plus this dramatic video, up to ten feet of the water in the nyu langone medical center. nurses carried sick newborn babies down nine flights of stairs while manually pumping air into their lungs. extraordinary. i will talk to the doctor who managed the evacuation. meanwhile, search and rescue missions have been going on all day long. president obama will travel to new jersey tomorrow to view the damage along with governor chris christie. a governor who surprised many people today when he called the president, and i quote, outstanding and incredibly supportive. words he wouldn't have used at the height of election battle last week. governor 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 quiteunprecedented. have you ever seen anything like this in your lifetime? >> no, i haven't. in fact, today i toured the jersey coastline in my helicopter and i landed in two spots on the jersey shore. i can tell you that i have never seen devastation like this in my life. no

several blocks south of here when the power went out and then back up generators failed at the nyu langone medical center. there was a mid storm evacuation of 215 patients including those in critical care and 20 infants from an neo-natal intensive care unit. dozens of ambulances lined up outside to transport the evacuees to nearby mt. sinai hospital. officials say they had limited phone access and would notify families as the patients arrived. 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 c

wonderfully as it ended for them, there are questions tonight of course about why the backup systems at nyu langonefailed. the irony is nyu, new york university, the law school, they do have generators and one of the few places in lower manhattan that have power tonight. i walked by here to come to this location and there were kids studying in the library, lights on, computers working and connected to the internet. the sickest patients at nyu, they weren't evacuated before the storm hit. that's also raising questions tonight. baby alice, as you just saw, is healthy. other babies who were evacuated from the hospital were much more fragile. one of them a newborn girl half the size of alice. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is joining us live with her sorry. sanjay? >> reporter: this is the story of emma, anderson. also beautiful but fragile, as you say. it's also the story of the doctors and the nurses who saved her in the middle of hurricane sandy while her parents were stranded so far away. monday night this baby, 13-day-old baby martinez, a preemie weighing just two pounds, suddenly ne

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

>> first, before i answer that, let me just say how proud i am to work for nyu langone medical centerre we have physicians like dr. rudy and staff and nurses and volunteers and the new york city fire department and the police department who did in an extraordinary effort in incredibly difficult circumstances evacuating all our patients in 12 hours safely. it is a miracle. they did a terrific job. we are a massive huge complex. we have many generators. they are tested all the time. this was an unbelievably powerful storm. many, many things happened that were really beyond anyone's control and that's what just happened. it's a very unfortunate set of circumstances but thank god we have such an incredible team of people who were able to do heroic work. right now we're assessing all of our infrastructure. our goal is to get back online as soon as possible. our patients, our staff, our doctors want to get back to work, so priority number one right now is assess the infrastructure. our buildings are safe, but assess the infrastructure, see what damage was done. we had ten feet of water, 12

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it has been a harrowing 26 hours for hundreds of sick patients who had to be evacuated from the nyu langonering superstorm sandy. can you imagine that? being in the hospital, having to be evacuated, brought down several blocks -- several flights of stairs in complete darkness. the hospital, just a block from the east river, which is on the opposite side of the island of manhattan from where i am right now, lost power. its backup generators failed. patients had to be carried down, as i said, as many as 15 flights of stairs. flashlights giving the only illumination. for some of the tiniest patients, we are talk infants on ventilators, nurses had to manually pump air into their chests while going down the stairs. patients were taken to five different hospitals including mount sinai. this is one of the extraordinary stories that occurred here last night. the most critically ill, obviously, were moved first. a dramtic and terrifying night for patients and their caregivers. charles rosenbaum and kim landman will never forget it. their newborn daughter alice was less than 48 hours old when the hos

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

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

. >> reporter: the dark halls of nyu langone medical center now lead to a lecture hall submerged underet of water. >> it looks like a swimming pool. >> reporter: dr. roberta grossman is the ceo of the hospital. >> we had failure of our primary power, secondary power, backup, all the backup systems failed within 30 minutes. so we went from functioning perfectly to being completely out of power. >> reporter: it quickly became a race against time to evacuate 300 patients including 20 newborns from the neonatal intensive care unit. when i arrived shortly before midnight with a doctor, ambulances were lined up waiting to transport patients to nearby hospitals. >> blackout here. >> reporter: the doctor demonstrated how hospital personnel used plastic sleds to evacuate patients down dark narrow staircases. >> there were two things that had to be taken care of. one was making sure that everybody actually got off of the floor and they weren't left there. the other was figuring out who was the sickest, who do you bring down first. >> reporter: 31-year-old choicestein chin was in the intensive ca

. >> trying to get the patients, 215 of them out of nyu langone medical center. i'm not sure why the back-up generator failed. >> the water spilled over. >> we've lived here all our lives. we like it down here. it's a shame stuff like this happens. >> coming up at 5:00, wendy rieger is back home from the beach but she will have a look back on her four days there. she lost power when she got back but she's safe and sound. >> still to come, a dramatic rescue at sea during the height of the storm. how this amazing story of survival unfolded. >> i'm tracee wilkins in laurel. this is just some of the damage that they're dealing with after trees came down, power lines came down. plenty of home were damaged. we have standing water in other issues. we'll have a live report. >> and veronica returns with a look at sandy's impact and [ earnest ] out of the blue one day, we were told to build a 30-foot stage. gathered the guys and we built that 30-foot stage, not knowing what it was for. just days later, all three shifts were told to assemble in the warehouse. a group of peo

