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tonight on a a special editn of "nightline," scenes of unbelievable destruction. rescues still under way as the superstorm leaves hundreds of thousands more diggiutng out fr under a record snow. plus - -- water world. new york city under water. cut off and without power. its famous subways completed flooded and at a standsll. laguardia airport almost totally submerged. "nightne's" juju chang with the view from the air and on the ground. and, the day after. we're in the smoldering ruins of a community of 9/11 heroes, many trapped and forced to watch helplessly as the waters rose

d their houses burn. good evening. i'm terry moran reporting tonight from the wreckage of the town of seaside heights, new jersey. where the destruction is just biblical. there is water everywhere. this town was nrly swept away into the sea but more important tonight, t there are still doze, maybe scores of people behind me still stranded in the dark, in the cold, still aiting rescue in the wake of a storm that ripped homes from their foundations, reduced piers to rubble. we saw this up and down the jersey shore today. this community is just one of the hardestit along the ravaged shoreline of this state. a state where tonight, 65% of e people are withoutut power in

the e dark and tonighght, here e a new danger encroaches. it was a surreal journey at dusk wewe canoed through the flooded streets of seaside heights, a summer town o overwhelmed and eerily silent after the storm wrecked it. this is incredible. here and there, those who stayed, they are refugees now. did you ride the storm out? >> we stayed here. >> reporter: thomas stayed dry in the second floor home but now, they are stranded, cold and in dire straits. >> i've been through fouour hurricanes, never seen anything li this. >> reporter: and it is getting dangerous here, gas lines are broken. there is fuel from boa and cars sitting in the floodwaters across the town. >> they said if they couldn't shut off the gas everyone has to leave because whole town could blow. the heart of the resort, strange plplace now.

amusent park is in ruins. the rides that gave generations of kids so many thrills lie crumpled and broken in the ufr. there is little left. this is sandy's legacy, so man communitiewill never be the same after this terrible storm struck monday. it made laund near marge, new jersey, just before 8:00 and as sandy moved inland the bulk of the wrath felt in the upper riright quadrant of the path, leaving a trail l of misery stretching north. it devastated atlantic city and that famous jersey shore, beach towns and barrier islands all the way up to new york. the island of manhattan inundated as the hudson and east rivers flooded. places l like little ferry, new jersey, utterly devastated. rescue teams spent all day fishing people out of their submerged homes. among those picked up, maryan, now wearing her brher's

pajamas, all of her clothes lost in the storm. >> we tried to evacuate, and the water was up to here on us and we l lost everything. we're alive, we are together and we havour cat. >> reporter: they are shuttle into a sheriff's van. >> i never thought i'd be in the back of one of these. >> reporter: no idea where they are even going. >> a wale of water this high came rushing overhe stairwrwell. >> reporter: others, like the richardson family,, chose to sty behind despite their living room and kitchen in threeeet of water. >> nothing to do now but just clean up. that's it. >> reporter: thrghout the northeast, 8.2 million customers without power. 65% of new jersey in the da. new jersey's governor chrisis christie, phone nor his ashns seemed himself moved by what he saw. >> as a kid who was a boy raised in the ste, who spent a lot of time over my life at the jersey shore, no question in my mind

we'll rebuild it. >> reporter: soo manyy weird sights here. my colleague ginger zee g firsthand look at the damage in > this car is comompletely covered in sand up to the wheel this was at the bottom of the ocean before the storm. >> reporter: in cape may this morning the very southern tip of the shore, no major dage, but a landscape transformed. is is an eight-foot street sign that is now waist-high. in berkeley, another town in ruin, the scene was equally tragically, bizarre. as we made our way north along the shore, we got a sense of how vast this recovery must be. willbe. even here in seaside heights, a drowned to now, haunted by its stranded and frightened residents, and the ghosts of so many summers past. one final note, we'll be here all night and just a little while ago a resident trudged out of the darkness d asked us if

