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The storm were left stranded last night. the new jersey governor announced no rescue services until today. >> i cannot in good conscience send them into the dark, given all the various hazards that would occur. >> reporter: new york city was hit by a 13-foot surge of seawater, flooding the newly unveiled ground zero memorial, subway stations, and tunnels. >> i'm in new york. i have never seen anything like this particularly going into a tunnel. >> reporter: in rockaway park, queens, emergency crews scrambled to rescue people trapped in the path of a fire raging out of control. in manhattan hun...

Getting freezing rainfall on and off, and part of the downtown area is flooded, rob and paula. >> all right. now, tahman, you are in ocean city. are people stranded? were they given evacuation orders? >> reporter: people were given evacuation orders, but a lot of people are stuck here. a lot of the streets are flooded. there was a main bridge that was shut down. the weather was very intense here. a lot of people, really, with no place to go and just having to hunker down and stay here. >> all right. tahmam bradley in ocean city this morning. you're much warmer and drier than you were yesterday...

Atlanta airport today alone. >> it impacted us from departure standpoint. flights have been delayed on each push. throughout the concourses but here in check-in we have been able to get passengers, pretty steadily through. on a regular basis. like any other day. >> snow created havoc for skiers to the west to hit the slopes. some city saw six to 12 inches of fresh powder. northeast and mid-atlantic freezing rainfall has people scrambling to get out, even as they wish for a white christmas. >> looking forward to white christmas. >> we had adequate staffing and got the passengers out quickly. to...