Only by helicopter and surveillance but as you can see, on foot and by rescue boats as well. Just a few moments ago a live reporter watching as rescuers brought out a small baby, a child, and an elderly woman all at the same time. Were going to be listening in throughout the next few moments. Lets hear whats happening now. Reporter every time there is a major emergency and these guys are just stepping up and women stepping up to the plate. Let me see if i can get somebody gentlemen, can you sorry. Actually just trying to figure out if theres more coordinated effort. Let me walk over one more time in the staging area and show you some of the faces here, mike, if we can over in the area with some of the people who are waiting here to be rescued should i say to be taken away and find emergency shelter. You know, theres a woman who is just standing there with the one we saw earlier with her dog and her little bag and she looks so cold. And, you know, as we said earlier, the People Holding the babies and its just this picture really says, i think, so much about the devastating impact of this hurricane. Sara, can you make out who is coordinating the effort there . Does it look like its Little Ferry Police . Is there a county presence . A state presence . Reporter its a Multijurisdictional Task force is what were told, and, you know, i just dont know if i can stop and get anybody here. Right, because clearly they have priorities of rescuing folks. We do hear the coast guard helicopter thats been hovering above you and you can only imagine theyre probably surveying the damage and the extent of all the flooding from the sky and there it is. Is it a coast guard helicopter or perhaps a state Police Helicopter . Reporter you know what . Im just trying to get this gentleman right here. Hang on. Bear with me for one second. Sara wallace, channel 7. As we continue to watch the pictures coming out of the local affiliate wabc, channel 7 in new york as we watch those helicopters hovering and speak to those local officials about their rescue efforts, we also have the mayor of new york city, this is a multistate emergency and the mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg, is getting ready for a live News Conference to update this city as well. He has a number of his staff behind him and a lot of different moving parts for the crisis. Notwithstanding a terrible fire and flooding. Lets listen. Thank you. Were joined by senator Chuck Schumer and Council SpeakerChristine Quinn and were here to update you on Hurricane Sandy which has now officially left the new york city area, but i think its fair to say that the path of destruction that she left in her wake is going to be felt for quite some time. Make no mistake about it, this was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced. Our First Responders have been doing a heroic job protecting our city and saving lives and they are still fighting fires and conducting lifesaving search and rescue missions, and we owe them an enormous debt of gratitude. The storm bought Something Like 23 serious fires to parts of staten island, brooklyn, queens, city island and the bronx. The terrible fire on breezy point is now under control but we believe we lost more than 80 houses. And the search and recovery operations there are ongoing. If any of you saw the pictures on television, it looked like a forest fire out in the midwest. The winds were just devastating blowing from one building to the next one and those buildings were close together. We are hoping and praying that there was no loss of life in those fires, but even if we can save every life, which kn we kn people have lost their homes, and i want them to know they have our full support in the days and weeks ahead. The 76 shelters we opened will remain open today and we will continue to keep shelters open until people displaced by the storm can safely return to their homes or find temporary housing. Our First Priority in this storm was and continues to be protecting lives, and thats why we ordered an evacuation of the areas most at risk and why we worked so hard to get people out. Sadly, the storm claimed the lives of people throughout the region, including at least ten in our city, and tragically we expect that number to go up as information continues to come in. And i did want to extend my condolences to all the families who lost loved ones in the storm and ask all new yorkers to keep them in their thoughts and prayers. In addition to the lives we lost, the damage we suffered across the city is clearly expensive and it will not be repaired overnight. The two Biggest Challenges facing our city Going Forward are getting our Mass Transit System up and running and restoring power. This morning we have begun the work of clearing and reopening bridges and roadways, both of which will take some time, and the best ways new yorkers can help us get this done quickly is to stay off the roads. The work is well under way. East river bridges have already been reopened. The work of getting our mass transit grid and our power grid restored, however, is going to take more time and a lot of patience. Mta ceo joe lohda has described this as the worst disaster in the 108 years the