And 15,000 flights across the country have been canceled. Ines ferre has the latest in new york city. Reporter thousands of new yorkers today are without power and the southern part of manhattan is virtually shut down. Reporter a storm surge nearly 14 feet high pushed ashore flooding hundreds of miles of coastline from virginia to massachusetts. Its the most flooding i have seen in all the years i have lived here. Reporter floodwater and high winds have knocked out power to millions of people. We are seeing a large number of fires caused by downed wires and electrical problems relating to outages. Reporter more than 200 firefighters are still battling a blaze in an evacuation in queens. More than 50 homes have already been destroyed. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. And Power Outages prompted a Mass Evacuation from nyu hospital when a backup generator failed. Dozens of ambulances lined up to evacuate more than 200 patients throughout the Early Morning hours and extra help was called in to help move patients. We have 50 firefighters coming here as well, as well as from help from Greater New York hospital association. Theres a lot of help. But its a challenging situation. Reporter just about all of southern manhattan is shut down. The floodwaters are receding but sandys record surge proved to be too much for the island. This was the scene at the brooklyn battery tunnel as the hudson river overflowed its boundaries. Sandy came ashore just south of Atlantic City monday night. The citys famed boardwalk took a beating. 80 sections were swept away. Once on land this is almost like from fall to immediate winter overnight. Reporter sandy combined with a cold front to produce a massive snowstorm in the appalachians. And the subway system in new york city is dealing with what the mta is calling an unprecedented situation. The New York Stock Exchange is closed. There are no school classes. Live in new york, ines ferre. Now back to you. Thank you. Among the casualties from sandy a replica of a historic ship made for a movie. Cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran joins us now with a dramatic rescue operation as that ship went down. Reporter the Boulder Police departmenty was built in 1960 as a replica of the original 1787 vessel. The bounty was built and now its a complete loss. One by one the coast guard plucked crew from the ocean. The bowny sank when her engine and pumps failed. It was built in 1960 as a replica of the original 1787 vessel. Its a sad thing with a ship like that. A sad thing. All that work and all the history of that boat just gone, just like that. Reporter the bountys captain is still missing. This were 16 crew on board, 14 were rescued. One person died. This morning, here are pictures out of new jersey that show that extreme damage. This storm is being blamed for flooding, toppled trees on cars, downed power lines and thousands of evacuees forced to seek higher ground. Atlantic city became an extension of the atlantic ocean. Seaweed and ocean debris swirled in the knee deep water covering downtown streets. Take a look at this. This is the snapped construction crane thats 75 stories dangling over a condo construction project. These are live pictures that youre looking at right now. Its swinging like a pendulum over midtown manhattan. Now, this broke yesterday afternoon when the winds hit new york city. A nearby hotel was evacuated in case the snapped portion of the machinery broke and crashed. About 7. 4 million homes are without power on the east coast. We did just get off the phone with pg e. The Utility Company says they are sending more than 150 employees from Northern California to help restore power on the east coast. Live in studio, cate caugiran, cbs 5. Thank you. Sandy has been downgraded from a category 1 hurricane to a Tropical Storm. But sandy isnt quite done yet. Still massive and full of water. Lets kick it over to lawrence and find out whats next today. Even lost the Tropical Storm characteristics. But its still a very dangerous storm system as it moves onshore. It was interesting watching the approach moving along the east coast and making that hard left turn coming in perpendicular to the coastline combined with the very low pressure that you normally find in category 2 or 3 storms helped to lift up the water and we had that record surge into new york at 13 feet. Now it has moved onshore. So the core is starting to warm with the storm but you have a lot of rain and some places seeing over 11 inches of rain and you have snow which is very unusual for a tropical system. And it looks like heavy snow in the appalachian two to three feet and more to come. Strong gusty winds. Its a slowmoving storm so well see heavy rainfall in places they have already seen a lot of rain. Flooding expected across the northeast so it will take a couple of days before it moves out of town. Here in the bay area we have low clouds and dense fog heading out. Some of those visibilities lets than a quarter mile especially along the coastline and into the north bay valleys. Throughout the day today it is going to turn out to be a nice day 40s and 50s now. By the afternoon these temperatures moving up into the 60s maybe some 70s so right about average for this time of year should be a decent day but theres a threat of some rain on the way. And it could affect your trick or treating. Boy, i cant i hate that why does that have to happen i know. I hate that, too. And then it could affect the thursday morning drive, as well. Lawrence says it could be wet for that. In the meantime well enjoy dry conditions. Its good on the roads actually so far. We have not seen any major accidents just the usual commute on the bay bridge. We are just starting to see delays in the middle fastrak lanes usually the first indicator that they turned on the metering lights so now we are backing up to the end of the parking lot. Elsewhere to the other maps, i mentioned some delays near the Oakland Coliseum. Well, it was southbound 