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Building so this is clearly going to effect a lot of people. no word on exactly when the power might come back on. let's bring in ted williams a former d.c. homicide detective also a fox news contradict tore he joins us now by phone. ted we were just talking about the fact that this is the 42nd anniversary of the big power blackout of 1977 that was a very dark day no pun intended in new york city history. let us hope that we don't see a repeat of some of the crime that happened it that particular night. >> and that is certainly 1977 blackout law enforcement officers have now put into place qui...

Where or how that major event happened trying to monitor their twitter account for any alerts here this is just breaking as we're experiencing it with you. so we'll share more information as it comes in but, of course, jon as you mentioned it is supremely serendipitous it happened on the day of that major blackout four decades ago. it was a much different city than back then, new york city was reeling from the financial crisis. it was transfixed by the sun of sam murders which were taking place that summer. and when the power went out over wide swaths of new york city, really most of the city ...

Are on social media sharing photos and images of a lot of people congregated on streets -- we've had announcement of people on upper floor here we're at 6th eave and 48th street in midtown, manhattan one of the areas that impacted by this outage we've got a lot of floors in our building so we've made announcement over our intercom and a some stuck on upper floor to remain calm call a number and let folks know where they might see a fire engine on your screen right now. fire department in new york city tweeted out recently they are working to rescue people who are stuck in elevators first those...

Want to be when there's no power our jackie is also keeping tabs on the situation jackie what can you tell us? >> jon i'm just west 49th street subway station is for the electricity company here in new york city had a major disturbance. this is from cory johnson city councilman in new york he's tweeting that subway lines acfd and m are down on the west side that some subway are without power trains are being held in the stations and that metro transit authority workers are trying to get folks out of elevators at this point it is being characterized as a partial blackout. also seeing some folks...

Pummeling with rain and leaving tens of thousands without power we have fox team coverage steve is in bay st. louis, mississippi, but we begin with jeff paul reporting live from baton rouge. jeff. >> yeah jon everyone here holding their breath as we get closer and closer to those evening hours it is that is when forecasters believe that we could start to see some of the heaviest rains which we haven't really seen anything yet there's been some light rains. there's been gusts here and there but not compared to the coast as we're just being hit with outer band of tropical storm barry now the con...