yesterday showed just how widespread that destruction truly is. it's heartbreaking. and the randomness of the damage is truly remarkable. >> reporter: you can see what was once a kitchen, and if you look inside those kitchen cabinets, all the plates and cups stacked up as if nothing happened here. it looks like this picture can't be real. and that's what strikes you when you look at these pictures. you look at them and say this couldn't possibly be real. >> yeah. more than 1.3 million homes and businesses across the storm zone still without power. now a full week after the storm hit, sandy is being blamed for 106 deaths in the u.s. now we have cold temperatures, plunging. we have folks on our own staff living in their homes without power. so they're just surviving now with blankets and trying to, you know, gather around one another to keep warm.