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The personnel here that the national guard troops and that's because, you know, police, fire, ems have been ordered to stand down through the night until about 7:00 tomorrow morning until this storm passes that they would not be able to respond. those emergency responders. but national guard troops, we can tell you, just within the last hour or so, brought about two dozen evacuees from two different schools, new york avenue school, southern avenue school in atlantic city, those schools are underwater. they are in the dark. they lost electricity. they lost their generator power about. about two...

People in these areas did not follow mandatory evacuation orders because what then that does is puts first responders, firefighters, police officers, in the position where they have to go in and save people. we've seen a lot of that around here tonight. and i know from my colleagues up and down the shoreline, they've seen the same thing as well. chris? >> i know there are reports as many as 600,000 people in connecticut are without power. there are entire communities that don't have any electricity. can you see power anywhere from where you are? >> reporter: that's actually 600,000 customers. ...

11.87-foot record. the last time that happened was in 1821. let me show you back here. this is certainly not -- this water has been coming over here in battery park. these are waves that are just coming in. this is grass right here. you have the whole walkway and all the lights have been cut down here to the battery area and other areas are still showing they have power whether that's generator power or whether the utility company is selectively taking downpour, we don't know. but that's part of their plan. they are hoping that they will be able to shut down parts of the grid in order to make ...

Milling about and not even knowing what all the dangers are at that time it's going to be an interesting morning. we also, chris, have to deal with another high tide that's starting to come in. not expected to be anything near like it was last night, but with the water, you know, still very high and with a lot of the subway systems and tunnels already filled with some water, it certainly can't help with another high tide and the storm still sticking around. residents here in this neighborhood, many of them evacuated under that mandatory evacuation, but we still see some of the lights on, wheth...

Shelters were basically on an island in and of themselves. we saw traffic signals, the big yellow traffic signals down in the street. you know, just in pieces. we've been in atlantic city high school since about 7:30 tonight when we arrived we were told by the personnel here that the national troops and that's because, you know, police, fire, ems have been ordered to stand down through the night until about 7:00 tomorrow morning until this stormy passes. that they would not be able to respond to those emergency responders. but national guard troops we can tell you just within the last hour or ...