The US officials claimed that electricity was restored in several areas of Florida where a problem with an electrical grid caused two nuclear plants to automatically shut down and intermittently cut power to up to 4 million people from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys.
Most of northern downtown Miami appeared to be back to normal operation, including a campus of Miami Dade College and numerous stores and businesses. In the Florida Keys, spokesman Andy Newman said areas were without power for about 30 minutes, but it was back up as well.
Jaime Hernandez, a spokesman for Miami-Dade County Department of Emergency Management, said no injuries were reported.
Miami International Airport, the Port of Miami and the area’s rail and bus transportation were working normally, Officials said.
The outages have no connection to terrorism, Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Laura Keehner said. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the outages were technical, not criminal.
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