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Soccer practice near morningside park just steps from campus when authorities say a knife-wielding suspect randomly attacked. >> a male stabbed in the stomach area, guys. >> reporter: giri pronounced dead at the hospital. 15 minutes later, a few blocks south, police say the same suspect stabbed a 27-year-old italian tourist in the torso. then a 30-year-old man menaced in central park. officers responding within minutes, taking a 25-year-old man with a large kitchen knife into custody. the deadly spate of violence coming almost exactly two years after the 2019 murder of barnard college freshmen...

Transmit power to address the demand. he doesn't believe anything nefarious, or it was a kind of foul play involved. although he said it is still early in the investigation. let me go back to paolo sandoval on the streets of new york for us. you've been talking to tourists, what are you hearing? how are they reacting now? >> first, let me give you a sense of where we are, we're here in midtown manhattan, about 3 or 4 blocks south, you're going to end up in times square. you would run into central park. you're looking down 7th avenue and west 51st street, it's incredible when you see how dark i...

Goers and tourists and residents. it was a dramatic night that could have been a lot worse. here's how it unfolded. >> we are getting preliminary reports is a transmission problem. con ed in new york city is working to address it now. we hope to have news soon on when power will be restored. >> i was on the sixth floor. we lost power very quickly and my understanding is that there's a wire underneath our building 101 west end that caused the transformer to explode. timing was right around 7:00. give or take. that explosion caused the blackout up and down the west end. >> no power at 66th stree...

The 42nd anniversary of the big 1977 new york city blackout. >> here's more reaction from when the lights went out in manhattan. >> we are getting the preliminary reports, what it appears to be is a transmission problem. con ed in new york city is working to address it now. we hope to have news soon on when power will be restored. >> i was on the sixth floor. we lost power very quickly. and my understanding is that there's a wire underneath our building, 101 west end, that caused the transformer to explode. timing was right around 7:00, give or take. that explosion caused the blackout up and d...

Thorough investigation and get all the facts. we also have a halloween parade tonight. the nypd is prepared for that. so this could be one event that leads to another event. right now there's so much taking place that we need to start to digest all of this information and learn who this individual is and look into his background to see where this is really going. >> neil: all right. thank you very much, my friend. i want to go to rick leventhal who might have an update. rick what are you hearing? >> more confirmation as this is being treated as a possible if not likely terror attack, neil. i'm...