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This will happen. >> and joining me now from kay may, new jersey, the southernmost tip of new jersey, danielle lee. what is the situation there? cape may is close to where this hurricane hit, made landfall? >> reporter: good afternoon, andrea. people in the town of cape may largely spared by this storm, and let me show you why. here at congress hall where we rode out the storm, they're laying out the picnic tables. to the left they're removing all of the panels from the windows. the damage here was very, very small. most of the flooding was contained to one street. that is so different conside...

We just sent a crew down to the south street seaport and i can tell you looking at the tape, the damage down there, windows blown out, water that came up as high as six feet, is really xrerds. now, today, new york city faces two problems. one is power outages. about three quarters of a million new york city residents who are without power today and the second is mass transit. there is a little bit of good news regarding mass transit. first of all, the bus service is going to start to be restored at 5:00 this afternoon. they're going to have sunday service. they hope to fully restore by tomorro...

Atlantic ocean. tell me, what is the extent of the damage, when can people return to their homes? what have you seen so far? >> the damage is really catastrophic, andrea. i just left union beach which is one of the towns along the bayshore on the sandy hook bay and the homes within maybe three or four blocks of the beach, many are completely destroyed. the waves carried some of them away. others are just, you know, pounded to a pulp. i've never seen anything like it. in long branch where i live, the boardwalk i would say two-thirds is destroyed, the promenade is under, the pier had serious dam...

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