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and good evening and welco back to "nightline's" special storm coverage. tonight, lower manhattan remains eerily dark and partially under water. after 18 people lost their lives due to the storm here. my colleague, abc's juju chang spent last night wading through a flooded downtown and today, went to survey the damage. >> what's going on? >> you have to go another route. >> reporter: it took us much of the day navigating through streets made treacherous through by sandy's fury. we got hit by wave. we managed to rend vi ed td ton harrowing view of the city. >> look at this neighborhood. >> reporter: devastated. >> that building is gone entirely. >> reporter: their mission, to

get a more accure picture of sandy's impact. >> more flooding on the left side. >> reporter: and search for stranded soululs. who were you able to rescue today? >> i had to rescue aouple of males and fae males, he was diabetic and she was pretty shooken up. >> reporter: last night, new york's rivers sunked above the banks of lower manhattanan with record wolff water. today, you could see the damage everywhere. the vital infrastructure, under ground subway, crippled, the system that carries 5 million ridersrs every day, still a deluged tunnel of darkness. authorities say it will take days to pump the water out of 46 miles of flooded track, largely because thof that, the city is paralyzed, schools, restaurants and many businesses remain closed. with subways shut down the only only way on and off this island are bridges and tunnels which only today are slowly beginning

to reopen. the verrazano is open for business. last night we met the bradshaw family that live in the shad oest world trade center and ignored mandatory evacuation orders and rode out storm with their 1-month-old. >> we take this seriously and we're prepared. >> reporter: they lost power and at high tidede last night river water chest deep was in their lobby. today they reversed course. >> the plan is to head uptown to someplace with power, midtown, and stay in a hotel for the next three nights until i fly out to florida to visit family. >> reporter: they evacuated down 15 flights of stairs in darkness. that is amazing. but flying out of this city is easier said than done. all three new york area airports remain closed. >> looks like laguardia is sinkininto the ocean there. >> reporter: that is laguardia down there normally handles 1,000 flights a day, now a

modern-day atlantis. it looks like a river. it doesn't look a land mass, it looks like a lake or pond. as we fly around the lower tip of manhattan, even new york's waterways -- >> a lot of o oil there. >> reporter: and when with touch down wthought ou journey was over. the coast guguard guys dropped off at the wall street hepad damage.learly sustained a lot of there is floodinin mere. we're locked. we're locked in. we hit another obstacle. either we go for a swim in the river or go o over that fence. there is no way out. here goes nothing. i'm ouout. tonight, this was the scene in lower manhattan as we made our way back uptown. everyone off the skyscrapers ar without power, they are just dark. no streetlights, no oplights. the only lights are the headlights of the con ed trucks

frantically trying to restore power. as ty work through the night, which may be fitting for a city that never sleeps. i'm juju chang for "nightline" in manhattan. >> talk about intrepid reporting, thank you, juju. and late word, jfk and newark liberty airportwill reopen tomorrow. we turn to a tiny beachfront enclave about 25 miles from lower manhattan, a ton that lost many of its own on 9/11 and faced with a fresh assault last night. "20/20"co-anchor elizabeth vargas made her way to breezy point today. >> reporter: engulfed not only sandy but something unexpected, fire. they say dozens, up to 100 homes have been decimated and lefeft a rubble that i is still smokin even today ass we walk through it. today, a stunned beacachfront communive firemen and policemen

and blue collar workers took stock of what was gone. not a single thing you can save. >> nothing i could identify except the kitchen tile and bathroomile. that's about it. >> reporter: while the cause is unknown there is no question the fire was ferocious. the flames were fed by hurricane-force winds. hydrants with submerged. fire engines stranded helplessly blocks away by rising floodwaters. >> it's like the apocalyp. >> rorter: abc producers were caught thereith so many others. they phoned in overnight to "nightline." >> i'm in a communive 4200 homes out here, this is a communi that lost the most people during 9/11. 9/11.ighters and cops and during this community was hit horribly tonight. the people here are amazing people. people with a lot of pride to them and they're keeping their pride tonight. people are saying they'll rebuild and somehow they'll get

throrough this. >> reporter: today, the task of getting throh thisis was brutally clear. it will be a long time before anyone in this neighborhood we walked through will be able to call breezy point home. more than 100 homes burned to the ground. dreams of retirement cottages now reduced to piles of ash. >> i haven't seen anything like this in my career. the only thing that came close to this was 9/11. >> reporter: this community, home to so many firefighters and first responders, has seen more than its share of trady. 29 of their own killed on 9/11. but, it is a communi with bravery and resilience, woven into its dna. we saw it today. we have accompanied ee vac wees on a truck holding their breath as they head back to the neighborhood for theirst time since the storm hit. joanne, who didn't lose her home to fire, discovered s lost t the lower level of her house to a flood. >> thank god we're all alive.

