tropical storm barry pummels louisiana after making land fall today as a category one hurricane. hello i'm jon scott welcome to a second hour ho of the "fox report." the slow moving system is now making st its way north and packing what is being described as an off the charts amount of moisture. the torrential rainfall putting flood defenses to the test in the city of new orleans. here's mayor la toya. >> we're out of the eye but we're not out of the conditions that will cause heavy rainfall for the city of new orleans. although barry has slowed also intensified while the storm surge risk on our mississippi river have passed, the primary

risk continues to remain heavy rain for the city of new orleans pl. we begin with fox team coverage senior correspondent rick leventhal on scene in new orleans but we begin with meteorologist adam in the fox extreme weather center adam. >> hey there jon barry helicopters to crawl moving to north only at 7 miles an hour but this is a system there's your center of circulation that's just a little ways off to west of laugh yet, louisiana, and the real story with this and continue to be -- and not where center of circulation is but all of the rain drug behind this system and so far stayed off coast of louisiana but it is getting much closer some of the heaviest rain is still on the way and overnight tonight -- and these are rainfall totals so far some of this coming earlier in the week and this week's of rain you can tell ground is already saturated so additional rain is starting to pile up in center of the state is going to have nowhere to go. and that's when you start to see flash flooding and flooding conditions of all sorts.

this is a future radar and really pay attention again there's your center of circulation that is taking you from tonight i'm going to run this 24 hours you see kind of that leading theaj center of circulation slowly movings i way up the state by early tomorrow morning. it is in the center of the state by the time we get to 8 p.m., 7 p.m. tomorrow evening, you're getting up towards ar at least the state border in all of that rain still being drug behind it which had means all of this moisture not really beginning to fall across the state until tonight and then running into tomorrow and there is a lot of moisture wrapped municipal this one. this is the additional rainfall likely being coming their direction. just really deep color that's not a huge area but that's as much as 15 inches of rain. more widespread and you see a big area anywhere from 5 to 10 inches of rain that could run from louisiana coast to far north and maybe further all of that rain that a five to ten inch works its way back down into the rivers -- back down to cause flooding across the huge area and in new

orleans but this is what i'm going to leave you with this is the tropical storm track as you're going to be seeing again, this storm just moving so slow as they get into sunday evening. coming post tropical depression but still sitting in portion of northern louisiana before running up into into monday and there's a slow mover, and wind are going to continue to die down but rain and that's going to be the the legacy of this. that is going to be for the next couple of days. and that's what we will be watching from the next couple of day. adam -- that was his barry is dropping massive amount of rain on new orleans with with a lot more to come. the storm is prompted this city to close all floodgates for the first time since hurricane katrina. back in 2005, senior correspondent rick leventhal is there. rick. >> and jon it is raining on us still but not too heavy at the moment the mayor of new orleans treated short time ago with no

curfew in place tonight hoping people will stay off a streets after p.m. to keep things clear for first responders should things get a lot worse. last hour we showed you the industrial canal that gave way during katrina, the levee that broke -- right here that flooded that wall that replaced that broken levee. this concrete surge barrier that circles the lower 9th much of new orleans and a lower floor flooded so many years ago you yu can see home rebuilt and 3,000 plus destroyed but so many empty lots and people go not to return. the city of new orleans remains under a moderate to high risk for flash-flooding and that flash-flood watch remains in effect through 6:00 sunday and heard from waterboard in downtown new orleans that say it is working prop orally and that he's confident that this thing will city, in fact, stay dry we

heard from coast guard affected at least 11 rescue so far and areas outside of the city of new orleans which have seen some flooding already pop we're at a thomas telling reporters that they will take greater risk when life is at stake but they also have to waive danger to guardsman and night rescues are far more dangerous. here's more from the reared a a initial. >> we're flying from long haul from the storm to be in the state of louisiana. for at least another 24 hours and look it is also very important to emphasize that the best way to get help is to call social media not the best way to do it. >> there has now also been a recommended evacuation for parish but not breached but levee and 3500,000 customers without power across the state

