well, guess what, you may not have seen the worst of it yet. relax. relax and get ready for a long haul. neil: thank you very, very much. we are going to join or fox's affiliates to much of five, in progress, for their coverage ongoing effort and sandy and michael bloomberg about to speak. >> third emergency. your not going to get better service, and you're just keeping others may have a real-life trending service from dating servvce. and stay off the roads. you are getting stuck, just keeps the emergency vehicles from getting to help people and it may be your family it needs the help. the same thing said before. if water is coming into your home go to the highest area. it could save your life or the life of a felony yorker. these are not games. we have said from the very beginning, this is a once-in-a-lifetime storm. the search is very high.

the suspected to be high. slightly higher than what was forecasted by those that stock -- talked about the highest estimate. we have to get the emergency services to where they are needed. that means we better know where the images is dark. so if you're clogging 911 we cannot find that out. we have to get the personnel to where people really need help. if your car is blocking the roads, we cannot do that. as to the current weather, the rank and i'm happy to say it has passed. we don't anticipate anything more than a few showers are now one. in terms of the winds, they should go below the air force in the next few hours. they're already started to drop. as for the storm surge, a very big part of it is over the next couple of hours. the high tide was at roughly 815. it is not to:00. next low tide is at 6:00 a.m., so we are heading down. you will see a lot of the rose that have currently flooded the

water we will drain off. most new yorkers have follow our advice. the cooperation we have received has been great. not everyone has cooperated. by midnight tonight we expect the surge to recede. we will be able to get to people in need the help. things have gotten tough, but we will get through this together. as the city always does. let me summarize for our spanish speakers in our audience. [speaking spanish] so the message is one more time, don't, when one unless it is a real life threatening emergency. you're just blocking the

emergency vehicles from getting what they want to go. but for most of the people who stayed off the roads and particularly all of those that are out of zone a, will be ordered everyone to get out, you made the right decision. we are grateful for the corporation and we will do everything we can to get all the services that we need to everybody and to get the city back going to most of it to my hope, will come back during the day tomorrow. and we are just going stag get through this the way that we always do. thank you very much. >> that is it from the mayor, not entertaining any questions. >> not at all, but a lot of headlines to monday the biggest headline not to drive no matter where you are the new york city area. which is certainly going to be somewhat of a concern for a lot of people. we want to welcome you. you're watching fox news continuing coverage of hurricane sandy. it is ten and 3:00 p.m. on the east coast. and we have been dealing with a

lot of power outages throughout the tristate area. >> right now south of 309th street, manhattan, all the power is out. huge portions of our viewing area under water,,inundated with water at this moment. you're looking live, i believe that is the trevor rowe brakes, one of the last bridge is to close, closed at about 7:00 p.m., but we have people trapped all over the city. we have people in midtown manhattan trapped in their apartments, people in queens to muster an island, and we have this water that fortunately just reported essentially crested or peaked about maybe ten minutes ago and should, should start ebbing. well, it already has. essentially we have passed, as mayor bloomberg said,,the worst of it. the worst of the storm is beyond us, and the waters are starting to recede. >> yes. lower manhattan.

the water is starting to slowly go down, and i'm going to emphasize slowly. we still have the flow coming up from the atlantic. the tide is going out, but it's going to be a slow process in doing this, so there will still be a fair amount of standing water for several more hours, particularly in the areas that have been hit hard. again, that is the good news. the bad news is reassessing the water rise in the western long island sound, just about 14 feet now at kings point. that is right here on the western edge of the long island sound, so the water is continuing to rise. that will continue to be an issue as we go through the next three hours. we will reach high tide of about 1130-midnight. those of you on the north shoree you have your flooding search to go through which includes lower westchester and the lower bronx and extending into the southern sections of connecticut. still rain bands rotating around. it has not been the story for us with the storm out of, some of these bands will still get as. they will not be like these have

