mr. mcavoy in the past. we're going to look at the system itself.have to have a system that is designed to handle disruptions, and rather than domino, we have a redundancy in the system so this doesn't happen. you can't have a power of this magnitude in this city. it is too dangerous. the potential for public safety risk and chaos is too high. we just can't have a system that doesn't. it's that simple at the end of the day. and that's what we're going to work on. i want to see with my own queens devise transform to see the transformer that started it all. thank you. >> new york governor andrew cuomo right there briefing reporters and the public as well as john mcavoy, the ceo of con edison, the power company. the headline there that all of the power has been restored in manhattan. the 73,000 customers according to mcavoy, they have gotten their power back. that is the positive headline from con edison. the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, not necessarily as positive. he had already said that this was not acceptable. he says the system has to work

mr. mcavoy, do you know exactly why this happened?d thankfully it's a saturday in which businesses and people aren't in their offices. >> right. it does not appear related to excessive load, as sometimes has occurred in the past. when we have an incident like this, we focus first on isolation of the failed equipment or the most likely failed equipment and then restoration of the customers. and when commerce are restored is when we really do the full root cause investigation to identify what may have caused it. that will follow later today. >> the lights just went on behind you! how do you feel about that? >> good job, good job. >> i feel just as well as everyone in the crowd. >> by the way, you're good at what you do. >> people heard explosions. do we know what that was -- >> so i can't speak to the explosions that they may have heard. when you have incidents like this, large circuit breakers, which are the high-voltage equipment of circuit breakers in a panel in your house, operate. and they are very loud when they operate. that coul