and the people at nyu were great.so we're very happy the way this turned out. >> i've seen pictures of you and alice with glow sticks. walk us through what it was like when the power went out, when you knew it was gone for good? >> well, it was definitely an interesting -- interesting time there. we got there on saturday night at 3:00 in the morning. the -- we didn't deliver her -- my wife delivered her sunday at 9:00 a.m., and then we thought everything was kind of business as usual. we assumed that power was going to be going in the hospital. we figured nyu and new york city was -- you know, things were probably one of the safest places to be. but you know, as time went on, you know, turned out we were up in our room, on the 13th floor, when the power went out, the generators went on. i think that was about 7:00 p.m. and then shortly after that i think one of the generators failed and the power on our side of the floor went out. we had the glow sticks that got passed around by nurses, who seemed pretty calm and conf

a harrowing 26 hours for sick patients that had to be evacuated from nyu medical center. you imagine? having to be evacuated, being brought down several flights of stairs in total darkness. and the hospital lost power, backup generators failed. patients had to be carried down. as i said, as many as 15 flights of stairs. flashlights, the only illumination, for some of the tiniest patients, we're talking unfants on ventilators, nurse has to manually pump air into their chests while going down the stairs, patients were taken to five different different hospitals including mt. sinai, one of the extraordinary stories that occurred here last night, the most critically ill were moved first, a dramatic and terrifying night for patients and their caregivers, charles rosenbaum and kim will never forget it. their new daughter, alice, less than 48 hours old. born on sunday. look at her. four weeks early, but very healthy. their first child. i spoke with charles earlier and alice joined us as well. charles, first of all, congratulations on the birth of your beautiful first child. alic

nyu hospital and bellevue.ital, that's where they are moving 20 0 patients to various hospitals in the area because of these waters. we don't have specifics if the building flooded, what kind of power outages may be there, if any, but we know they are moving 200 patients to different hospitals. they say because of intermittent phone problems, they are saying anyone who's being moved will be notified. the patient's families will be notified by the hospital that is receiving them. so, they're having phone issues there. right next door to them at bellevue hospital, they've got water in their basement. so, they're trying to deal with that. they're hoping for additional pumps and to fix some generators. as of now, we don't have reports they are moving anyone from bellevue, piers. >> seems quite extraordinary that a major hospital in new york with a week's warning could have a power failure to its backup generator, isn't it? >> reporter: power outages have been a real concern in this part of town because it was just

joining us live outside the nyu medical center, lori bordinaro. i was watching the pictures and gripped by them late last night of nurses carrying newborn infants in their arms with another nurse performing man you'll ventilati manual ventilation. >> i know. it's been a huge team effort here as you said of doctors, nurses, and emergency responders trying to get these 215 patients out of nyu langone medical center and to the other hospitals all because that backup generator failed. it's been a very tedious process, one that started well before midnight. still going on at this hour. there were newborn babies being taken out, other patients as well in critical care. they had to carry the patients down the stairs, out the lobby, out into these ambulances that have been lined up along first avenue for several hours. many of the patients again from the neo-natal unit. we saw the newborn being carried out. other pediatric patients and adult critical care patients and obstetrics patients. they're all being taken over mount sinai. certainly this wasn't som

>> i think there are obviously enormous questions that nyu needs to answer.erstand why they cannot give us those answers today, because they need to get the hospital back up and running, but they are questions that have to be answered. we were assured we being the city, that the hospitals within zone a had capacity to get patients out before the storm, stop taking in anything that was not emergency procedures and that they had sufficient backup generators. that was the representation that they made to the city. why that didn't happen, at a very significant institution. this is not a small neighborhood hospital, not that it would be okay there, but i think you get my point, is a big question that is obviously going to be very high on all of our lists to get an answer to once we -- as we move forward. >> we need some answers. >> thank god, everyone made it. i want to echo the doctor's thanks to the staff and the fire and police but there's an underlying question here that has to be answered. >> i totally agree. let's move on to a couple things. one is the crane

