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Weekend. con ed took 33,000 customers in brooklyn off the grid deliberately to protect vital equipment. in detroit severe storms left 290,000 customers without power. for a look at the weekend ahead, let's bring in pedram javaheri. >> finally getting a break in the forecast after the upper 90s and low 100s. laguardia, atlantic city, even places like bridgeport, connecticut. 99 to 100 degrees. all of these setting or tying records. it is the latter portion of july where we see the hottest temperatures of the year. in fact, first time ever we've seen boston have two days that fail to see, bost...

Electricity, con-ed, on high alert after an outage knocked out power to a huge swath of manhattan's upper west side this week. and in madison, wisconsin two electric substations catching fire. not the day for it. animals feeling the effect too. from pets too overheated to take another step on new york's fifth avenue to this emu keeping cool at zoo new england. at illinois's brookfield zoo the bears and tigers staying close to their icy treats. now, the temperature is meant to get up here in new york this weekend, so temperature and humidity very, very high. the heat index for new york city thi...

Wilting in the hot air. the real stuff. deadly heat. 32-year-old former nfl offensive lineman mitch petrus dead from heat stroke. young, elderly, and those susceptible to heat gathering in cooling centers in new york city. >> with this kind of heat we want people to stay inside, to stay in air-conditioning if at all possible. if you're not in an air-conditioned space to find one. >> reporter: heat and humidity prompting the threat of tornadoes across parts of the midwest. heat waves like this becoming more common. spring nationwide starting earlier and earlier over the last three decades compa...

Issue, an economic issue. it's a health care issue. unfortunately nobody ever wants to pay attention to it until the debt happens. >> neil: obviously it's a big amount of money committed but as you point out, the more you put it off, the more expensive it will become. new york governor cuomo has already cited con ed is a problem but it's not as if you can get another utility in here willy-nilly and swap them out. what has to be done? >> i think what has to be done is every major politician in the country has to pay attention to it, starting with president trump. because it is a national infras...

>> reporter: a strange sight even to imagine, times square without its iconic lights, but it was plunged into darkness. broadway shows were cancelled. a concert had to be evacuated at madison square garden. people were pouring out on to street corners trying to figure out what was going on. traffic coming to a standstill with the traffic lights out at the same time. the power outage affected some 40 blocks of manhattan. it started with a failure at a substation. five other substations were to blame. the mayor and con ed saying it wasn't a physical attack or cyber attack and had nothing to do w...