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One person describing his experience on our show last week. >> my father and people on my block are retired police officers, correctional. on this block mostly retired fireman, active duty fireman. we dont know who the president is. we cant find out. we have to ask people. we have no idea where the help is, where the froe food is, we have no idea where anybody is. we cant contact any building departments, any insurance companies. we are to the getting any help. its unfair. martha: that caught ou...

Tried to adjust. by the way, case you are wondering, just these ten states, 216 electoral votes. steve? >> no its incredible and coming for a long time. the last presidential candidate to get 60% of the white vote, which mitt romney did was george herbert walker bush and received over 400 electoral votes. today, gets you an electoral college drumming. president george w. bush got 44% of the hispanic vote. the problem, there are too many republican leaders in congress. if you say the word latino ...

Firefighter doesnt even flinch and continue to put out the fire. >> that was shocking. i mean, many people would be like, just drop the hose and run away. >> department officials credit the firemans protective breathing apparatus as the main reason why this event didnt become a tragedy. the firefighter continues, as if nothing ever happened. and in less than a minute gets the fire under control. its believed the blaze started as an electrical fire with magnesium in the metal steering column poss...

House, youve lost everything you own. and there is no help. >> reporter: they said check the internet, you dont have the internet. >> i dont have anything. i would love a who the spot and make a truck for my neighborhood so we could get on the internet and watch the news. i woke up yesterday morning and didnt even know who the president wasment as an american that is totally unacceptable. my father and people on my black that are retired police officers, correctional. on this block most of them ...

>> reporter: today, for the first time, smith had a chance to also help himself. eight feet of water was in his house, and his belongings are now piled outside. >> baby pictures, everything. its rough-- trying to stay strong for my kids because every time i go home i start wanting to break down. >> reporter: he was on duty during the storm and rushed home to rescue his family. >> my wife had him. she was holding him up. and this one i had in my arm. it was crazy, running in and out, running in a...

Was the scene of another emergency today. just as elaine quijano was reporting on the devastating flood in moonachie, new jersey, a house fire broke out behind her. heres elaines report. >> reporter: our cameras were rolling as smoke started to billow out of this house on a deserted street in moonachie. after we called 911, firefighters showed up in three minutes, carrying equipment they saved from their flooded fire station. frank smith is the assistant fire chief. >> right now we have no polic...

Storm. flooded with up to 12 feet of water, it lost power, including its backup generator. dozens of ambulances from across the city lined up in front of and around the hospital and through the night and into this morning moved more than 200 patients, some adults and even babies in critical condition to other facilities, including julia alamone, who pregnant and in labor had to be carried down several flights of stairs. >> this couldnt get any worse, i wouldnt know what to do. where do we go? sh...

Stevensons neighborhood and pushed its pier into a pile. firefighters pumped out flooded basements here, but the problem that worried amy nicholas most was no electricity. why is this area hit so hard? >> the trees, the trees went down. so theres so many trees down in the park where the power lines are. >> reporter: about 94% of stonington, connecticut, is without power. diving street neighborhood david forest remembers how long it took to get electricity restored after hurricane irene. how is i...

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Evacuate patients down dark narrow staircases. >> there were two things that had to be taken care of. one was making sure that everybody actually got off of the floor and they werent left there. the other was figuring out who was the sickest, who do you bring down first. >> reporter: 31-year-old choicestein chin was in the intensive care unit with complications following a liver transplant. christine chin was taken down 14 floors on a sled. >> every turn and corner, the great thing about it is t...