of louisiana that number has been creeping up throughout the night and into the day. new orleans international airport jon, also remains closed we're told tonight they hope to reopen it tomorrow and the other warning that has been heading out is that all of this rain that is being pushed through the state jon by this storm that falls on this state and faults to north of us will make its way back into the mississippi river and flow back down stream they're hoping that the mississippi river had is already a flood stage crest too much higher. rick leventhal chief correspondent. thank you. >> joining us todd, the president and founder of the united kayen navy we appreciate you spending time with us. what is job one for you and your team? >> right now it is just preparation. this so many reports of the rain that's coming this way. and hasn't come yet but right now it is just getting prepared and keeping in track with the weather and reports so we know where to go next. >> i know that the coast guard

has affected 11 rescues so far has your team been called out? >> we've had some minor rescue nothing major. more so people that have their pets that needed to be taken care of and a lot of elderly and handicap that want to get out and we need to go get their pets but right now there hasn't been rescue and been more animal getting elderly out. >> is there a -- a channel of vehicle of people use to reach your organization or do you just look for -- for people in trouble and reach out to help them? >> kind of a combination. right now we're dealing more with the government you know like they were saying best way to deal with stuff right now is calling 9-1-1. you know we're working with the local authorities here. the next best way is social media. i know a lot of people don't like social media but sometimes if your phone lines are out you have wi-fi you know, the next thing is we know areas that historically flood especially in louisiana here in contact with neighborhoods different organizations there. >> so what kind of equipment do

you have at the ready? >> right now we have high quarter vehicles you know we have big jeeps we have flat bottom boat and air a boats one thing about louisiana is a lot of our volunteers are are having their own home taken care of and we've got volunteers in -- boats from nine different states right now and a lot of these people we've helped during last three or four years of disaster in their home state so kind of like a pay if forward thing of volunteers right now. fnght so as you point out your own members have their own property to property and businesses to protect -- what are the challenges this evening? i imagine it is getting the homes stand bagged and getting things sealed with water tight as can be. last three or four dayses in baton rouge we spent a lot of time sangd bags with a lot of volunteers that came down from different states that we gave them something to do and made them go help volunteer sandbag

but biggest challenge is figuring out where rein will come to make sure where to maneuver sometimes in louisiana, these get flooded you can't get down them so we've got to make a decision sometimes on where to station. that's what we're doing right now. >> how do you avoid crossing the plien, i -- line, i mean, you don't want your rescuers to get in a situation and we're looking at video that you graciously sent us but we know that we you don't want your team to wind up in trouble themselves. how do you know when to make the call that a rescue or -- helping can be effective and know when it is too much? >> welling right now for us from our organization and biggest challenge this year we work with the government not against them. we've got more information together we can get or nor information on road closures and what assets they have and we have. so that's been an obstacle that we finally were able to cross.

next thing is we don't want to put our guys at risk a lot of times people come here to go make a rescue or get in a boat and biggest challenge is telling everybody to hold up to go rescue. we don't want to have rescue for those who don't need rescued. >> what about folks along gulf coast as this storm is on top them and expected to continue slamming them for the next couple of days? >> pretty much the gulf coast of louisiana trying to this is something we're kind of used too along coast a lot of people that stay -- all they do is hunker down. but rest of it -- when you get above the coast you know when you get like in baton rouge and livingston area and a little bit south in the home area, you know, stay prepared you know, watch the weather. you know, see the rain sb to start coming either get out or make sure your family and friends are safe. right now, the window of opportunity to get out if you're in area that is at a risk is closing -- so if you have an opportunity to

