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On, the weather cycles have chged. keep your politics out of my face, the weather cycles have changed. no one is passing judgment. the weather cycles have changed and we have to think different. does con-ed put their systems down in the subway? can we still construct subway systems and bridges and roads and tunnels in the same as the past in now we know this can happen in the northeast where this does not happen. a lost big thoughts coming. >> the fact i am sure people across the south, and i have received so many e-mails and twitter from people saying our hearts are with you. we know what you...

Electric company bob goul joining us. tell us the magnitude of the power outages. >> we outages that extend through out the baltimore area. not on the scope yet of what perhaps we would have seen. we were on the right side of the storm, though. certain parts of our service tear tore real moving up i 95 toward the delaware line certainly got hit the hardest. that is understandable given the path of the storm coming over at one point across the maryland delaware line. >> how long will it take to get the power back up and running again? >> it will take some time. we have to assess the damage. we ...

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...

Returned, electrical power? >> caller: basically, almost everyone south of 34th street, included -- is without power. we probably have another close to 50,000 people in the other burroughs probably more than that without power as well. when power is going to come back on is a question, depending -- a different question if you're someone like me who -- con-ed actually turned our power off p proef laek tickly and that will be maybe tomorrow or the day after. they turned it down so it wouldn't get flooded. in other places where it's over head wiretion that may have been taken down by trees, that ...

Milling about and not even knowing what all the dangers are at that time it's going to be an interesting morning. we also, chris, have to deal with another high tide that's starting to come in. not expected to be anything near like it was last night, but with the water, you know, still very high and with a lot of the subway systems and tunnels already filled with some water, it certainly can't help with another high tide and the storm still sticking around. residents here in this neighborhood, many of them evacuated under that mandatory evacuation, but we still see some of the lights on, wheth...