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Billions of dollars, what they're not telling you is they're giving it back to themselves. look at where we live at. they put us in zone b where all around us, to the north, south, east and west, is zone a. but all that land nobody lived there. so where the regular people live l live nobody is getting paid. we got the oil and it looks like florida got the money. >> bp executives are claiming, at least in the story on "60 minutes" there's been a lot of fraud when it comes to the payout. >> bp wanted the fraud. they cut the deal to make it looklike fraud so they could appeal -- they wanted to be...

Street, battery park city, much of that underwater. i was there earlier today. we watched the promenade where people frequently take a walk in the evening, completely covered with water. some 10,000 people live in battery park city. it has now been designated zone a. that means mandatory evacuation. about a thousand to 1500 of the people who live there, though, decided that they were going to tough it out. they remained there. at this hour many of them do not have electricity, probably most of them do not, and without electricity, the elevators do not work in lower manhattan. also not working,...

That is virtually complete. bellevue hospital has lost power but at the moment is going, is freighting on backup power. coney island hospital has been evacuated. the department of health is sending people to each of the hospitals and chronic care facilities in zone a. we've had significant challenges at many of our hospitals and health care facilities. fortunately as of now there has been no storm related fatalities at any of them. there are more than 6100 people in our emergency shelters, and i'm happy to say there are more than 2200 city staff working in those shelters right now. a number of...

And they will continue to work around the clock to get their systems fixed. our administration will move heaven and earth to help them so we can get back up and running as quickly as humanly possible, but the damages they face really are enormous. here's the information that we have as of this moment. regarding con ed and the mta, the most resent report has approximately three-quarters of a million new yorkers without power. there are something like 326 buildings and public housing developments without power. that's about 60,000 people and more than 26,000 apartments and many of them are in zo...

Possible. i'm having a mental block. yesterday i ordered an evacuation of residents and businesses in the area designated as zone a in our coastal flood plan, so let me reiterate what i said yesterday for everybody's safety. it's also for the safety of the first responders who might have to rescue people who remain in zone a and whose own lives could be put at risk because of that. if you're still in zone a and can find a way to leave, leave immediately. >> mayor bloomberg talking about the conditions he's facing as mayor of new york city and evacuations that are taking place in zone a. those ...