Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130531:08:55:00
The rockaways are an enormously diverse place with every income level you can imagine, from the very destitute to millionaires. and when sandy hit, the richer end of the rockaways burned. hundreds of homes were lost to fire when wind and waves knocked houses off their frames and off their foundations, and then cut the gas lines, and then the fumes ignited and there was no way to put out the fire. the poorer end of the rockaways is where the city long ago built nursing homes and housing projects for people who they thought back then could safely be isolated out there, people they thought had no...