880 approaching 66. It was a stall. A taxicab driver stopped to help that person so may still be out there blocking a lane. We were seeing a few brake lights again just in the southbound lanes headlights are making their way southbound. And the good news we can see this camera once again. Earlier it was clouded up by fog which could impact visibility across the bay area. Thats your timesaver traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. The storm has forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and that includes hundreds that were supposed to travel into or out of the bay area. Cbs reporter Elissa Harrington is at sfo this morning. What can passengers expect today . Reporter passengers can expect more cancellations and especially if they are trying to get to an east coast hub. Heres the board. Things are change throughout the morning. We are looking at the arrival board at terminal 2 at sfo. A couple of flights from new york and philly say they are going to be here on time on the departure board one flight to new york also says its going to be on time. Snow word if that should change because of the storm. Check your flight status early and often. I have counted 17 canceled flights at sfo this morning but more than 200 have been canceled to and from the airport since yesterday. The storm has absolutely crippled air travel to and from the east coast grounding nearly 14,000 flights stranding travelers. Even internationally. Nearly 14,000 flights have been canceled. [ signal breakup ] more than 200 have been canceled out of sfo alone. The destinations affected including jfk, boston, chicago, philly, newark. A quarter of the flights in the United States pass in and out of new york so travelers all over are feeling a ripple effect. I spoke with one stranded passenger this morning who spent the night at sfo sleeping on a ben he is a grad student and is desperately tryingget back to new york to make it on time to his class tomorrow. I [ indiscernible ] 20 from the airline to update my flight. Whenever i try to call them, the automated machines say the volume is too much and i couldnt contact them amend they hang up on me every time when i try to call them. So i have to be here to update the flight. Reporter sounds frustrating, doesnt it . The best thing that travelers can do is try and make the changes online or over the phone. It could take airlines days to get back to their normal schedules. At sfo, Elissa Harrington, cbs 5. You can find continuing coverage on sandy on our website, cbssf. Com. At the top of the page you will find links to watch live video coverage and track east coast radar and, of course, those airport delays. How about some baseball . The world series winners got a big welcome when they returned to their home ballpark in San Francisco. Giants flew home from detroit boarded a fleet of team buses for the trip to at t park. And as you can see, a ton of people on hand. The manager singing the praises of his team. This was a special group. And, you know, were not saying goodbye. Well be here a couple of days, then it will be, see you later. And well see what happens. But i cant say i have had more fun than what i had this year. Giants players took turns showing off the trophy to the crowd. There it is. Next up tomorrow, that trophy on display romo i dont think is going to give it up, though because of the big parade at 11 a. M. , starting at Market Street ending at the civic plaza. The podium where the giants will stand show off the trophy tomorrow afternoon. Of course well have live special coverage of the parade of champions here on cbs 5 and on cbssf. Com beginning at 11 00 tomorrow. They are letting us outside. They are. Should be exciting. A new effort is under way to limit the power of San Francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. The citys District AttorneyGeorge Gascon says he is drafting a law this would prevent mirkarimi from handing domestic cases this after the sheriff turned down a suggestion from the d. A. That he recuse himself from those cases voluntarily. The proposed law would need the support of at least six supervisors. Time now 6 11. When we come back well speak live with people evacuated because of the super storm sandy. Plus, can women actually get too much treatment for Breast Cancer . The surprising results of a new study. And the show must go on. How late night comedians in new york dealt without laughs. ,,,,,,,,,,, beepbopboopbop boopbeep. [monotone] she says, switch to progressive and you could save hundreds. Call or click today. And paul shaffer. Provinge show must go on, despite tht they can closed the subways and we cant get an audience. So do we do a show or not do a show . I dont know. Its up to you. Its up to me . Yeah. Lets go for it. Do a show . Come on, lets do a show. All right. Come on in. Why not. The thing is hey [ music ] David Letterman and Paul Schaefer proving the show, yes, must go on despite the nasty storm last night. As you can see, in the studio there the show was done yesterday without a Live Audience at the ed sullivan theater. Jimmy fallon also did his new york talk show without an audience yesterday and they were missing some Staff Members because they couldnt get to the building. It might be a day or two before they do get an audience. We have stephanie on the line who lives in new york and stephanie, youre still in manhattan, right . I know you guys had an awful tough night. Right. Maybe you can explain exactly what happened and where you were and what it was like . Sure, no problem. So, yes. Im in lower manhattan. Im on 20th street between first and fdr drive. So im actually just about 30 feet away from the east river. And last night, it was just incredible. The wind was massive. There were some people actually for some reason playing outside and you could see the wind literally blowing them of the water was up to peoples waists. And we actually probably around midnight we could hear this guy yelling in the streets because he saw how