subways have been running and con ed has described the damage done to its Power Systems as unprecedented in scope. So clearly, the challenge our city faces in the coming days are enormous. The mta and con ed both have very strong leaders and extraordinarily dedicated workers. Theyre working extremely hard and they will continue to work around the clock to get their systems fixed. Our administration will move heaven and earth to help them so we can get back up and running as quickly as humanly possible, but the damages that they face really are enormous. Here is the information that we have as of this moment. Regarding con ed and the mta, the most recent report has threequarters of a million new yorkers without power. There are Something Like 326 buildings and 59 Public Housing developments without power. Thats about 60,000 people in more than 26,000 apartments and many of them are in zone a. The steam system in manhattan south of 42nd street was shut down as a preventative step by con ed. That affects heating, air conditioning, ventilation systems, including many of our honts, and because they shut it down preemptively, wire hopeful the steam system can be restored fairly soon. I spoke to con eds ceo. Any assistance we can provide we will talk to him again later on, but i think it is fair to say that you should expect given the extent of the damage, power may be out in lots of places for two or three days and maybe even a little bit longer than that. There is extensive flooding in all under river subway tunnels, subway yards where rail trains are typically stored also flooded, and i think that shows the wisdom of joe lohda in moving trains out of there to higher ground. I dont think there was any damage done to the rolling stock, but the tunnels are flooded, and thats going to be a big problem to get them back going. Public transportation remains closed until further notice is a good way to think of it. Theres no firm time line for the reactivation of bus or train service, but im sure the mta will do everything it can to have limited bus service perhaps this afternoon and hopefully well be able to announce or joe lohda will be able to announce restoration of most bus service by tomorrow. We certainly think the roads by tomorrow will be clear and free of water. All major airports serving the metro area are closed today. Runways are flooded and there are no flights leaving or arriving. How much damage was done to the navigation equipment and lighting around them we dont know yet. To help people get around ive signed an executive order that the permits cab drivers to pick up multiple passengers even if a passenger is already in the cab. It will also allow livery and black cars to pick up passengers off the street anywhere in the city. These measures will be in place as long as mta service is out. If you use one of these cars, please make sure that the car has a tlc license plate. Now, let me bring you up to date on our hospitals. We reported last night that nyu downtown and the manhattan veterans hospitals were closed. Nyu langone also had to be evacuated overnight. That is virtually complete. Bellevue hospital has lost power, but at the moment is operating on backup power. Coney Island Hospital has been evacuated. The department of health is sending people to each of the hospitals and chronic care facilities in zone a. We have had significant challenges at many of our hospitals and health care facilities. Fortunately, as of now, there has been no stormrelated fatalities at any of them. There are more than 6,100 people in our emergency shelters, and im happy to say there are more than 2,200 city staff working in those shelters right now. A number of our shelters lost power last night, but we were able to get backup generators to those that didnt have one. We received almost 4,000 tree Service Requests since the storm began. Those are for damaged or fallen trees. The majority of those are in queens. Let me just urge everybody, 311 for downed trees please or text 311 to report damage. They represent a real and serious danger and we have seen tragic proof of that today. Yesterday a partly damaged crane at a site on west 57th street required evacuation of the immediate vicinity. The department of buildings has determined that the crane is currently stable. However, we cant fully secure the crane until the wind dies down. The procedure is when the winds die down to try to get the boom and strap it to the building and then we could reopen the streets and then over a period of time the Contracting Company will have to figure out a way to build a new train on top and take that one down. Schools, as you know, are closed today and im announcing they will also be closed tomorrow. As to city employees, here is what weve told them. New yorkers need your help today work as the mayor moves into some of the more local issues now concerning the people of new york city, he just mentioned 1. 1 Million School kids out of school again today and here are the other highlights from where mayor bloomberg just said. New york city is known as a traffic hub for the entire world, not today. All three airports remain closed, the three major airports, newark and jfk and laguardia, those runways all flooded. Not only that, but the Public Transportation this is he is known for, the subways, the tunnels, many of them all still closed. The priority is to get that Mass Transportation system back up and running and also to get power back to the 1. 