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I kind of feel guilty in a sense. >> gretchen: it will be months before we know what caused the crash. >> steve: find yourself kicking back a cold one a few days a week? well maybe. you may be using a calories intake a day on alcohol. a study finds americans on average consume 100 calories a day on alcoholic drinkings . 12 ounce beer is 150 calories same as a can of sode a. those who consume the most you guessed it, fellas. >> gretchen: follow up from super storm sandy. they get power back witho...

Home, and an apartment complex and a gas station. we had no power. >> gretchen: you finally got power yesterday, but you have a problem like a lot of other people. they got their power back, but now their heat doesnt work. >> thats right. because i have to wait for a new boiler, which they couldnt make an appointment until i got my power back. >> brian: how can you deal with the fact your kids go to school? >> i call the school yesterday and told them they cant return until i have hot water and ...

Ron -- >> roy. >> brian: i apologize. roy. roy, where are you and what have you experienced? >> we just got power back yesterday. im in long beach. long beach was without power -- >> brian: you guys were destroyed. >> yeah. but the really frustrating part was not only were we without power, we were without information. there was no way you could get ahold of anybody and it was the same with cable. you called the number and even today im sure its the same. you call the numbers, you get busy or no...

Island suffering from the same thing. youre right, will the lawyer win 30, 40%, yes, okay, that is not great, but let me explain a class action. but for this lawyer coming in and taking this lawsuit these people have more things to deal with, theyve lost their homes, they are trying to file insurance claims, doing all this stuff, trying to get power back, they dont have time to go out and hire a lawyer. the lawyer will come in get all the experts and of course the lawyer will make tons of money ...

A faulty furnace is not likely to blame. >> thousands of frustrated people in the new york area have been in the dark for two weeks now. the governor says he is not at all happy about it. he says he will launch an investigation into all of the power companies in the region which includes lipa, long island power authority. listen to this. >> they were not prepared. i think they were noncommunicative in their response. i think the noncommunicativeness actually exacerbated the situation. >> governo...

In indianapolis. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ ♪ . >> gretchen: jennifer longworth taught at southwest elementary for 12 years. she and her husband lived in one of the homes destroyed by the blast that rocked an indianapolis neighborhood saturday night. >> i found out he died, too, i cried. i just really cried. >> she would always read stories. >> she just loved her job. she was good with all of the kids. did an excellent job. >> gretchen: hundreds of people had been forced from th...

Stayed on my steps until i had to go to sleep because it was warmer outside. this is not acceptable, i have gotten all the papers that lipa asked for, and meaning i could have my power back, they were supposed to come on friday and have those papers in their hands. they never showed up, its sunday and theyre still not here. i want my power back, so do my neighbors, so does this town. >> utility companies in new york and new jersey say they are close to restoring power to the last of the 8 1/2 mi...

Is supposed to work. this is why i thought was most important in this election was what were the tactics of the republican party the last four years. their opposition party tactics of total obstruction to politically destroying the president of the other party. were those tactics validated. if they won power back by doing that, it will normally behavior by the opposition party our system is not billed for. the behavior of the republican for the last four years works in a british system where the...

Stayed on my steps until i had to go to sleep because it was warmer outside. this is not acceptable, i have gotten all the papers that lipa asked for, and meaning i could have my power back, they were supposed to come on friday and have those papers in their hands. they never showed up, its sunday and theyre still not here. i want my power back, so do my neighbors, so does this town. >> utility companies in new york and new jersey say they are close to restoring power to the last of the 8 1/2 mi...

Many are still waiting to hear about that, gregg. gregg: molly, you must be hearing pretty incredible life stories out there and how folks are trying to cope and probably first and foremost among that, is to, try to prepare themselves for the elements that have been pretty severe, especially at night? >> reporter: it is cold here. these are people that want to stay with their homes. they dont want to leave their homes alone for a lot of reasons. for safety reasons. and also because they dont hav...