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Out in the floodwaters, huge waves tossed them into the marsh sweeping the boys away. martha: how sad. the search and the repairs continue, we are getting some disturbing numbers on the unbelievable scope of sandy's impact financially. at least first of all of course is the lost of life which bill was talking about and the number there looks about 74 people, although that number is expected to grow and the damage estimates are soaring to $20 billion. experts say that sandy could subtract as much as one-half of a percentage point from the u.s. gross domestic product and the numbers will continu...

Ever. the economic impact of sandy is still unclear. damage estimates do vary as you pointed out from 20 billion to as high as $50 billion. that means sandy could be on a par with the historic 1938 hurricane that slammed new york's long island and rhode island. now the new york stock exchange will open tomorrow, that is what the big board is telling us, but separate from that u.s. retailers may see holiday sales hurt as many is diverted to spend on rebuilding. an oil and gas prices could rice in the northeast if east coast refineries are shut down for a prolonged period. 7% of u.s. oil capacit...

Further. but it is a desperate situation for anybody who did not heed those warnings, which were said again and again by officials. get off of what is a barrier island. get out while you can. now it is way way too late. we wait for day break to see when this surge ends. and also the extent of the damage it has done. it is going to be bad here in long beach city and across the length of long island, shep. you and i have covered a the love hurricanes and we have seen a lot of storms. can i tell you i have never seen a storm surge like this, shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt live on long island in ...

That are flooded. but it is a lengthy list, but something that we can deal with. we don't have any areas that we have had any problems with though. no deaths on the highways or in any other way. >> we have had reporters a the row -- raw rehoboth beach. he could see power -- power up in the area. how about power outages? >> some power outages across the state. we have some lines down. that was expected to occur. but again not as widespread as we might have anticipated. >> any damage estimates yet, or is that too early? >> it is way too early for that. you really can't get good damage estimates ...

Off the newton creek requesting not trucks or cars but boats to evacuate the men inside engine 206. the water has risen so quickly. it's a live look at the fdr drive now on the main highway on the east side of manhattan. it is under water south of 20th street all the way around lower manhattan. the storm surge is lower manhattan has reached. the fear was the storm surge would top the previous record of 11.2 feet. instead it's now at 13 feet officially from the national weather service. and arrested cog to the national weather service that is enough to inundate lower manhattan. we are told now ...