this is nyu medical center which is right along the east river. so it's right in that zone. just a few blocks down at 14th street con ed substation suffered an explosion, so it's unclear if that caused some power outages. >> there's the video. it's a pretty remarkable piece of video when you see that explosion going off in the middle of your screen. >> the hospital is 20 blocks from there. unclear if that's what caused the initial pow er outage or problems. the east river overflowing its banks on the east side of manhattan causing flooding. unclear if that's what caused the backup generators to go in the hospital. regardless, a major problem at nyu medical center that they have to evacuate 215 patients, ambulances literally lining up out front. patients, neo nates, babies, adult elderly patients in critical care units literally being carried down the steps, loaded into ambulances and sent to other hospitals here in manhattan. mt. sinai, for example, saying they're accepting them. the problem so bad at nyu now the phones aren't working so they are having a tough time contacti

part of the basement of nyu langer medical center. nurses actually carried sick newborn babies down nine flights of stairs while manually pumping air into their lungs. quite extraordinary. i'll talk to a doctor iflgd in the evacuation. meanwhile, in new jersey, the state hit hardest by sandy, search and rescue missions have gone on all day long. president obama will travel there tomorrow to vut damage along with new jersey governor chris christie. the governor surprised many people today when he called the president and i quote outstanding and incredibly supportive. words he probably wouldn't have used at the heart of an election battle last week. governor chris christie joins me from the state emergency command center. governor, thank you for joining me. i watched these extraordinary scenes over new jersey today. really quite unprecedented. i've never seen anything quite like it. have you ever seen anything like this in your lifetime? >> no, i haven't. in fact, piers, today i toured the jersey coastline both by helicopter, and i land

she was born sunday at nyu hospital, four weeks early, but healthy.than 48 hours later, she and her parents, kim and charles, were waiting by the light of glow sticks to be evacuated. alice will not remember the dramatic night, certainly, but her parents certainly will never forget it. charles joins me now. charles, first of all, congratulations on the birth of your beautiful first child. alice is adorable. i want to welcome alice as well. i know she came into the world four weeks early, should have been at the hospital until today for monitoring. how is she doing now? how's your wife doing? how's everybody doing? >> thank you, anderson. she's doing great. we feel very fortunate that we were able to get through this and she's pretty happy, healthy. she is actually opening her eyes for you. she is 36 weeks old so we were definitely concerned that her health was going to be okay through this, and the people at nyu were great. we're very happy the way this turned out. >> i've seen the pictures of you and alice with glow sticks. walk us through what it wa

chris welsh, we hear nyu hospital has been evacuated because that generator went down and mt. sinai, i understand, is taking in a lot of those patients. where are you we aren't seeing high water but seeing a lot of debris. >> reporter: nyu, bellevue hospital next to each other. nyu, we've been told, has been looking for replacement hospitals for 200 patient they've trying to find a new home for as a result of some of these floods. we don't know exactly what happened, flood in the basement, generator issue that's causing them trouble with 200 patients but we know they're being moved, having trouble with phones although nyu. hospitals will be calling family members, letting them know where new patients are going. i'm in the lower east side of manhattan on east houston and avenue d. where i am, about two hours ago when we first got here, the water would have been right here on me. now over the last hour, hour and a half it has steadily receded. i'm not sure how well you can see that mini van but where the water level is right now, add maybe a foot to that. the officers on the sai

at nyu hospital one of the biggest in the city and the country, the backup generators have failed forcing rescue personnel to evacuate patients. this historic storm tonight is wreaking havoc up and down the atlantic seaboard from the carolinas to connecticut, claiming at least ten lives so far. flooding entire towns, causing blackouts across the midatlantic and midwest and snoerms frwstor maryland to tennessee. juju chang spent the day in lower manhattan and comes to us from the dangerously flooded streetings. what is the latest? >> reporter: we've sent much of this evening wading through the floodwaters ofmanhattan, through the evacuation zone, this storm now has the dubious distinction of setting a record for a record storm surge but it's deceptively calm now, not a lot of rain or wind, we're penned in by flood waters and blocked by sky scrapers in the historic canyons of lower man hasn't and the 9/11 memorial began flooding this evening. behind me is literally the financial heart of the stage, new york stock exchange shut down today and tomorrow. detectly behind me is what new york off

