Today. Right now the storm is over pennsylvania. Torrential rain and in some places, blizzard conditions. Here is the big picture as best we know it. 67 in the caribbean. Close to 8 million customers in 15 states and the District Of Columbia have no electricity. Spent last night in red cross operated shelters. This may be the worst storm ever to hit new york city. One of the Biggest Challenges is where the massive subway system is shut down, tunnels and stations are filled with high water. No idea when the trains will be running again. This is a difficult situation. Take a look at laguardia airport. The runways are submerged and levels were so high they reached the jet lanes where people usually walk on to the planes. An entire neighborhood is destroyed by fire. At least 80 homes burned to the ground in the new york burro of queens. This is an awful image. People are going through hell right now. Tell us about it. You know, they really are. About 80 homes, the fire official telling us it could be as many as 110. This is a pile of twisted plastic. The irony . These are sandbags. People expected this area to flood. What they didnt expect was the fire. When one house caught fire, the homes are so close together that the wind just swept that which is about 30 houses that way. The tires completely melted off. Just the snapshot of the devastation. We spoke to one firefighter and he told us just as the surge hit he thought he better put on his life jacket and float to Higher Ground. Then went back to rescue even more. A total of 14 people that were here when that fire began. And he was able to help them get out. Story after story. People staying too long. But those who simply got out also hit when you look. There is just nothing that is salvageable. We have seen washer driers that are completely melted. Refrigerators that have disappeared. Every now and again. You are looking at remnants of what were homes. You may be able to see the foundation. But the home itself completely gone. The home itself completely destroyed. The heat so intense that the homes simply just melted. Story after story of people who either escaped or at least they were able to make it out before the storms. Wolfe . Where are the people who live in the homes . Do we know where they are being sheltered right now . This community is called breezy. And you have a lot of retired Police Officers. You would open your window. The breeze would come through house to house to house. Everybody knows each other here. That is what is so incredible. One man is standing in the middle of the debris saying my sister lives here. Her fatherinlaw lives here. Her friends live here. They know what this area is supposed to be. It appears that everybody did get out safely. There were no fatalities in this area. There were some Emergency Service personnel, they were dressed in thick rubber suits going from home to home. On the other side, these are completely flattened and completely devastated and destr destroyed. When you get closer to the bay and beach, you see homes and it looks like somebody took a gigantic sledge hammer and went home after home after home knocking them off their foundation. In some cases they are completely zung into the sand. A couple of houses they are still here. Ultimately its going survive. Its going to make its way back. Thanks so much. These amazing aerial pictures just came in late this afternoon. North of Atlantic City. As the floodwater receded it left a thick blanket of sand covering blocks and blocks and blocks of homes. Chris christie said the level of devastation at the jersey shore is unthinkable. This is not far from the area where the coast guard will spend all day rescuing hundreds of people trapped by floodwaters. Brian todd is on the scene with more. What are you seeing and hearing, brian . Reporter not all of them are victims from this incident. At just after midnight, a birm or a levee was breached by a tidal surge and water just came in within just a few minutes and pretty much engulfed those three towns. Babies had to be pulled out. High clearance as you can see behind me the weather is still not very good here. In the school behind me, one of them, 9yearold mill dread schwartz has lived in new jersey her entire life. I talked to her just as she got off one of the rescue vehicles. I never seen anything like this ever. Can you describe what happened when the water came . We were sleeping. My daughter and i. Hearing stories like that from victims all over the place here. Many of them coming through this facility and they are just trying to get people matched up together. For the they are still not out of the woods yet. I just asked that two officials how many people are still out there. They said look, we dont know. Were still going door to door in these towns. Four to six feet of water on the street. That is a standby. Rob is joining us from new york city right now. Just down the street from this location, amazing pictures from this unlicensed ho ed hote was torn apart. Just down the road is headquarters. We were allowed up into their war room. They call it the situation room. He told me that south of 29th street is blacked out with a few little spots. And on the east side is 39th street. It could take up to four days to get complete restoration of power. Those areas could take as much as ten days. So unusually long amount of time. He said this is the worst he has ever seen it. Worse than irene. This is a frustrating situation to him. It has all to do with underground infrastructure. I shouldnt say only because that would be a record breaking storm surge. We had one that was higher than that. Thats the main reason that it will take so long. Some of those areas deliberately shut down power out of precaution. Explain what happened. It is convenient because you dont have wires aboveground. But during a flooding situation that can spell big problems and it did. So they will shut down some of the stations as a precautionary measure and saeal them off so they dont get the corrosive salt water in there. They judged it on the past historic storms and built it higher than that. Thats exactly what sandy brought them. So an unprecedented event and something that really they didnt plan for. I asked them are you going to look into upgrading that . That would cost serious dollars but he did acknowledge, thats a question that certainly has to be discussed. I know you have spoken with a lot of new yorkers. How are they reacting . Especially the lower part of manhattan . Youre reporting that you will be without power for another four days . Theyre not happy about it. I can tell you that. And your friends and neighbors and see what is going on. This is only day one, wolfe. To get complete restoration back it will take a while. A lot of people are plugging their cell phone ins all over the place. Some places are allowing folks to do that in the world of hand held devices. It is currently stable but looks like it is dangling precariously. Construction crews will strap it to the building so the city can reopen the streets below. Cnn acquired this amateur video of the crane collapsing during mondays heavy winds. A Contracting Company will have to figure out a way to build a new crane to take down the damaged one. We will have live reports with more details on the dramatic story coming up in the next hour. The superstorm that brought rain and flooding to new york and new jersey is bringing massive amounts of snow. Massive amounts of snow to other parts of the country. Were going live to West Virginia where they are dealing with blizzard tonight and more bad weather could be on the way. [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. Prego . but ive bought ragu for years. 