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Mountains coming into elkins, the seat of randolph county, and oddly enough two in the morning i saw snow crews out there working. they have been working around the clock. governor tomlin commended them for the hard work theyre doing to make sure roads can be plowed. here in elkins, you can see the roads have been plowed. weve been all out through this area. the one fundamental thing is, still without power. 14,000 residents alone in randolph county, more than 216,000 throughout the state still ...

Manhattan below 34th street. in addition, around this now blackened area that you are looking at, with no lights at all is the fdr drive to the, i guess the left of your picture here. going up the east side. its flooded. the lower end of manhattan is flooded. the western side of manhattan all along the river is flooded. and water is said to be approaching the subway systems. we have no way to know whether the water will get into those systems or whether the electrical grid will be compromised be...

Issues because of flooding and power loss. we currently have at least ten facilities with minor to major problems. wastewater facilities we have 13 facilities with minor to major operational issues due to flooding and loss of pe workinge facilities to see how we can bring them power supply, equipment and resources to help bring them back online as soon as possible. in terms of our healthcare facilities, a total of 91 healthcare facilities have reported that they lost street power. this includes ...

Widespread flooding across the region long island and jersey shore. just moments ago or i should say within the last hour, all of the major bridges in the tri-state area were closed so traffic in and out is now an impossibility. well have continuing coverage of that and go to our hurricane hunters live all along the shore. this is a live picture of the george washington bridge. the most heavily traveled bridge of its kind in the united states with two levels and 16 lanes. it is closed to all tra...

Million people in connecticut so you have a significant population here without power tonight. were actually next to a hotel resort that has generator power and this is one of the few places that does have power. if you look at the power grid outage maps along the shoreline nearly every community is at least 75% or more out at this hour and as we saw with irene and then with the october snowstorm, it can take a long time, perhaps a week or even nine or ten days before the power gets restored for...

The personnel here that the national guard troops and thats because, you know, police, fire, ems have been ordered to stand down through the night until about 7:00 tomorrow morning until this storm passes that they would not be able to respond. those emergency responders. but national guard troops, we can tell you, just within the last hour or so, brought about two dozen evacuees from two different schools, new york avenue school, southern avenue school in atlantic city, those schools are underw...

People in these areas did not follow mandatory evacuation orders because what then that does is puts first responders, firefighters, police officers, in the position where they have to go in and save people. weve seen a lot of that around here tonight. and i know from my colleagues up and down the shoreline, theyve seen the same thing as well. chris? >> i know there are reports as many as 600,000 people in connecticut are without power. there are entire communities that dont have any electricity...

11.87-foot record. the last time that happened was in 1821. let me show you back here. this is certainly not -- this water has been coming over here in battery park. these are waves that are just coming in. this is grass right here. you have the whole walkway and all the lights have been cut down here to the battery area and other areas are still showing they have power whether thats generator power or whether the utility company is selectively taking downpour, we dont know. but thats part of th...

Milling about and not even knowing what all the dangers are at that time its going to be an interesting morning. we also, chris, have to deal with another high tide thats starting to come in. not expected to be anything near like it was last night, but with the water, you know, still very high and with a lot of the subway systems and tunnels already filled with some water, it certainly cant help with another high tide and the storm still sticking around. residents here in this neighborhood, many...

Shelters were basically on an island in and of themselves. we saw traffic signals, the big yellow traffic signals down in the street. you know, just in pieces. weve been in atlantic city high school since about 7:30 tonight when we arrived we were told by the personnel here that the national troops and thats because, you know, police, fire, ems have been ordered to stand down through the night until about 7:00 tomorrow morning until this stormy passes. that they would not be able to respond to t...