, were in the dark, when the outage happened around 6:45. but all of the ...

Kristin: the lights are on in new york city after a large power outage leaving parts of the city in the dark for hours of saturday night and now investigators are searching for the cause. jackie heinrich with the latest or do have any idea what caused this? reporter: the power company blamed it on a mechanical failure. 73000 accounts were in the dark with hundreds of thousands of people impacted, some trapped in elevators and dark subway stations. of the blackouts and 30 blocks from in town manh...

The result we are told of a fire in a trance former in midtown manhattan. the curtain should be up in the broadway theaters. thousands of people should be enjoying their saturday night shows. whether they are able to do that with no power, thats have much an open question. so once again, restaurants and other places where people are gathering on a warm evening in new york city, a lot of people are having to deal with darkness, closed up in elevators, or perhaps in office towers where they dont h...

Power outage for a couple of days until they can rebuild it? >> there are so many different things that can go wrong. but sometimes we see cases where con-ed brought in a portable generator. its tough to say whether they have the capacity to bring portable generator should that be needed. leland: this is on the very westside of manhattan between 70th and 50th street. if we do a split screen from where the transformer blew, its totally dark with the exception of emergency lights. the buildings ha...

You have been here for a long time. if you have been here for that to happen? leland: have you ever seen that happen with the radio city music hall gone dark? >> never, never. i was a teenager in 77. it was a different time. but i have never seen radio city go dark. no jacqui heinrich is on the streets of manhattan. when i walked up, there were huge crowd and confusion. but there wasnt the kind of panic you would expect from people in the middle of the city now dark. >> its obviously a different...

Anything. you want to be respectful of people stuck in elevators. we do know rescues were happening on the westside of manhattan. the fire department at one point was responding to hundreds of calls. out on the street people who are not trapped. they are smiling and looking at each other. the hashtag blackout was trending on twitter when i was still in the building. at the moment the lights went out a couple hours ago now it was a bit of a different scene. you heard a big announcement. even at o...

Light. theres power. everything south of 77th street is without power. we talked about the economic impact of something like this. weve seen how easily it can happen. we talked about the economic impact. all the restaurants and shops up and down broadway. were concerned about people who may be stuck in elevators and the safety of elderly people. but this is a saturday night in the middle of summer. dark south of 71st street where the blackout is during. and now these people continuing on. it is ...