. >> in the meantime, we understand that nyu medical center is being evacuated.hat can you tell me about that situation? >> there were a number -- there are a number of health care facilities and in consultation with the health care facilities not to evacuate them to begin a number of days ago discharging patients who were healthy enough to be discharged, moving patients on ventilators to other facilities in case, god forbid, something like this happened. so we really tried to reduce the number of people and take those who couldn't get off out. we believe most -- we believe the facility had excessive backup generators, et cetera. for whatever reason, that has become a problem at nyu so in an orderly fashion the patients are being moved to different facilities. in irene we moved patients from zone a to zone b and zone b to c. so for better or worse, we have these experiences of patients being absorbed by other hospitals. >> mayor bloomberg instructed taxis and cars to get off the roads that they needed to keep the roads clear and that's a good reminder for people

that included nyu medical center, and their backup generators did not function properly.mergency on their hands. they had so many critical care patients they had to get out and get to safety. many of them on respirators. when you look at the video of the 20 babies that the nurses and doctors carried down dark hallways, very slowly and delicately. some of them, they needed respirators, and so you saw nurses actually manually pumping air into their lungs to keep them alive, get them down the stairs and to ambulances on standby to take them to other area hospitals. it was an emotional sight. the doctors, nurses, you know they helped several critically injured also with battery-operated equipment. they've been training for this for so long. this is when their training kicked in. and it all went off without a hitch as well, which is amazing when you consider the circumstances, according to abc news' dr. jennifer ashton. >> when you talk about moving patients out of a hospital and taking them down multiple flights of stairs, it is a logistical and medical nate mair. >> reporter

and a little something more than that nyu medical center being evacuated. they're trying to get patients down stairwells there. there are four young babies they're trying to get to another hospital on vent laters. >> i thought they had this situation in hand. there are huge back up generators but they've now failed. >> we'll continue to follow that. >> along the many communities feeling the brunt of the monster torm, sand gee long ild yantd. right now you're looking at a picture from long island. meteorologists tell us the reason it's being pounded hard is because storm is packing what they describe as astoundingly low pressure is giving it energy to push water inland. we're joined by ed mangano. he joins us on the phone, i believe. are you there, ed? >> from nassau county office of emergency management are you there? >> yes. >> thanks for joining us. i know you're busy there in the community. can you bring us up to date now? >> we had many residents that did not leave the area stranded. we rescued over 300 people so far. we have major flooding issues downe

i was actually at nyu last year. they had multiple layers of systems in case something failed. why they've now gone on to backup power which may not be working so well which is why they're transferring people out. what i can hazard a guess here is it's just water damage, for water damage for electrical systems, you're really in trouble. i'm told they don't have water on patient floors, but certainly water gets in parts of the electrical system, you can be in trouble no matter how many backup systems you have. >> all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much, reporting with the latest on the evacuation of, as she said, about 200 patients in manhattan. when we come back, sebastien younger will be back to talk about the perfect storm. but because of business people like you, things are beginning to get rolling. and regions is here to help. making it easier with the expertise and service to keep those wheels turning. from business loans to cash management, we want to be your partner moving forward. so switch to regions. and let's get going. together. or that printing in color had

the nyu hospital is without power.nse teams are also unable to get to the coney island hospital in brooklyn. and in downtown manhattan workers were trapped inside a power station. subways with shut down from washington to boston. the new york subway could be out of service for a week. the storm has always flooded most of atlantic city sweeping away an entire section of the city's famed board work. and shelters are open across the state. 100 national guard troops are on duty. in north carolina any u.s. coast guard as rescued 14 members of a crew forced to abandon ship off of the carolina coast. in tennessee they are expecting up to 10 inches of show. in chicago the national weather service has issued high wind and flood warnings for tuesday and wednesday. and in wisconsin residents along lake michigan have been advised to evacuation because the waves are expected to reach 14 to 18 feet. now here is what the presidential campaigns have on tap for tomorrow mitt romney has what his campaign is calling a relief event, which

