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Several Blocks in Downtown Rochester Go Dark After Power Outage Get our free mobile app I was in the middle of a live show on Y-105FM when BOOM - everything in the studio went dark.  Thankfully, we all have flashlights on our phones so James Rabe and I could get out of the studio safely without falling down.  Sounds like Townsquare Media isn't the only place in Rochester that lost power on Monday morning. 800 customers are currently without power in downtown Rochester according to a phone call that Kim David at Townsquare Media received. Credit: Jessica Williams Several RPU trucks are curr...

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Understand, as the power went out. of course we hope that you and your nerves are okay. what were you seeing as you drove through those darkened streets? >> reporter: alex, i'm in the back seat, so that's a good vantage point to be in. frankly it just requires a lot of patience from everyone. we were making our way from lower manhattan up 10th avenue. traffic lights are back on, traffic is starting to move. we're still seeing a number of office buildings and residential buildings with power out. it was an hour and 20 minutes to get from lower manhattan to midtown, bumper to bumper traffic. we ...

The hope is to have everyone restored, they say, between midnight and 2:00 a.m. eastern time. it is now 11:15 on the east coast. for many new yorkers, the power outage brought scary moments when elevators across much of the city stopped working and people got stuck inside. this is what that looked like inside the knickerbocker hotel on 42nd street and broadway, right after the power outage. you can see those firefighters there working to rescue people who were stuck in the elevator at that hotel after the power went out. there was another incredible scene across town. i want to show you this m...

Lights came back on, there were cheers from the people that are on the streets, by carnegie hall, over at columbus circle there were cheers by the mall at time warner center when the lights went on back there as well. i can look to times square and see the billboards coming back on line, the 2019 sign coming back online. this is reminiscent in some ways of hurricane sandy where the southern half of manhattan lost power, but of course that went on for many days. thankfully today's outage only lasted four or five hours. at this point, alex, i'm interested in the people in louisiana and the gulf ...