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For those what do not have heat and mobile medical centers are here so people can get the medical care. and beyond that you have large public housing buildings and many of them are still without power. but the residents do not want to leave because they are concern about their possessions. there is a lot of water damage around here in coney island and in brooklyn, in general. there is work on utilities to restore power and they have made progress. hundreds of thousands are in the character, 700,000 in new york without power and the numbers have improved and they are using utility crews to make...

Residents begin the massive clean-up effort. >> the first couple of days were okay, then is losing house. then the anger started to boil. >> many coastal towns are off-limits to residents because of the dangerous conditions on the ground. in some communities like long beach, new york, recovery is a challenge with no heat, plumbing or safe drinking water. >> this is tough for long beach. nobody has seen this. >> new jersey, utility crews are making progress restoring electricity. 700,000 customers are still in the dark. long line for limited trains, ferry and fuel. gas rationing restrictions in...

All gets back to protecting union jobs. you have a pecking order in this country where environmentalists and unions, their interests come before saving lives and helping other americans. >> eric: this has been running around the internet, i've gotten this four or five times on my twitter feed. i just can't believe it. i just can't believe that they would turn away help because they were nonunion. this doesn't make any sense. >> i got to tell you something. >> eric: if that's a problem, chris christie has been fighting the teachers unions. how about waiving whatever rules you got here? >> steve...

>> we are in a town on yearssy shore founded 125 years ago this month and facing the greatest challenge in history. hundreds of homes are heavily damaged or destroyed including these on the beach. some of them knocked off the foundation to expose gas lines. utility crews all day to cap the lines. in the travels around the small island we have seen cars that were buried in some of them up to five feet of sand. there was four feet of standing water here. a lot of daniel to homes. about 1,500 homes here that many of which will not be able to be repaired. we saw boats on the glimmer glass draw bri...

The emergency operations out of that community because it is underwater. at high tide it was completely underwater. let me tell you about something else there that people started texting me, saying they heard a report that there was a car that went into the river, into the shreducshrewsbury river. apparently it was swept away by ocean flood waters into the river. when the call went into the county dispatch, there were reports that there were people inside that car. they've not been able to report that, but the deputy director of emergency management said that they did confirm the car went into...