>> reporter: this is senator charles schumer's home district, he came today as well. have you ever seen anything like this? >> never. ii asked 20 firefighters who hae had probably 1,000 year or 500 years of experience, asked them if they ever seen anything like this, never have. >> reporter: hard to see any signs good things to come but just as it has done before, breezy point is picking up the pieces. >> very strong community. they'll rebuild and ce back. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm elizabeth vargas in breezy point, new york. >> heartbreaking story and resilient people. our thanks to elizabeth. just ahead, driving snow and high winds leave hundreds of thousands struggling to leave their homes. the arctic blast proving this storm hasn't pulled its last the arctic blast proving this storm hasn't pulled its last punch. "ever ask some you a foot?" "who thinkouabout stuff like that?" "vince mahe grew up on two continents...

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asandy heads north the winds are slowing but still the kind of extreme weathther with e power to distract from a presidential race that literally could not be closer. just a week until election day my co-anchor bill weir reports from swing state country, youngstown, ohio. >> reporter: sandy maybe 50 miles outside of pittsburgh but she is dropping a full assortment of meteorological misery from georgia to wisconsisin. on the west virginia/midborder in the form ch snow, enough to turn nearly 50 mielt was interstate into a treacherous parking lot, expecting 14 i incs of this in north carolina. wheen mile in cleveland, storm scarred the rock and roll hall of fame before churning up waves on lake michigan enough to set records and force folks from their midwestern homes. and the fact that all of this is playing out a week before

election day could make sandy the mother of all october surprises, an event big enough po push climate back into the political climate. and reframe the debate over the size of government, specifically the size of federal disasteter rerelief. >> you can't always solve all of the problems yourself but you can make the difference in the life of one or two people. >> reporter: it looked like a campaign stop in battleground ohio mitt romney deliberately stepped off the stump to accept leaf donations and encourage more but he avoided questions about his previous stance on the role of fema. >> governor, would you eliminate fema if you were president? >> reporter: psident obama stayed in washington to visit red cross, attend briefings with governors and utility ceos. >> i think he's handled it well. >> reporter: compassionate or calculated, depending on who called into the radio show in

youngstown, ohio. >> where was it when it happened in ben gaza and i and he flew t snas he learned his lesson. >> reporter: a vital corner of a vial state withh 28 visits from romney this year, 19 from obama. >> president obama wasn't able to come as planned because of the storm. >> reporter: do you think that hurts his cause in ohio? >> absolutely not. i think more people respect him for doing what what the president is supposed to do. >> reporter: the drizzle wasn't enough to keem elaine from going door to door on obama's behalf tonight. >> hi, how are you? >> reporter: hello. a few miles away brothers and roger did the same for romney. >> i don't think personally that after four years of watatching this president that it should change anybobody's mind in four days on four years of failure. >> ver difficult. >> reporter: here's one

republican mind that seems to have changed at least for now, governor christie. >> i w want to thank the presidt personally for his personal attention. >> reporter: president obama will bwith christie in new jersey tomorrow and sandy and canada. what is means to the election decembstined to be a november surprise. >> thank you, bill. and thank you for watching abc news, "gma" will have the latest on storm cleanup. good night, america. "jimmy kimmel" next. all new jimmy kimmel live from brooklyn. >> tonight i have returned to save my people from the storm. [ cheers and applause ] >> howard stern. >> in ththe mididdle of the sho i'm having a good time. like it in brooklyn. it's fun. >> tracy morgan. [ cheers and applause ]

doing that because i probably owe them money. >> and sharon jones and the dap kings. >> and sharon jones and the dap ki[ mitt romney ] there are two very different paths the country can take. one is a path represented by the president, which, at the end of four years, iit'd mean we'd have $20 trillion in debt. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs.