the areas of rain that came out of the storm, buthere will ill be bothering yes. we want to talk about the wind that is a factor. peak wind gusts, 90, 94, 81, gusting to 77. seventy-seven, kennedy gusting to 75. now the wind is still pretty busy. sustained wind, and they will start to back off as we get past the midnight hour, so sustained closer to the storm. you can sort of see their rotation here, basically the winds between 40 and 50 miles-per-hour sustained, backing of a little bit. the latest tests, and we are still seeing the guests around the high 50's along the jersey shore, 75. the last hour, gusting to 62. as you get out for laguardia. casting into the fifties as you head out on toward long island, so our focus we will shift to the north shore, the water should start receiving a bit on the hudson river. that is the good news. a little bit of flooding for a while in east harlem as the water continues to flow down from more and unsound and on

into the east river. back to you. >> thank you very much. we're going to go back down to lower manhattan if we can. the neighborhood that is that going to be back to normal anytime soon. >> certainly one of the neighborhoods that is in the dark. 250,000 people in manhattan. >> have things changed? >> well, no. it is getting darker and darker. and i have to say, people who are able to see this picture as the mayor was making his dire warnings, the mandatory evacuation, so many more people would have left. you can see what it is like. an unprecedented picture here in lower manhattan. of course we have felt soup climb the steps as the water was rising. still there waiting for the water to go down. i heard they say that with the worst of it over the water will slowly recede, which is great news, but in a lot of these areas the damage is done. think of people living in high-rises which is certainly a problem. they don't have elevator service right now, but a lot of the basements in these businesses and homes, apartment buildings,

absolutely under water right now you can see in the streets, and the basement level as well. i would like to point out, more than one hoor ago, you know, there is no telling when they will go back on. i heard you guys talking all night about the power being of below 34th street in manhattan and this is just one of those areas. combined with the water that rose a little over need this level for a lot of people trying to walk through it. it is release startling to see here in lower manhattan, literally on battery place and greenwich. >> if we can stay with you for a little plant -- a little bit. selling the camera around and show as the bowling green area. we will be ae to see much more, but i would like to get another sense. i think it is a little bit to the right. customs house is right behind you. everything down there is pitch black. >> my cameraman here, a little bit to the right. yes. absolutely. such an eerie sight. some buildings, as you can see,

have generator power. they are late, but really not many, and this -- it is just an incredible sight. very, very dark. of course over that way we are hearing reports of the brooklyn battery, now they hugh carey tunnel flooded. and you can also see some people out still. shocking to me folks wanted to see what is going on. someone is walking their dog. i guess business has to be done no matter what. but kind of walking around sticking it out. see for themselves something they have never seen before. >> frankly probably did not expect to see tonight. >> better vantage point that you were just showing when you were petting a moment ago, it looks like there were buildings with lights on. is that director and my seeing something different? >> there appears to be a parking garage, and a couple of nonresidential buildings that do have lights. i'm assuming those are generators. the street lights are hot. the street lamps around. really just about everything.

>> that is something we should mention because i am actually in one of those areas below 309th street. or 36 street that does not have any power, but we did hear a word that some of the hospital's obviously have power because they have their own generators. so obviously they are able to operate, but if you are in a private building, you are without power at this point. >> we are happy to report this and clarify something. a widely reported, the stocks exchange and wall street was under water, we are told that that was an erroneous report. has been withdrawn. that exchange is intact and not under water.t, folks. this is a big, big, big deal. please stay with us and we will have much more. >> system on the other side of the break. ♪ the legal protection you need? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start.

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stays on. one of them blew off earlier. new jersey. >> without a doubt. you're watching continuing coverage. the hurricane sandy. welcome back. you can see this re-signed they're about to fall off. and adrian has been hunkered down there for most of the evening. and we understand you have taken some shelter, inside of a truck, but obviously giving us this great vantage point. tell us what you know now. >> that is right, guys. the wind is so tough out there, it is too hard to stand out there. if you heard my live shot earlier, it is too windy to even speak about an hour ago things really kicked up here. we must have been in the eye of the storm earlier, but things are really ferocious out there. you can see that sideways rain. it is just really unbearable out there. i took a ride with the state police down to the water, and many of the boats are loose. they are just cruising around.

