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But it's a political strategy. let's give him points for consistency. what he's doing with that tweet, what he's doing with the i.c.e. raids, jake, it's all one political strategy to keep people divided to the maximum extent possible, gin up his base, and take people's eyes off all of the other things going on, the fact that so many middle class, working class people are not doing well in america. the fact that he's about to pass a new nafta treaty, which will continue to hurt americans. these are the kinds of things trump does. he bates and switches all the time. it's a bait and switch move. ...

Through the transmission line with a surge of power and disrupt other substations. that's what happened here. one substation went down. it then triggered a surge of power, which took down two, three or four or five additional substations. and the system is designed to avoid that. so, that's the question. i'm going to view the transformers myself tonight because i want to know exactly what happened. we've been through this before. the first order of business, though, is this is a big piece of manhattan. it's roughly 40th street to about 60th street, plus or minus broadway, which is basically th...

System is always one hundred percent operational all the backups are in place, the best design is in place, so it is one substation fails you don't have a domino of over substations this is not the first time that i have been with mr. mcevoy going to look at substation in a failed, right? i have seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but doesn't ripple, and we have to have a system that has redunnedancy backup we are lucky tonight the emergency workers did a great job, but we don't have any reports of people stuck on subway trains that could ha...

>> chad meyer, thank you. please stand by, we'll continue to coverage the breaking news story, a power outage in new york city, really darkening the entire downtown area or i should say midtown area near times square, the upper west side. right now con ed, the power supplier, is working to determine exactly what the cause is of what they're calling a major disturbance on a substation at west 49th street, according to new york city council speaker cory johnson. we'll continue to follow the story. subway lines aren't running, theaters aren't admitting patrons right now, and traffic is in a bit...

You know, and logically he's the first one. >> reporter: edmunds brought him down to the substation for questioning, and they went through the story he had told at the scene. >> it was an -- and i walked down to the hall and i said, "hey, is anybody in there?" and -- anyway -- i didn't hear nothin'. >> reporter: but you also have to ask him if that's really what happened. >> yes. >> reporter: i mean, he's the guy who discovers this violent criminal act, and you wonder if he knows more than he's saying. >> oh, definitely. >> reporter: they pressed him to find out more about just what work he wa...