CBS Evening News (partial) - 1977-07-14
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[0:01] in the second the New York City area and
[0:04] its 10 million people were blocked out
[0:06] last night by an electrical power
[0:08] failure that all the experts promised
[0:10] after the 1965 blackout would not happen
[0:13] again President Carter has asked the
[0:15] federal power commission to investigate
[0:17] we'll report the blackout story First
[0:19] beginning with Gary
[0:20] Shepard this is Con Edison's energy
[0:23] control center for New York City it was
[0:25] here that Engineers watched helplessly
[0:27] last night as the power failed and it
[0:29] was here that they work through much of
[0:31] today to turn it back
[0:33] on a good deal of New York supply of
[0:36] electricity is produced north of the
[0:38] city at places like Pleasant Valley and
[0:41] the big Nuclear Generating plant known
[0:43] as
[0:44] indian3 ConEd says the blackout was
[0:47] triggered when severe lightning knocked
[0:48] out transmission lines that connected
[0:50] Indian Point less than half a mile away
[0:53] with the state's main power grid to New
[0:55] York City with those lines broken and
[0:58] with demand for power unusually High
[1:00] because of a heat wave other generating
[1:02] plants unable to handle the load began
[1:05] cutting themselves off as well ConEd
[1:07] tried reducing the voltage and even
[1:09] shutting down certain areas
[1:11] intentionally to avoid a complete
[1:13] blackout it took only a few more minutes
[1:16] before it was all over New York had been
[1:18] disconnected from the nation's Electric
[1:20] System to prevent damaging overloads
[1:23] which occurred during the 1965 blackout
[1:26] just after 9:30 last night 10 million
[1:29] people were with without elec