they have come off of this cinderblocks. we saw cars that are completely flooded and homes, i mean, most of the homes here in and talk in long beach island are taking in water. what is most disturbing is that the state police told me that maybe 15, 20 percent of people did decide to stay, and those emergency evacuations that i have been talking about all day, they have stopped, so these people are on their own. they're only going in for life-threatening emergencies. so that is -- that is the scene year. lots of wind, lots of rain, and even miles from the beach we are seeing waves and taking lots and lots of water in. neil: thank you. we feel better that you are in the truck because there was serious debris blowing around. take care. we will check back. >> thanks. we feel pretty good in here, too. >> all right. we want to come back to manhattan and show you this

picture. a tree down and 72nd street and west end avenue. you can see the ridge right there. >> a number of trees coming down like this in the heart of the city during a storm. let's go down to 100 street and first avenue. serious flooding. this scene is repeated really up and down the eastern seaboard. >> is really unprecedented. i mean certainly we have been saying that. i heard you say, gregg, that this city really has not been in this much trouble since 9/11, and when you see all of the reports of power outages and manhattan and also the flooding and not just zone a, the battery area, but all over the city. >> just to be sure, this is the most significant event to happen to this city since 9/11. this is not yet rival 9/11 in terms of casualties at historic proportions, but since 9/11 we have had the anthrax care, maybe flight 587, but i cannot think of one single event that rivals

9/11. does not really rival 9/11, but this is the most of-incense 9/11 >> and we were just talking about men and, obviously, but what is interesting to me is that in 15:00 p.m., is it true that there are still areas that have yet to search? we have been talking about this. connecticut, westchester. >> that's correct. that is going to be long island sound. they have yet to have high tide. that will be coming in between 11:40 p.m. and 12:15 a.m., the western edge of long island sound which will include the kinetic is short. looking at some of the new numbers, by the way. and water levels of to of a 16- 17 feet in anywhere from bridgeport to stanford and going on southwestward toward the western edge of the long island sound. a lot of water. kings point passing the 14-foot mark right now. so that is going to cause a major flooding of the western edge of the long and unsound. the north shore. the income as we talked about, western connecticut. in the meantime, the water is

receding in lower manhattan, down about 13 feet. still going down. but, i have to tell you, flood waters, again, up over into cardiac island, up into jamaica bay. kennedy airport and laguardia under water. and this is significant for a couple of reasons. we know going in and out of there, but the water was so extensive it may have damaged the approach lighting systems or, and/or, some of the western approaches used to guide their planes to land at those airports with the weather is bad for. now, fortunately with new modern technology we have the availability of gps navigation, which, again, can be shifted to that next back up plan, let's say, until they fix some of these components that were broken, but, again, i'm putting the cart we have the worst. that is something to consider. by the way, closed until further notice. we can see that the surge is going out or i should say the tide is going out, but we are still getting the push of the

air coming out pretty strongly of the south and east, so that is going to continue. rain bands will rotate around the storm tonight and begin tomorrow. we are by no means done with this. we are done with the worst of this. the wind will be gusty until midnight and we have one more big surge to go for western lore and unsound, but when we get to tomorrow morning high tide cycle, you know, we will have about normal tide coming here once again. the flow will continue up out of the south to miss that will bring the water back end, not to the degree that it happened tonight to but we will be back in the potential for more flooding going out tomorrow morning off in the areas that got hit pretty hard for today. eventually again the system will be meandering toward central pennsylvania where it almost is passing philadelphia and kind of turning northridge and sitting into upstate new york as we movv into thursday in toward northern new england, which means this giant circulation is going to sit on top of us for a couple of days. clouds we will stay. more showers tomorrow.

wind will be gusty as strong. sunday, 30 miles-per-hour, gusting about 508. a lot better than today. even wednesday we will have clouds and showers and at that point we will see the wind starts to back off even more. still, probably not going to be looking at the sun breaking through clouds again and tell maybe not even thursday, probably going to be friday at the earliest. that should set this up for a great weekend ahead, on the cool side. let's talk about wind gusts. dusting to 94. hyoscyamine able to find. ninety. east region 81. pahlavis winds picked up speed when the center was actually passing off to our south and west. so this is sort of after the point of closest approach. we had the strongest winds move into the area. you can see a wind up there. the when sustained. find this. look at the rotation. the wind coming gap. so here is the center right in this fashion here moving off to the west-northwest.