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: wow. thank you. that's verery nice of you. thank you so much. relax. i'm jimmy kimmel. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. thank you very much. welcome. i'm jimmy. i was born in bayridge. i grew up in ml basin.

and tonight i have returned to save my people from the storm. [ laughter and applause ] thank you for ignoring the local authorities to be here tonight for our first show from the harvey theer at the brooklyn academy of music. it's a beautiful theater. mayor bloomberg will be here shortly to have you arrested. a lot has changed since i liviv in brooklyn. last time i was here, i don't remember a hurricane trying to murder me. we were supposed to start our week last night but we couldn't because of hurricane sandy. anyone wt to join a motorcycle gang and take over the streets? after the show. more than 8 million people lost power last night which means no one's watching right now. [ laughter ] new jersey got the worst of it. 60% of the state of new jersey lost power. it's funny when i got here on

friday, everyone i met, every single perso said not to worry about the hurricane at all, that's when i knew we were in a lot of trouble. almost everyone i talked to sounded like this guy out in long island named mike. >> we actually found a guy who is awake and alert and waiting to ride out the storm. mike up in the window here above us. mike, you going to ride out the storm from here? >> hell, yeah i'm ridingg it ou, man. hiem not going to worktoday, i'm staying here. >> all right. you're going to stick it out up there. you have water and other supplies? >> yeah, probably. got peanut butter, candy. i'm good. >> jimmy: all of the food groups. i got pez dispensers, i'm all right. i watched a lot of storm coverage over the last couple of days. i think i'm a meteorologist now. i spent 36 hours watching weather reporters standing in water while telling us not to stand in water.

most what they seemed to be focfol focused on was hanging on to their hat. >> not most flattering appearance. >> getting windy, starting to feel heavy gusts. >> nypd is out here. >> the wind picking up here. >> very different scene here in ocean city. >> good morning, m michael and darlen conditions out here are rlly worsening. >> video rolling but right here this house on the corner. they don'tw whether they made it out safely. thank you, ma'am, my hat. >> the wind when i turn this direction, you can see, i lose my hat. >> you have to hold on to your hat. >> well, the problem was, my hat just flew off. you guys caught meunning to the live tck to try to get my other hat because it flew into this lovely puddle. >> this wind and forget the hat. can you give this hat? that's not going to work. >> jimmy: might be time for weather people to switch to beanies. i, by the way, i listened to the people who told us to seek

shelter and stayinside. when i hear the world shelter, i run. i'm not adventurous. i stayed in my hotel ro, drankedottles of shampoo and pass out. i watched local news. every time i went out and watched tv i sawaw governor christie looking like grimace. i want one of his zip-ups. gogovernor christie does a grea job with the press conferences. the best is probably mayor bloomber very understood are coc control. hard to be boring in the middle of a disaster but somehow mayor bloomberg manages s to do it. those who didn't get to see the local coverage, the mayor has a woman that stands next to him, two women, actually. any though she doe't speak a word she has a lot more personality than he does.

>> people will understand it't' inheir intert to get out andnd a lot of people say oh, well, i'll tough it out and down the road you can't tough it out and you have to have the responders -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: hard to tell where the sign language ends and interpretive dance begins. see if we can get her on the show tomorrow night. i would like her to sign the monologue alg with me. [ cheers and applause ] the worst of the hurricane fortunately seems to be behind us. water levels will rise even more tonight when the tide comes in, fortunately i have the most adorable flotation device of all and his name is guillermo. [ cheers and applause where is he? he's's real. welcome to brooklyn, guillermo. are you having fun so far? >> guillermo: forget about it.

