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Hells kitchen between tenth and 11th avenue. i can see west to the cruise terminal and then east into the theater district which you were just describing and it is an eerie scene. of course, all three lights are out and you have a limited number of commercial establishments. as i look out over times square area hotels. my guess is theyre operating on generators. at least at ground level. there is still power sparsely peppered through the block here. but by and large, everything is absolutely dar...

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...

I saw it before this incident happened, remembering that moment in new york city in the 1970s and how scary that was for folks. so it is ironic and weird and a little twilighty, that it is happening so many years later. i have another update if you want me to give you more information. so the latest information i have is, i just got this. 38,000 customers without, including lincoln center, st. lukes roosevelt hospital center, on west 59th street in hells kitchen, roosevelt hospital is reporting ...

Train? and though? leland: brian weir losing your signal. we will try to find a little bit more power. >> go ahead leland, im coming back. you see my signal? leland: we dont right now. we want to take an aerial shot of new york city. bryan llenas is down at madison square garden with folks coming on there getting onto trains are getting off. this is a helicopter shot of what is almost entirely black midtown manhattan and you can see them trying to open the iris on the camera to get a better pict...

Small area of -- of -- really west of the theatre district 9th avr in 40s used to be all happened hells kitchen older bigdz used to be former tenements and the light lights spill still out con-ed is trying to work ineffective richley to restore power lights are on in, everyone is back home, picking up feet on couch maybe popping up a cold bruschi, and that this is over. >> over for many we understand at least in that area you were talking about eric, that there are a number of folks walking arou...

Back of that screen right there. which would not be a normal thing. i believe there is, the manhattan hotel is right there. the times square hotel is located nearby. also located nearby. to the left of the screen. several broadway shows. and im just getting this to me right now. canceled. the lion king, aladdin, frozen the musical. i can go on and on and on. and of course, hamilton. just imagine if you finally got tickets to hamilton and it was canceled as a result. as we continue to zoom in, we...

Eighth avenue which is sort of the heart of times square all the way up into the west 70s to the heart of the upper west side, there is a significant power outage which is affecting nearly 40,000 con edison customers. there are five subway lines which anyone who has been to new york city knows how important the subway is to be running. five subway lines are currently not running. the a line and the c line, which run on the same line, and the f, the d, and the m train as well. those five lines ar...

In the hells kitchen area of new york city and no doubt has hundreds more people there when it come to employees and patients. but they say that they are right now operating on back-up generators. weve seen many movie theaters that have been evacuated of this. the famed lincoln central, performing arts center would be busy on a saturday night of it is now closed. just to give a full picture of exactly what is going on at 8:30 eastern time, as we have the power outage. have you seen a lot of resc...

The west side in hells kitchen. we got word about an hour or so ago that it is on back-up generators. how big of a deal would you say that is for st. lukes? >> well, it is probably not a big deal for people at this time with the back-up generators. >> the question is can they do it without the subways running? you would assume they would be rerouted to other hospital thats have full power? with the traffic and congestion, i would be most concerned about the situation where time is of the essence...

In, my colleague on the phone with us. you are basically on the scene. tell us what its like there. >> i actually just live in that neighborhood which is hells kitchen, and i just wanted to give people sort of a sense of what thats like. because its a little bit different than we saw yield where you had just a sorting facility. this is -- if this is the post office thats on 52nd street between 8th and 9th avenues in new york, it is both a working post office and a sorting facility. the other thi...