still a pretty good clip, 25-30-mile per hour. strong as wind gusts in the as we move northridge, again, wind gust backing off. a hurricane guest in newark casting to 62. the guardian in the 50's as a move out across long island. the strong discussed during the day to my 50, 60-mile per hour range. ninety now per hour gusts. and it did gusts over 60 miles-per-hour in midtown. some of the most recent wind gusts to 62 in the city and into the 40's as you get off to our poughkeepsie and iceland and those locales. we talk about the high tide at kings point coming up. right now 14 plus feet. here comes the high tide at 12:00 a.m. over 16 feet. a new report we might hit 17 feet. that is, again, a whopping number way above flood stage, about 7 feet, about moderate flood stage, so that will have major water to collect. bridgeport is the same deal.

their flood stage may be even higher. for talking about 16 feet. that, again, happening 12:10 p.m., -- 12:10 a.m., 12:15 a.m. we should you a couple of these charts that have come troops. the 10-foot surge showing where the water was going to be the most and certainly it came true and the lower east side down three the battery up to the west side, up the hudson river. there you go. a terrible thing that basically occurred there. s.i. pretty much of the same type of surged. really those areas under water, but at least its receipt. want to show you what i was talking about at kennedy airport. look at this. at 10--foot surge, not what actually happened, but what would likely happen. you can see, again, how much of the airport when underwater extending down toward floyd bennett field and back down toward long beach as well. so it's a pretty extensive flooding, and we are not done yet. we still have to get through the next high tide cycles of the

long island sound. >> we should sit at kennedy, laguardia, newark and all of those airports are closed. feeling the effect of it. i want to ask you, something we have not talked about, the effect of the foment. >> and that brings a just and a regular situation when you have the full month, your tide cycles run about a foot, foot and a half above average, so the average high tide at the battery is about 5 feet, four and three-quarters. so you would have seen that go to almost 6 feet. we talked about the flooding beginning in the battery. so this certainly added to our problems, the fact that the storm came the night of the fall melon. >> thank you. it will go back and outside, checking in with lisa and the merrimack north of the city. hello. how are you doing? >> well, listen, the wind has really picked up here again. it's coming from. it's not good news. it is blowing a short.

we are right on the edge of long island, l.i. sound here. the harbor. take a look at these. you can see some of them. they are bobbing and weaving and with the onset. >> okay. we are having a lot of problems obviously. she talking about the strong wind. we will take a quick break right now and hopefully we can get her back on the other side of the break. >> stuck with a lot of other people. >> reports of people trapped in some other areas around there. so we're going to check how those folks are doing and long island in queens as well. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> okay. you're not going to believe this. this is actually a boat rescue, and it is happening in manhattan on 14th street and avenue be.

that is how bad the flooding is in that area. >> the water is supposed to be 3-4 feet high. let's watch. they take the boat in to get some people out of the building. the firefighters, the greatest. >> look at the crowd. lined up to see this happen. folks, this is not along the shore. >> you can see the lights around in the neighborhood. and someone is about to give them. >> again, walking down the

middle of the street. the middle of the street in manhattan. >> is still not too deep at that point, but a little bit further down the block something like 3-4 feet deep. we are so glad those firefighters are on duty. so far the birds is the response, we are hearing good things. >> yes, we certainly are, but this is why we remind folks that when the city says to evacuate you need to evacuate. once again you're putting all these guys in harm's way as well as yourself. but hopefully this person is being rescued or the people are being rescued and will be okay. >> it's been kind of stays to moving a little bit. we will come back to this. in the meantime we want to go to hoboken. on-duty. they have been affected drastically. hello. >> hello. we are on the corner of hudson and york streets right now. as you can see, making her presence known. this tree came right out of the ground. driving around. we were told to move from our previous location because we

were to close to the water because the hudson river was coming up to post as. right now we are two blocks away from the river. i know you cannot see anything because there are no lights. we are two blocks from the river. if you go a blocked you will see the river because it almost looks like -- you see the race crashing onto the street. so it is pretty scary got here because it is so dark and we were talking to police a little earlier, and they said, you know, be careful with everything , the flying debris. when, when the guest comes, it's so fierce, and we can hear the traffic lights and all the signs waving incident. before we heard this noise. all you heard was this aluminum or metal sound going down the street. definitely was a street sign, but we could not see it because it was so dark. the power has been strained. earlier tonight the power went out for an hour-and-a-half. came back on. we came over year and we can see everything. as you set up, proved the power

