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Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New York City. When we first came on air several hours ago and they said that it was only about 20,000 cust...

System that is designed that if a substation malfunctions there are other substations that pick up that power shortfall. and certainly that one substation disturbance doesn't ripple through the system. we've been through that before. >> right. >> and that is not -- the system is designed to prevent that. so, i want to know first hand what happened. these are dangerous situations. you know, you have that density of population, that many moving pieces, that many vehicles. having a six-hour blackout, and let's hope it's only six hours, it's a dangerous situation. make no mistake. and we are doing...

Mcavoy to get an update from con ed. >> hi. good evening. thanks very much. my name's john mcavoy. i represent con edison. we experienced a significant disturbance on the west side of manhattan at one of our electric transmissions stations at roughly 6:47 p.m. but eventually it interrupted power to approximately 73,000 customers. we provide the electric system into what we call networks which is roughly equivalent to neighborhoods. it interrupted power to six networks. we have expedited the recovery, performed an initial assessment of what was the most likely cause, isolated that equipment, in...

System is always one hundred percent operational all the backups are in place, the best design is in place, so it is one substation fails you don't have a domino of over substations this is not the first time that i have been with mr. mcevoy going to look at substation in a failed, right? i have seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but doesn't ripple, and we have to have a system that has redunnedancy backup we are lucky tonight the emergency workers did a great job, but we don't have any reports of people stuck on subway trains that could ha...

Other european banks by their governments over this weekend so that they do not take billions of dollars in losses, and it doesn't ripple throughout the financial world. that's the best we can hope for at this point. megyn: wow. stuart, thank you. >> reporter: sure. megyn: going to get back, now, to our top story this afternoon. we are awaiting specifics on the alleged suspects involved in this suspected terror plot. one is reportedly a u.s. citizen. according to our research team here at fox news, there have been at least 46 home-grown, violent jihadist threats of attacks inside the u.s. sinc...