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Thousands are without power in New York City. Look at power problems from the extreme heat. About 10,000 customers in New York City are without electricity at this hour. KED asking customers in parts of upper Manhattan and the Bronx and Westchester County to conserve energy.
The fire hydrant sprinklers are on, but the power in this Williamsbridge neighborhood in the Bronx is off. It's super hot. It's super hot in the house. Not happening. The sweltering heat amid dangerous temperatures topping above 100° in New York City combined with the humidity makes it feel uncomfortably unbearable at close to 110°.
How is this happening in America? Because especially when you want to get to the kitchen to make yourself a nice cup of tea and you know no electricity you can't use the stove to get it. Drivers in cars seen navigating their own way through this powered off intersection. No street lights 122nd Street and Barnes Avenue. One neighbor, a good Samaritan, was seen trying to help direct traffic.
"This is the traffic lights. There's no police. You can go back there," said dark. "You going more back there to the end. It's more dark. It's so hot and people don't want to come in here." Guy's going to lose his own grocery store at the same corner had to close and throw out ice cream and their meat because of the power outage.
"How frustrating is this?" "You throw out all this food." "It's a lot because I don't making no money. I got to pay bill. I got to still pay the rent without the light. You know, still got to."
"How can there be no power?" "It's this for the community right now is it's kind of hard right now."
As frustration boils, Con Edison crews in the Riverdale section of the Bronx work to restore power at now. The mayor went on TV and told everybody this wasn't going to happen if everybody put their AC at 78. But somebody didn't do that and maybe this is their fault to some of these government buildings like oh City Hall. City Hall.
In City Hall right now and look I'm not a walking human thermometer but they do feel pretty cold. So we're standing in the center of the rotunda underneath a skylight with no air conditioner anywhere near us uh in the middle of City. It is 73°.
"What?" Now, maybe if you live in the Bronx, you should visit City Hall where there's power and AC and lights and everything else you'd expect to find in 2026 America. That is only 1° above a normal room temperature in the middle of an extreme heat wave.
"Wow. So, it was 73° and their AC was blasting. They" "What did Ma'am Danny say when he won the race that we had to embrace again?" "We will draw this city closer together." "We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
"The warmth of collectivism for you." "Stole the power in the summer while they enjoy air conditioning." Not only were they not turning down their air conditioning, it appeared that all their lights were on, too.
"Wow. Look at that." For no reason. The lights are on and there's so much natural lighting coming through these windows. This is crazy. They're stealing power. There's people in the Bronx with no power going out of business out on the streets. You have a man directing traffic. There's no police. There's no help coming for them. And the mayor is breaking his own advice.
But it gets worse. Another investigation reveals that some parts of City Hall, that same area, were as low as 61°. This is the New York Post. And look at this. Our wonderful public transit system, they've shut down the escalators to save power so you can walk as you wait for a train that might not even show up. Look at this.
For anyone who thought you would find some relief from the heat and jump into Penn Station, think again. Just look at the mess down there. Not only are there massive train cancellations, the AC is not working properly in here. So, the only thing hotter than the temperature right now are NJ Transit riders. For anyone about to start their long weekend, this is the last thing you want to see. We have run into countless people headed to the beach or at least they thought.
To be clear, there are some lines that are running when they call for Trenton. A stampede of riders takes off. But for a lot of other riders, NJ Transit is saying to expect up to an hour delay. Some are being diverted to 32nd and Six to the Six to the PATH train because they're cross honoring tickets. But imagine lugging all your stuff to Penn then being told you need to hoof it a few more blocks in this heat. If you can take the PATH and get yourself to Hoboken trains seem to be running from there.
Initially NJ Transit said the delays are heat related due to Hackinack River drawbridge being stuck in the open position that knocked out a portion of the Bergen County and Port Jervis lines. There is some confusion though if that has been resolved. Either way, the problems persist.
"And it wouldn't hurt if the communists at City Hall would stop stealing electricity from the average people they claim they're supposed to be looking out for."
Avenue in Post Road. More than half of today's more than 10,000 power outages are in the Bronx. The company is now warning and urging its customers to reduce their voltage use by 8% to prevent more widespread outages from happening.
"Wow, look at this. But for these kids and their parents in Williamsburg, it's a little too late." "Half of my power went out and then the other half shut off." "It's horrible. I don't like being high. It's I mean, as long as the kids is having fun with the pump," "why don't they blame the man?" "We've been like using water balloons and the buckets to splash each other."
