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Their computer. thats the first step in going after turning off a hydro electric plan or turning off a substation and plunging a million people into dark know. these are infrastructure attacks which are very hard to do because we have such a large civilian infrastructure not protected at a governmental level the way many other countries around the world are. when you turn off power, you kill people. respirators go off until the batteries come on. or until generators come. on it can be very diffi...

♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today. arthel: washington, d.c. dealing with a pretty major power outage right now in the 9. utility company pepco reporting more than 24,000 customers are in the dark due to an issue at a substation on florida avenue in the northwest side of the city. there were as many as 33,000 outages earlier. according to pepcos website. some of the customers wont get their power back until tomorrow afternoon. and at least two people were killed in a nightclub collapse...

In london kitty logan, fox news. eric: 39,000 people are without power right now in washington, d.c. where its in the low 90s, power company tweeted just a short time ago about it saying they are working to restore service to customers as quickly as possible, that blackout hitting the northwest part of the city, the outage reportedly stemming from a problem in substation, they say all power, though, expected to be restored by 7:00 p.m. tonight. arthel: political unrest in puerto rico in the wake...

Mid-atlantic delmarva peninsula, washington, d.c. tomorrow afternoon. feeling like 112. this is dangerous heat. its also going to put a big poll on the electrical grid. watch out for that know where your cooling centers are in you dont have the aget ac strong enough where you live. show you the actual air temperatures. also really hot. especially across the central plains today. we get that break tomorrow. tomorrow north platte dropping about 25 degrees. going to be a big break. they have been d...

Six amusement park workers facing homicide charges after this happened. this ride snapped, killing two people. 27 others were injured. this happened at a park in india. the parks owner on the far right insists that the ride was regularly maintained. back to new york. new york citys main power company finally explaining what caused saturdays power outage. they said a relay protection system at a substation failed after a cable caught. fire. the company says the blackout was not caused by high dem...

Whether kelly can be released on bond. rob: new york citys main power company finally explaining what caused the big blackout on saturday. con edison says a relay protection system at a substation failed after a cable caught fire. the company says it had nothing to do with the level of demand which surprised a lot of people. it could be different this weekend, though, as the big apple will deal with temperatures as high as 97 degrees and humid. con ed spokesman warning service outages tend to ha...

>> reporter: a strange sight even to imagine, times square without its iconic lights, but it was plunged into darkness. broadway shows were cancelled. a concert had to be evacuated at madison square garden. people were pouring out on to street corners trying to figure out what was going on. traffic coming to a standstill with the traffic lights out at the same time. the power outage affected some 40 blocks of manhattan. it started with a failure at a substation. five other substations were to bl...

Safely. incredible. investigators say it could take months to figure out what caused a blackout that left the west side of manhattan in the dark. last nights power outage trapped new yorkers in subway cars and elevators and forced people to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals. at one point, 72,000 customers had no electricity. new york governor andrew cuomo says an explosion at an electrical substation is to blame. check this out. a french inventor flew around the ch...

Missions is to make sure the system is always 100% operational, all the backups are in place, the best design is in place. so if one substation fails, you dont have a domino of other substations. this is not the first time that ive been with mr. mcavoy going to look at a substation that failed, right? ive seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but it doesnt domino, it didnt ripple, and we have to have a system that has redundancy and has backups....

This is a night that new yorkers wont soon forget. imagine seeing the iconic lights of times square going out in an instant. people left confused, startled by what was happening. it lasted for some five hours. the outages affecting some 40 blocks of manhattans west side. what we know from officials right now, what we know from con-ed was this was not a physical attack, not a cyberattack and not about over usage of the system. they are essentially saying that a substation failed in midtown and af...