5 Million People excuse me, at least 1. 5 Million People who are without power in this city. That is also a priority for the mayor as well. He also said stabilizing that crane, which is really a perilous situation for so many people who live in that very, very concentrated neighborhood, that arm literally bent all the way from the lefthand side of the screen to the right bottom of the screen in the heavy winds and that is dangling and thats 70 stories above the skyline of manhattan. You can imagine with gusts of wind, that is very frightening. I drove through those streets last night. They are closed off with a large va sin ivicinity. For now that remains a dangerous situation. Many faces of the superstorm unbelievable. One of them in queens, new york, a massive fire overnight. You heard the mayor updating the number of homes, 80, 80 homes burned to the water line. The flooding, in fact, was hampering those efforts to fight the fire but they seem to have gotten it under control. Our cnns deb feyerick is there in the breezy point neighborhood. Some of the pictures were seeing from overnight just such a sad story. Most importantly though, deb, do we know that everybody got out alive . Reporter yeah, ashleigh, were having a little trouble hearing you. I know youre talking to us here at breezy point. Right now let me just bring you up to date a little bit because it looks like some of the reinforcements have arrived. Members of the National Guard who are here, some ambulances, firefighters are on scene, the nypds Emergency Services units also now. Theyre sending divers just to scour some of the homes closest to the water to see if anybody is inside and just to sort of assess the damage. A lot of people have arrived really within the last 45 minutes to an hour. As you see this wind and this rain thats just kicked up, this is whats so crazy about it. You almost feel like this superstorm just keeps kicking and kicking and kicking. I dont know if we have enough cord, you can see boats, theyre planning on putting some boats in the water. We shot some video earlier, i dont know if youve got that, but it really looks, ashleigh, as if this storm just took a massive sledgehammer and just started pounding away at the homes. Some of the entire fronts completely shattered. Homes off their foundations. You have others sinking into the sand. Water continues to rush back out into the bay. We were walking in some of those the thing about breezy point is that youve got homes, wooden homes side by side. Thats why you lost so many homes in one go in part because one home caught fire and then the rest just started coming down afterwards. You had a combination of floods. You had a combination of fire. One man said it looked like a war zone. Another man said it was almost like a mini hiroshima. You look and the houses have been raized to their foundation. Were not talking about one or two cars, were talking about more than 50 submerged. The damage still has to be assessed. Members of the National Guard, this is a very tightknit community. Folks are trying to get into their homes. Some are able to and theyre not finding too much damage. A little bit of water and flooding, but others, theres significant damage, and there are those clearly who dont know whether their homes are still standing. So thats where we are. Probably about 20 after 8 00 this morning when the impact of this began to dawn, that we saw this incredible rainbow that sort of lit up the sky and for a brief moment everybody paused and everybody caught their breath because it was so moving, but a lot of people right now just really trying to process this and its hard. And, deb, the mayor was just giving a News Conference talking about the death toll, which is ten people in the new york city area, but he said he believes that toll is expected to go up. I dont know if you can hear me, but do you know if all of those people got out alive . Reporter no, ashleigh, im having a little trouble hearing you. Thats one of the things. These winds are knocking out a lot. Theres no electricity. We want to let you know that they turned out all power here. The reason, of course were getting some signal breakup on deb feyericks line and obviously shes having trouble hearing. I will get that question answered for you. I think its critical and im sure that theyre trying to get that information as well as they start to go from house to house and neighbors start to confer with one another. Were going to get a quick break in just before i do though i want to let you know, we have a lot more to cover. There are a number of states that are in this emergency and millions of people without power. More after the break. The Ocean Heights marina inform egg harbor township, we saw another boat that ended up after sandy in a different spot from where the boat started before sandy because you wouldnt have parked a boat across a road like that. 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