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Moments before impact and almost misses the collision. >> i heard the whistle blowing and i spun around and caught it just at that instant. i kind of had a sinking feeling because i thought, oh, man, this guy could be dead. >> the train engineer and conductor check on the truck driver. he survives. rescue workers arrive quickly and take him to the hospital. hes released the next day. >> he was fortunate that the train wasnt going any faster. it could have been much worse. >> and in the southeast...

Which is nice to have time to ask god forgiveness before -- ask him to forgive you for anything that you have done to anybody else. >> but first responders arent about to give up. helicopters attempt to approach the top of the crane. >> were going to make a couple of passes just to see what we can do with it. >> the heat and 40-mile-an-hour wind prove to be difficult to overcome. >> we tried to hover up to it but its hot. we didnt get that close to it. >> firefighters brainstorm ways to reach si...

Tent city home. something you wouldnt expect to see in our country. but the storms victims as well as utility and rescue workers and military and volunteers even they are seeking shelter in the make ship neighborhoods and i dont have to tell you its bitter cold and some are set up at a race track parking lot and evacuees complaining about sleeping in the cold tents, lack of bathroom facilities and limited shower areas, more than 100,000 people in new jersey are still without power and offered th...

National grid, said last night theyre doing extremely well. >> we are progressing very well based on the unprecedented damage on the storm. >> i am very comfortable with how weve performed on this restoration. >> not comfortable with their performance, republican congressman peter king. he wrote a letter to president obama saying i urge you to personally intervene to insure that all appropriate federal assets and authorities are fully deployed to the impacted region. king and democratic long isl...

The game portrays realistic military missions. jay carney announced the president will be traveling to the new york city area to view clean up efforts after hurricane sandy. we are told people are still huddled in their home in the hardest hit parts of staten island with no power and no heat, not because they have nowhere else to go. but because they are worried about losing what little they have left. >> reporter: we are hearing reports of criminals going door to door claiming to be rescue work...

That we will go back, you know, coming up in 2014 and 2016, and beyond, and we will point to this election. we now have the template, the first presidential election of citizens united in this new era of raising money and its fallen from the sky, and we will tell ourselves as liberals and progressives, we can defeat this. this is not a center-right country. this country wants to invest in its people. and im talking about teachers and the president of the united states wants to invest $4 billion ...

Coming up in 2014 and 2016, and beyond, and we will point to this election. we now have the template, the first presidential election of citizens united in this new era of raising money and its fallen from the sky, and we will tell ourselves as liberals and progressives, we can defeat this. this is not a center-right country. this country wants to invest in its people. and im talking about teachers and the president of the united states wants to invest $4 billion in education. thatll make your h...

>> i can tell you the shelter we are working at closed at 8:00 and set up a couple of tables in the street in one of the most affected areings. you know my brother and his friend and hundreds of volunteers are out here. this morning helping people dig out and we hear the sanitation guys screaming there is bodies in the pile and they pull away debris and unfortunately unreported right now that was an hour and half ago. three more people deceased. god bless them. >> neil: john, we are hearing that...

The cost of everything from gas to hotel rooms to rented generators said to be spiking in certain areas. in fact, there is a report that in economy car at baltimores airport grumped 15 bucks to 230. thats illegal in the hardest hit state of new jersey where retailers are forbidden from increasing prices more than 10% after a disaster. they there already have been more than 100 complaints. today on "studio b" judge andrew nba talked about the penalties. >> they are very heavy with respect to fine...

East coast but none harder hit than people in the tiny community of breezy point in queens where a fire burned down over 100 homes. yesterday residents returned to survey the damage. nbcs rehema ellis has that story. >> looks like a war zone. >> reporter: like so many families here, patty cook fought back tears, looking at what was once her home. >> i bought this in bermuda in 1974 on my honeymoon. >> reporter: 111 homes were destroyed when hurricane sandy struck. fire that grew with 75-mile-an-...