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Traffic at some major intersections. and they are trying to do the best they can to manage this. no official cause right now as far as what caused that transformer fire on 54th street and west end avenue. we are seeing from the metro transit authority that there is limited subway service from brooklyn, queens and the bronx. several subway stations are being bypassed because there are so many trains without service and stations without service. a dark and hot subway tunnel is not where you want to be on an 85-degree day in manhattan. a lot of folks working to get:people out of those situations....

Westside, completely in the dark. and large buildings issuing evacuations. we sent one out of our own in mid-town to our building on 6th avenue and 48th street alerting our employees on the upper floors that people were on their way to help them out. luckily we do run on generators, so that energy goes to the crucial areas and oftentimes it's not the elevators. we are working to figure out from con-ed what the cause of this was. the latest update is it's a transformer fire on west end avenue and 57th street. they did not update what they thought might have caused that fire, just as you mention...

As the hours go by, it will become cheer, i don't know when our reporting is at the motel. a transformer fire? >> a transformer fire. is it just that? or is there more to it? we'll to have wait for more information. >> the way you described on it twitter, it was a loud boom? >> yeah. it was a popping noise. it didn't sound like an explosion and i'm no expert but it didn't sound like anything that was in any way intentional. it sounded like a transformer going. something happening. and then everything went out. >> was it fairly frightening? or it was just one week after fourth of july. we're us...

Manhattan. much of midtown manhattan is dark now. the play hamilton had to close. restaurants have to send customers out into the streets without paying their tab because of a transformer fire in an underground power cable tunnel somewhere in midtown manhattan. the fire department and the police are begging people to only dial 911 if they have real emergencies because the emergency response system is swamped with folks trying to call in and complain about their particular situation. subway lines had to stop, the a, c, f, d and m not running at present. but the buses are running in and out of t...

Wonder is there any kind of threat. as of now we know this is a transformer fire and there has not been any update from city officials indicating anyone is at risk other than the inconvenience of being stuck somewhere without a power or in an elevator or subway. we don't have any information yet as to any injuries associated with that. on the street in new york people where marveling at scenes you don't usually see. radio city music hall totally dark. people having to manually pull down the metal barriers. leland: i want to watch one of the buses go by. they brought in extra buses to move peop...