As many as 100,000 without power in Queens (AP)

NEW YORK - A five-day blackout affecting tens of thousands of New Yorkers is worse than the power company had previously reported, Con Edison said. As many as 25,000 customers are without power in Queens and Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated that translates to 100,000 people without power during some of the hottest days of the summer so far. On his weekly radio show, the mayor said he was "annoyed" by the inaccurate initial estimates from Con Edison because "we might have thrown more resources ...