- "But Governor of New Mexico and former US Secretary
of Energy, Bill Richardson said sabotage and cyber-terrorism should not
be ruled out. "
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- A massive power blackout retreated stubbornly on Friday
as power officials struggled to understand why the historic outage spread
in minutes through the northeastern United States and southern Canada.
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- Lights flicked on and air conditioners restarted for
some, but millions of others baked in stuffy rooms.
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- In New York City, power was restored Friday morning to
parts of all five boroughs and some suburbs, but millions faced a morning
rush hour without subway service or many traffic lights and no timetable
for full restoration of power.
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- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked essential city
workers to come in but told nonessential counterparts to stay home and
urged citizens to use judgment about working Friday.
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- Search for an explanation
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- While terrorism was swiftly ruled out by President Bush
and other officials, there was scant indication of what had caused the
outage, which began on the cusp of Thursday's afternoon rush hour in Eastern
cities.
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- Michehl Gent, president of the North American Electric
Reliability Council, said Friday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America"
that the crisis started perhaps in Ohio.
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- Gent, whose nonprofit council was formed after the 1965
Northeast blackout to promote the reliability of the bulk electric systems,
did not say what those indications were but expressed confidence that terrorism
was not involved.
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- But Governor of New Mexico and former US Secretary of
Energy, Bill Richardson said sabotage and cyber-terrorism should not be
ruled out.
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- The New York Independent System Operator, which runs
the state's wholesale electricity market and monitors power usage, said
it had detected a sudden loss of power generation at 4:11 p.m.
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- More generally, industry and government experts blamed
a system composed of interconnected grids that has not been upgraded to
meet power demands.
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