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
both happened to happen tonight, regardless they believe those two incidents caused the power outage on the west side that has affected hotels, subways, apartment buildings, restaurants, and businesses, all across the west side of manhattan. this goes from the 40s up to about 72nd street. and for those familiar with manhattan, 5th avenue is the dwigd line from east to west. so it goes from fifth avenue in the middle of manhattan all the way to the hudson river. that is the area that has been impacted by this blackout. and, jonathan, i do want to note a couple of things. first off, if we can take the big shot there of times square where the lights have started to come back on, on the left-hand side of the screen. you will remember that building on the left was dark for the most part. you couldn t make out the lion king images on the left. it would appear that power is