the one -- the substation at east 13th street. >> con ed spokesman bob mcgee talking about 660,000 in the dark in new york city and westchester county. part of the 7.1 million across this wide swath of this monster storm. we've also been watching the devastating pictures coming to us from queens and this huge fire that is raging there. let me bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins and the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the terrible conditions that these 170 firefighters must be facing as they're trying to put out this fire, bill. >> scary situation, chris. i first saw a lot of tweets on it about this on twitter and i'm afraid of what lives may have been in the way of this fire. because this was an evacuation area but on twitter there was a couple of people in these homes that were trying to figure out what to do, where to go, how to take their children out of harm's way and it's a very