but there s this tweet from the the sheriff saying he was being treated at the hospital. so far, the hospital has only said that there s one person who was brought there who has died. that was the woman who had been in critical condition. we know from the sheriff s office that everybody involved in the shooting, both the suspect and the victims, were all students at the high school. your question is good, and you know, this is the confusion we re hoping they can clear up. of course. it s always we get information as we get it during these breaking news moments. sometimes that information changes. pete williams, what can you tell me about the weapon that he used? reporter: well, we don t know for sure yet. we think it was a handgun, but we don t know. so often these school shootings are carried out with rifles or so-called assault-type weapons. we think this was a handgun. and perhaps that would account for the fact that as far as we know five or only five or six
fluid situation. i know you mentioned that governor cuomo was calling for an investigation. for those viewers who are just joining us, can you take us back to the beginning and describe what we do know thus far about that transformer and about that manhole explosion? okay. there are two incidents that took place this evening according to police and fire officials. and both appear to be accidental, electrical in nature. nothing at all deliberate. and the first one is that at 49th street on the far west side, there was some sort of fire, man hole explosion that impacted service to the west side of manhattan. a short time later on west 64th street, a transformer caught fire, exploded, on the west side there, also impacting. are the two incidents related? unclear. the investigation s going to have to determine whether one caused the other or whether they were two isolated incidents that
precaution. the fire department was also responding to calls of people trapped in elevators. most of them are out. i do not have a final tally on the number of people who were called in for that type of assistance and whether any remain but that there were multiple calls about that throughout the evening. but the headline now is con ed has a goal of midnight to get the power back on, and a press conference is scheduled for about 10:30 on west 64th street with police fire con ed officials to provide an update. governor cuomo saying that he is calling for an investigation into exactly what happened so lessons can be learned and upgrades can be made so that this does not happen again. he is also deploying extra state police and mta personnel as a precaution to try to help with the mobs of people who are now impacted by the lack of subway service on the west side of
those transformers. have a good rest of your evening. thank you, thank you. we just heard from con edison. they just wrapped up their press conference this evening. they have confirmed that there were no injuries, and they said that they do have a list of individuals with life-saving equipment so they re giving priority to the people who may need their assistance. they said that this outage began at 6:47 p.m. eastern here in new york city. it affected 73,000 customers. again, customers are not necessarily individuals, but a customer could be a hotel, a customer could be an apartment building. so a customer could be one person or 400 people inside of a building. 73,000 customers is the updated number tonight from con edison, which is the electricity supplier here in new york city. they said that six networks were interrupted this evening. since they have gotten two back on. they think that they will have power back on throughout the rest of the city by midnight tonight. currently it
manhattan. again, west side has a population of about 200,000 people. of course, that grows with people coming in from new jersey and tourists and all sorts of other visitors and guests to manhattan. so, it is hundreds of thousands of people potentially affected by this. but, again, con ed giving the number of 90,000 customers. and the question was asked earlier, well, what does that mean? a customer is not a person. a customer could be an apartment that has four people living in it. so, just because you have 90,000 customers, there are likely many more people affected by this power outage as a result. so i hope that provides some clarity. midnight the goal to get the power back on. but nothing is set in stone. and as we ve seen throughout the evening, information changes, developments happen, midnight the goal to get the power back on. and, jonathan, certainly a