back to you. >> jonathan vigliotti, wnbc. it is amazing what the first responders were able to do, they were really impeded last night, as i was watching that story, by the floodwaters them couldn't get their equipment in to help. >> and of course, there was the tree damage and the trees down in the streets, so many lives disrupted and will be for so many days, which is why we are going to follow this story for you till its completion. >>> meantime, new york governor andrew cuomo says that jfk airport in new york may open as early as tomorrow, not laguardia airport, however. for the airlines, this has been a scramble to say the least. phil lebeau tracking that part of the story from atlanta at one of the world's busiest airports. phil, over to you. >> reporter: sue, an airport where there are nine flights i'm looking at on the board scheduled to go to new york, all marked canceled. why are they cancelled? because the new york airports are not reopened yesterday. here's what new york mayor michael bloomberg had to say about th

jonathan vigliotti is live there this among on long island, new york. how's it looking out there?porter: good morning to you. you can see for yourself behind me, the waves starting to crash down as sandy gets closer to the coast here. i want to show you what we're standing on top of, what has become quite the image. these are manmade sand walls, essentially acting as barriers against a surging ocean. the concern here, the waves crashing into these low-lying seaside communities and causing flooding. power outages one of the other main concerns here, last year with irene, hundreds of thousands were without power without several days. long island power authority, officials with that utility warning customers and residents here they could be without power for as long as seven to ten days, those power outages they say could begin as early as later on tonight. long beach is a barrier island, at this point there is no mandatory evacuation here. the medical center here on this ilan has been under the mandatory evacuation. patients there have been relocated. other hospitals in the area we