Downed power liens started this fire. The big problem for the firefighters, a lack of water appreciate your. 50 homes have burned to the ground. Two dozen more are in the process of burning. We are following the story for you as the day continues. Well have more information on that. More to tell you about, including floods and Power Outages. New york city brought to its knees in a large way. Superstorm sandy was an epic weather event, many people are calling it. Millions of lives have been disrupted now. A transformer explosion happened at a con ed plant about 15 blocks from where im standing right now. What that has done is put basically this neighborhood in Lower Manhattan completely in the dark. They were concerned about this transformer so theyve shut it off as well. That has plunged tens of thousands, people here but more than 600,000 people across new york and into Westchester County are without power today. Backup generator failed at nyu langone Medical Center, probably about 35 blocks from where i am. 260 patients had to be evac waited. Some were newborn babies. You can see the pictures here as they bring these babies out of intensive care, carried by their nurses. In some cases they walked down the stairs with the infants because the respirators, obviously those need electric power. When the power failed, the nurses had to take the respiration on by hand using massive pumps to get the air into the lungs of these babies. They walked down flights of stairs to be able to get the babies out into the transport vehicles and into other hospitals as well. Some of those patients were carried down 15 flights of stairs. There was 12 feet of water in the elevator shaft of that building. City transportation shut down, it cowl be days, maybe four days, before the subways reopen here. Want to show you a loop of sandy right now. For new york city, the storm has finally blown through, although the winds are high and were seeing intermittent rain here. If you look at the loop here, for places north, sandys officially a post tropical cyclone. According to the National Weather service, wons between 70 and 90 miles an hour still possible in the tristate area, 13 people are killed here in the United States in the aftermath of sandy so far. 5 of those fatalities took place in new york, one in connecticut, three in new jersey, one in West Virginia, two in pennsylvania. One on that hms bounty. 13 people had to make their way on to life boats and were eventually rescued by the coast guard. One crew member has been pronounced death in the wake of that tragedy. Across the northeast, 6. 5 Million People without power. Predictions were saying it could be as highs a10 Million People. Lets continue to update you on some of the things happening where i am, Lower Manhattan. Lots of darkness all around us. This is area a which means they were evacuated. This is a lowlying area. Theres roughly 75 feet, the water has been going back out into the river. Not far from where i am. About a block away we have the fdr drive under water massive flooding there as well. Lots to tell you about this morning in addition to where i am, we have mike galanos, deb feyerick with us on the south shore of long island, lindenhurst. Brian todd is recovering Rehoboth Beach which is in delaware and sandra endo is reporting for us in ocean city in maryland. So lets get you updates as well from philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. Going to get first to deb feyerick as we mentioned, shes in lindenhurst, long island. Yesterday was water was in some cases waist high. Hows it looking there this morning, deb . Reporter you know, its looking better. A lot of the water receding but, again, full moon, waiting for high tide. So its yet to be determined as to what will happen once daylight comes. We can tell you, the smell of gasoline very, very strong. A number of homes in this area beened to the ground. You have this dichotomy between floods and fires and people trying to fight both, trying to figure out whats going on. A Police Officer walked this up road, just a short time ago, he was going to work. He said all the homes at the end of this block are about three feet of water saturating the entire area. You can see some of the boats that are here in this boat yard, they are now in the water as well. Again, its one of those situations thats so fluid, strong winds still, not a lot of rain. But, again, with so many people who have been mobilized, we spoke to one official earlier who said sources right now, resources are stretched to the max. That there are certain areas where they simply cant get resources because there are not the people to mobilize. Here in lindenhurst, the mayor called out about a thousand members of the national guard. Theyre on scene, ready to do what they need to do. Right now, people wanting to know whether in fact were going to see sort of a second wave of water coming up high because, again, the damage just keeps coming and coming and coming. Soledad . All right, deb feyerick updating for us what lindenhurst, long