a short time ago, i spoke to ida siegel of wnbc tv.he is in lower manhattan where the power is out. >> reporter: with every passing moment the water receives further. to show the flooded water, we're pushed well into the northbound lanes of the west side highway. at its deepest point where we are on betsy street this is not even a foot of water. south of where we are there's a car parked on the west side highway. the flood water stops another 30 feet south. however, i want to bring you over to the north here on the west side highway. that's where the water gets even deeper. i'm looking at, say, a street sign that one-way street sign. random guess, i'm going to say that's maybe 2 feet, maybe even 3 feet of water over there. to the south we've got water receding. to the north the water is still very deep and treacherous. one person who was passing the brooklyn battery tunnel said he could see the water funneling into the tunnel as if it was going down a drain. that's how much water going down into the battery tunnel. >> ida siegel report

however, as ida siegel reports, what the suspect didn't know is that the whole thing was caught on videoorter: pass her on the sidewalk and she looks like a regular bride casually walking down the street with her new wedding gown. but police say the woman in this video is a criminal. and the dress she's holding was stolen. >> grabbed the gown, opened the door and made a right-hand turn. >> reporter: that's the owner of the shop in fanwood, describing how the dress was swiped from his store over a week ago. he says the woman came into the store with a large group of friends, who were all in on it. >> we put them in the fitting room to try them on. they had the teenager coming. they were distracting. >> reporter: she even had her kid involved. >> the kid asked for my wife to go buy pizza. and go buy drinks. and we say, this is a boutique store, this is not a restaurant. >> reporter: half the group was back there? >> yes, six of them. and blocked my we to come -- >> reporter: block your wife's view. and one comes here. >> yeah. grab it, and opened the door and go out. >> reporter: with the