went out again and had not come back on. but if you look over in that direction, jersey city, the power is on. the lucky folks may be watching us right now. inside their homes. they had at 6:00 curfew. the mayor wanted everybody off the streets. it wanted no traffic at 4:00. out taking pictures. we even saw somebody tonight. you can see the emergency vehicles coming around making sure nobody is out here because it is quite dangerous. people should be inside and heeding the warnings. as far as the flooding people have sandbags at the bottom of their doors. the restaurants around here have their windows boarded up. they have the tape on the windows. the path station, we were over there, they have the sand bags lined up. the water of go down to the station, but we actually had to move from that location. and this will have to see later on if the pestis and does get

flooded. but right now it's just really the witness and everyone is waiting for the wind to die down. assees the damage when you can see it. back to you guys. >> thank you so much. >> we appreciate your report. >> let's go to long island where by the way well over a half million people are in the dark. no power. >> all right. in huntington, and he has been there all evening. folks who are without power, i presume many more at this hour. >> yes, absolutely. it remains stark. let me show you. the center of the village here. this is new york avenue, madison street. i mean, you can pan out. you see the traffic lights. everything is off. power is totally off. a couple of people have been driving a lot, but some just checking things out. trying to come down in new york avenue here toward huntington harbor, which is where we were earlier. i told you guys, basically once you get past these barricades,

another quarter mile and you hit the flooding. and from what we here at this point we had to leave that area because the water was already coming up over the harbor walls and flooding the road. and much less whether event, that area floods out. now it's not even high tide. 1130, and already the storm surge is coming in because obviously with the heavy seas it is being pushed into the sound. now it's coming up, and those areas and getting flooded out, not only were we were on huntington harbor, but all the inlet's around their along the sound. oyster bay. we heard a lot of problems. some people had been trying to drive down, turning around, having to circle back around. we have seen emergency vehicles. we have seen private partner vehicles, police as well warning people, you know, to turn around and not be out walking around. the wind has died down. power outages remain. a huge problem on long island. the flooding, i think, overnight

and tomorrow morning as it lightens up. were going to see a lot of serious, serious problems. back to you. >> thank you. we appreciate your work and will check back later. let's go outside. we have a mobile unit on the go. you're looking life. brian runs technical operations here at fox five. at think he's going southbound lexington right now. are you there? >> i mean, yes. it's pretty common clear. >> yes. we are here on the phone. you are correct. heading south on lexington. forty-second streets. the lights and clearing you can see in the picture. >> that was wild. you just went in, once again, just about everything south of 40th street is in the dark. as powerfully demonstrated by brian. >> will we do see, some response vehicles.

let's just ahead of us. it is very dark. >> no had less, nothing. just the lights from your vehicle. the streets seem wide open. be careful. traffic lights obviously will be working. what about, what do you see on the sidewalk? a lot of people out? >> no. things are very quiet. streets are practically dry. there is a little bit, pretty column. , after the storm or call within the storm. >> yes. you know. there are definitely some buildings like hospitals that we know have generators. they have power. let us know if you're coming across any buildings that have power. >> we will be sure to do that. right now -- >> brian, how far south you now? 302nd street? >> i think we are at 303rd. >> 303rd. >> thirty-first.

>> where are you off to? what is your destination? >> we don't have a specific destination right now. we are just looking for something. >> have you found in the streets impassible with other trees or water? >> not yet. plenty of debris in the streets. it's pretty kind of the eerily quiet right now. >> it is. manhattan is a ghost town at this point. >> it sure is. >> it's incredible to look at this. and it seems that people have heeded the warnings. you look like you're the only car on the road at this point. >> a ton below our cover, please. >> up ahead, it looks like lights and sirens. is that some sort of scene in front of the on the right? >> this is actually. [indiscernible] i think, yes. they are getting ready citgo and help these folks. this is lined up.

