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Is the mid to westside of central park there and 8th avenue all the way west. that's all residential area. you put this in one of your monitor so we can show you better. there are tens of thousands of people who live in building that do not have backup generators. it's 85 degrees in new york city at:30 at night. -- at 9:30 at night and people are miserable. some of them are stuck in elevators. they are trying to make sure there is nobody still stuck in some of the subways. broadway has gone dark. there are some broadway performers out on the receipts to make sure the show goes on. the show did...

To help with traffic and safety issues. i just ran here and there's chaos. there are cars stopped on 7th and 8th avenue. but the national guard can help the traffic floes within the city and any additional vehicular traffic trying to exit manhattan island, because perhaps other forms of transportation are down. the immediate issue, however, ana, is much more serious. because of the power outage, there's an immediate need to stabilize high-risk individuals. that could be hospitals, the elderly, people without air-conditioning. and that's the immediate first step that i imagine first responders ...

Manhattan. we don't have any reports of people stuck in elevators, et cetera. but you have senior citizens, you have people with medical equipment at home. >> right. >> that they need functioning. you have hospitals in that area that are operating on backup generators, which are only designed for short-term use. so it's the cluster of public safety issues. >> and, governor, i want to go back to something you said a bit earlier. you said that you were going to view the transforms tonight and that this was a function of the system not operating in a way that it effectively should have tonight. s...

Theater with a lot of people and no significant light won't be a fun thing if they don't have backup generators. let's bring in jacqui heinrich. she has more information about what's going on in this mini blackout of 2019. reporter: a partial blackout is what they are calling it. that has impacted the area of mid-town manhattan up to the upper westside. there are reports from folks up to 80th street that they have been evacuated from buildings and movie theaters. taking a lift down 6th avenue you can see the storefront signs are dark at this hour. a rare sight to see.

So people on the east coast might have noticed that suddenly they didn't see me anymore that you they did hear my voice. >> did i walk over to your studio. i heard we were doing news with a little flashlight. >> luckily we had another studio that's rigged up with more back-up generators. >> take shot again. you can sense, not to make it about us, it gives you a sense. all of this -- >> this would all be lit up. >> yeah. and this was one of our first indications, oh-oh, something went wrong. >> it's like when you're at home and the lights all go out for a second. if you have a generator, the ba...