lower manhattan still will not have subway service? >> lower manhattan will not. cut off is 34th street. the big flooding took place down at battery park and the southern end of manhattan. that's where they saw flooding all the way up to the ceiling. they'll cut it off at 34th starting tomorrow. it could be several more days, they believe until the subway system is fully operational. >> eliot: i can tell you have not been in and around midtown. the gridlock was beyond anything i had ever seen. we're beginning to get those subways to move and relief the pressure above ground, and hope hopefully getting things moving below ground. the hospital that is especially treacherous when there is no power in its surrounding neighbor. what triggered it, and what is the prognosis. i heard that nyu was being evacuated at one point. >> well, nyu was evacuated immediately. when the hurricane came onshore in new jersey, power went out in manhattan. what was scary, and at myu med center. they did not have backup generators. they realized they were not going to have power--period. t

we at water is a major problem in lower manhattan. we have to get the water pumped out of under ground systems. we just got off of a phone call with secretary chu and people from the white house, and they are coming in to help. but we have a major job to get into that under ground equipment to kind of clean it up to dry it up on, and to get it back up, so it's hard to make a predict. gerri: how many weeks? that sounds like weeks and weeks? >> it could be long time, and we're trying to do everything we can to make it faster. again, you know the other job is erhead lines, they are outside of the city. that is a huge job as well. gerri: that is what is wrong in my neighborhood. i want to bring in daniel squadron, democratic new york state senor, his district lower manhattan, carroll gardens brook brookin, he is joining me by phone. thank you, let's start with state of play in your district, what are your constituents telling you? how are basic services? >> well, they are now experiencing coming into you know, 48 hours, for hundreds of th

it's called the old homestead in lower manhattan.tting the steaks and good meat go bad because the power is out. they decided to sell it at cut rate prices. >> yes, they moved the kitchen out on to the sidewalk. and charged passer-byes, $10 for a steak that goes for $47 on the menu. >> ooh, that's a deal! >> the desserts were offered at greatly reduced prices as well. the owner told the cooks to keep all the cash. >> i like that. i like that. see that is humanity some times. a good steak too. >> good steak. >>> coming up next-- the race will go on. the new york city marathon is a go. despite the storm clean-up that still needs to be done. why not everyone agrees with that decision. >>> but first, fab neighbors helping neighbors. the men and women who went above and beyond during the storm to make sure even the smallest among us stayed safe. but before we go -- a look at how you too can help. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by lifestyle lift. you by lifestyle lift. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's

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i was in lower manhattan last night. i had a lot of trouble connecting on my ipad and on my cell phone. is that still do to sandy? >> there are still areas -- areas that do not have power in the boroughs and lower manhattan that to not have power. there will be a time period before we get back up to full capacity again. that is not for lack of trying. it is important to remind people that the folks the run these companies are also consumers, family members. their goal is to make sure these networks are up and running, personally and professionally. as folks moved out of their houses, one of the employees' houses were destroyed, they move to the company quarters, to the store fronts to run their operations from there. it is an effort, when you see a storm of this magnitude, it is really an effort to get things back to status quo. >> christopher guttman-mccabe, your industry prevented or fought fcc recommendations that there be back up power at cell on as, and las tweek on a blt k blog post you said that eight hour and man

is not going to be the lower manhattan we know any time soon. tyler? >> scott cohn, thank you. >>> our next guest is in the unique position to weigh in on both of the major stories of the day. big day for the economy and the market and the efforts of new york city to get back on its feet. "power lunch" exclusive now, we welcome jeff becker, ceo of ing u.s. investment management. ing is also the presenting sponsor at this weekend's new york city marathon. why don't we begin there. i realize that you run the investment management division, not all of ing in the americas, but you must have a perspective. a lot of new yorkers are very concerned -- some of them are angry -- that this marathon is going to go on as scheduled. did people from your company consult with the mayor, what did they say to him, to the extent you know, and do you support the decision? >> we do. the decision was taken by the mayor and the city of new york in consultation with the new york road runners. ing is the title sponsor. we support that decision. we're proud to be the tit