>> the national guard, national guard troops in manhattan. >> that's right. the armory right around 28 street and lexington avenue. >> the governor activated about 2000. well, this is very impressive. how many and your crew? >> just myself, the executive producer. a report for us a little while later, earlier, i'm sorry. out here to try and grab weekend. >> enjoy coming upon these lights. okay. at traffic light. >> i'm sorry? >> were trying to guess what these lights are. a sign that the power is coming back on. it looks like their traffic lights. everything else is dark. >> where are you turning left? is that 23rd street? heading east on 23rd? what are you heading east on? >> we may have lost him. are you still there?

you know what it reminds me of, the escape from new york. remember that? driving around. escape from new york. 1979, something like that. we will check back. thank you for this dramatic portrayal of this city and at times a crisis. thank you. rejoined by city council speaker kristine quinn. madam speaker, are you there? >> i am. >> i said earlier to some controversy, but i think this is the most significant event the city has faced since 9/11. >> you very well could be right. the ideas to the blackout. we wake up tomorrow. a very substantial amount of damage spread out and through all of the city. you could be right. one thing i know, the workers' rally, just like they did during the blackout, after the

blackout, just like they did after 9/11 to help make sure there recover from this and come back as quickly as possible. >> the blackout in 2003. >> the blackout was wild, but it was warm outside and we did not have to deal with flooding and wind. >> that's true. that's true. >> so this seems exponentially more complicated. >> the flooding. so long ago. i've never seen this before. how long time. the hudson river is basically, to tenth avenue, whether it -- 23rd streets. have never seen that. coming over the highway and the park over to at least 11th avenue. >> that is really incredible. i have to ask you. are you without power as we speak? >> i am. >> talking to you guys. i made sure my cellphone was charged. flashlights.

and just basically i think most people are doing now, which is wondering down and staying in touch with council members. then with our staff to met management, but i have to tell you, new yorkers are amazing people. the building has its own generation. i can't tell you how many calls i've gotten from people. >> any idea when we may be getting power back? >> well, i think, you know, the areas where the power is off because con ed turned it off to deal with potential flooding. likely to see our power back sometime tomorrow. worst case today after that. places where it's the result of trees pulling down wires, that's

a little bit of a harder call. >> what are people supposed to do tomorrow morning? let's say they wake up, still massive power outages throughout the city. let's say you didn't evacuate and you still have the water situation. what happens next? >> well, the situation where it's today or tomorrow morning, you believe you are -- you need to call 911. a different type of the situation, a tree down something like that, please don't call 911. 911 is getting record calls. he to reach out to 311. what every need to remove trees. we're all going to have to be patient tomorrow. with every situation we are in. we are going to have to prioritize the worst situations

and work our way through them. the other situation, also when we wake up, check your family members. our neighbors. stay focused to see. >> you know, the other thing when you talk about patients, there has been a lot of flooding to the subway system's. a lot of flooding, massive flooding throughout the city which makes me wonder when in the world we think the subways will be back up. also, when other kids going to go back to school. new york city's school kids obviously of tomorrow, but one wonders if there will be able to get school on wednesday. >> that's a question we obviously are not going to be able to begin to assess until tomorrow. you know, the mta after irene which was obviously much less significant than what we are having now to really good job of getting the subway back up and running in about eight hours. as far as the tunnels, obviously it's a good thing, the critical thing is get the trains and the

machinery out there. because we can try out the titles much more efficiently and quickly. the machines in the subway cars have been flooded, that would have really cut back. we get the call to go. >> reports the people chapter of the boroughs. most of the people we have spoken to. they did not heed the evacuation order. they live in zone day and did not get out. you have any sense how many people were talking, how many people might be trapped in the city of new york? >> 375,000 people in zone a approximately. we've -- our best guests was probably somewhere between 50

and 60 percent of people, were thinking upwards of 60. you can't see those. this be are now trapped. it's hard to know exactly. >> sure thing. all right. we thank you so much. the speaker, the city council joining us. thank you. take care. be safe all right. we want to go back out on the streets right now. i believe he is at a hospital where there have been reports that the lights went out. are you there? >> and right outside the main entrance to nyu. the backup generator. the basement of the hospital has flooded. there in the process of loading patients and said ambulances.

