KPIX CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley October 31, 2012
Were on the southern tip of manhattan, the area known as the battery, named for the battery of cannons erected here in the 17th century to defend the young city. But nothing could defend new york city from the wall of water that came crashing ashore in one of the biggest storms so far of the 21st century. Hurricane sandy filled the tunnels here with floodwaters unlike anything the city has seen in decades. The storm brought misery to 14 states from North Carolina to maine. At least 35 people in nine states have been killed. And more than seven million homes and businesses up and down the coast...