concerned. all kidding aside, we hope that works out. finally as we look up 7th avenue and to darkness. what goes through your head, as you see this side here? yeah. it s scary, no lights, nothing. not what i expected from new york. how much percent of battery is it. 47 plus one, 48. 48% in. let s make it last. so 47. thanks for talking to us. congrats on that stanley cup win. there you go, it gives you an insight. yes, there s a lot of questions being asked hoar, yes, there s plenty of concern, ultimately, both new yorkers and tourists are going to make the best of it. yes, they are. well laughter and everything.
stations that were affected as part of their network, six networks, and he said now five of the six have been restored. and he doesn t have an exact estimate as to when that last one restored, when that press conference started, two of the six were working. now it s five of six, just in the last few minutes. he hoped to have all of the power restored by midnight. important to note, though, they still don t know exactly what caused this. they said they don t believe it was overload. and he doesn t believe it was a manhole fire, which is what nypd was tweeting out earlier, blaming that for this power outage. he said, that would be highly unlikely. he said their initial focus is to restore power and then the investigation would get into exactly what caused this power outage. let s go back live to polo sandoval, who has been in the middle of this area that s been without power. and polo, are you seeing all the lights go back on there? reporter: just a few here. just to give you an idea o
possible. but that is seen as a good sign, because i count at least two buildings that were dark for the last three hours that are now lit up. and if you look off in the distance here, this hotel, looking at the manhattan, at times square, one of many hotels you find in the region, you also see some light inside and then finally, i m not sure if we might be able to perhaps go over to the building across the street, where you can also see at least one light that s on. that building was completely dark here not too long ago. so there certainly could be some positive news. the positive news that many people have been waiting for, especially here in the middle of tourist ground zero, where there are millions of people that are wondering if they re actually going to be able to make it back to their hotel room or if they re going to have to essentially hike up all of those stairs if the elevators aren t working. so again, it looks like the situation looks fairly promising in this time that i
pretty sure going back up will be really hard. so we re just going to stay down here until the lights come back on. how about your phones? do you have new power in case this goes a couple more hours? luckily, i have my backup, so i do have power. what s next for you, denise? you re celebrating your 16th birthday, the lights went out in new york just for you, maybe. what happens next, though? is this a story you re going to get to tell your friends when you head back to texas? definitely. i ll have a lot of things to tell them about this. my first time being in new york, also. so you probably saw what this looks like, usually all lit up. pretty significant, stark difference. yes. dad, what s next for you then, depending on when power will come back or not, what are you going to do tonight? tonight we ll head back to the hotel, get some rest, and tomorrow we ll go see a yankee game against the blue jays and ellis island after that and enjoy the rest of the week here in ne
travelled into the city for the concert to question how they were going to get home, if they could afford to pay for hotels overnight and really if they were stranded in manhattan with no options. and there s also the concern, of course, that while things are dark, crime levels are higher. governor cuomo alluded to this in his remarks. he said that policing is more difficult in the dark, which is why he indicated that he s sending more law enforcement professionals immediately to the city to try to make sure that there s not more crime while people are stranded on the island and while the lights are off. so security professionals are dealing with evacuating buildings, making sure high-risk individuals have the emergency services that they need. and then trying to make sure again that crime levels don t rise as a result of this issue while this critical infrastructure is being looked at and coned is working to try to get it back up and running. he called this unacceptable, the fact th