Power outage leaves over 1,00,000 New Yorkers in dark on Christmas

More than 100,000 New Yorkers spent Christmas without electricity after a powerful storm lashed the northeast of the United States overnight. Westchester, Rockland, Ulster, Orange and Dutchess counties were particularly hard hit, with 73,926 outages reported as of 10 am on Friday, according to PowerOutage.US, a service that tracks electricity disruptions nationwide.