about almost 250,000 customers were without power in the lower part of manhattan. tart. 65,000 customers lower east side, east village areas of lower manhattan are now getting power at least according to this con edison tweet. we're about to hear from a cnn crew that accompanied a search and rescue team to a section of the new jersey coast that until now has been inaccessible. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold... i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't work on runny noses. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have an antihistamine. really? [ male announcer ] really. alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to relieve your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus. ♪ oh what a relief it is! ♪ [ male announcer ] try new alka-seltzer plus severe allergy to treat allergy symptoms, plus sinus congestion, and pain. i put away money. i

what do you know about con ed and what the pace may be not only in lower manhattan but also the lower boroughs and other parts of the city that have been devastated by this? >> i know that kevin burke had a press conference with the mayor and others. said that he had a good feeling about getting this -- the lower manhattan area up and running this weekend. can't tell if you it is saturday or sunday. i don't think he said that. it is a fairly conservative -- he is a fairly conservative guy. he doesn't say things unless he believes it. they recognized it was going to be a historic storm which it was. no question about that. perhaps the storm of the century and maybe of all-time. one of the top five. what he did, they did was they shut down systems to try to avoid damage. and we saw that they brought up brighton courtland two of the networks that were protected. they brought them up quickly. i hope that will tell us something about the bowling green networks. >> eliot: one of the things that worries many people, you have seniors and when you get into a weekend it has the possibility of s

. >> host: now, we're taping this interview on november 15th, and i was in lower manhattan last night and had a lot of trouble connecting on my ipad and on my cell phone. is that still due to sandy? >> guest: yeah. i mean, we -- there are still areas in lower manhattan and the boroughs that don't have power, and in those instances, i mean, one of our carriers is using 100,000 gallons of fuel a day. that's just one carrier with 1500 generators that are going. so, you know, there will be a time period before we get back up to full capacity again, but that isn't, you know, for lack of trying. i think it's important to repeend mind people that the -- remind people that the folks who run these companies are consumers, they're family members. their goal is to make sure these networks are up and running both personally and professionally. and i think you've seen that. some of the employees' houses were destroyed, they moved into, you know, company quarters, they moved into some of the, you know, the store fronts to actually run their operations from there, and, you know, it's an effort when

so headline reads max about that gold stored in flood prone lower manhattan max this is from business week and they know that a lot of buildings in lower manhattan were destroyed due to the flooding from hurricane sandy and they ask what about the nearly fifteen million pounds of gold bricks stored at the new york fed well they say it's ok because it's in a vault which is protected by an air tight and water tight seal created by lowering a ninety ton steel cylinder just three eighths of an inch into a one hundred forty ton steel and concrete frame and effect quote similar to pushing a cork down into a bottle. like. dr evil like no but stacey gold is not going to be damaged by water wind or rain that's one of the great things about gold however something else was damaged. yet what will move on to that in a second max but i want to say that here is a new york federal reserve bank part of the federal reserve bank system and ben bernanke in testimony to congress said that. the federal reserve banks and central banks around the world only hold gold as a matter of tradition so why go throug

power is being restored in what has been ape very dark, lower manhattan.e traffic lights in new york's financial district came back on yesterday afternoon. power to buildings is coming back a bit slower. one by one. still a bit of good news. >> parts of new york's virtual lifeline, the subway system, will begin running again today. millions of people count on the system here in new york. the flooding which closed so many stations and tunnels has eased a bit. new york's mayor though is urging patience and tolerance. >> many people's lives were turned upside down by the storm. and you have my word -- that everyone in city government at every level is working 24 hours a day to get the city back on track, including working with the mta, and con-ed to meet the two biggest challenges we face. mass transit and electric power. >> la guardia airport which suffered severe flooding, you can see it there will open again this morning for limited service, the city's two air ports are up and running. amtrak will begin service to the big apple starting tomorrow. >> thousa

