News Wrap: Massive power outage disrupts daily life in Spain and Portugal

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

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In our news wrap Monday, a massive power outage in Spain and Portugal brought daily life for millions to a complete standstill, the Vatican announced the conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7, Houthi rebels say at least 68 people are dead after an alleged U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants and Canadian voters are deciding who will be the nation's next prime minister. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0	And we start the day's other news in Europe. A massive power outage in Spain and Portugal
0:05.3	brought daily life for millions of people to a complete standstill. The outage affected train
0:10.6	service, street traffic and phone service. It's the second serious power outage in Europe in
0:16.3	less than six weeks. ITN's John Ray has more. It was the day the lights went out.
0:23.6	The day that the trains and much else stopped working.
0:28.6	The day the 21st century seemed to head to the exit, along with passengers, evacuated
0:35.6	from Madrid's metro.
0:40.8	Darkness fell just afternoon.
0:44.5	A massive power cut hit millions of people and took the internet and mobile phones down
0:47.9	across Spain and Portugal.
0:50.3	It stopped play at the Madrid Open Tennis Championship.
0:56.0	It was an early start. Robbing World No. 2, Cocoa Goff, of her words,
1:00.0	as the electricity failed.
1:04.0	There were traffic lights on the blink.
1:08.0	Roads clogged.
1:14.1	Motorists urged to leave their cars at home.
1:16.6	In Bilbao, in the north of Spain,
1:19.1	a cable car stuck halfway up a hill,
1:21.5	passengers walking back down.
1:26.6	And in Alicante, in the south, tourists stranded.
1:30.3	The WhatsApp phone with the economy on the internet, it just keeps going on. So it's quite a difficult situation right now.
1:34.3	What's your plan for the rest of the day?
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