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Let's go to kurt. where are you? >> reporter: hey, cheers from the darkened warwick hotel about three and a half blocks from 30 rock. >> the entire hotel is dark? >> reporter: i'll tell you. it was kind of eerie. i got in from d.c. literally 45 seconds arrest i walked off the elevator to my floor, the power went out. at first you think this is just an isolated incident. is it the room? the floor? then you start realizing that it is much bigger than that. then you sbrun the long it is particularal challenges. people are trying to figure out how to get into the stair cases. you have a lot of eld...

So he's right there at the edge of it. >> 72nd street is a major, major thorough fare and clearly it is the divide. i'm schurrle people did not plan to have a candlelight dinner. it is not typical of this time of year or any time of year that times square or manhattan would have as few lights as you're looking at right now. >> especially on a saturday night. building have back-up generators but a lot of these other businesses do not have

Light. there's power. everything south of 77th street is without power. we talked about the economic impact of something like this. we've seen how easily it can happen. we talked about the economic impact. all the restaurants and shops up and down broadway. we're concerned about people who may be stuck in elevators and the safety of elderly people. but this is a saturday night in the middle of summer. dark south of 71st street where the blackout is during. and now these people continuing on. it is completely light. power is on. the buildings have power. we don't see a lot of ambulance, police,...

Out. take a look at that bus. just packed as people make their way home during the blackout. >> i know that bus very well. it goes straight to the upper west side. >> people are probably looking at this and saying it is coastal. you have thousands of people, possibly hundreds of thousands without power. there are many, many people we're told who are trapped on subways, trapped in elevators. you have a lot of elderly people who may not be with any sort of help right now. so this is going on more than two hours. con edison is saying the lights will be back on at 10:30 eastern time.

Black. lots of police activity. lots of fire activity. 63rd street. buses coming north. packed. people don't want to take a chance with the subway. people taking pictures, walking out. they cannot believe it. we haven't had a blackout like this in 20 years. it started when the street lights went out. that's when you know something is wrong. people were helping with traffic. volunteers. people helping out. making the traffic flow and this is what you see. pitch black south of 71st street. come over here to 72nd street looking north. we have power. >> it's wild. >> to be clear, the power outage,...