"You can't really do nothing. The fridge is out. Everything is out." "They're going to lose all their." "We just got to wait till they fix it." On a holiday weekend. And you know how everyone's running around in the sprinklers, taking a bath in the street? Well, that's causing other problems the communists never anticipated. According to the official NYC water account, if you live on the fourth or fifth floor, you're going to have low water pressure or brown water because of too many open hydrants. So, you've got no power. You have brown undrinkable water in the capital of capitalism. New York City, the greatest city in the world, no electricity. You're drinking out of a swamp.
And they got their lights on. But you, you and I, we got to shut ours off to conserve energy. And it wasn't just that building. We sent Sarah over to Hokll's Manhattan office to check that out.
"The governor's office. What's that like?" "Hoc's office is in this building here. It's a private building, but I did leave our thermometer in the foyer for about 20 to 30 minutes while we went and spoke to some people out here. Now, we're going to run back in and check it out and see what the temperature is." "72°." "72°." Even colder than City Hall.
The funny thing about all this is that the state that wanted to go all green energy wanted everyone to get electric cars. That got "you have to charge those things somewhere." Okay. They have mandated switching to an all electric bus fleet to replace their entire diesel fleet. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to charge those electric buses? And they told everybody to do what? To go out and buy an electric car while they were shutting down power plants. So, everyone needs to plug something in. No one can get anywhere. All these buses, all these Teslas, they want everything shut down.
Can this get any worse? Yeah, it can. Yeah, it can. Watch. Just just to visualize this. Okay. Bloomberg noted that a single charging station for these size vehicles would take more energy than an entire town. So, I wanted to know exactly in practice how much this was. I did a little quick mathing. Check this out. Fast charging for one of those buses requires, and you can see it right there on your screen. I'm using the low end here. One bus 600,000 watts, and that'll run that bus for 8 hours. Much of that is well, "the average window unit actually uses," "oh, that's right, 3 to 500 watts an hour." So you would need to run 225 window units all day to equal the amount of energy to charge one of those city buses. But here the five boroughs of New York City have over 5,800 buses, many running 24/7 shifts.
"Wow." Since a charge is only really good for one 8-hour shift, times, you know, that by three, 17,400 charges per day, that's the equivalent to almost 4 million window unit AC. No wonder the mayor wants people to turn down their ACs or shut them off altogether. He wants to redistribute their personal electricity availability to the public buses that he wants to be free. Isn't that great, New York? We're headed for free buses, but nobody can have AC. You can't plug in a toaster. The local grocery store has to throw out all their food on a holiday weekend. There's no food coming until Monday. You realize that? This is bad news. And nobody in charge seems to care. They love it. They love telling everybody else what to do so that they can do whatever they want. So the same people who wanted you to turn your AC to 78 with all their lights on and all their ACs blasting in their offices were going to add the equivalent of 4 million more full power window unit ACs that they wanted you to shut off to save the same power grid. Got it? Okay. This this doesn't even include the personal electric vehicles that they wanted everybody to start driving that also would need to charge somewhere. This is why I don't take liberals seriously. I like this. Welcome to socialism. Rules for thee, but not for me. Lofty ideas, they always 10 out of 10 fail in practicality.
We also hit the streets to ask people how they felt about this new directive. Mind you, the streets that elected these socialists. Now, before we get to these street interviews, understand that this is always how communism works. In Cuba, where nobody has any power, guess who does? The members of the Castro family, the government officials, the influencers who get flown down there on invitation from the communist government and get shacked up in the one hotel that has 24/7 power. Isn't it interesting how the people at the top always seem to benefit off the wealth of the entire populace while the people get absolutely nothing and are running around with no electricity, no refrigerator, no I mean your cell phone service, what are we going to do about that? Everyone's phone is going to die.
"If the mayor told you you had to put it at 78, would you listen?" "No. I hate him." "I don't think that's reasonable and I will not do it." "So, oh, I'm not turning my AC down. He can go on a day like this. I mean, I I need it at 69. Yeah. Or like 68, maybe." "Listen to the mayor, though, you guys. Mayor Mom Donnie is the best mayor. He should be president." "Oh, I'm sure he would love to be, right?" Nobody's complying with even the guy who likes him. The majority of people in New York City seem to like the idea of socialism until it actually got implemented. Just this is like a microcosm of what's coming, baby. In history, in the history, any reference you can possibly think of, everybody, they voted their way into it, but they always had to shoot their way out of it or it just totally collapsed and people just starved. That's why you have people in socialist countries fleeing in makeshift rowboats to come to capitalist countries and not the other way around.