nyu's tisch hospital was evacuated last night. they started with the sickest and the youngest, including those in the neonatal care unit. a 15-foot surge of sea water flooded manhattan. coastal communities are also reporting severe flooding this morning. sandy is also being blamed for a burst of snow in west virginia. >>> right now thousands of people in our area are in the dark because of sandy. most of the power outages are in northern virginia. dominion virginia power reporting more than 119,000 customers without electricity right now. pepco is trying to restore power to more than 30,000 homes and businesses in our area. bge says 3,200 area customers don't have electricity, and smeco is reporting 30,000 customers in the dark. >> the federal government is closed today for all nonessential personnel. metro rail and bus service is also suspended until this afternoon. then metro will reassess the situation. marc, vre, and amtrak service along the northeast corridor all suspended today as well. and flights out of dulles, reagan nati

the water also caused other problems at nyu hospital over on the east side of new york city.ast night i was there as they began evacuating patients of that hospital. we understand from hospital officials the hospital began taking on water. they had a backup generator. that generator began to fail more than 200 patients had to be evacuated and sent to other hospitals in president new york city area. >> if you have ever flown into jfk airport you would have flown into that area. >> 50 homes sl a lot. delaware cars submerged in water. >> strong surges from sandy created widespread flooding. kelly wright is live for us with more. >>> how are things looking there today? >> from the boardwalk things are not okay. as you take a look the power is on. that's a good thing. there are no people here on the boardwalk they did follow the orders to evacuate. this is the wind surge which calmed down considerably. they are going to have to do a lot of cleanup. i found this ditch i could actually jump in it. you could jump in it. they will have to clean this up and the tunes. that sex pensive.

let's take you to nyu langone medical center.evacuation there when their power failed and backup generator failed as well. they're bringing out babies, 260 patients in total, many of them newborn babies from an intensive care unit. keep in mind, some of the nicu babies were on respirators. the nurses carrying the babies working a hand respirator. just to make sure they could save their lives as they brought them out of the hospital in the middle of this storm. 12 feet of water reported in the elevator shafts at nyu langone medical center. that's about a mile and a half north of where i'm standing. transportation, subway system continues to be shut down. it cowl be four days, maybe even more before they decide to re-open the subway system. that's because of flooding in some of the subway tunnels. the transit officials say the worst problem to ever hit the system in 108 years. i want to show you the satellite loop if we can. they're calling it not a hurricane anymore. it's called a post-tropical cyclone. national weather service is

it looks like brian quinn is returning to nyu. once again, the power is out there. the backup generator has failed and they have had to move hundreds and hundreds of patients and a very impressive -- again, a fleet of ambulances transferred these patients and brian quinn told us in an orderly fashion that these hospitals actually have pretty elaborate evacuation plans. and they were able to -- it looks like they're still making the switch from nyu langone to mount sinai. >> net, i am noticing. is it raining in manhattan, now? >> it is light rain, but it is raining. still being blown around by the wind. gusting up to 60 miles per hour. we will see some of these rain bands cover up and make circulation for quite some time. nothing like the heaviest rain that went through south jersey and towards the southern pennsylvania. they had about three to 5 inches of rain. rainfall totals earlier, this is just light rain. but it will continue. as i have been saying, the circulation is so large that we will be dealing with this. we will be dealing with it for a couple of days in

i know for certain that nyu was prepare, we have generator all over the place.a large massive complex, a safe complex, buildings are safe now. we're talking about 100-year storm with a river that rose beyond anyone's expectations and clearly, you know, a lot went wrong. but a lot went right. the staff, as elizabeth pointed out, worked very hard. we drill for this, we train for this. and they did even better than that. and it's remarkable. now, it's important for me to let you all know that we are currently assessing our infrastructure, as you can imagine, with ten feet of water. there's a lot of damage to our infrastructure. we are assessing that infrastructure right now. we have a lot of patients who we treat in our blaner ambulatory . through both nearby the main campus and throughout the region, we are working very hard to restore those services. patients are trying to reach us now. they have appointments, they want to see us. we're doing everything we can to make make contact with them and restore services as quickly as we can. we rely on electronic medical