the. >> host: finally, what happened in lower manhattan. you talked about the flooding in the power going out in your network. is there a thought of moving those facilities out of lower manhattan? >> at this time, peter, there really isn't. the issue is really power related. our telecommunications gear stayed intact and was operational. where that entire area lights, all businesses were overwhelmed and with the unprecedented storm surge. as we rebuild that area, we are relocating and we governing our records to be with the power network. so some of the cases where we had our power plants below grade level or at ground level, we are going to, when we are done with this, we expect to have a lot more copper in the ground, which is more resilient than we have one that will be more able to handle a storm surge like that. >> host: robert mudge is consumer president for verizon. you're watching "the communicators" on c-span2. >> host: as we continue our look at the impact that hurricane sandy had in the northeast, we are joined by harold feld, sen

the core service is in lower manhattan. the backup generators got flooded. we have an enormous site in this cloud. people could reach the site by and large andal all of our team went to tuckblr and twitter and social media to get out the story. we believe that media is in discreet units. we don't worry about where the stories are as long as they are out there and now we are fully back up in the cloud. we were the morning after. >> it takes a lighthearted tone covering celebrity stories, funny animal pictures. >> we have an enormous amount of quality. under our editor in chief ben smith we have some of the most in depth political coverage out there. we have a style and food vertical can. we track billions of events going on every month. 300 unique partner sites as well wech have massive databases. captured data throughout the storm. however, the servers that processed the data, those our team had to go in to a building in the dark in lower manhattan and caringry servers down 25 floors at 3:00 a.m. last night and move them to a new facility in connecticut. >>

richard besser, samped the floodwaters in lower manhattan and took it to a lab. their tests found gasoline and two types of bacteria that are in sewage. anyone that comes in contact with floodwaters should wear gloves and boots. dr. besser visited one town where the water is contaminated after the power went out at a pumping station. it may be drinkable if you boil it for a full minute or purify it with unscented bleach. local officials will give you the best advice on how to proceed on that front. >>> and one restaurant in downtown manhattan got innovative instead of losing all their meat because of the power failure. the old homestead moved on to the sidewalk and cooked expensive steaks at cut race prices. aer a serloin was going for 10 bucks. >> if they're still open, i know where i'm going after the show. >>> when we come back, some of the other stories making news. with the race for the white house down to five days, the latest poll numbers in a new report. >>> and some smugglers who thought they were pretty clever until their own plan did them in. if you th

and in lower manhattan, no power means the traffic lights are out. you might understand why new yorkers are getting a little fed up. jim axelrod is there tonight. jim. >> reporter: well, scott, this water-filled tunnel behind me is just one of the many challenges sandy has left for new yorkers who are facing a transportation nightmare. on this road into new york city, gasoline may be hard to find, but frustration summer is not. >> get in front of me! get in front of me! if it makes you happy. >> reporter: supply isn't the problem. it's the power blackouts that are keeping pumps from operating. >> move it! move it! >> reporter: aaa says just a third of stations are open in new jersey and long island. this line was three hours long. >> worth the wait. >> reporter: hours waiting for gas is followed by hours to get over a bridge or through a tunnel. to reduce congestion, police are turning away cars with less than three people until midnight tomorrow. >> move the line to the front! let's go! >> reporter: new york city buses resumed running today, and the

cbs reporter vinita nair is in lower manhattan tonight. >> reporter: i'm here in lower manhattan standing in front of one of the many tunnels that remain flooded here in new york city. new yorkers are facing headaches when it comes to mass transit as well as power outages. con ed says it could be until november 11 before all the lights are turned back on across the city. in terms of mass transit, there have certainly been creative solutions. when it comes to the major routes bringing you into the city, the city is requesting that no driver arrive in a car with fewer than three people the way they are solving this problem if you get to a checkpoint and it is you alone, you're basically asked to take two more people into the car with you, strangers who you may or may not know. new yorkers are taking it in stride. they are doing the best they can but keep in mind, it is a long way until we are back to full strength. reporting in lower manhattan, vinita nair. >> air force bases in california are coordinating a massive airlift to help with hurricane relief efforts. today a giant c-5 cargo plan

a parking garage in lower manhattan before and after sandy. look at that a famous amusement park now sits half submerged. homes appear to have disappeared. not far from there another tiny town looks nothing like it did days ago. wind, rain, fire and storm surge left much of it in ruins. and the bridge to the narrow barrier island no longer connect. we'll have much more on the devastation throughout the region coming up live on fox report. politics is back for sure. the new york city mayor michael bloomberg says he is endorsing president obama and the reason? his leadership on climate change. the mayor said today our climate is changing and while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in new york city and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be given this week's devastation should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action. the president is back on the campaign trail visiting wisconsin, nevada and colorado. he says americans have inspired him with their response to the disaster. >> wh