get out and think you might flood you might get out. >> todd president founder of the united cage navy we appreciate it. thank you. >> all right thank you all. well president trump also looking to help those impacted by barry approving a federal emergency declaration for louisiana. also sending assistance to help with relief efforts there. ellison barber at the white house with more on that. ellison. hi jon approved that for the state of louisiana on thursday, authorizing that dpght of homeland security and a fema to coordinate disaster relief efforts fema is authorized to provide equipment resources to alleviate the impact of the emergency the declaration says that emergency protective measures limited to direct federal assistance will be provided at 75 a% federal funding. and weather service and act aing fema administrator told fox news

they are ready for whatever barry brings or leaves behind. >> mercy management is locally executed state, managed and federally supported we live by that. through any disaster, we also have commodities distributed regionally everything from food, water, emergency communications, ready to go as they lose another member of his cabinet this week a number called on those to resign in mishandle a 2008 nonprosecute and trafficking and sexually abusing young girls and president trump does not believe his labor secretary needed to resign but he accepted his resignation. >> there is no need at all as far as i'm concerned. he's doing this to the administration it would be selfish for me to stay many this position and continue talking ab case of 12-year-olds rather than

about amazing economy we have right now. from 2005 to 2009, the outgoing secretary of labor served as u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida and that is when we handled case involving jeffrey epstein epstein is now behind bars in new york held on federal charges related to the sex trafficking of minors prosecutors say between 2002 and 2005 epstein abused dozens of girls some as young as 14. epstein pled not guilty and defended his alaskas in help 2008 case indicated he would not resign. deputy secretary of labor patrick will step in as the acting secretary next week. but department of justice is still looking into how that 2008 plea deal was handle haded. jon. >> all right thanks very much ellison barber at the white house. protest breaking out across the krkts today ahead of the plan nation wide i.c.e. raids expected to begin tomorrow. how local officials are trying

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after president trump delayed the raids homing congress would reach a bipartisan deal on immigration reform. now this big effort is become on and a so is nation wide outrage and concern for immigration activist. chicago was one of ten u.s. cities expected to be targeted. protesters took to streets of wy city today for the closure of i.c.e. detention centers and rei it telling reporters she and community organizationers have spent the day going door to door in immigrant communities reminding people of their legal rightslight blasted trump administration over planned raids. as a president he realizes dangling sword over heads is causing great harm and trauma. and entire household and entire community. yesterday in aurora, colorado

hundreds demonstrated outside detention facility some of them even pulled down american flag that flew in front of the building and raise a flag of mexico in its place this ahead of planned raids in denver, meantime supporters of the trump administration say that the deportation sweeps are necessary and will be carried out carefully. >> the professional men and women of i.c.e. will methodically plan these operations to target the people that they know have been olderred by a judge to be removed they'll methodically go through and find these targets coit in the face way possible and our heart goes out to them. we want them to be safe while they conduct these operations it is important thing to do. protests against the rage peaceful and tacoma police in washington confirm that 6 hours after a peaceful rally at the detention center? tacoma a man trying to start a building on fire and police confirm this led to an officer-involved shooting, and the man was shot and killed.

police say he was found with a weapon and flares on him at this point this incident is under investigation. jon. >> christina coleman from los angeles. thank you. still raids are resuming as vice president mike pence becomes the highest ranking member to visit migrant detention centers this amid raging debate over conditions at those facilities and exactly who is to blame for that? julianne turner has more from washington. >> for the first time in a long time, americans got the opportunity to see conditions inside these border detention facilities firsthand. courtesy of vice president pence's delegation tour. s he was accompanied by republican senators on his trip to the texas facility and viewed holding areas with children and one occupied by nearly 400 adult men confined and was no place to sleep. >> are you comfortable are you being well taken care of? a snack -- comfortable. duff a place to get washed up

and clean? >> bt thanked border patrol agent encountered along the way and talked about what he had seen. >> i continue be more impressed with the compassion at work that our custom of border protection are doing here at this facility. >> truth is here at the mcalan station, they're operating within the very careful guidelines for detain these single adults. the time has come to stop the irresponsible rhetoric about the way that people are being cared for and treated. officials in the owe grande say they're overwhelmed with migrants crossing southern border siting 7,000 arrivals taken into custody every single day. but capitol hill democrats say that's no excuse for what they call the trump administration's treatment of my migrants no needs to arrest innocent people and treat them to different than criminals pursuing basic human rights as usual reaction to yesterday's footage of the

