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Have electricity by tomorrow, but many outages in new york city's outer boroughs and northern suburbs could last another week. so, two weeks more in the dark. about 4 million homes and businesses in the region are still without power right now. and as people across new york and new jersey struggle to get back to normal in the wake of the storm, one of the biggest challenges is just getting started. >> absolutely. millions are facing massive transportation problems, lining up in droves for buses, trains, and gasoline. more from abc's alex perez. >> reporter: superstorm sandy has led to a floo...

Connects the east side of manhattan with the west side on the southernmost tip of the island. and there's also significant flooding, jon, throughout the entire new york city subway system. one subway station in particular that we visited this morning had flooding as deep as 50 feet, all 468 subway stations in new york city, 600 miles of track, completely idle. and the damage also extends to the outer boroughs. let me tell you about staten island. we are told that the staten island ferry station which commuters as well as tourists use completely devastated, we are told, on the staten island sid...

It was a little smaller back then, only weighed about 150 pounds. >> the millions people around the world watching that. but what about the snow there? have they moved all the snow out of time square? the piles and piles of snow are beyond where you are. >> oh, oh, yeah. the snow is basically gone. oh, i mean, even -- even, you know, there's so many people going through time square that, you know, it turns to slush pretty quickly. they did clear it out -- there's very little snow around here. that's not a problem right here. quite different than the outer boroughs, some of those streets in bro...

Flood waters open oing up large potholes. road crews are working hard to clean up from the mess. bill: it's going to be a big story. meanwhile, the east coast blizzard might be yesterday's news, but try telling that to some of the folks still stranded at new york's airports. a 24-hour shutdown of the big apple runways causing a ripple effect. so much backlog combined with holiday travelers, it might be next year before some of the frustrated fliers get where they're going. that's the first week of january. many streets in new york city, especially in the outer boroughs, have yet to see the wel...

Surprised there haven't been more of this? >> yes, because, and this is one thing charlie and i agree on completely. new york city is the number one terrorist target in the entire country. the nypd, my father was a member of the nypd years ago, under ray kelly they are doing a phenomenal job. but we have a thousand police officers in new york city working on counterterrorism. the average city has two or three. but this is extremely expensive. and we have tunnels. we have bridges. we have roadways. we have a subway system we have ports. we have icons. we have wall street. we have so many church...