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Congressman tim pitch open. good morni tim bishop. >> good morning. >> what can you tell us? >> well, it's very devastating. and, you know, it's 5:00 in the morning am i'm not sure how much current information i have. but as of last night, there was significant coastal flooding and coastal erosion. there was significant flooding in port jefferson and downtown riverhead was particularly badly hit. greenport was underwater. the area of the north shore was particularly hard hit. so we have some very serious flooding problems. and as of about 8:00 last night, 600,000 home on long island were out o...

That impressive. they were plenty strong enough to knock over trees which is the reason we have so many power outages. long island, they're saying about 80% of the island doesn't have power. the wind gusts are stronger there, 90 at islip. central park, 62 mile per hour gusts. jfk, they were gusting to 80. central park is a little more protected. as far as the storm goes, the immense size of this storm is still just amazing, even about eight hours after land fall, 12 hours after land fall, chris. it takes up literally a quarter to a third of the united states. it is still moving west. it is goi...

To other hospitals in and around new york city. the coordination that is going on in the hours leading up to sandy and now, chris, in those hours afterwards has been impressive and massive. >> as elsewhere, there's going to be a lot that we see here in manhattan when the sun comes up and throughout the rest of new york city, throughout the night, we've been getting reports from everywhere up in harlem where we're hearing about devastation to businesses where awnings are ripped off and a lot of trees down, a lot of debris around. but maybe the most dramatic, michelle, happened in midtown manhat...

panel to talk about aids. and we are talking about jobs, j j jobs, jobs, and the employers are not hiring enough to bring down the latest figures. you see that 80,000 new jobs were added last month but the labor unemployment rate remai remairemains 8.2%, and that is because of the jobs added in may. it is a different picture from the jobsarlier in the year. now president obama and mitt romney are talking about it. >> our mission is not to get back to where we were before the crisis, and we have to get back to what has been happening in the last decades, because jobs leaving our shore...

eastern tennessee overnight. reportedly killing two people and injuring dozens more people. the storm's tearing through parts of the great smoky mountains. the park spokesamerican telling wtae that a falling tree killed a woman and another man died when his motorcycle wrecked during the storm and rob mars an mow is going to let us know where they're going. >> good morning. >> well, the storms have weakened. around 5:00 they were rolling down the south, the western part of the smoky mountains. if you don't know east of knoxville. a lot of tourists get millions of visitors, as a matter...