detention facility here in washington has been sharply divided along partisan lines. this is thousands of people nation wide are bracing for i.c.e. raids, president trump ordered to begin tomorrow. as many as 2,000 migrants and family members are expected to be target ad. jon. >> jillian turner, jillian, thank you. french president emmanuel macron announcing that creation of a french space command to improve country defense capables macron making that ament during a address to military personnel before the bigs celebration. the space force would work as a part of the french air force to protect the country's satellites in orbit it is similar to president trump's initiative announced last which would create a space force as sixth branch of the u.s. military by 2020. tropical storm barry drenching gulf coast as a category of three hurricane steve is live in mississippi. steve.

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manhattan we're working to identify causes keep trains moving more information to come there are also reports that traffic lights in manhattan may be on the fritz. we'll continue to keep an eye on this very serious situation let you know more as we get it. >> rainfall from this storm has -- has a lot of life-threatening potential and not just along the the we want to make sure we get that message out that this storm will continue north up along mississippi river into days ahead the southern ohio river valley is likely to see effects so that means because it is a slow moving storm some people -- a lot of people still have time to prepare. >> barry has weakened to a tropical storm but it is still threatening to cause massive flooding across louisiana and the gulf of mexico coast i'm jon scott this is the "fox report" the bottom of the hour if you're just joining us tropical storm barry is slowly marching north

pummeling with rain and leaving tens of thousands without power we have fox team coverage steve is in bay st. louis, mississippi, but we begin with jeff paul reporting live from baton rouge. jeff. >> yeah jon everyone here holding their breath as we get closer and closer to those evening hours it is that is when forecasters believe that we could start to see some of the heaviest rains which we haven't really seen anything yet there's been some light rains. there's been gusts here and there but not compared to the coast as we're just being hit with outer band of tropical storm barry now the concern is, how much more rain this town and this city can handle. this is the mississippi river, and it is already taken in a lot of water because of the spring rains we've had and they're worried that as this storm gets closer and closer to inland, that it could either slowdown or even just stall and dump more rain and more rain and there could be catastrophic flooding because of all of this rain.

we've also seen some residents out here who have called louisiana home for a long time and they say i've lived through cat 2, 3 but there was a different kind of storm we've never seen really in the history of most recent history the river being this highs according to emergency officials i have all of this rain on top of that mayor concerned about that. saying that what is happening could be a little deceiving for the folks that call baton rouge home. >> want people to be -- to be offguard i want people to continue to be vigilant, to be watchful to be prepared. because weather is unpredictable. >> you see the wind is sort of kicking up here and this happens every once and a while a gust move through and again jon these are just out per bangdz we're about 80 miles north and west of new orleans. and again, just the out per bangdz this is going to get a lot worse tonight. some forecast saying five to ten inches some saying 15 to 20 and

for some of the communities that are at more low-lying we're on a levee here so we're ninth and high but for those communities that have had historic flooding, they're sort of holding their breath they're worried about what could happen next especially as we get into the inc. hour. jon. 20 inches of rain already there. jeff paul, jeff, thank you. moving on to mississippi now forecasters predict up to two feet of rain in the southwestern part of the state. that could trigger potentially life-threatening flooding. live on the ground for us in bay st. louis, mississippi. steve. >> jon, a light rain is falling now that has been steady throughout the day already across mississippi more than 200 roads have flooded. and they're estimating this parts of this state could get anywhere from 10 to 20 inches of rain. the governor is warning that the worst of this storm is still to come. >> i had will say again to let

