can t quite believe it. what are the concerns on the ground of chernobyl and russia seizing it? reporter: it was really unclear to me what was going on and in the early planning it was that that they would avoid the area and there s an infrastructure reason. there s still a power plant there. we thought that the requests to go to blackout conditions was to save energy and corrected. by both the government and the hotel. this is a blackout for security reasons. you have a concern about the basic infrastructure here. certainly the russians are taking out the infrastructure. the goal is to make this an ungovernable place. if you are trying for some kind of change in the government he is hitting the right targets because you want to make this impossible to govern.
long queues at the grocery store and marketplaces, religious a lot of nervous people were not expecting this full scale invasion that the pentagon of white house have been warning about for the past two weeks. many the people here have fear in their eyes. were not on under any blackout conditions here. it certainly is darker and the police to not want any bright lights. it s a much quieter city, as you can imagine. the last few hits we ve gone, you hurt or people in the background and hurt we talking about restaurants being fall and more of an indifference among local populace about what was coming of what was potentially coming. sent me a different story today with this full-scale invasion. us officials saying the russians launched over 60 ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. certainly that capability, most people might not have seen that before but when you look back at the russian intervention with syria in 2015, we can look back at the training ground.
been watching you all day. tell me the latest. reporter: the reason i m coming to you live inside the hotel and the city in the last hour said at 11:00 pchl everybody to go to blackout conditions for security. no light to the street and instead of toning off lights we moved into the room. there are some street lights remaining but all the more indication that the government is unclear about the scale of this and how wide. this is supposed to be the safe place to retreat from the east move west to poland and the nato troops and a border to cross. you mentioned the long lines. the issues that people are encountering, long lines or gas. getting out of kyiv. people trying to get gas and petrol and the move and the more
fred fred pleitgen was in belgarad. you saw the rocket launching launching from sanctuary, i.e. in russia. nobody shooting at them. shooting mitchells in the direction of ukraine. you have to imagine it s highly protected. and fred indicated it s highly protected. and so from the ukrainians to conduct the operation, number one speaks to the professionalism of the ukrainians if they did. be deep planning, deep strike operations. you have to evade air defenses. you have to jam radaring, et cetera. there is a lot of planning in that. then you have to fly the aircraft at yap of earth following the folds of terrain. blackout conditions. they demonstrated professionalism and competence to for the russians to think they ve been in sanctuary. that s broken. you re no longer safe. yeah, yeah.
blackout conditions. new york has been very well behaved. but chaos could ensue. so i have additional state police going down. we have the national guard on call. con ed says power should be back by 12:00. but my add jaj prepare for the worst and hope for the best. we re going to have personnel on hand just in case we don t make 12:00. you mentioned the state police is now getting involved as well as the national guard. what is your biggest concern for new yorkers tonight, governor? the number one concern is public safety. you have a number of very busy traffic intersections that have no power. you have trains that are not running. hopefully we believe we ve gotten everyone off the trains, which is subway stations subway trains in that part of