As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the Fire Department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. It was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. The disruption is significant. And we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if youre tuning in at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. 6 00 p. M. On the west coast. A massive power outage that has taken place about 6 45 p. M. Thousands of people are without power. Weve been watching new yorks times square where you can see to the left of the scene. Many buildings are without power. They have not been restored of yet. Con ed is telling us that full power will be restored by 10 30
p. M. Eastern. The other big story is Tropical Storm barry. It is moving at eight miles an hour, slowly making its way me andiering through new orleans. It is Dumping Rain On Ruining Rouge Biffle the time
yeah. i was getting toward put my son to sleep. when we looked outside, it was still light out. it wasn t super scary. it was just awkward and weird. as the sun started going down, it was probably one of the creamiest things i ve ever experienced and still kind of is. obviously, all the lights are out. the only lights are headlights. and fire engine lights and police lights, which there have been a ton of fire trucks. i ve never seen so many fire trucks go down and i m on sixth avenue in midtown. just one after another after another. i ve noticed city buses packed to the gills with people. one after another after another. it is creepy. the ice cream trucks are out.