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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 ...

Returned, electrical power? >> caller: basically, almost everyone south of 34th street, included -- is without power. we probably have another close to 50,000 people in the other burroughs probably more than that without power as well. when power is going to come back on is a question, depending -- a different question if you're someone like me who -- con-ed actually turned our power off p proef laek tickly and that will be maybe tomorrow or the day after. they turned it down so it wouldn't get flooded. in other places where it's over head wiretion that may have been taken down by trees, that ...

The new york city fire department or fire department of new york has some 100 pepper nell on scene and a number of engines as well. that entire area is shut down to vehicular traffic and otherwise. i'm told that the facade fell into the street. no report of any damage. again, a four story occupied apartment building in chelsey in new york city. part of the reason for this, we have just gotten word from the mayor's office that here in lower manhattan at the world trade center site they have just recorded a 90 mile-per-hour gust at the top of the world trade center. in addition from the mayor's ...

Free is good. freestyle lite test strips. call or click today. . welcome back. milissa ray burger has more on the breaking news. >> the pictures are dramatic. this is a response to a helicopter going down in the east river around 26th and fdr drive that runs the length of the east side of manhattan.

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