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Furious power of nature. gusts of 57 miles an hour ripped the face off this building and sandy's winds and rain tore through the city. a record storm surge almost 14 feet flooded lower manhattan filling the brooklyn battery tunnel with water. the force too much for the city's power grid. floodwaters shorting out this con ed substation. three quarters of a million new yorkers lost electricity. >> trying to get information. no one has power. no one has internet. >> reporter: adding to the misery daylight revealed. >> it's amazing. i mean, cars are completely destroyed. they were submerge under w...

Through the city. a record storm surge, almost 14 feet, flooded lower manhattan filling the brooklyn battery tunnel with water. the force too much for the city's power grid. floodwaters shorting out this con ed substation. 750,000 new yorkers lost electricity. >> trying to get information. no one has power. no one has internet. >> reporter: adding to the misery, daylight revealed. >> it's amazing. i mean, cars are completely destroyed. they were submerged under water. i mean, i'm floored by what happened. >> reporter: no borough was spared, from this oil tanker beaching on staten island to a b...

Water. further north in jersey city reports of building collapses, the oyster creek nuclear plant has been put on elevated alert amid high water. in new york, all of lower manhattan below 39th street is without power. some of that caused by an explosion at a con ed substation. right now new york city is seeing more power outages than at any time in its history including two out of every three people on long island. it's also forced the evacuation of the nyu medical center after the generator there went out. further south the storm surge in battery park set an all-time record exceeding 13 feet ...

Explosion at a con-ed substation on 14th street. you see it right here. likely caused by flood organize flying debris. the new york stock exchange will be closed for a second straight day to day. also, the midtown crane you may have heard about partially collapsed at the beginning of this storm is still dangling at this hour from a high-rise about 74 stories above the street. that's on 57th street in midtown. that block remains closed as officials figure out how to get this thing down safely. at ground zero, seawater flooded through the construction site there as low lying streets and neighbor...

And mid-atlantic at this hour, we know at least 16 people have died. more than 7 million people have been plunged into the dark and local officials have been stunned by the damage and devastation. good tuesday morning. i'm chris jansing reporting live from new york and parts of new york city are underwater this morning. the images from lower manhattan shows cars half submerged. tunnels, subways and the financial district flooded. all of lower manhattan is in the dark. some of those outages caused by a con ed substation that exploded overnight. more than 1.5 million have lost power across new y...