nyu medical center is the hospital in question.d to show you behind me if you look up you can see it's still pitch black after those generators failed less than 24 hours ago. it was at that moment the re respirators went down, and elevators. they turned to cpr bags to pump the air in themselves, toast tiny lungs to keep the babies alive. when we arrived all you could see was the outline of the hospital against the darkened sky. a lone flashlight up in one of the hospital rooms there as doctors and nurses rushed from patient to patient. out front ambulances and images from my iphone as we approached the hospital. 1 of nearly 300 patients one by one brought out and taken by safety. from the sky the ambulances lined up around the block from all over the city and we're learning more tonight about the moments the lights went out, the moment critical machines and respirators stopped. this young doctor right there. >> making sure the patient was on ventilators. >> reporter: the babies. >> the babies, yes. >> reporter: their first concern,

and at nyu hospital, they should have checked the backup.tle things catch you when mother nature wants to prove who is really in charge. >> it is fascinating to hear your perspective. i appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. you walked over here, so i very much appreciate it. difficult getting around town right now. >> that's right. >> thank you for being with us. there is a lot more to cover. i'll speak live with the person who shot this video, water rushing in to a neighborhood, we'll be right back. humans -- sometimes life trips us up. and sometimes, we trip ourselves up, but that's okay. at liberty mutual insurance we can "untrip" you as you go through your life with personalized policies and discounts when you need them most. just call... and speak with a licensed representative about saving on your policy when you get married, move into a new house... [crash!] or add a car to your policy. don't forget to ask about saving up to 10% when you combine your auto and home insurance with liberty mutual. security, coverage, and savin

backup generator failed at nyu langone medical center. that's forced the evacuation of 200 patients. some were intensive care and had to be moved to other hospitals. the city's transportation stins to be shut down because of massive flooding. we're told it could be days, four days maybe, before they're able to re-open the city's subway. they're calling it a post tropical cyclone. the national weather service is warning that damaging wind gusts of 70 to 90 miles an hour still possible for long island, southern connecticut as well, through 10:00 this evening. terrible news to report, sandy's killed 13 people here in the united states, 5 of those fatalities are in, no. another was reported in connecticut. three more in new jersey, including a couple in morris county who were crushed in their car when a tree fell on them. there's been one fatality reporteded in west virginia, two in pennsylvania and a crew member on board the "hms bounty." remember we told you that story yesterday morning, the "hms bounty" which took on water and the 17 peopl

she has information on the evacuation of the nyu medical center. i understand that many have been evacuated because they lost power, generator failed, is that the story? >> reporter: that is basically the story. they are in the middle of evacuating 260 patients approximately. at around 7:00 they went from having no water in their buildings to 45 minutes later having more than 10 feet of water. they are now carrying patients down 15 flights of stairs, sometimes only with flashlights to illuminate the way. this evacuation includes an intensive care unit, neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit. we're told those patients are all out. now, four of those newborn babies were on respirators that were not working because there was no power. the whole time they were taken down about nine flights of stairs, a nurse had to do what's called bagging. a nurse would manl usually pump oxygen so the child could brooelt, the baby could breathe. they anticipate this evacuation will take another five hours. >> that's incredible. majority of the

hundreds of patients had to be evacuated from nyu medical center. >> now a trustee says the hospitaloard, rather, knew the generators were out of date and at risk before the storm hit. abc's david muir was at the hospital as the evacuation began. >> reporter: when we arrived all you could see was the outline of the hospital against a darkened sky. a lone flashlight in one of the hospital rooms there, as doctors and nurses rushed from patient to patient. out front, ambulances, images from my iphone as we approached the hospital. just one of the nearly 300 patients who were one by one, brought out and taken to safety. from the sky, ambulances lined up around the block from all over the city. and we are learning more about the moment the lights went out, the moment the critical machines, the respirators stopped. this young doctor right there. >> the patients on ventilators. >> the babies. >> babies, yeah. >> reporter: their first concern, babies in intensive care. 20 of them. this nurse clutching a newborn wrapped in a blanket holding one of the plastic bags. she was doing the work of t