everyone know this storm is still comeing ashore. the eastern bands will bring more water. five inches in and around gulf coast area another five to ten inch this is way but we'll have flooding there will be more not only here on the mississippi gulf coast but southwest mississippi adding to the flood water already in the mississippi delta this is going to be a long and slow recovery. >> the state is positioning in different places especially along the coast to rescue bheem may get strapgded by water they're putting in swift boats as well as high water vehicles. vehicles about five on six feet off grouped to rescue those who might get stranded it is expected that next 36 hours to keep those rescuers very busy in mississippi. jon back to you. >> all right steve, steve, thank you. joining us now by phone tear army director of miranda warning

disaster services for alabama, louisiana, and mississippi. you have your hands more than full tonight. we do and we appreciate you having us on. >> what's the biggest challenge? >> the biggest challenge right now is, of course, is maintaining situational awareness and we do have our emergency disaster personnel postured in the correct location throughout alabama, louisiana, and mississippi at a emergency operation centers to work with our partners to make sure that we are getting the information that will help us best determine the service delivery at the appropriate time. >> so what are you equipped to do if, you know, if this rain event goes on for a couple of days and there's widespread flooding? what is the salvation army ready to do? >> in the specifically in louisiana right now where we're seeing those -- brunt of the tropical storm effect. we have actually 7 locations here that we're already postured

in the area where we have emergency equipment such as noble feeding unit we call canteen each of the units can feed by 1,000 feet so we were looking at food, hydration, at some point after a assessed and how many homes may be affected we'll look at highs gene kit and comfort kits also and cleanup kits cleaning supplies and then also from being salvation army being a church and having a ministry, we also will look at emotional and spiritual care services that we can provide. >> does salvation army get involved in opening shelters at all or do you leave that to authority authority? >> well salvation army actually every day across the country actually worldwide has shelter programs and what we were work with homeless population. and how the program down so you're in disaster of this nature. we will actually expand the number number that we would receive on

day-to-day basis to receive more individuals that get them out of harm's way that's exactly what we've been doing across the area that are threatened we've opened up doorses and about haven't accepted population as they're coming in and we will make sure to continue to do that throughout this event. >> the area where you are tonight and large swath of the midwest already had problems with flooding this year. has that stretched your resources or do you have what you need? >> absolutely not. we are actually postured all across the country too and we do this on day-to-day basis, of course. but specifically for disaster we prepared throughout the year we have equipment all across the country even just in alabama, louisiana, and mississippi we have 30 units that are already on stand by with the personnel to respond to area as we're given the go ahead from our emergency personnel safe to do so. >> if americans are inclined to help out the salvation army what can they do?

>> we actually right now are encourageing monetary donations at help salvation army.org. >> writing a check to your local salvation army chapter that's -- that's in your view the best way to help out. >> absolutely. what that allows us to do is to actually put that right back in to and stimulate economy that has been affected and we appreciate anyone who can help in that manner. >> and -- are you personally, i mean, you and your family ready for what couple of feet of rain that may be coming out of this storm? >> we are -- everyone in this area live and work by actually i'm deployed here right now from mississippi. but my family in mississippi are safe and we've taken the necessary precautions to make sure that we look at life safety but also that we can do our jobs that we are passing and passionate to do from a ministry stand point but also from a professional stand point of providing disaster relief.

>> well as i've said at the beginning you're going to have your hands full we wish you well over next couple of days. salvation army trerkt of emergency disaster services for alabama, louisiana, mississippi, thanks. >> thank you. barry portion rolling stones to push back con stert plan for sunday night in new orleans mick jagger jumping flash in his message to fans writing, quote, new orleans we're going to be caught in a crossfire hurricane but we're staying to play the show on monday so stay safe and see you all then. storms become on road following jagger heart surgery, and procedure forced to band to delay their 17-day u.s. tour for about -- two months. so we have taken a couple of power hits we call them l here in our studios in midtown, manhattan light dark a couple of times we're told there is a fairly widespread power outage