meantime, another hospital lost generator power in lower manhattan. right now hundreds of people are being pushed out of bellevue after hundreds of others were evacuated yesterday. our dr. sanjay gupta is live at bellevue but first to rob marciano. the governor says there will be no fares for subways, trains and buses but many of the bus and subway lines are still not up and running yet so how limited is transportation now? >> well, i can tell you from what we witnessed yesterday, it's very limited. for one thing the buses don't run at night, at least south of 23rd because it's too dark and dangerous. you come down here in the middle of the night and you can't see anybody or anything let alone somebody crossing the street. buses coming up from downtown, what we saw yesterday, by the time they got to 14th they were jammed and couldn't stop to pick up more passengers so forget about the free fares, we need more buses. the people riding underground are now transporting above ground. look at this video near the quee quee queens borough bridge in fear of b

in lower manhattan, they're at what could be billions of dollars in damage. andrew cuomo took me for a rare look at inside. >> when you saw the water coming in monday night, what went through your mind? >> it was one of the most frightening things. i mean, it was truly frightening, to say the least. all you hear is water in every direction and it really was in every direction. >> reporter: he was there monday night when the water was pouring in. what we saw down there is staggering today as you'll see in a moment. there is a lot of work ahead for a lot of people. some progress to report as well. no doubt about that. this evening, new jersey governor chris christie lifted evacuation orders in cape may and atlantic counties on the southern tip of the state. that's progress. as you'll see growing danger farther up the coast from broken gas lines. it has been that kind of day. danger, heart break, victory and setbacks everywhere sandy hit. the sound of progress. subways, limited service once again. the power went out and the water came in. aboveground, more buses

traffic lights in lower manhattan slowly starting to turn on again. across the hudson, however, many people are still under duress. in hoboken, nearly a quarter of the city is under water, street after street, flooded and most of the city is without power. 20,000 people are stranded in their homes tonight. and after repeated appeals from the mayor, the national guard finally showed up today, providing a safe passage out. my abc news colleague alex perez spoke to people who had been trapped. >> it's scary. you don't know how long you're going to be stuck here. you don't know how you're going to get out of town. >> you can't find out what's going on anywhere else. we've been in a little island. >> reporter: elsewhere in the city, fire trucks were delivering food and supplies to people still sheltering in place. people charging their ipods, even coffee machines by generator. in at land take city today, new jersey governor chris christie and president obama toured the state's battered coast. they stopped at a community center, where at its peak, 200 peopl

look at the builds in lower manhattan.re still out of power, as is so much of the area that was covered by sandy. there's one immediate concern. that's the cold air that starts to move in this weekend. on our forecast map, you see the three-day cold spell with this air pushing in, right into the weekend. and by the way, these are low temperatures. they're city low temperatures. areas outside the city will see the freezing mark over the weekend. and over the next few days you'll hear about a storm on the coastline, possible developing. this is a classic nor'easter. it's less powerful. it has no comparison to what you've been through with sandy. but what it does do is puts wind, rain, cold air back into the area that's trying to survive. and that's going to be brutal for people to take who have no food, no power, no gas, and are running out of patience. as next week's forecast includes more cold air, wind and rain, people living in the aftermath of sandy are angry. >> when is the government coming? >> reporter: some feeling,

anderson. >> well, that is what is so disturbing for people in lower manhattan. nyu langone is not an option and bellevue is not an option. there is not a hospital in lower manhattan to take care of emergency cases. >> it is remarkable. 125,000 emergency room admissions a year. and that is over 300 psychiatric beds one of the largest in the state. it is a real concern and they want to get the operations up as soon as possible. you mentioned the notion about the fuel pumps. the generators were up high away from the water but the pumps that pumped oil were down low. when they pumped some of the water out today they found that the pumps were more damaged than they realized. that is what prompted the evacuation. one thing i want to share with you is that in order to keep that generator runs on the 13th floor they had to create a bucket brigade of national guard posts up 12 flights of stairs. they had to keep fueling that generator over more than a day. it was a remarkable scene taking place in there. >> wow, that is incredible. appreciate the reporting all day long.