about 260 patients at the nyu medical center had to be evacuated, some down 15 flights of stairs. by daybreak, hundreds of people in new jersey had to be rescued after a levee was breached. and problems kept multiplying. 3 feet of snow in west virginia waves rising along lake michigan -- the storm shut down the new york stock exchange, international airport, subways and trains service. we're told tonight that the stock markets will open tomorrow morning with mayor michael bloomberg bringing the opening bell. as to the airport, we are told by the port authority that newark and jfk airport will both open at 7:00 a.m. but with limited service. >> we have discussed all of the issues that everybody is dealin with. the long road to get things back to normal. how would you describe the mood in new york city? >> it is certainly coming back to life slowly. i would stress slowly but surely. you can see traffic coming and going behind me. taxis are back up and running today. people get up to look at and assess what is going on. we're still in a pretty big black cat in the southern part of ma

at the same time we've also seen nurses at nyu hospital carrying fragile newborns to safety. we've seen incredibly brave firefighters in queens waist-deep in water battling infernos, and rescuing people in boats. >> reporter: as reggie kumar tells us, a local utility company packed up equipment and sent employees to help restore electricity to the millions still in the dark on the east coast tomorrow. >> reporter: 150 peing peing workers -- pg& e workers met tuesday and packed into buses. this is a picture of some in their safety air on their way to sacramento county where they boarded a flight to new york city. 60 pieces of equipment were also sent, including 4-bucket vehicles eric bulldozer, several flatbed trucks as well as trailers. they say they are looking forward to helping the millions who desperately need their lights back on. >> they don't know where we're from. but when they get their power back on, there's a lot of pride in that. we all enjoy seeing their face when is they finally get the power. >> reporter: these workers are prepared to work above and below groun

the backup generator at the nyu tisch hospital failed. the evacuation included about 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit. we're told everybody is doing okay. >>> and take a look at this dramatic video of a power substation explosion in new york city. you can see what appears to be two blasts at the con edison substation in lower manhattan. that's the power company there. this knocked out power for about 20 blocks in all directions. in all, more than 230,000 people just in manhattan have no electricity. this is one of the five largest blackouts ever in new york. >> many people not able to wait out a storm at an atlantic city shelter because of a power outage there. new jersey governor chris christie says atlantic city mayor should not have disregarded the evacuation order. sandy also took out part of atlantic city's famed boardwalk. >>> coastal communities rocked by sandy are waking up to a big mess this morning, including heavy flooding in areas. erica gonzalez is getting a firsthand look at the impact sandy had in rehoboth be

i know it has more than 12 floors at nyu.o we know if the hospital is open again this morning, john? >> reporter: i don't bloelieve is. i have not yet received an update. it's 15 floors. they had to evacuate. 216 patients were left in it. it has the capacity of 800 patients. a lot of patients had been moved out over the past few days with the storm moving in. the ones in the most critical care were kept in there. they thought the generators would work. they didn't think the flooding would get that bad. of course, it did. and they had to evacuate overnight. >> the hospital is right near the water. you can see how that happened. john berman, thanks. >>> mayor of new york is expected to update us on the situation in queens where 50 homes burned down. they're still fighting fires there. also the hundreds of thousands of people without power in the new york area. we'll be right back. people really love snapshot from progressive, but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30

look at these pictures, this is the evacuation at nyu langone medical center.t of the storm. sanjay gupta has a look at it for us, what they did, with the smallest of babies being transported. >> transporting a patient under any conditions is tough. they got a call at 10:30 saying they needed to transfer a bunch of patients over. one baby, emma, her parents are far away. they don't know where she is, where she's been evacuated to. it's a remarkable story about them and also the nurses and doctors who transported her. take a look. monday night, this baby, 13-day-old baby martinez, a preemie, weighing just two poupds, suddenly needed to be urgently transported from langone medical hospital to mt. sinai. challenging under any conditions. these were extraordinary ones. >> it's about as challenging as you can get. >> reporter: we're in front of nyu medical center. mt. sinai is several blocks to the north and four blocks to the west. that's an important point. just over there is the east river. what we now know is that at 7:00 pm there was no water inside that hospit

