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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. it is october 30, 2012. hurricane sandy leaving at least 16 people dead this morning. more than 5 million people still in the dark and unleashing a wave of devastation that is only going to get worse. here is the very latest. massive fire burning in breezy point, queen, new york. at least 50 homes have burned to the ground. lower manhattan where water is pouring into the brooklyn battery tunnel. leaving cars under 14 feet of water there. new jersey, 50 feet o...

There is another interesting story. its about the wind. they did some significant damage across the city. one particularly interesting sight is over in chelsea. thats where the winds sheared off the facade of an apartment building. we understand from police that the individuals living inside were actually tourists. none were injured. one firefighter suffered minor injuries as a result of this facade coming off this four story building in chelsea. back to you guys. >> gretchen: todd starnes live ...

Kentucky. gretchen. >> gretchen: thank you very much. >> steve: we should point out in new jersey, because of the storm surge and everything there, a levee has broke yen three towns are in peril. well have the details. >> gretchen: in the meantime, financial markets are close. that could affect the final jobs report before the election. charles payne from the fox business network coming up next. >> brian: and water rushing in the train station. that is an incredibly shot. it will take a while to...

Now. we are talking upwarpeds of 2000 people displaced from their homes. one area. we have trailer waiting for rescue and applying the boats and brought out few hundred people. we have had phenomenal cooperation from the state and fema here and national guard is come category bergen county police with the sheriffs department and emergency management and all of the municipalities in bergen are sending boats and high vehicles to go rescue those people. >> some houses are five-eight feet of water i...

Tide from 9:30. high tide expected in lower manhattan in battery park. it was a record level water reaching 13 feet . wind gusts of 90 miles per hour in long island and landfall near atlantic city with maximum sustained winds at 80 miles per hour. the threat is not over. everyone, please stay safe from the east coast to portions of the great lakings. >> steve: thank you very much. straight ahead. switching gears, ohio one of the most important state to win in the presidential election and with o...

The current track for sandy is that eventually it will make its track or turn toward the right and move northward into portion of canada. maximum sustained winds significant, 65 miles per hour near the center of the storm, moving now toward the west northwest at about 15 miles per hour. well continue to track this system. its forecast to slowly weaken over the next several days. but it will linger. so will the wind, so will the rain and showers across the northeast and the great lakes. >> steve:...

And tunnels are flooded because of the storm. >> it was barely raining in new york. >> steve: right, well talk to joe, the meteorologist about the storm surge. down in the battery, the old record was lets see len.2 feet. -- 11.2 feet . we broke that video. >> brian: that was from last night. >> gretchen: going to delaware, this video in to "fox and friends", this car, probably not going to be operating this morn nothing a nearby motel. no match for the atlantic ocean. we have peter doocy there n...

>> gretchen: we begin with the latest on the top story. 200 firefighters fighting a fire in queens, new york. >> steve: joining us from the telephone is new york city counselman who represents that. good morning eric. we know that 200 firefighters are battling this thing. do we have any idea what started it? >> we know obviously hurricane had a devastating impact on breezy point. it is zone a area that mayor bloomburg urged people to evacuate from. it is a low-lying tip of the peninsula out here...

And big waves. >> it will take a while to diminish. this evenings tide is regular flood tide and tomorrow getting back to turmoil because the wind went west and pushing the water out. the water keeps trying to come back in. >> steve: your father in atlantic city he was on when the eye got over. >> this is why i got mad at the hurricane center. wind came out stronger in the south rather than the north. the hurricane gust in south jerseyy coast came after the eye path. it was the woworst part of t...

Damage, you say get used to big storms like and you said this. >> steve: next five or 7 people. a lot of the global warming people. they peak in and give you an example. when you go back and look at 1950s when the pacific cool and would atlantic was warmed. 10 major hurricane in the eastern sea board including six in 54 and 55. hark hark hazel came up further west and this east and shot back northwest. >> steve: it was so powerful. >> it was not like it was not predictable. >> steve: absolutely....