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Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New York City. When we first came on air several hours ago and they said that it was only about 20,000 cust...

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...

That put out as many as five additional substations. when one substation malfunctions, it's common that it sends a surge of power through the line. that surge can either burn the transmission line or can cause the next sequential substation to malfunction. the more substations malfunction, the greater the power outage. and now you're looking at an area of about 40th street, maybe even down to 34th street, on the southern side to about 58 to 65th street, from broadway to the west side of manhattan. that's towards the hudson river. but it is a very large area for manhattan. there's the personal ...

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...

System that is designed that if a substation malfunctions there are other substations that pick up that power shortfall. and certainly that one substation disturbance doesn't ripple through the system. we've been through that before. >> right. >> and that is not -- the system is designed to prevent that. so, i want to know first hand what happened. these are dangerous situations. you know, you have that density of population, that many moving pieces, that many vehicles. having a six-hour blackout, and let's hope it's only six hours, it's a dangerous situation. make no mistake. and we are doing...