. >> john have you heard more about the nyu generator?, the east side really got pummelled, worst than the west side of course. when the storm swooped around it send the waves heading westward through long island sound. so the waves went around the curve, and sent a big crash right towards where long island sound begins. the east side was hit really hard. nyu was evacuated in the rain every patient had to be moved to another hospital. that is a hospital that does a lot of drills, and as far as i know there is no loss of life there. >> well, john, we would love to check in with you a little later on in the show. so stand by. >> i'll be around. >> okay. and we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ vote on november 6th but just as importantly to take the time to learn about each candidate's stance on the issues that matter to you. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv. vote smart. our democracy depends on an informed electorate. break the ice with breath-freshening

the nyu medical center, they were in deep, deep trouble.n, expectant mothers, babies, intensive care, and -- >> and mt.well. they're in the middle of manhattan, as well. >> raining, windy, and -- transferring 64 patients in the middle of the night. i applaud those doctors. >> absolutely. >> and nurses for doing what they were doing. >> kenneth davis, thank you so much. >>> so parts of new jersey's most famous seaside resort has been ruined by the sea itself, of course. let's get a look at the damage a little closer in atlantic city and it's historic boardwalk. for that, we go to mike galanos of hln. you've been there, mike. what are you seeing there on the boardwalk today? >> reporter: well, right behind me, directly behind me, that scrap wood you see there, that was parts of the boardwalk. this is the northern part of atlantic city, again, the atlantic ocean just pounded away right behind me. the ocean is just over some of that scrap wood, maybe 100 yards. and you actually had had people -- if you can see these buildings -- if we can take

ambulances are lining u up in front of nyu's mical c the hospital lost its backup generator. just now the first patients are coming out of the hospital the waitingbulances, including some infants. d have word on whether the power outage caused any fatalities inside but of course we're there now and we'll bring you more as we know it. >>> now we'll turn to new jersey and move to cape may, where my co-anchor terry mon, reporting powerful brunt of the storm's e landfall earlier today. what is the latest there? >> reporter: we are about 175 miles from you and we're still getting hurricane-force winds just booming, thundering off the block behind me. like million american w hunkered down as this storm roared ashore. herejust a few miles from where landfall was made, roads were flooded, t booming winds have been going for hours. power out all over the place and when we come back in just a minute, we will take you through the course of the day as sandy comes ashore. i'm a conservative investor. i invest in what i know. i turned 65 last week. i'm getting married. planning a life. the

from nyu langone hospital to mount sinai. challenging under any conditions.s. at about 10:30 p.m. ceo of mount sinai, dr. kenneth navis got the call. the baby from langone is -- >> it's as bad a challenge as can you get, and when you are dealing with tiny babies like this who are so fragile, it really can be an extraordinary circumstance. >> reporter: we're in front of nyu medical center. that's sort of the important point because just over there is the east river. what we now know is that 7:00 p.m. there was no water inside that hospital. at 7:45 there was ten feet. the power started to go out, and then the generators failed. all of a sudden patients and the doctors found themselves in a worst case scenario. as for the parents of little baby martinez, they found out the hospital and their daughter would be evacuated when they watched mayor michael bloomberg on tv. shortly after they lost power, and they had no idea where their baby would be taken. >> it was -- my family members were calling mow the phone because certainly i lost my apartment. we had no acces

and, you know, i talked to some of the folks at nyu.ng they said maybe even this week. although spending some time over there yesterday, realizing that within a period of 45 minutes on monday night they got ten feet of water into some of these systems, it's hard to believe that that could actually happen. one thing i want to point out because a lot of people have been asking about the generators, anderson, i know you've talked about it as well. we got some information from people inside the hospital, these generators are typically located in various locations around the hospital. some may be at lower levels, but they typically put generator at higher levels as well because of the concern of flooding. these generators run on fuel, but they often have an oil pump mechanism as well to help keep the generators going. and it's that oil pumping mechanism which is located at sea level or below sea level that seems to have not worked, malfunctioned or flat out failed at bellevue. that's the real concern. that's why they've been carrying that oi