Andrew M. Cuomo deployed 200 state troopers and 50 light towers to the blackout area, and directed the Public Service Commission to investigate the cause of the power failure. By night’s end, Mr. Cuomo was in the city, touring the substation believed to be the cause of the problems, with the Con Edison chief executive, John McAvoy. By then, Mr. de Blasio had decided to return, leaving for a four-hour car ride from the Iowa union hall in, of all places, Waterloo. today, you have to take charge wherever you are and I did that,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference in Manhattan on Sunday. “In terms of the decision, as soon as it became clear that we did not have an immediately resolvable crisis, I started moving.”

Source: New York Times July 14, 2019 22:52 UTC