>> jimmy: i've already forgotten. you see mayor bloomberg speak spanish last night? this was good. hehere's mayor bloomberg, en espanol. [ speaking spanish ] >> jimmy: hohow did he do? >> guillermo: terrible. >> jimmy: even the sign language woman was like the hell with it. cnn sent ali velshi to atlantic city. why? he's a business correspondent. i guess they i don't like him. he was in the middle of the street and unwittingly provided us with tonight's edition of "behind th news." >> one hour fromow t they want

everybody who doesn't have a reason to be outside inside their homes. this is a mayor who said a number of people haven't left. that worries them but at this point if you haven't left -- [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: hurricane backup dancers. congratulations. only risk your life when it's hilarious. watching on a great night, two of the greatest guests in talk show history, howard stern and tracy morgan. [ cheers and applause ] and fantastic band, brooklyn's own sharon jones and the dap kings are here with us tonight. it's been a lot of fun, even with the rain, fun to be here this week, walking around brooklyn, marvelling at the arti

artisenal cheese shops. my uncles live here. home people are are my uncle tony? i have morree relatives at the show tonight than will be at my funeral, which kinds of depressing. i've been feeling no, sir to ii. i haven't been there for years. indung me and my pal, guillermo on a stroll down memory lane. ♪ welcome back ♪ welcome welcome back welcome back ♪ >> jimmy: you wanted to see which grew up? >> guillermo: not really. >> jimmy: you're going to see it anyway. when i was a kid when had a big wheel. you know what it is? has a big wheel in the front and two little wheels in the back. >> guillermo: like this one? >> jimmy: yeah. just like these. ♪

♪ got to get back in time >> jimmy: fun, right? >> guillermo: i think my belly isis too big and my legs are to short. >> jimmy: i think that is a safe assessment. this is my friend todd's house. let's pull over in here. ♪ back in time >> jimmy: don't worry nobody ever steals anything in brooklyn. >> guillermo: no? >> jimmy: todd was my best friend on the block. look at this. >> jimmy kimmel. >> jimmy: todd? how do youing? good to see you, too, how are you? this is my friend, guillermo. >> guillermo: nice to meet you. >> jimmy: how are you doing? >> all right. >> so good to see you. >> jimmy: good to see you, too. >> oh, my god. >> thi is mom and dad. >> jimmy: my mom and dad. >> these are cakes -- >> jimmy: my mother made this cake for todd. she still makes cakes. that's me and my sister, jill. you remember when you eat dinner

over here at your parents'ss and and then eat dinner a our house also. >> i remember when you were running from the bees in the backyard. >> jimmy: you remember that? >> like it was yesterday. > are you kidding? >> jimmy: i remember that so vividly, too. we had a disk gun and shot these little colored disks and they flew into the neighbors' yard and my sister, jill, todd and i climbed over the fence to get the disks. as i recall there was an old steak, somebody threw a piece of meat in the backyard and yellow jackets all over it. and we got swarmed and tked by the yellow jackets. i got 12 bee stings. >> right -- >> my uncle tony filled a tub with mud and we're sitting naked in the tub covered with mud and i think that was supposed to draw out stingers. i still don't like be. >> jimmy: i'm thinking of having

myself laminated. now, i think it was somewhere araround here, maybe right heren front of your house that you remember that bully, tommy black? >> oh, yes. >>immy: you remember you used to yell "the black is coming" as a warning. he would grab us by the back of the hair and grind our faces into the ground. >> >> guillermo: wow.w. >> jimmy: you know who this is? >> guillermo: no >> jimmy: that's tommy black. >> guillermo: tommy black? wow. why you did that? whdid rub the face in the ceme? >> just seemed like the right thing to do. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it wasn't the right thing do, it was mean, to me and todd. >> no, i repented since then. >> jimmy: you have? >> yes. and being an altar boy like you were, helped me through that procs. >> jimmy: tommy, i forgive you. forgive him?ou, todd, do you yes, definitely. >> jimmy: you do?

>> guillermo: give him a hug. >> jimmy: all right, let's all have a hug here. [ applause ] >> jimmy: this is disappointing. this used to be a big, vacant lot with big trees a bigger kids had a clubhouse in this lot and we wou break into it and we would steal dirty magazines like "playboy" and that store the of things. >> i remember that.t? >>immy: look at this. some of the magazines are still here. i remember we got a copy off "oui." i thought it was pronounced "oy." a lot of memories. i became a man in this lot. you want to see my old house >> guillermo: let's go. >> jimmy: all right. todd, are you coming? >> i'll catch up with you guys later. >> jimmy: okay. >> guillermo: todd hasn't changed at all,huh? >> jimmy: no, not at all. this is it, my house.

