Page 11 - Sub Station News Today

Devastated. here we go. >> citywide power outage. were going to interrupt this event. >> im very sad. >> and it actually has rescheduled that show for monday. lets get right out to alexandra field. you just heard from officials. what are they saying? >> reporter: hey there, ana. con-ed regrets the disruption. five hours in the dark. the power outage affecting some 40 blocks in manhattan on the west side. but they are saying it will take months to figure out exactly what went wrong as they take a...

Three service elevators were escalators rather. of the sold-out jennifer lopez show came to a halt last night. of those as several people were rescued from elevators and dark subway cars and city officials said there were no injuries with the blackout but it put a spotlight on new york citys mayor bill deblasio. he caught heat for being absent, campaigning for his 2020 presidential run in waterloo, iowa, and today hes back touring the substation but the governor did not hold that criticism sayin...

Failed equipment, and then restoration of the customers. and then when customers are restored, we really do the full investigation to identify what may have caused it. that will follow later today and tomorrow. >> the lights just went on behind you. how do you feel about that? >> that was a live press conference from con edison, the electricity supplier here in new york city. now id like to turn to governor andrew cuomo. thank you for making time to speak with us this i think. you said the fact ...

Malfunctioned caused the second to malfunction, caused the third to malfunction. >> its like a domino effect. >> yes. now, that for tomorrow, the after-action report, the system is designed to have breakers between the substations. for a substation to malfunction is not that infrequent an occurrence. theyre supposed to be designed with breakers in between the substations. if one substation malfunctions and sends a surge, its supposed to trip a breaker rather than burn a transmission line or dama...

Center area there was a report of smoke in an elevator. perhaps thats why the fire department is making its run up and down 6th avenue. you know they will be getting calls from people stuck in elevators and basements where they do not have lights and do not have air-conditioning. 85 degrees at 16 after 8:00. it was a warm and humid day. new york city councilmember joe borelli is with us. councilman what can you tell us? >> there is a lot of conflicting reports. there is reports that it watch a w...

But its a political strategy. lets give him points for consistency. what hes doing with that tweet, what hes doing with the i.c.e. raids, jake, its all one political strategy to keep people divided to the maximum extent possible, gin up his base, and take peoples eyes off all of the other things going on, the fact that so many middle class, working class people are not doing well in america. the fact that hes about to pass a new nafta treaty, which will continue to hurt americans. these are the ...

Through the transmission line with a surge of power and disrupt other substations. thats what happened here. one substation went down. it then triggered a surge of power, which took down two, three or four or five additional substations. and the system is designed to avoid that. so, thats the question. im going to view the transformers myself tonight because i want to know exactly what happened. weve been through this before. the first order of business, though, is this is a big piece of manhatt...

System is always one hundred percent operational all the backups are in place, the best design is in place, so it is one substation fails you dont have a domino of over substations this is not the first time that i have been with mr. mcevoy going to look at substation in a failed, right? i have seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but doesnt ripple, and we have to have a system that has redunnedancy backup we are lucky tonight the emergency wor...

>> chad meyer, thank you. please stand by, well continue to coverage the breaking news story, a power outage in new york city, really darkening the entire downtown area or i should say midtown area near times square, the upper west side. right now con ed, the power supplier, is working to determine exactly what the cause is of what theyre calling a major disturbance on a substation at west 49th street, according to new york city council speaker cory johnson. well continue to follow the story. ...

You know, and logically hes the first one. >> reporter: edmunds brought him down to the substation for questioning, and they went through the story he had told at the scene. >> it was an -- and i walked down to the hall and i said, "hey, is anybody in there?" and -- anyway -- i didnt hear nothin. >> reporter: but you also have to ask him if thats really what happened. >> yes. >> reporter: i mean, hes the guy who discovers this violent criminal act, and you wonder if he knows more than hes saying...