>> reporter: hoboken mayor, dawn
zimmer.
>> we need more food, we need
more resources.
so anyone who's listening to
this in the city of hoboken or
neighboring towns who can get to
us, we ask you to come and
deliver your supplies.
>> that was from "nbc nightly
news" on halloween night, which
was a few days after sandy had
hit.
i got to say, though,
personally, i vividly remember
our coverage of the storm making
landfall as it hit.
and, specifically, of the
flooding and the rescue efforts
in hoboken, because the most
harrowing live report that we
had during that storm was from
hoboken, while we were live on
the phone with hoboken mayor,
dawn zimmer, and she told us
something that we had no idea
about, before she told us live
on the air.
watch this.
can you tell us at this hour,
what's the state of things in
hoboken?
have you still got deep
flooding?
are you still doing rescues at
this point?
>> we still have severe flooding
in the city of hoboken.
probably half our city is