>> guillermo: wow. >> jimmy: was my house. i almostust walked in. >> hello. >> jimmy: what's pphappening? >> jimmy: how you doing? i'm jimmy. this is guillermo. >> carmine. this is my dad,innie >> jimmy: i'm jimmy. how you doing? we had the tv here. eventually it broke. was this you wall a little more closed off at one time? this was my room. and i had planets and starsn the ceiling in here and i painted a mural of batman on the closet door. wapd to the closet? >> turned it into a shower. >> jimmy: we had a tle and chairs here a have breakfast. wow, this basement is very different than when i lived here. when i was -- hello, how you doing? how many people live in this house? [ laughter ] it's like a clown car. what are y cooking, carmine. >> for dinner, we'll have -- i

hear you're fan of a good sauce. >> jimmy: we called it gravy always. >> gravy's brown, jimmy. >> jimmy: things have changed here in brooklyn. >> guillermo: it's nice to be italian. >> jimmy: yeah, it is nice. >> guillllermo: they have good food. >> mozzarella. >> mozzarella.forget by the. >> welcome these new friends and associates let's call them, welcome. >> jimmy: thank you. salud. thank you for having us. i have to say, everybody is ver polite. it would m make me feel more yelling at each other.e was that's what happened whaps s at house. >> are you serious? >> jimmy: troy polamalu over here. >> you are not being serious right now! >> sit down!

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[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome back to our first night at t harvey theater in the brooklyn academy of music. tonight on the program a gale force wind of a man whose face and stomach you can see every thursday night on "30 rock," tracy morgan is here. and then a great live band with music from this album called "soul time!" from brooklyn, new york, sharon jones and the dap kings. tomorrow night on halloween, david letterman will beere and music from vampire weekend, too. join us then. we've had a tumultuous few days here and i'd like to thank everyone who braved the storm to get here and to get us on n the air. [ cheers and applause ] but, what we've been through is nothing compared to a lot of people, home ofs have been damaged, lives have been lost. famies havbeen displaced. and if you'd like to help a great way to do that is to make a donation to the american red cross. you can do that on the web at redcross.org or you can text

they will spend it well.romise our first guest tonight is one ofof the greatest broadcasters o ever lived. if you are fortunate enough to hahave sirius xm radio youou ca hear him every morning and watch hion demand on howard tv please welcome the king of all media, howarstern. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what an exciting day. >> this is excitement. >> jimmy: this is exciting.

>> i got to first of all, jimmy, i have v to compliment you, that bit when you went back to brooklyn, thatasn't too long at all. i was riveted. didn't fall asleep at all. fantastic. >> jimmy: thank you for that compliment. >> oh, we make sauce and make friends. tonight?ou glad you came aren't you glad you braved the elements. you look terrific, wearing a suit. when jimmy started his show many years ago he tried wearing t-shirts to be one of us and he looked like a big slob so they put him in a nice jacket, he looks good, i'm happy to be here in brooklyn. >> jimmy: i'm happy to have you here. you been on the show a couple of times before from l.a. >> i've been on the show, i always did it on satellite and it bombed horribly, it wasas yo idea. >> jimmy: it did not bomb horribly. >> hard to communicate over satellite. i wanted to see you face to face and now i'm here and it's going

horribly again. really, don't expect too much entertainment tonight. i've beeup since 4:00 in the morning, did my radio show and begging jimmy to cancel the show. >> jimmy: you were. >> absolutely -- shut up. look. i was trying to get here and all of the traffic lights are dead. the power is out, this is no joke. i'm driving along and i'm trying to get here. why am i trying to be here tonight? this stupid show is on at 5 after 12. not even the 11:30 show. when is it 12:00? they moved it from 5 after 12:00 to 12:00. and you would think jimmy would be furious, the way abc has been treating him. hi, guys, how are you? nobody knows your name. great band. like 57 bands in late night and no one cares about any of you. what is that sonyou play when i ca out? didn't even recognize. >> your theme song. >> keep practicing. they are great.