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shot just there, that that particular traffic light had gone dark and that's never a good thing. new york city subway system tweeting out we are getting reports of power outages in station complexes throughout manhattan. we're working to identify causes and keep trains moves more information to come. now the trains themselveses are air-conditioned but if then any of them stalled and we have no confirms that that is the case, they heat up very quickly and you can imagine it can be very uncomfortable to be inside a dark -- and very hot subway train. our jackie heinrich is keeping an eye on this story and joins us now with more information. jackie. >> well jon you might hear on my kro phone announcement happening behind me we're experiencing this outage ourselves here in midtown, manhattan. iteffecting midtown and the uppr west side so far we're hearing from nypd. and a metro transit authority.

they're saying that outages are being reported at subway stations throughout manhattan that several stations are being bypassed by trains about 27,000 people without power right now nypd is having to direct traffic manually at intersections with dark traffic lights all throughout manhattan. i'm told that none of the traffic lights at this moment are working. and that there's still research den as to exact cause how to get things back online doing research here just as i'm talking with you conedison power company for city tweets moments ago responding to west side of manhattan will share more information as it comes in. so unfortunately -- not a lot there as to the cause or just how quickly this is going to get back onis line as we know it was verifies a hot day here in manhattan. at the moment, though -- fire department is having to focus on people who might be stuck elevators that announcement you heard over kro

phone in our building alerting folks here in our studios that growr stuck on upper floor to take stairs call a certain number. fire department is having to do rescues in a number of buildings on upper west side looking at twitter account right now saying that they are -- trying to ask people to get to safety and remain calm as they look into this. so a lot of folks waiting for answers here and you can see in that live shot of downtown, no lights upon rock center, radio city music hall it is dark. and that is on 6th of a right across the street from our studios and traffic light there on your screen you can see is also dark. so authorities have a little bit of scrambling to do, and a lot of information to find out. we're waiting to find answers right along with you, jon. >> 27,000 customers without

power about as that means more n person per customer account that's a lot with no power in new york city on a hot day that's one of the iconic image of the radio city music hall marquee all lit up in neon normally this time of the evening. but it has gone dark radio city itself apparently without power. as you look up 6th avenue that's central park. the treeline in the distance, if you look pup 6th avenue, most of those traffic lights appear to be dark. now if you know anything about traffic in manhattan, it is mayhem on a good day. now we have saturday night, people coming into the city to -- to go into theater to go to dinner and such, and there is going to be traffic bed out there until they get these traffic a lights up and working again. new york drivers tend to be aggressive and you can imagine they're going to be a lot of people flying through those

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it is july 13*9 of 2019, and this is the 42nd an very verse rei of what is remembered by long time city residents as the blackout of 1977. in new york city, when huge swath of this city were left without power as a result of lightning strikes overloaded transmission lines and power stations that simply shut down that was a horrific night in this city. arson and now dealing with

smaller version right now you can see radio city marquee sign in mitd town mapts is dark they have not managed to restore power to radio city and the traffic lights on 6th avenue are also dark. drivers expected to treat each as a four-way stop at the moment sixth avenue is pretty much free of vehicle there was a street festival a street fair out there today. barricade sup and no traffic but all over the rest of western 100,000 customers without power we believe the cause is a terrorismer fire that resulted in circuit breakers shutting off power to so many people including the new york city subway symptom or parts thereof and a subway train on a dark day in manhattan is not a place you

want to be when there's no power our jackie is also keeping tabs on the situation jackie what can you tell us? >> jon i'm just west 49th street subway station is for the electricity company here in new york city had a major disturbance. this is from cory johnson city councilman in new york he's tweeting that subway lines acfd and m are down on the west side that some subway are without power trains are being held in the stations and that metro transit authority workers are trying to get folks out of elevators at this point it is being characterized as a partial blackout. also seeing some folks reporting that they've ben vacted from major buildings and there's a big movie theet e on upper west side in amc theater, at lincoln square that has ordered mandatory evacuation people are

