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Devastated. here we go. >> citywide power outage. we're going to interrupt this event. >> i'm very sad. >> and it actually has rescheduled that show for monday. let's get right out to alexandra field. you just heard from officials. what are they saying? >> reporter: hey there, ana. con-ed regrets the disruption. five hours in the dark. the power outage affecting some 40 blocks in manhattan on the west side. but they are saying it will take months to figure out exactly what went wrong as they take a look at what malfunctioned. they are ensuring there are redundancy in the system to prevent some...

Three service elevators were escalators rather. of the sold-out jennifer lopez show came to a halt last night. of those as several people were rescued from elevators and dark subway cars and city officials said there were no injuries with the blackout but it put a spotlight on new york city's mayor bill deblasio. he caught heat for being absent, campaigning for his 2020 presidential run in waterloo, iowa, and today he's back touring the substation but the governor did not hold that criticism saying he should have been on site last night. >> when you are a mayor or governor, you are going to tr...

Failed equipment, and then restoration of the customers. and then when customers are restored, we really do the full investigation to identify what may have caused it. that will follow later today and tomorrow. >> the lights just went on behind you. how do you feel about that? >> that was a live press conference from con edison, the electricity supplier here in new york city. now i'd like to turn to governor andrew cuomo. thank you for making time to speak with us this i think. you said the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable. what did you mean by that? >> um, well, thank you for havi...

Malfunctioned caused the second to malfunction, caused the third to malfunction. >> it's like a domino effect. >> yes. now, that for tomorrow, the after-action report, the system is designed to have breakers between the substations. for a substation to malfunction is not that infrequent an occurrence. they're supposed to be designed with breakers in between the substations. if one substation malfunctions and sends a surge, it's supposed to trip a breaker rather than burn a transmission line or damage another substation. so that's going to be an after-action analysis that we're going to do. bec...

Center area there was a report of smoke in an elevator. perhaps that's why the fire department is making its run up and down 6th avenue. you know they will be getting calls from people stuck in elevators and basements where they do not have lights and do not have air-conditioning. 85 degrees at 16 after 8:00. it was a warm and humid day. new york city councilmember joe borelli is with us. councilman what can you tell us? >> there is a lot of conflicting reports. there is reports that it watch a west end substation or a substation on 49th street. but regardless of that, several neighborhoods ar...