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An explosion at a con-ed explosion plant. we go to bob mcgee from con edison. mr. mcgee, what is the state of the power supply in new york city now? >> the explosion that your your viewers ew probably looking at, i can't see it, i imagine it's one that i've seen, essentially wound up taking out power south of 39th street in new york city. there had been a couple of networks that had been taken out before in lower manhattan. the battery park network and the fullton network and that affected to that point, about 6500 customers in lower manhattan. at the time that this incident occurred we had ab...

Those areas where substations are -- and facilities are under water cannot be re-energized until the waters recede and the equipment dries out. that's liable to take a long time in some instances to get some of those folks back. but there is great redundancy in the manhattan network obviously because of the heavy concentration of businesses and so there's some additional things that our network engineers are able to do as opposed to some other areas where there's single overhead networks in outlying residential areas. >> mr. mcgee, what about injuries in that explosion or what was the effect o...

Importance here. >> con edison spokesman bob mcgee, thank you. >> coming up, the latest on the storm as it crosses new jersey and continues to batter the east coast.

0 sandy then, merging with what was once, two cold-weather systems made landfall in southern new jersey near atlantic city. sandy is still packing maximum wind gusts around 80 miles an hour and brought an historic storm surge with it. river flooding in lower manhattan has reached more than 13 feet and officials have now cut power to large parts of lower manhattan. in the west village of manhattan, a building partially collapsed amid the high winds. the top two floors completely exposed to the elements. as the storm approached, high winds caused a crane to collapse, 74 floors up a top a highris...

just after 3:00 a.m. here on the east coast and at least 16 people have reportedly been killed. more than 7 million are without power as sandy now is moving inland across pennsylvania. good morning, i'm chris jansing live in new york. we want to run down the latest development as cross the mid-atlantic and the northeast and let's start in new jersey which took the brunt of this superstorm when it came ashore. atlantic city and cape may have been absolutely inundated with water. further north in jersey city reports of building collapses, the oyster creek nuclear plant has been put on ...