>> how many people are we talking about? >> we do. aston that. approximately 215 patients moving. the fd ny is year assisting in the efforts to move these patients and i have to say, i'm out here watching. a very orderly process. no one is panicking. but there is to my you know, a lot of activity here on first avenue. they have blocked off the avenue. all of the mergency traffic here. >> xbox newsradio. thank you for that update. it is ten and 43:00 p.m. folks in the hang in there. we will be right back.

>> welcome back. continuing coverage of hurricane sandy the tree came down killing a person. there have been two reported deaths in new york city area as a result of hurricane sandy, five that we know of as of right now. obviously it's a huge street. down all over the tristate area, this one unfortunate catching a person. >> back here in manhattan the lights are off. forty of street for all of lower manhattan. brian quinn has been driving around with immobile live shot killing the whole time. are you there? >> yes. i'm back. i'm sorry. one of the things we are finding costs, the cell phone coverage. we jobs at a couple of times. we are now at n.y.u. medical center. there is flooding ahead. this is an area. a dip pier.

we haven't seen the patients perce, but we are jumping into a couple. telling us that indeed the patients are being moved here. >> that is so impressive. an armada of ambulances moving out patients because the hospital in its current condition can no longer offer care. >> thisslocation is flooding. just a half a block personal way.

move patients here. move over. windup. >> and zaria's come to this. that is so impressive. from my limited vantage point here. >> i would say about 30. >> we have to be hopeful and thankful at this time that these are not patients that are nearly being admitted considering the fact that this hospital is taking on a whole lot of new patients that came from the other hospitals. >> and sorry. getting my hospitals confused. outside, but the lights are out. >> yes. this is new york medical center. >> and the patients are being

moved from there? >> yes. correct. >> got you. >> were not quite sure where they're moving to. move up ahead here to slightly more. you can see that there is blockage year. it's just shut off. the avenue. it's shut down. up ahead we can see the darkness. the barricades year. you can see that in the street the barricades are actually little kiosks, ewspapers and things. you know that this was an emergency situation. you can see up ahead. darkness. you can see the water. i'm not sure if you can see it in the picture, but this is water moving across the street. >> that's incredible. >> can you go and show us that fleet of ambulances again. i'm curious, are they tnt, they seem to kind of be walking in control, not hurried, walking

deliberately, but not a panic situation by any means. >> they are definitely working in an orderly fashion. we're flipping the car around here. be able to see again right around the outside. through the barricades over water. here we are. docile. the headlights. the ambulances line that. >> you're going southbound on first avenue right now. >> correct. >> you ordinarily don't, but this is different. and i think -- >> right next to the east river. so it would make sense. >> and hospitals have these evacuation plans. i can recall one ever happening -- ever been executed. these are plans then must have on hand. >> we don't know where these patients a going.

>> we don't know. >> a lot of patience. that's a lot of patience. >> it's big. >> yes. it's a big hospital. >> were looking just south of here. it is dark. >> right. bellevue is further down around 25th, 24 street. first avenue as well. >> any sign of an evacuation? >> no, ttere is not. >> hospitals that have no electricity. >> all rights. we are glad so far. it just seems to be one where the situation is critical for an evacuation. we have scores of hospitals in this city. thank you so much for these fascinating pictures. we'll check back with you shortly. safe driving. >> thank you. >> and if you can check on some of the other hospitals in the area and let us know if they are without power as well that would be an interesting comparison. >> d'agata help you out.

we will get back later. >> and another city street. 1051. the city that never sleeps, pitch black, black cap, a blackout on top of these horrendous floods. what do you make of it all? >> i'm watching the video. that's just yuri. no lights on and no cards. -the lights, that reminds me of late on the night of 9/11 when i had left the television station here to go on. i was driving through manhattan. i was the only car on the road. that was an incredible year refueling. i will never forget that night going up the fdr drive. i was the only card orders southbound. 130 in the morning. seeing this video, very reminiscent. the blackness to the video makes it even more on the years side. i have some news for you. some good news again. the good news is we're still well above flood stage on the western edge of long island

