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The infrastructure of new york it remains in all of the infrastructure pockets so the world trade center site, the paths are filled with 5 feet of water going back to new jersey. and the battery tunnel is filled. in the subway tunnel is where the utility company, con-ed, has the wires and trance formers so to get the pour we -- power on you have get the water out of the tunnel. president obama made us a priority to receive health from the corps of engineers a special team that pumps and they worked in katrina. they are onsite. we are showing them the situation and they are assessing it. we wan...

>>guest: the only thing worse is con-ed is a dopey company, and they have an electrical plant on 14th street that is always closed. >>neil: you are trying to justify your simple thoughts. >>guest: you don't know my simple thoughts. >>neil: why want to know. we disagree on this, and you know, it is a qualm among friends. but he just made his last appearance. a lot is ride on a smooth open of the markets tomorrow with investors watching closely and we will have the latest on this in preparations beginning at 8:00 p.m. tonight and i am back tomorrow at 9:00 a.m., presumably with this knuckle head...

And they will continue to work around the clock to get their systems fixed. our administration will move heaven and earth to help them so we can get back up and running as quickly as humanly possible, but the damages they face really are enormous. here's the information that we have as of this moment. regarding con ed and the mta, the most resent report has approximately three-quarters of a million new yorkers without power. there are something like 326 buildings and public housing developments without power. that's about 60,000 people and more than 26,000 apartments and many of them are in zo...

To you. clearly this is the weather incident of unprecedented proportions. and it really remains so today. the people who lost power, 8 million in total, you know, 3 million in new jersey and the 1 million nearly on long island learned today they could wait 10 days to be reinsayed the -- reinstated. the only good news manhattan and brooklyn will wait four days. it take a look behind me at the water here at the base of the brooklyn battery tunnel which is the connector between new york and brooklyn. con ed and the army core of engineers have been here trying to get access because a the love the...

-- telling people it was okay to stay and not evacuate. chris christy said it was the wrong thing to do. if things are bad in new jersey he is prepared to sign a executive order to reschedule halloween for the kids of new jersey. >> we'll go to maria molina who is looking at the weather that has come and the weather in front ofulse. a major transformer blast. this picture said it all. check out the big apple left in the dark. in the bottom that is manhattan before and after the outrage. con ed said it could be a week before the repairs are made. maria? >> good morning, good to see you. impacts...