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Police say the surges are also causing light signals to fail and creating smoke in buildings.

Currently at the 101 west end. where one of the transformer fires broke out. there's a lot of people standing around. people with dogs who are standing around hook at the building. i tried to talk to some of the policemen. no one has given me any information on what exactly is going on. i'm looking at a fire truck. i'm looking at a fire truck, like one of the smaller trucks. it looks like they were trying to pull out some flashlights. it looks like they may be going toward the elevator. there may be people stuck inside the elevator. i'm not getting any information. >> were you there when the l...

Tourists and locals decide to just open the windows and wait it out or try to leave the neighborhood for the night. >> and again, nobody knows how long this is going to last because first and foremost, they need to determine the root cause of this. transformer fires have popped up. stand by for me, brian, i want to head out to the streets, polo sandoval is in midtown manhattan. polo, we're seeing in some of these images a lot of flashing lights, a lot of authorities out there now trying to do traffic control. what do you see happening? >> reporter: authorities are trying to keep up with the ne...

To our south right on the beach. we had to get out of there very quickly because the water literally within five minutes started rising and coming toward us. it was up to our knees. we knew it would get much deeper. we've also seen a lot of transformer fires. power lines are coming out and fires are not being put out because the fire officials aren't out right now. everyone is taking care of their families and taking care of critical situations. the situation near the coast is scary, we think it's dire because the water is so deep. people are just waiting to see what happens to their homes and...

The northeast. there's a lot of damage in these little towns we've been touring. a lot of power lines down and we've seen transformer fires on the sides of roads. we spent part of the day today in shell point beach. quickly the water started rising because of great concern here and is still a great concern because these are all low elevations right now at ten feet and the storm surge is expected to go as high as 13, 14 feet. that's why there was a mandatory evacuation which began at 8:00 last night in this area. i have seen, i've heard other things from other reporters and police officers in t...