are on social media sharing photos and images of a lot of people congregated on streets -- we've had announcement of people on upper floor here we're at 6th eave and 48th street in midtown, manhattan one of the areas that impacted by this outage we've got a lot of floors in our building so we've made announcement over our intercom and a some stuck on upper floor to remain calm call a number and let folks know where they might see a fire engine on your screen right now. fire department in new york city tweeted out recently they are working to rescue people who are stuck in elevators first those confine spaces could, obviously, be dangerous or traumatic for people who might be trapped -- at high temperatures so working to get people out of both the subways who might be trapped and also elevators who might be trapped 27,000 people without power, at this moment -- no official update from coned on

where or how that major event happened trying to monitor their twitter account for any alerts here this is just breaking as we're experiencing it with you. so we'll share more information as it comes in but, of course, jon as you mentioned it is supremely serendipitous it happened on the day of that major blackout four decades ago. it was a much different city than back then, new york city was reeling from the financial crisis. it was transfixed by the sun of sam murders which were taking place that summer. and when the power went out over wide swaths of new york city, really most of the city xepght for certain area of queens -- people reacted in some respects at their worst. there were hundreds of stores looted there were arsons -- and a number of other crimes

again this is new york city 2019 you're looking at. and let's hope there is no repeat of what we saw back in 1977 power outage in new york city apparently caused by a -- burned up transformer on the west side of manhattan you're looking down sixth of a actually looking north on 6th avenue towards central park, and you can see the setting sun on the west to the left of the screen is aluminating buildingses there but a lot of those buildings do not have power or at least they're running on generator power. that is what allows us to broadcast to you here from our little corner rockefeller center because we have significant generating capability that keeps this news channel on the air. 6th avenue was the scene of a -- street fair earlier today you can see the new york cleanup crews are just cleaning up some of the debris that remains after that, and barricades you can see in the distance there are

keeping the traffic from flowing up sixth avenue towards central park. also known as avenue of the americas. but were it not for that you would probably be seeing mayhem at the intersections there because the traffic lights are all out pl. so those are -- crossing streets 48th street, 49th street and in the distance, those are the cross town streets, and because barricades are already up, the drivers going across 6th avenue don'ts worry about t-boned by somebody not paying attention to fact that the street lights are out there goes another fire rescue crews apparently there are people who have been stuck in elevators in the many, many office towers throughout midtown, manhattan which seems to be where this it shall where this outage is primarily centered. 27,000 customers without power but a customer could be a single

building so this is clearly going to effect a lot of people. no word on exactly when the power might come back on. let's bring in ted williams a former d.c. homicide detective also a fox news contradict tore he joins us now by phone. ted we were just talking about the fact that this is the 42nd anniversary of the big power blackout of 1977 that was a very dark day no pun intended in new york city history. let us hope that we don't see a repeat of some of the crime that happened it that particular night. >> and that is certainly 1977 blackout law enforcement officers have now put into place quite a few plans to react to scenario. one of the things that find out that it was a burnght out

transformer because normally when something like that happens we wonder if this -- has been generated by some group of some source but not if they do know store. primary thing they've got to worry about right now is how you ought -- you option react to this. because as you said in 1977 there was a great deal of looting and concerned about that but they have plans in place. one of the other things that people are concerned about are individuals who are trapped in buildings and specifically elevators. but what is good about this and one instance is that with dealing with a weekend situation, meaning that a lot of people who would be -- at during week are not there -- so that this helps law enforcement. but the law enforcement are going to be very busy here this afternoon. >> we are based in a 50 plus

story office tower in midtown, manhattan. and some of our elevators at leasts briefly were out of commission with people onboard. so it's -- not a fun thing especially for the claustrophobic if you're in an elevator going up or down and all of a sudden power schultz down, and that is what has happened in dozens perhaps more new york city buildings as a result of this transformer power. transformer fire i should i am sure you know from your long experience, it's 85 degrees in manhattan right now. still very warm. the power load for the air-conditioners. people act their worst sometimes when they are hot, do they not? >> absolutely right. wh