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Martha: i'm trying to give you an idea of how unpresents departmented this storm really is. at times during the height of the storm there were wind gusts of more than 90 miles an hour and up to ten inches of rainfall along the east coast. it produced a storm surge of a wall of water of nearly 14 feet that plunged into downtown manhattan shattering the previous record that because set by eileen whic irene which folks thought was pretty bad 14 months ago. sandy was nearly 1600 miles when it caught up with the winter storm in diameter and created very dangerous seas over a stretch of the atlant a...

But low pressure prevented them from being able to put the flames out. we'll get a story from that scene in breezy point. we'll bring you that. meantime a new york city electrical substation explosion was caught on camera. look at that. that was the scene on the east side of manhattan in the middle of this storm. con-ed says it does not know if flooding or flying debris caused the blast. it clearly started everybody in the area. >> what is that? [bleep]. i don't know what is going on. it is hurricane. what the hell is this? something just exploded. martha: listen to the wind in the background....

Basically underwater as well. you will see amazing pictures over next couple hours. they're coming in every minute as we speak. this super storm has literally knocked out power to more than 7 million homes and businesses in 17 states. nearly four million dark in in new york and new jersey right now. this storm plunged parts of lower manhattan into complete darkness. it turned the streets near wall street into rivers. basically, from just south of the empire state building down. they have complete darkness. a very eerie sight for everybody in this area. let's go to rick leventhal who has weathe...

Sandy made landfall with atlantic city, new jersey with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. that was around 8:00 p.m. eastern time. so the storm continued to move inland and over portions of pennsylvania. it dumped rain over several states. new jersey seeming to get brunt of it, or gotten the brunt of it, just shy of a foot of rain reported there. it is still raining there. it is likely we'll exceed a foot of rain. otherwise delaware, 9.55 inch muches of rain in milford. a lot of areas seeing heavy rain as well. bill? bill: maria, blizzard conditions in west virginia, a foot or two on...

Feet of snow on the ground in the mountains of west virginia, lower elevations have about a foot on the ground. it is still snowing there this morning. 128,000 without power in that state alone. authorities have been forced to close 5 miles of a major interstate because of those blizzard conditions. also parts of north carolina hit with heavy snow from this storm. the governor declaring a state of emergency for 24 counties in the appalachian mountains where high winds are still hitting the tar heel state. there are ski resorts opening torpblgs its earliest opening ever. we are a week away from...