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11:00, 12:00, 1:00 a.m. when you would like to be home. you have kid at home with babysitters. you have older folks who are hot and miserable on the streets, things could change pretty quickly. we are looking at a live picture where there is police tape up and we see a lot of new york police officers heading in. this is the transit center in new york city. this is where the transformer was? this is where the transformer blew that is cordoned off, and it's dark everywhere around there. and it looks like it's dark for blocks and blocks. this is on the westside of manhattan. do you have any sense...

Lessons we can learn about how to do that even better in the future. i want to thank some of the officials who are here today who played a very important role yesterday, first deputy mayor dean foolihan, deputy of operations lauren england. you'll hear from the president of con ed, but thanks to mila blair. i want to thank the elected officials who were there working to help their communities, both as speaker of the city council and as a council member representing the affected area, speaker cory johnson, and of course, state senator robert jackson. all of them were tremendously helpful in thi...

Devastated. here we go. >> citywide power outage. we're going to interrupt this event. >> i'm very sad. >> and it actually has rescheduled that show for monday. let's get right out to alexandra field. you just heard from officials. what are they saying? >> reporter: hey there, ana. con-ed regrets the disruption. five hours in the dark. the power outage affecting some 40 blocks in manhattan on the west side. but they are saying it will take months to figure out exactly what went wrong as they take a look at what malfunctioned. they are ensuring there are redundancy in the system to prevent some...

Travelled into the city for the concert to question how they were going to get home, if they could afford to pay for hotels overnight and really if they were stranded in manhattan with no options. and there's also the concern, of course, that while things are dark, crime levels are higher. governor cuomo alluded to this in his remarks. he said that policing is more difficult in the dark, which is why he indicated that he's sending more law enforcement professionals immediately to the city to try to make sure that there's not more crime while people are stranded on the island and while the ligh...

Perfect system but they really do a good job. they really rely on the people in the building to look out for these folks that need medical help. leland: is you just pointed out we just got no information we don't know whether this is, the blackout is growing or it originally was that con-ed is now saying 61,000, that's an additional 17,000 from the 44 they told us. 61,000 customers without power. that translates into hundreds of thousands if not millions of people because so many of these buildings, one building represents a customer. evidently they are saying that this was triggered by a manh...