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Mara, what is the storm surge look like there so far? >> reporter: andrea, i can tell you we've been out here all morning and things are absolutely picking up. i keep shielding my face from the sand coming in. look out here to see the waves are consistently growing getting stronger and bigger throughout the day and that represents the thing that officials here are most concerned about, which is major flooding from that storm surge. a storm surge that the national weather center has called life-threatening. the potential here on the south coast of long island here, which will bear the brunt of ...

>> and i think we've lost mara there, but she is safe. just the wiring on these reports. about 50,000 customers now have lost power, speaking of wiring, between massachusetts and rhode island due to the hurricane. joining me now from rhode island is the weather channel's eric fisher. eric, you see the real force of it there already and still low tide. >> reporter: i'm sorry, andrea. you bopped in and out a little bit there. bottom line in rhode island we have seen things deteriorate this afternoon. this morning winds around 40 miles per hour gusts. that's tip of a big storm through new england...