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Press conference moments after that big blackout from last night. >> -- which had a very big impact on a part of manhattan, went on for about five hours. you're going to hear in the course of this press conference a lot of detail about what we do know about what happened and how it proceeded, how it was addressed. i want to say up front, you're going to hear a lot specifically from con ed. and they will tell you everything that they can confirm at this point. there's a lot more information to come because we need to go through a very exhaustive, careful investigation to understand exactly what...

Without power. that's the latest update from connecticut ed. rp -- from con-ed. it increased by another 20,000 roughly. and at this moment, five subway lines are down. you can see a least first responders on the streets in mid-town manhattan where the big concern right now is rescuing folks who might be trapped in elevators or in subway cars. the city council speaker tweeting subways acfd and m are not running at this time. several stations are being bypassed. a couple of lines are running local in is part of the city that still does have power. but a good section of it mid-town manhattan up t...

Training. no anything, con-ed was in terrible shape -- the city totally different place now than it was then. the attitude of all the first responders, equipment they get the training they get -- >> i am told by governor's office hate to interrupt we are being told by governor's office about national guard is being brought in to direct traffic freeing up new york's police department we are told police department had what they called a level three callout to bring in extra officers into the city said they had an officer on every street corner to help dreng traffic here then we saw those convoys...

Westside, completely in the dark. and large buildings issuing evacuations. we sent one out of our own in mid-town to our building on 6th avenue and 48th street alerting our employees on the upper floors that people were on their way to help them out. luckily we do run on generators, so that energy goes to the crucial areas and oftentimes it's not the elevators. we are working to figure out from con-ed what the cause of this was. the latest update is it's a transformer fire on west end avenue and 57th street. they did not update what they thought might have caused that fire, just as you mention...

As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the fire department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. it was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. the disruption is significant. and we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if you're tuning in at 9:00 p.m. eastern. 6:00 p.m. on the west coast. a massive power outage that has taken place about 6:45 p.m. thousands of people are without power. we've been watching new yo...