i love those guys. >> jimmy: thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> great. i got up early to come on the show and i was hoping you would cancel. >> you canceled last night, i was like thank god. >> jimmy: every time i ask yo happens with every appearance you say yes and then you complain the whole week leading up to it. >> i'm miserable. i got to tell you, the whole week you hear jimmy carrying on about his girlfrien david letterman. >> jimmy: you are jealous. >> i'm not jealous. you and i happen to be good friends, we hang out at each other's friends. >> jimmy: i'm your best friend. >> you're my only friend. this show is a family affair. jimmy's parents back in my dressing room. i'm tryiying to prepare for the show and who is there, jimmy's cousin sal, his parents, and i'm like what is this? i'm trying to work. i -- >> jimmy: when i came in to say hello after my parents left and i caught you pureelling after you touched my parents.

>> ah. [ laughter and applause ] his father shook my hand i'm like, i don't know you. your jimjimmy's father, who car. >> jimmy: how are your parents? >> they're great. their power is out, my mother called me, the power is out, the power is out. i'm like okay what should do i? we have a cell phone. gave them a celell phone and they're calling me. give me the number i'll call you back. no, we're conserving the pow er. my mother thinks she's in guam. the power will be back >> jimmy: you didn't send the howard stern helicopter to airlift them out? >> you nervous about 11:30? >> jimmy: i'm more nervous about having youou here, we're friend bus it's easy. >> who is the better guest me or letterman? >> jimmy: i'll let you know. >> more excited about letterman? >> jimmy: oh, definitely. >> i know that's true. you know what it is? familiarity breeds contempt. it's true.

i used to be jimmy's idol, every interview, howard stern is my hero. i listen to him growing up in brooklyn. he was 5 when he left! we're back hehere, jimmy grew u in brooklyn. he's coming home. he was 5 years old. [ laughter ] a nightmare, this whole thing, this whole experience. >> jimmy: before you came out i shook hands where everyone in the section and i did not purell before i touched you. >> you are a brave man. jimmy, i knonow is nervous abou the big interview with letterman tomorrow. >> jimmy: i am. >> look, the big question is, when he was scoring with all those interns -- [ laughter ] -- right? don't you want to hear that? [ cheers and applause ] letterman is going to come out here, this is your big moment, you're going to be aroused, your hero will sit down and dave will sit there and you're going to sit there and everybody is going to say is jimmy going to ask him about screwing all those

interns. >> jimmy: jimmy is not going to ask him about that of course he's not. >> forget it. i don't know why he's coming on your show. >> jimmy: i don't know why either. >> it makes no sense. the who will be competitors. in radio i looked at anybody up against me at 6:00 in the morning -- >> jimmy: you are a very sick ma >> i am. you got to be sick to win. don't you want to win, don't you want to beat letterman into the ground? instead you're welcoming him. he's an old man, he's ready to go down. you're going to work hard, do your thing. i'm proud of you. >> jimmy: -- working for you -- let me ask about your beautiful, angel wife, beth. >> backstage with your beautiful fiancee. >> jimmy: that is right. >> he's marrying saint, a beautiful woman, molly. i love her. she writes all of the funny stuff. she didn't't write the piece whe he goes back to brooklynn and sits therere. she wrote the funny stuff in the monologue and she's beautiful, gorgeoeous woman and you'll hava big wedding. you know beth and i actually

believe that we would be in the wedding party but that we would actually be -- >> jimmy: in the wedding party. >> i would be your best man. i know it's one your 50,000 cousins that you support. [ laughter ] supports his whole family. >> jimmy: after this outpouring of affection why wouldn't i have you? best man and maid of honor. j. >> you're sweating from your lip, you're disgusting. >> jimmy: i'll mop myself off. howard stern is here. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ are you all ready, ♪ are you ready, get set, ♪ are you ready? ♪ are you all ready, ♪ are you ready, get set... woof, woof, woof. the holidays are coming... and they're going to be big. get an extra 5% off our every day low prices, and free shipping with your redcard.