India, May 26 -- Over 75,000 customers are without power in New Orleans on Sunday, according to the latest update to Entergy's outage map. The map noted that currently, 75,365 customers are impacted by the outage. The issue started around 4:30 PM local time and impacts the Eastbank of New Orleans and parts of Metairie.

An outage was also reported in St Bernard Parish with 2,918 customers without electricity.

Power is expected to be restored by 7 PM local time.

Orleans Parish

52, 186 customers without power

Jefferson Parish

17, 121 customers without power

St. Bernard Parish

2,918 customers without power

Plaquemines Parish

2, 820 customers without power

Entergy reportedly confirmed the reason behind the widespread outage, saying ...