island, looks like where they are having major flood problems. When the sun comes up, well get a chance to see how widespread that damage is. I want to take you to Lower Manhattan, a cross where i am this morning. John berman is stationed there where the floodwaters came up very, very high. John, good morning. Reporter good morning, soledad. Thats right. Where im standing right now, last night was part of new york harbor. The floodwaters came in from the hudson river and the bay right behind me. It swept up and went about 30 feet back there. It would have been way past my waist. You can see where the water came in and flattened this garden area here, these bushes were standing up much higher before the water swamped them. The storm surge unprecedented. Nearly 14 feet. Thats feet higher than the record setback in 1960. Out in new york harbor they saw waves 32 feet high if you can believe that. The storm surge unprecedented. This area also part of zone 80 evacuation zone, some 370,000 people told to get out of these lowlying areas specifically because of the storm surge that came. Were expecting another high tide after 9 00 a. M. This morning. We dont expect it to flood quite as badly but it is of concern. There is still expected to be a storm surge as you see this morning. And soledad, i dont know about you but as i was driving down here, i never seen new york like this, just the power out from 29th street, south of that completely black and within the west side highway where i came down, there was a great deal of debris, construction materials, lots of buckets. No power liens. Because in new york city most of the power lines were underground. New york has never seen weather damage, at least i havent seen weather damage, like this in new york city. Soledad . Yes, absolutely true. Its quite remarkable. You know whats interesting, they keep saying below 29th street. I live on 26th street. My block has power. I believe its 25th street that doesnt have power from there. Well have to check in on that. I went by to check on my house and there are lights on my street. As soon as you go farther south, no more. John, thank you for the update. Lets go to mike galanos, he is in Atlantic City where they have tons of damage, really devastating pictures from the afternoon before the storm made landfall and then when it did make landfall, absolutely remarkable pictures to talk about. Mike, good morning. Hows it looking now . Good morning, soledad. Right now and, again, you mentioned intermittent rain, gusts of bitter cold wind kissing me right now. To reset the scene, you talked about some of those pints. I was standing in it. About a half a block behind me, soledad, that was basically a raging river hn me. It all came together about 8 00 last night, the storm surge, high tide. That water was up to my knee. If a car drove by id get a wave of water over my waist. Thats what we were dealing with here in Atlantic City. I mentioned the storm surge, the high tide, the wind gusts practically knocked me into the water. Thats what we were dealing with last night. And again, governor Chris Christie not happy with the mayor here in Atlantic City, Lorenzo Langford. In a press conference yesterday evening he was intimating that he gave people permission to stay. He was flabbergasted that one of the shelters was a block away from the water. The hotel to my last is the sheridan. Thats where i stayed last night. Some families thought they could ride it out, realized they could not. They ended up at the sheridan here. There were a lot of families, dogs and thats what was going on. As im walking to my room, people are hanging out in lobbies, talking, commiserating. A few dogs growling and banking at each other. That became the new normal here in Atlantic City and im sure other places as well. Mike galanos for us this morning. Watching whats happening in Atlantic City. Well be seeing what the damage is this morning when the sun comes up. Thank you, mike. Appreciate it. Lets get right to Zoraida Sambolin at the time warner center. Well start with the crane here. Take a look at these live pictures. A powerful winds from Superstorm Sandy causing a partial collapse of this construction crane that is now dangling high above midtown manhattan. On the left is what the crane looked like before the collapse and on the right its what it looks like now. As it dangles dangerously from a highrise building there. The fear here of course it could plunge to the ground at any time. Last night piers morgan talked to a crane expert about the potential danger here. Theres several different scenarios. If you see that boom hanging down, lets say the house swings around and the boom gets into the arms that are holding the crane up, that come out of the building, if it hits that, theres a possibility they can break, then the cranes coming down. Thats a xaerry proposition. This building is called 157. Its supposed to be the tallest Residential Property in manhattan once its completed at 90 stories. Its a pretty expensive building. The penthouse there sold