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 customers, i knew that number was wrong, just based on the sheer topography. You have more than two square miles in New York City where people are in the dark. Now were being told by con edison officials that 90,000 customers which could mean hundreds of thousands of people
are in the dark right now at 10 00 at night. Just to do a quick reset for anyone who is joining us now. What we are facing out is
the mississippi river, which comes right there into new orleans is at 17 feet right now, which is above flood stage, well above flood stage. normally it s at 6 feet. so this is of concern for many people while we continue to watch the situation there in new york, morgan. and, kendis, we also have breaking news. we just heard from a con ed spokesperson. they said that two west side networks are back in power. that s on hudson and columbus. we also know that there are four more networks to go. the number without power is starting to go down, but there are no specifics yet on that number. midnight, however, is still currently the goal. and just to be clear, we are still talking about a large swath of midtown manhattan that is still without power. there s hell s kitchen which is still in the dark. times square slowly coming back to life. the northern part of that blackout region which is the 60s and the 70s, that s slowly
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 their biggest concern tonight is keeping people save. this all happened as a result of two incidences of transformer fire and a manhole explosion. this was in a heavily commercial area in the southern part of that blackout region. and then a deeply residential area in the northern part of that blackout region. i know we ve been talking all evening about some of the ways that new yorkers are coming tog