and i have been personally in touch with the mayor to give him an update on the situation. thank you very much. okay. that was live for you right here as we re getting an update on the situation, the power outage affecting a lot of people in new york city. tens of thousands at one point, the height was 73,000 customers according to the ceo of coned, who was briefing the media there. and in fact, as he was briefing, power went on behind him. we have that moment. let s play it. root cause investigation to identify what may have caused it the lights just went on behind you! how do you feel about that? good job. good job. i feel just as well as you re good at what you do. you heard that big cheer as the power went on, as he was speaking. he says, there were six different outlets, six different
there s also concern, right? there are people that are wondering how they re going to be able to make it home. i live in brooklyn, that s a big question. either with the traffic or the subway lines, how will some of the people actually move? there are some subway lines that we hear that are operating. some of the bus service discontinued. some of them are completely packed with people. in the meantime, a lot of the recommendations people are getting, soak this in in, take this in, stay in a safe place. and if you can, find a cool place to wait this out until the lights get back on again. for a lot of these tourists, it s adding to their story, to their visit of new york city. they have another thing, they can tell their friends, remember when. as i look behind you, carpet help but notice it seems like a lot of people are packed on the sidewalks. are people waiting outside buildings to see when they may be able to go back in. are they more just looking, kind
outage could happen like this and affect tens of thousands of people and backup systems would not jump into action immediately. again, this is new york city. this is an t a small town in th middle of nowhere. and i think he took a jab at mayor de blasio for this. he had some harsh words for him, including the fact that mayor de blasio is out campaigning right now and is not in new york city. thing governor cuomo tried to be as diplomatic as he could be, but this will be a real issue for mayor de blasio. why he could not guarantee the provision of essential services in manhattan if he s planning to run for president. he is coming back to new york city tonight. i want to go back live to cnn s polo sandoval. thank you, sam, for being here with us. polo, you say the lights are coming back on? reporter: hey, ana, it is kind of interesting here because we did see a building where the lights went back on here at 8th avenue. the next avenue over. it s still unclear whether or not that woul
people have been in the dark. so many of these people have to take to the streets, either on a motorcycle or on foot, including some of the folks who have traveled here all the way from south texas. hector and denise, step right up here. i can t believe that we are running into each other. you are from my hometown of mcallen, texas. correct. and we were walking by and we saw you. reporter: so you re certainly going to find just about anybody here on the streets. hector, tell me a little bit what it s been like for you and your daughter here celebrating her sweet 16. this is not what you expected when you came here to the big apple for the first time from texas, is it? no, but we ve enjoyed every minute here in new york. unfortunately, the lights did go out, but we re going to make the best of it and go down for a walk, so we came down the street and ran into you. i just spoke to some people who were staying in your hotel, they were on the 25th or 26th floor, so there was no cha
west side. we ve seen flickers, the lights went out. no lights, no air conditioning on this hot july 9th for some people. in the theaters that have had to now shut down tonight. no productions and certain broadway shows. ironically tonight is the 42nd anniversary of the famous 1977 blackout. we know some people have been trapped in elevators, the new york city police and fire department are still working to get all of them out. and to monitor what they call crowd control. i spoke to bill de blasio, he s not in the city tonight, he s campaigning in woot waterloo, i. we are getting the preliminary reports, it appears to be a transmission problem. con ed is working to address it now.