for over 90 million. Heres what i can tell you about the crane itself. City records say that at that site, theres 158foot crane. It includes the 108foot boom and then the 50foot jib at the tip of that. And typically when they secure this, it looks towards the building. Now its dangling away from the building. They did, take a look at this to make sure it was safe on friday. The engineers took a look and deemed it was safe. Mayor bloomberg is saying maybe it was a crazy gust of wind that caused it to shift that way. They are bringing in a crew today to continue to look at this. They have evacuated people from that area. There was a hotel that was evacuated. I believe it was the one soledad was staying at. They secured that area. To make sure that nobody comes by. It is incredibly unsafe. Soledad, back to you. No, i have one more story. A sudden rumble and a cloud of debris when the facade of a manhattan Apartment Building is ripped off. Take a look at this. This is happening as sandys enten winds tore through. It left apartments completely exposed. One firefighter did have minor injuries there, soledad. Thats remarkable, about ten blocks from where i live. What a remarkable site to see, the whole front of that bulling sheered off. Well get a chance to check that out and see how it looks when the sun comes up. I want to introduce you to leroy lindsay. He was walking by this morning. We were asking him what hes doing out this morning. He said he was going to check on his mom. She was supposed to evacuate. Why didnt she . Shes stubborn. You wanted to check on her. Shes doing good. She has candles on and everything. Shes all right right now. Trying to get us uptown a little further. Lets show you the building. If you look at this building thats behind me, they shut down as i mentioned because of the exploding transformer. They shes in there, shes in her 70s. There other people in there . No, she has her neighbors. Whats the plan . You said you wanted to go further uptown. It looks like the power will be out for at least a week. We cant deal with that. If you see me on news im coming to the crib. Look out for me. I know you have power and youre probably watching this right now. Ill get up there. You know how i do it. Youre warning your friends . Yes, yes, yes. How about your home . My daughter and my wife are home right now. They are doing what they can. They know im out here. A couple blocks up that way on avenue c. Im doing good, though. Just trying to pass the time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. We certainly appreciate it. We have some other news to get to, breaking news this morning. There has been a dam break, authorities are now on the scene. They are rescuing people in three new jersey towns because a dam has broken. Were going to bring you more information on the towns where this has happened and also well bring you some information on the rescue efforts there right after this commercial break. 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This is cnn breaking news. Welcome back, everybody. Were bringing you special coverage this morning of the aftermath here in new york city of Hurricane Sandy, Superstorm Sandy. Now we know that authorities are conducting rescues from homes in three new jersey towns after a dam has broken. It occurred, the dam break that is, after midnight in the town of munake in burgin county in new jersey rescues are under way in munake, little ferry and carlstat, new jersey. People may need to be rescued because a dam has broken there. Were following this story for you as it develops. This is breaking news that were just getting in to cnn. Well continue to monitor this story as it unfolds if thousands of people do require rescuing from three new jersey towns in burgin county, new jersey. Time too turn now to chris olhert, hes with con edison. I want to talk to him about the Power Outages. Tell me the numbers. We heard that hundreds of thousands of people were without power. What are the latest numbers on that . Soledad, right now, there are 670,000 new yorkers in the city in westchester without electricity, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. This is the worst stormrelated damage in con edison damage. Whats the strategy now . Im on the Lower East Side, avenue d at east houston street. The transformer on 14th street, con ed power plant exploded around 8 30 last night, that youve shut down this area. When can folks here and across Lower Manhattan and even those folks in westchester, too, hope to get their powerback on . At different times, soledad. What we have to do with underground equipment is make sure the water has receded and make sure its safe to restore in areas where theres salt water we have to clean that out and then just make sure its safe to get the electricity back there. On the overhead systems, we have to obviously get access. There are around system, for example, 180 roads in Westchester County are closed. For your view her dont know the area, westchester is directly north of the bronx. Its a suburban community. A