tests where if you stare at it long enough, you start seeing different sort of figures. but i do believe that some of the lights are slowly making their way back on. we have a couple people on the phone. jonathan, we've been talking all night long about this effort to try to get all of the lights back on. we're told that they may be able to restore power come mid-might. they had said 10/30 eastern time. this was a difficult thing to get the whole grid back on, isn't it? >> the con ed spokesman is saying their goal is midnight to get the power back on, on the west side of manhattan. that is just a goal. crews are working they say as safely and as quickly as possible to try to restore power to the west side of manhattan. and the goal is for a midnight switch to get it back on, to get it back and running. but it is only a goal at this time. there is a plan right now to do