sound. however, in checking the gazed at kings point this waterheads reached its peak and it's actually now starting down. we have not reached titanite. is still an hour and 20 minutes away. good news, maybe the fact of the storm had moved faster in nature and we didn't get the landfall this may save a little bit along the western part. if, indeed it's going to continue to recede. again, what i have been watching , it has risen and now it's starting its way down. let's hope that trend will continue. i keep watching that. rain over the area again. we have not had a lot of this. the post tropical storm or everyone to college, major nor'easter. we'll be seeing these rained beds wrapping around in this flow coming up out of the south and east. even though the good news is that the tide is going down a lot lower manhattan in this house for the island and staten island in the jersey shore, it's

going to be as low recession. it will still stay there for a while. we will get back up to high tide tomorrow morning after a 30, which means we may return to a little bit of flooding in the area, nothing like what we had tonight and appeared that in mind. it's potentially coming down the road. when has become a factor. that will start backing off once we get past the midnight hour. this large circulation of the storm will continue for couple of days to affect us with clouds, a gusty wind tomorrow with showers around. highest wind gusts, 90 plus miles-per-hour. still, latest wins 45-50 sustained around the city with a little bit less as you move further out away from the storm. >> thank you. my question is when will live be back to normal? and premature for that question. there is no telling. >> that's really tough. hopefully the airports will reopen. we have to deal with mta, schools, all but some stuff. up to new jersey. in red bank with joanne.

it looks like it is called. >> every time we say that we did jinxed. my photographer said that to be a few minutes ago. it finally feels like the wind is dying down. another serious dust. it is dark. most of this which sits on the @%nks of the river, it's about 5 miles from the coast. it is in the dark. it lost power couple of hours ago. it flickered on and off, but otherwise a start. gospel, riverview hospital is on emergency generators. they sandbag the back of hospital because it wws rising and there were obviously worries that it might reach the hospital the situation in red bank, if you ever come here, the main route into red bank is blocked. it's called hover bridge, and it's flooded and the middletown sign. it's flooded on the red bank side. a little marina over there, and i'm told from the first responded that there were some boats. well, they floated away because

the river rose so high here in red bank. we won't be able to assess the full damage, obviously, until tomorrow morning. there will be a lot of damage to assess. we have been driving around earlier this evening. we saw lots of downed power lines, lots of downed trees. i was getting tax from numerous people losing power as they did throughout the night. so many people here without electricity. and obviously, who knows when they will get that electricity restored. we have seen some utility trucks. as you might have heard, the governor said those guys can't get to work. guys and girls make the repairs, can't get to work until the wind dies down, and tell it is daylight. he knows how long it might take because they're our's serious damages to the power lines to transformers. we may have heard some reporters talking about these blue lights in the sky earlier. we saw a lot of them. as we saw the lead going down,

meaning there were losing electricity, we saw this brilliant blue light. we have been told by a few people, from the people, no expert, but those were transformer's popping in creating this blue light effect in the sky. i'm hearing some things flying around behind me. obviously the wind picking up again. some aluminum siding that came off the building a little while ago. we had to duck for cover because we don't want to get hit by that stuff. less talk about more serious stuff. see bright, where many of your viewers saw as earlier. we never made it. we were just across the river. see bright is totally shut down. totally inundated with water. now another big development. according to the deputy director of the office of emergency management the 911 received calls several hours ago. a car was pushed the floodwaters

into the river. there were never able to confirm whether there were people inside the car. the initial call came in and said there were four people inside. the car went into the river and they can't confirm whether there were people inside of it. the girl -- excuse me, it's shut down. they moved operations. the police had to move their operations over to fairhaven. that is the situation. we are still dealing with serious high wind, lots of downed power lines, loss of electricity. that is the latest. people around here don't like the idea of hurricane sandy one bit. back to you. >> nobody does. thank you so much. listen, we are told we have some pretty dramatic video. >> this is 14th, 15th street ride along the river. there is. >> well. >> that is the steam plant that i was asking about earlier

today. >> this is right on the fdr. that little band as you are going north. right around 14 streator so. that is one of the reasons why. >> right along the east river where there were surges of water coming up. >> got this from dna and fell dot com. not within the last few minutes. we think a couple of hours ago. one more time. >> big explosion. big impact. that plant, untold, surprised a lot of the power for the hot water particularly, hot water and heat. they told us earlier, air-conditioning. stuyvesant town, peter cooper, some of the areas around there. >> it's a pretty old plant. we'll talk to con ed later in the