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Reporter: barry slams into the gulf coast as a category 1 hurricane, the first of the season saturday spipt's since been downgrade to a tropical storm. it flood highways and forced many onto roof tops for safety. flooding remains a threat as up to two feet of rain is expected for the lower mississippi valley between now and monday. the power is back on in new york city. a transform firer -- a transformer fire caused a blackout. snarled traffic, paralyzed subways and caused businesses to close. people attending broadway shows were forced out on to the

Following. you're looking at a live picture in new york's times square. there appears to be a blackout that has gone on for nearly two hours. it started at 6:45 eastern time. we're told it was because of a transformer fire and now you have tens of thousands of people without power. take a look at the big screen. tropical storm barry has picked up speed a little bit. that's the good news. it is still bringing a whole lot of gulf moisture, as you can see. hundreds of miles coming in from the lower part of louisiana. new orleans getting a lot of rain. the storm will be with us for quite some time...

To different situations happening across the city. we're told a lot of people are stuck on elevators because of the blackout. we were also a victim of this as well. right over here to my left is 30 rock. typically the sign is all lit up. but also radio city hall is right here as well and i'll notice, it is typically bright red and blue but all of that is out. traffic signals are out. we have nypd on the seasonable right now. i do want to point out where we are standing. just a couple hours ago, there was a street fair that occupied the street. so now they're lifting that up. officers have move...

And he said there was no injuries, that anyone who needs more informations can call 311 or go to notify nyc. and in terms of the cost we are waiting to hear from con edison. hopefully they are going to do a press conference this evening. they have said that they expect that power will be back at around 10:30 eastern. but if you look at that live picture of times square that's on your screen, you can see that a majority of that screen is still black. heavy presence from law enforcement and from the fire department. they said there is a coordinated response between emergency responders. and thei...

Mayor to give them an update on the situation. thank you very much. >> we we are live on "fox news" channel right now. leland: we are going to get out of this press conference for a second eric shawn standing by you can see trying to work and get some interviews as we continue to cover the blackout of 2019 in new york city. we are now learning this thousands of people have their power back on. you heard a cheer go up when the lights came back on outside of the con-edison. that is the power companies press conference. 6:47 p.m. so roughly four hours ago they said six of their networks went down...