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Call 1800ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Read and consider it carefully before investing. Lake michigan right now. You can see its getting pretty choppy and wavy. These are the effects from Hurricane Sandy that have reached all the way into lake michigan. The storm that used to be Hurricane Sandy has not gone away. Its still a major problem for big parts of the country. When the wind blows from north to south, the waves get very big. It takes a long time to get there. You go the coast, go the shore right there, waves are already 20 feet crashing there. That is big enough. That is impressive stuff. Something else that i dont think anybody expected. It is already the low pressure there that everyone was talking about that will combine with the hurricane. Its snowing hard in many spots. Blizzard warning in headhouse, maryland. Garre garrett. These cities picked up record low pressure. Pressures that have never been that low. Including widewood, new jersey, and places into pennsylvania. That tells you this is a very deep storm, a low low pressure to be breaking all time record pressure. We know all about the damage that happened to the jersey shore. The damage there is really tremendous. We have only had just minor pictures so far. The jersey shore will the pictures of the devastation, the people there from sandy hook a little farther to the south are talking about blocks of homes that are damaged or just gone. Were not up in the air yet with helicopters. Its just too windy. A couple of first flights with the coast guard. We will see dramatic pictures, even more dramatic than we are seeing now. I covered hurricanes for a long time. We know it gets windy. We know it gets that the floods develop obviously. But we dont necessarily associate hurricanes with snow. Why snow . Why has it become part of the hurricane. 6. I can verify everything that champ was saying. Look at the depth of snow we have here. And what makes it that much more difficult is this is a really thick, heavy almost concrete consistency of snow. Its really wet stuff. Thats the problem. Thats why you are getting a slow moving disaster in West Virginia. The power is going out. Its started this morning with maybe 90,000. Then it went to 120,000. Now to 300,000. The more it snows and builds up and piles up on the tree limbs and that is what we have been seeing happen. They suddenly explode to get this burst of snow and the crash of tree limbs coming down and somewhere in that mix of power lines as well. Who knows when it will get turned on again. In these circumstances, it is isolated areas that often are the problem and it takes a long time for the crew to get there and find it. We know there are blizzard conditions in West Virginia and maryland as well. Explain how a hurricane leads to this kind of snow. That is north of where we expect hurricanes to land. And its november, or at least almost. We had a cold novemberlike storm come in from the back and the cold air was already here and then it combined with the hurricane and came across new jersey and now parked right about pittsburgh and its not going to move very much. It will spin for a couple days before it moves away. The moisture moves in and hits the cold air and you get the lake effect snow. And its ocean effect, hurricane effect snow because it is coming down and picking up moisture and dumping it down on the spine. I just noticed a few last pictures where snow is mixing. Especially the higher elevations. Let me go back to Martin Savage. Are they expecting more of the blizzardtype snow coming in or is the worst of it over with . They are still expecting more. This particular area, the blizzard warning is supposed to expire at 6 00. Whether that really happens we will have to see. Its still blowing pretty hard and the visibility is still not good. There are other areas where they anticipate they could get up to three feet. They could have blizzard conditions all day tomorrow. It depends on elevation and how far south or southeast you are in the state. This is going to go on for a while. It looks like its parked overhead. It looks amazing. Its hard to believe that this is the result of a hurricane. We will stay in touch with you. You will hear the message for the rest of the government and for the american people. And mitt romney has shifted his focus as well. What if there was a new way to deal with money that focused less on fees and more. On what matters . Maybe your bank account is taking too much time and maybe its costing too much money. Introducing bluebird by American Express and walmart. Your alternative to checking and debit. Its loaded with features, not fees. Because we think your money should stay where it belongs. With you. The value you expect. The service you deserve. It feels good to bluebird. 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I want every agency to lean forward and make sure we are getting the resources where they where they are needed as quickly as possible. And to them and to the communities that have been hit so hard is were going to do everything we can to get resources to you and make sure that any unmet need that i that is identified we are responding to it as quickly as possible. And i told the mayors and governors if they are getting no for an answer somewhere in the federal government, they can call me personally at the white house. Tomorrow the president will visit hard hit areas of new jersey. Mitt romney has had to shift focus because of the storm. Voters are getting a oneday reprieve to what had been a fierce fight at an event here in ohio. Mitt romney did get out in front of the cameras. It was billed as a storm relief eve event. Turned this ohio gymnasium into what looked like a food pantry and when he took the microphone he set aside his usual jabs at the president. Instead, romney called on americans to do what they can to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. A lot of people that will still be looking for goods even though we have gathered these things. I know that one of the things i have learned in life is you make the difference and you can. The republican candidate said the donated supplies woumd go to new jersey where the governor and Chris Christie was on the morning talk shows, giving the president high marks for the handling of the storm. The president is incredibly helpful. He has been supportive and helpful to our state. As soon as sandy was bearing down, democrats were pointing to this debate when romney was asked whether the state should take on a larger role. Instead of the Current System in place led by fema. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the state, thats the right direction. And you can go further and send it back to the private sector, thats better. 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Just across the bay is where michael is standing by. Whats the latest . Whats going on there . Reporter funny thing. We were there yesterday, before the main part of the storm came ashore. We went to that spot there and already the waves were crashing through the dunes. Sea water was coarsing down som