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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 ...

>> well, look, i've handled a number of emergency in this state. i used to be in the federal government under the clinton administration. i did emergency management all across the country. this is a predictable circumstance. substations malfunction. the system has to have safe guards designed into it so one substation malfunction does not domino into other substations, which is apparently what has happened here. but we'll get to the after-action after the action. the first call of duty is public safety, traffic control, additional law enforcement, because it is harder to police a blacked out c...