Well, when they get here and find out there's no electricity, they're going to turn around and go back because things aren't any better in the Bronx right now than they are in these other countries that have no electricity and no clean water. Think about that for a second. No electricity, no clean water. What a nightmare. And now there's no cell phone service, which means if people are out there looting, you can't call anyone for help. So we don't even know what the full ramifications over this are because it just happened under the Home Energy Fair Practices Act. No shut offs on days with forecasts with a hot when it's cold highs of blue state for the government they want things but everyone else living in poverty the government class is basically royalty does whatever they want while the rest of the people are taxed into poverty to provide for the government. The other hilarious thing is in New York, not unlike other blue states, actually some red states have this too, there are laws about cutting off or restricting people's electricity, especially in New York under the Home Energy Fair Practices Act.
No shut offs on days with forecasts with a high when it's cold, highs of 32 or lower, including windchill. Or they're not allowed to shut off your electricity the day of or the day before the heat index reaches 90°, which is today. So there is actually no mechanism for Ma'am Danny or anyone else to enforce this guidance. They could do rolling blackouts.
Well, but there is because the power grid collapsed. It just didn't collapse in the rich neighborhoods or by City Hall for some reason. Oh, it only collapsed in the Bronx. I wonder why that is. Sizzling triple-digit heat blanketed all five boroughs. It feels unbearable. The record-breaking heat and high humidity increased demand for electricity.
"Power outages." "I was watching Jeopardy and it went out." "Lights go out, air conditioners go off." Coned says crews restored service to nearly 31,000 customers and late Thursday evening about 16,000 were still without power in parts of Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
"Was quite surprising." Also urged customers to conserve energy and reduce voltage by 8% in parts of Staten Island, Northern Queens, Westchester County, and the Northeast Bronx. And "so we're looking at what are effectively brownouts. They've reduced the voltage everywhere. They're not shutting off the power. They're just going to turn down the amount of power you can get and stuff's not going to run. And if you try to fight that, it's going to get even worse. You're going to have more of these blackouts." They said they restored power to 31,000 people and 16,000 still don't have power. That's wild.
The utility says reducing power helps manage the grid during heat waves. In the Bronx, New York City Emergency Management reported the temperature at 107°. "My all compressor is no working right now. No cooling." Employees at this Bronx corner store weathered the heat as crews work to fix the AC.
"How difficult is it to work when it's that hot in there?" "It's too difficult. It's very." "How do you fix the AC when there's no power?"
Hundreds of cooling shelters across all five boroughs have been activated. You can find a full list on the. "How long do you think it's going to be in New York before they have the power police running around going to businesses like this finding them for having lights on that don't need to be on while City Hall's lit up like a Christmas tree during the day?" We will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. "Oh," and for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. "Could that be a building that include community land trusts, nonprofits?" "Well, I bet they turn the AC of 78 in those units when they own them." Again, literal warmth of collectivism. Wow.
But what's funny is the same states that make laws saying that you can't shut off people's electricity basically gives them no enforcement mechanism to do this. So it's all, you know, smoke and mirrors. This is the result until the grid slide towards socialism. Because most people are going to say, "Well, why should I shut mine off if nobody else is shutting theirs off?" Like all the people you heard from on the street of New York, right? They're not turning off, which is how the workforce will become, too. If you're going to take all my money cuz I'm working super hard for it and you're just going to redistribute it to the people who don't work as hard as I do, why should I work super hard, right?
The reality is, and this is the reality of governance policies that have become mainstream in the Democrat party. But mark my words, we're not far away from Democrats passing laws to control people with electricity. We've already seen them want to control who can bank with which bank based on your political affiliations. This is Ma'am Denny. He is frothing at the mouth to get something like this. When they tell you who they are, folks, you better listen to them, right? And nobody in New York listened. They came out and they said, "We're proud socialists. Elect us." And people did. And now people want to know why the the city is operating like a socialist communist dictatorship. Especially the people that are living in neighborhoods where they've been taught and educated that capitalism has failed, so they're voting for socialism. Folks in those situations, they're confused right now. They don't know why. Why? We got this mayor that says he cares about the little guy and he cares about us, but oh, we don't have any power. But there's plenty of power in the government buildings. There's plenty of power in the mayor's mansion. What do you think about this? I'll see you in the next video.