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Seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth avenue the west side of the highway from 42nd street up to about 60 the street or 70th street are pitch black. con-ed saying this is because of the manhole fire. at least that's how it started which then went into a transformer that blew and put much of manhattan into darkness. the lower right-hand corner of your screen you can see the new york emergency management command center being moved in. we are expecting a news conference from them. that was supposed to happen 45 minutes ago. we have not heard anything. mayor de blasio says he is on his way back to new ...

Ed for their quick efforts here. they are going to be part of systematically trying to understand exactly what happened so, again, we can avoid it in the future. and we will assist in every way. i am mindful that this happened at a point where there was relatively low energy usage in the city, and that's one of the other things you'll hear from president cauley, but that's one of the things that does not look like the cause. there was not a massive energy need, electricity need driving this. it was actually a pretty low-level amount of energy being used yesterday compared to some other times. ...

Avenue. normally you would be looking at saks fifth avenue. many are shut down much less the restaurants, hotels impacted by this. >> it depends how long this goes on. if con ed can get a lot back up by 10:30, the economic impact will be -- it will take its toll on some business buzz it will be a one day, one evening event. the bigger question is that everyone is calm and safe. it is making sure the intersections remain open and safe and anyone trapped in an elevator is rescued quickly and as they go building to building,

Expecting the river to crest again on monday, when some rainfall makes its way back down this way, but how high that crest is they wouldn't say. >> -- >> rick we have to let you go now. fox news alert, at the hurricane we come back to new york city the blackout of 2019 power is being restored to much of new york city although there are still thousands if not tense of thousand dollars without power without air-conditioning on a hot summer saturday night, you can see governor cuomo, of new york, walking up with the head of con-ed the power company let's listen in. >> good evening roughly 6:47 pm...

Blackout, or potential blackout, or a significant area of the city, having a blackout, you are -- you are really dealing with potential chaos and public safety threats, and the system has to be better than that period. period. and we are going to work with con-ed, but that is what new yorkers deserve that is what new yorkers will get. >> there has been a lot of discussion in the country about our aging infrastructure do you believe that could have played a role in this how can you draw he was that when dealing with electric grid. >> this is not a question i believe of aging infrastructure, con...