anna kooiman live in lower manhattan she is following the cleanup from super storm sandy. that's our top story. people slowly resuming their daily routines but more than 6 million preem main without power mostly in new jersey and new york. it could be weeks until some see the lights turned back on. the death toll from sandy is up to at least 74. that number is expected to keep climbing as workers comb through rubble, fallen trees and flood waters. they are helping these families get out of their homes in hoboken, new jersey. it shows a dramatic rooftop rescue in staten island, new york. saving 5 adults and one child who were trapped. anna kooiman joins us live with the latest. >> definitely on a windy thursday morning. good morning everyone. andrew cuomo says barack obama is sending in not only crews but equipment from the army and the navy. they are trying to work on the world trade center area to get the water out. they are sending in an unwatering team after hurricane katrina in illinois. bringing in pumps from the navy. here is a perfect reason why here at battory park

information we were having and operating our company, how many employees were able to work in lower manhattan even as the power was out and water was out. cell towers kept on cooking basically. >> that's amazing. having access to so much information in the palm of your hands changes the way we experience major collective events and it is continuing to change. >> we have a saying that mobile is social. we get about 30 to 40% of our traffic in any given month -- just hit, people were already in tune to getting and sharing on mobile. it was second nature. which is why there was so much information exchanged. so many sites did such huge problem leading up to when the waters hit the island. >> your site and so many others online, news and opinion sites, they are knocked off line monday. how were you able to keep working? >> we weren't fully knocked off. the backup generators got flooded. we have an enormous portion that is in the cloud. people could still reach the site by and large. and then what we also all of our team went to tumbler and social media to get out the story. we believe content in

back to you. >> all right, bertha, thanks so much, bertha coombs for us down in lower manhattan. again the significance. this is the first time we're seeing the man accused by the feds of pulling off the biggest insider trading scheme in u.s. history. herb, thanks to you, as well. we'll see you again soon. and when "halftime" comes back. from black friday to the cyber monday rush, we're on the hunt for new retail stock plays and a top portfolio manager is going to tell you what should be on your shopping list. >>> and later, citi initiates coverage on america's favorite stock, apple with three separate analysts. they'll all join us exclusively to dissect the tech giant. with the fidelity stock screener, you can try strategies from independent experts and see what criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i'm mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free t

frank, i want to start in lower manhattan because late this back onn you turned a.t.m.s. how many are operational in that affected area still without power? >> well, we put a.t.m.s into operation at our flagship branch at ittt chase manhattane plaza. that is in zone a, and zone a still does not have power. we brought generator power to our branch there, and we have that branch open and so there is cash available for the customer in that year. we are out there trying it serve our customer. >> tom: what about the entire affected area. as of today, 70% of chase's a.t.m.s were operational. >> we have more than 75% our a&ms operationa we have 80% of our branches open. we brought generator power in to our branches. we bussed employees to our branches. we're out there to serve our customers. we think having cash and the branches open isbr critical for our customers. >> tom: speaking of, wat about cash supply? have you had ample supply in order to staff up and meet the anticipatedin demand? >> we prepared for this storm. we prepared for the types of problems. we leared with katrin

. >> reporter: we are in midtown manhattan there's power but 25 blocks from here, people in lower manhattan, they are still in the dark. four days after super storm sandy tempers are high. >> we are going to die. you don't understand you got to get your trucks here on this corner. now. >> reporter: new york senator chuck schumer met this woman while touring a water logged neighborhood. >> this is the worst i've seen and it's killing me it's killing me what the people have to go through. >> reporter: new yorkers are facing another day of crippled transportation and power outages. governor cuomo is warning there may be consequences for utility companies that did not properly prepare for sandy. con edison says the storm was worse than anyone expected. >> it was just off the charts and unfortunately we are where we are and we are like all the other utilities up and down the east coast right now trying to recover trying to get everybody back as quick as we can. >> reporter: in new jersey, lines for gas stretched for miles. some residents are returning home getting the first glimpse at the damage