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Much damage. it is too early to tabulate. >> that is so messed up. steve is live about what is left of the boardwalk. brian over to you. >> brian: more hard evidence about the obama administration's response or lack thereof to the benghazi attack. the chairman wrote the letter to president obama asking hymn a series of questions. did you pacificly direct the military to move available asset in libya to insure the safety of the american personnel in benghazi? and is and and so what did you order for libya. judge napolitano, judge, he's not getting worries . we can ask all of the questions but t...

>> good morning. >> gretchen: thank you for joining us. i know you're watching this from afar. you were one of those who listened to the experts and got out of the neighborhood, right? >> yes. and also i learned yesterday, we returned back to rockaway and i work for the councilman and we tried to get people president obama leave and they didn't heed the warnings and they stayed behind and that's my concern right now and it's the concern of everybody from the community is the safety of our friends and family that they didn't want to leave. >> steve: absolutely. we had the councilman on a little...

More than 200. there are three volunteer firefighters helping battle the blaze. they are on a race against the clock. the wind is kicking up. the high tide is going to rise again and people are just very concerned about the amount of destruction out there and trying it get the situation under control. this has been a storm of biblical proportions and we are just praying for the best right now. >> brian: all right. eric, thanks so much. we'll check in with you again and hopefully next time valley better news. >> steve: long island, one of the hardest hit areas, storm surges up to ten feet. now ...

Houses. you see the parking meters here that are a couple feet deep in sand? some of these houses on the beach lost the walls that faced the ocean. there is beach inside these beach front homes. looking north now, the large trucks down there doing some rescues and assistance with some of the heavy vehicles up and down the atlantic coast here in new jersey. you see dumpster in the middle of the street. a loft debris. it's a virtual waste land. no power. certainly no hard line phone service. cells are difficult. people here have an amazing amount of clean-up to do. >> steve: that's an understate...

State, that surge caused the surge of water into the hackensack river which caused it to overcome that natural berm. that's what caused the flooding. >> steve: also i understand -- >> we are in the midst of urban search and rescue. we've saved, started last night, we're continuing today. saved hundreds of people already and had them sheltered at other places, safe places. so we're in the midst of doing that. we'll get it done and we'll save those folks and we hope to have no loss of life. >> gretchen: because we heard there were a lot of folks in that area who were literally on top of their mo...