his car was completely submerged in water. So it just it was a complete mess last night. It sounds like it. You sent a great picture of the water in the basement your building. Can you tell us what was going on there . Yeah. Absolutely. So, uhm, i wanted to kind of see what was happening so i went down to the basement . So this is me standing inside the batesment taking a photo of what it looked like from the outside inside the basementful you probably see a dark line . The water is actually about a foot above that line so almost surpassed the window of the door. What are they saying to you in new york now to are people cleaning up, are people going to work or is everyone hunkered down waiting for things to clear up . Well, i think most people are hunkered down. I knew my office was going to be shut down monday and tuesday. Theres a lot of fire trucks out there trying to cleaning things up. A lot of people are strolling around trying to see whats happening and taking photos. But power is out. So we are actually thinking about maybe trying to stay with some friends for a couple of days. Were just sitting in the dark right now. Yeah. Crazy. Okay, stephanie janof live in an apartment in downtown manhattan. We wish you the best and thanks for joining us. Thank you. Joining us now on the phone is matt gunn. Matt lives in new york and he was evacuated on sunday. He is now staying in new jersey. First of all, matt, how are you doing this morning . Doing okay. Looks like the rain has stopped, let up. So you were evacuated on sunday. Can you tell us what the conditions were like then and have you heard anything about your neighborhood or maybe even your house . Yes. Sunday we went out for a walk. It was a very calm day, the day before i think the mayor had made some announcements say that we were standing by waiting for the storm and warned us not to go surfing. So naturally sunday morning we went down to watch all the surfers take advantage of the big waves. We got the Evacuation Order maybe around midday sunday and it were just prepared to leave so we packed the car and headed for high ground in new jersey. It was still calm sunday and we at times doubted ourselves for leaving. But from the sound of it now, our neighborhood and many of the surrounding neighborhoods have all been flooded and there are a lot of fires toward breezy point which is about a mile away from where we live. Matt, were looking at some pictures. It looked like a truck with sandbags and guys obviously surfing some big waves. Tell us where you live and have you had a chance to go back to see what kind of damage there is there . I live on the rockaway peninsula. We are maybe 300 yards from the beach on one side and maybe 900 yards from the jamaica bay on the other so were mostly surrounded by water out there. And really all of that peninsula has water close on both sides. Okay, matt. Well, we hope when you get to your home that everything is intact and okay and glad that youre doing okay this morning. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Okay. And lets toss it over to lawrence now. You know, we would love to say that the storm is over but it is big and still dumping lots of rain. Its come onshore and winds are tomming down a little bit. Still sustained are calming down a little bit still sustained at 65 miles an hour tremendous amounts of rainfall. We are not done with sandy yet. Here in the bay area we have dense fog to start with this morning out the door. Thick along the coast and parts of the north bay valleys. Visibilities less than a quarter mile that will lift by the afternoon. We should sunshine. 60s at the coast. Enjoy it, we have some changes coming. One last day of this ridge of High Pressure and then you have the system developing off the coast. Looking to bring some rain, can you believe it, for halloween . Maybe some trick or treaters getting wet especially in the north bay. Lets time this out for you. The fog gives way to sunshine. And then tomorrow late in the day here comes the storm system dropping in, into the evening hours in the north bay. And then overnight, on tomorrow night into thursday morning, more showers spreading throughout the rest of the bay area. So yeah, it looks like the giants parade is going to be okay. For today were look good. 70s into the south bay, about 65 degrees in pacifica. East bay temperatures running into the 70s and then inside the bay, looking at highs as high as 69 degrees in oakland, 67 in San Francisco and a pleasant 73 degrees in santa rosa. Next couple of days return to wet weather around the bay area. Showers likely to continue into thursday. By friday and saturday, looks like a return to warmer weather, maybe 80s on sunday. Thats a look at weather. Lets check things out with elizabeth. We can see some of the fog moving into some of our Traffic Cameras. Fortunately it looks like its still free and clear in the south bay but check this out getting busy especially in the northbound lanes of 101. This is right there by the mckee exit where we sent our photographer this morning and brake lights towards santa clara. The san mateo bridge commute is off to a great start. Westbound 92 still about a 14 or 15minute drive time heading toward foster city. Still seeing green traffic sensors. Things are overall moving fine. This is a live look at the incline of the bay bridge. It looks more stacked up in the way this Traffic Camera looks than it actually is. Metering lights are on. Its backing up to the first or second overcrossing towards San Francisco. That is a check of your timesaver traffic. Back to you. Thank you. Its 6 22. Can women actually get too much treatment for Breast Cancer . The surprising results of a new study. How about the 9ers put a big hurt on the cardinals last night. The highlights and the play of the day, boom, from that game when we come back. ,,,,,,,,,,,, Breast Cancer treatment fins that for every life saved. Three women are overtreated. 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