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Whether kelly can be released on bond. rob: new york city's main power company finally explaining what caused the big blackout on saturday. con edison says a relay protection system at a substation failed after a cable caught fire. the company says it had nothing to do with the level of demand which surprised a lot of people. it could be different this weekend, though, as the big apple will deal with temperatures as high as 97 degrees and humid. con ed spokesman warning service outages tend to happen during heat waves. >> hopefully not like that again. that was a big one. you know this, but of...

>> reporter: a strange sight even to imagine, times square without its iconic lights, but it was plunged into darkness. broadway shows were cancelled. a concert had to be evacuated at madison square garden. people were pouring out on to street corners trying to figure out what was going on. traffic coming to a standstill with the traffic lights out at the same time. the power outage affected some 40 blocks of manhattan. it started with a failure at a substation. five other substations were to blame. the mayor and con ed saying it wasn't a physical attack or cyber attack and had nothing to do w...

Safely. incredible. investigators say it could take months to figure out what caused a blackout that left the west side of manhattan in the dark. last night's power outage trapped new yorkers in subway cars and elevators and forced people to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals. at one point, 72,000 customers had no electricity. new york governor andrew cuomo says an explosion at an electrical substation is to blame. check this out. a french inventor flew around the champs-elysee today using a jet pack. he carried a rifle suggesting that maybe this flyboard could se...

Missions is to make sure the system is always 100% operational, all the backups are in place, the best design is in place. so if one substation fails, you don't have a domino of other substations. this is not the first time that i've been with mr. mcavoy going to look at a substation that failed, right? i've seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but it doesn't domino, it didn't ripple, and we have to have a system that has redundancy and has backups. we were lucky tonight, and again, the emergency workers did a great job, but we don't have any...

This is a night that new yorkers won't soon forget. imagine seeing the iconic lights of times square going out in an instant. people left confused, startled by what was happening. it lasted for some five hours. the outages affecting some 40 blocks of manhattan's west side. what we know from officials right now, what we know from con-ed was this was not a physical attack, not a cyberattack and not about over usage of the system. they are essentially saying that a substation failed in midtown and affected five other substations. and that's what put some 73,000 customers in the dark. traffic ligh...