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Damage. mike tobin is in cleveland tonight. what's going on with the great lakes, mike? >> well, you know, shep, at this moment the winds seemed to have really calmed down and seem to just be getting calmer. at the peak of the storm they equalled that of a weak hurricane. the coast guard says the coast of lake erie really got it the worst. out here just about every dock sustained some damage. 30 boats sank in the harbor. another 25 boats are missing in england. power lines and take out big sections of the grid. a lot of stop lights are out. traffic is snarled. the cuyahoga river here in clevel...

Something right down there by pier 17. >> reporter: every one of the skyscrapers are without power. they're just dark. there is no street lights. there is no stop lights. in fact, the only lights are the headlights of the con ed trucks frantically trying to restore power. as they work through the night, which may be fitting for a city that never sleeps. i'm juju chang in manhattan. >> wow. what a view on the destruction. oh, amazing piece. president obama visits new jersey later today to see the damage firsthand. the state's famed jersey shore took a direct hit as sandy roared ashore. >> pow...

Manhattan i was struck by all of the tree limbs that are down, the scaffolding is down. there is debris everywhere and once you get below 34th street it is dark because that is where the power is out in lower manhattan. more than a quarter million people there are without power this morning and it has yet to be restored. that means there are no stop lights. the stores can't open and there are no lights in people's home, so that's another challenge. i can also tell you that what shocked people was the storm surge. it reached almost 14 feet and what it meant is that the new york harbor came up o...

I got the folks at the seaside heights police department, fire department and dpw to rescue me and patch my tire. i got to give a shout-out to nose folks because they really saved me. there's no goodyear or firestone store around to help me today. i guarantee you that. standing out in those winds 40 miles an hour, 45 miles an hour on the boardwalk with the spray and the sand and the saltwater stinging in your face was a very gruesome experience. one i would not recommend to anybody. we thought about going inland a little bit because of the overwash starting to come on to the boardwalk here, an...

Time. and obviously, that uses up your gas as it is. >> reporter: the storms knocked down trees, blocking an amtrak train, stranding passengers for more than 20 hours in west virginia before they were picked up by buses saturday night, all adding to the frustration and continuing fallout of friday's storm. >> well, we had always thought about taking a train ride, and decided this was a good time to try it. i've marked that off my bucket list now. >> that was nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker from washington, d.c. electric companies are working around the clock, but officials sa...