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-- The National Weather Service on Saturday night issued a tornado watch for the New York City area. A tornado watch indicates that conditions are favorable for a tornado to form. No tornado had developed or been reported yet.
-- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Saturday night closed the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in both directions, though the upper level of the bridge remained open.
-- As of 7:45 p.m. Saturday, 45 customers had lost electric service in all of New York and Westchester. More outages were expected as the storm nears, said Con Edison spokeswoman Elizabeth Mathews. Con Edison serves approximately 3.3 million customers in the area, she said.
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-- A decision to cut electric service will be made between 2 and 10 a.m. Sunday, if needed, said Con Edison Senior Vice President John Miksad. The two networks that will most likely be cut span from the Brooklyn Bridge to Battery (the tip of Manhattan) along the East River and extend to west to Broadway. These are called the Fulton and Bowling Green networks. Nearly 18,000 people would be affected if those networks are cut, said Con Edison spokesman Sara Banda.
-- Ten miles of steam line downtown is being turned off, affecting 50 customers, mostly downtown, and one in Lincoln Center, Miksad said Saturday. (A "customer" can be an entire building) No steam means no heating or cooling for some customers.
-- More than 400 Con Edison crews from Colorado, Mississippi, Texas, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin are on their way to help 1,700 local "storm riders" maintain and restore services, he said Saturday.
-- A total of 370,000 people had evacuated New York City by Saturday evening, emergency management commissioner Joseph Bruno said. All necessary hospital patients had been evacuated in a large undertaking, he added.
-- Officials hope to begin cleaning up the city about 5 p.m. Sunday if Irene eases as expected, he said.
-- Subway officials hope to start bringing back the system on Monday, after inspecting for damage, Bruno said. No specific timeframe had been set.
-- Some New York City buildings had stopped running their elevators, to avoid having anyone trapped if conditions deteriorated.
-- New York City and Long Island will likely experience strong, hurricane-force winds and heavy rains from Irene starting on Sunday.
-- A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for some low-lying areas of all five boroughs of New York City. The mandatory order includes Coney Island and Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn; Far Rockaway and Broad Channel in Queens; South Beach, Midland Beach and other low-lying areas on Staten Island; and Battery Park City in Manhattan.
-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the deployment Saturday afternoon of an additional 1,000 National Guard troops in response to Hurricane Irene, according to an announcement from his office. The deployment means that 1,900 National Guard members have been dispatched so far because of the storm.
-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged people Saturday afternoon to evacuate if so ordered, and otherwise take precautions and stay inside. "This is a storm where, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, (it) could be fatal," he said.
-- The mayor said that the latest forecast suggests the storm's epicenter will pass east of the city Sunday.
-- He noted that some stores and workplaces remained open Saturday afternoon, while adding he expected them to "close in the near future."
-- There will be no incoming or outgoing flights Sunday out of the five New York-area airports -- John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Teterboro and Stewart -- operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, agency spokesman Steve Coleman said Saturday afternoon. This means there are "thousands of flights canceled, with 150 to 200 people a flight," said Coleman, speculating that "probably tens of thousands of people" are affected.
-- The city's extensive subway system shut down at noon Saturday. Bloomberg told reporters that it will not be fully operational until "late in the day Monday," because MTA workers may need to pump and then clean out tunnels and reposition equipment after the storm passes.
-- To speed the evacuation process, Cuomo announced that tolls do not need to be paid at numerous bridges, including the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge and Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.
-- Officials continued Saturday afternoon to urge thousands of people who have been told to evacuate to head to higher ground. About 1,400 people showed up in 91 shelters around the city, according to Bloomberg, who speculated that many more have found refuge with relatives and friends. He urged people to evacuate immediately, "even if they have to walk."
-- The Staten Island ferry was still running Saturday afternoon, albeit on a limited schedule due to minimal demand, said Bloomberg. It was expected to stop operating later, in the face of high winds and rocky seas.
-- If winds exceed 60 mph, the George Washington Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, Triborough Bridge, Queensborough Bridge and possibly others will be ordered closed. The same goes for bridges over the Hudson River: the Bear Mountain Bridge, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Mid-Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge and Rip Van Winkle Bridge in the Catskills.
-- Beaches and cultural institutions are closed for the weekend. And in addition, construction has been stopped in the city.
-- It's "conceivable" that downtown Manhattan will have no electricity after the hurricane blows through, he said.
-- New York police will head to low-lying areas on Saturday afternoon and evening to tell residents to evacuate. A sizable tidal surge could accompany the storm, likely causing "an awful lot" of flooding.
-- Irene's current track could make it the most destructive hurricane to strike New York City since 1938.
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