. >>> 260 patients at the nyu langone medical center including patients and elderly in intensive caremassive flooding and a failed backup generator forcing ambulances to transport everyone to nearby facilities. this started about 1:30. some of the patients had to be carried down 15 flights of stairs with 12 feet of standing water in the elevator shaft. very scary moments for them there. and the body of a missing crew member from the doomed replica call ship "hms bounty" has been recovered off the north carolina coast. one crew member remains missing at this hour. the coast guard says 14 others were rescued from their life raft by two jayhawk helicopters after the ship took on water and as you can see there, sank. soledad, back to you. >> all right, zoraida, thank you very much. let's get right to martin savage near kingwood, west virginia, where they are killing with a different issue than what we've been talking about for a lot of the morning. dealing with snow. martin, good morning. >> good morning to you, soledad. yeah, exactly right. what we're dealing with here is blizzard condit

nyu langone also had to be evacuated overnight. that is virtually complete. bellevue hospital has lost power but at the moment is going, is freighting on backup power. coney island hospital has been evacuated. the department of health is sending people to each of the hospitals and chronic care facilities in zone a. we've had significant challenges at many of our hospitals and health care facilities. fortunately as of now there has been no storm related fatalities at any of them. there are more than 6100 people in our emergency shelters, and i'm happy to say there are more than 2200 city staff working in those shelters right now. a number of our shelters lost power last night but we're able to get backup generators to those that didn't have one. we received almost 4,000 tree service requests since the storm began. those are for damaged or falling trees. the majority of those are in queens. let me just urge everybody, 311 for downed trees. please, or text 311 to report damage. they represent and real and serious danger and we've seen tragic proof of that today.

over 200 patients were carried down stairs and out of nyu's langone medical center, including babies in critical care. a building was ripped apart, left exposed to the storm, and a construction crane hung by threads 80 stories above the ground. >> unless you own a submarine, there is no way you're getting out of new york city. >> reporter: and there is no getting in. >> what looks like a river is actually the fdr drive. >> reporter: water gushed through the city, covering everything from ground zero to the brooklyn waterfront and the new jersey p.a.t.h. train. the mta chairman spoke to the historic damage saying the new york city subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night. >> we need to keep the roads clear. do not drive. let me repeat that. please, do not drive. >> reporter: as day breaks, the recovery effort begins, but the extent of the damage from this deadly storm remains to be seen. here in the financial center of new york as well as the world's financial center, the new york stock exchange will remain clos

nyu langone also had to be evacuated overnight. that is virtually complete. bellevue hospital has lost power, but at the moment is operating on backup power. coney island hospital has been evacuated. the department of health is sending people to each of the hospitals and chronic care facilities in zone a. we have had significant challenges at many of our hospitals and health care facilities. fortunately, as of now, there has been no storm-related fatalities at any of them. there are more than 6,100 people in our emergency shelters, and i'm happy to say there are more than 2,200 city staff working in those shelters right now. a number of our shelters lost power last night, but we were able to get backup generators to those that didn't have one. we received almost 4,000 tree service requests since the storm began. those are for damaged or fallen trees. the majority of those are in queens. let me just urge everybody, 311 for downed trees please or text 311 to report damage. they represent a real and serious danger and we have seen tragic proof of that today. yes

this baby, 13-day-old maybe martinez, a premie weighing 2 pounds needed to be transported from nyu langonetal. at about 10:30 p.m., the ceo of mt. sinai dr. davis got the call. within an hour the babies started arriving. >> it is frightening. it's about as challenging as you can get and when you're dealing with tiny little babies who are so fragile, it really can be an extraordinary circumstance. >> reporter: we're in front of nyu medical cent. mount sinai is several blocks to the north over there and about four blocks to the west and that's sort of the important point because just over there is the east river. what we now know is 7:00 p.m. there was no water inside that hospital. at 7:45, there was 10 feet. the power started to go out and then the generator failed. and all of a sudden the 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

that's the nyu langone medical center. 215 patients, even as we speak, from adult critical care, pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care, all being evacuated out of that hospital, moved to nearby facilities because the backup generator at nyu went down. let's get a check of the latest. let's go back to nbc news meteorologist bill karins. bill, what have you got for us? >> these things are going to continue to develop through the night but all the big issues that were caused in the new york city area was because of the high tide, the historic, epic if you want to call it that high tide. the only reason they use epic is that's never happened before. we shattered the previous record high tide we had in 1960 with donna. that's why new yorksy we're talking so much about it, not because we're here. if it was any other city in the country this would have been a huge, big deal with this much of a storm surge. the same as it was for atlantic city, new jersey. might as well just draw the line on the map from atlantic city up to new york because all of those coastal communities in new jersey

joining us, vice president for clinical affairs at the nyu langone medical center.w, thank you for joining us. scary story out of the "washington post" today that brought it to our attention here. which if hospitals have a lot of people coming back for the same treatment in a short period of time, they're going to get whacked by the government. how severe a problem is this? >> it is a big problem nationally and right now we're talking about the cost control provisions of health care reform. so everything that you've been hearing about in the news, the general news anyway, has been about health insurance reform. this is now how are we going to pay for the health insurance reform and an easy target is to take it out of the hospitals because medicare pays hospitals a lot of money. every hospital grapples with hospital readmissions. there's a lot of controversy around penalizing hospitals if their patients, for example, don't comply with their discharge instructions. every hospital's going to be hit with this penalty. >> and do you think that this is going to impact som

. >>> tonight, new details also about the crisis last night at nyu langone medical center.s all the way on the east side of manhattan in the 30s. critically sick infants, hundreds of other patients had to be evacuated after the hospital lost power and the backup systems failed. where they were brought, how they're doing. and the amazing story of how so many people survived being brought down nine flights of stairs in total darkness. dr. sanjay gupta joins me for that ahead. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage

the staff at nyu langone medical center was forced to evacuate hundreds of patients overnight including infants from the neo natal intensive care unit after backup power failed. they are still evacuating patients as we speak. we'll get to more on that in a moment, but first, let's go straight to meteorologist bill karins for the very latest. bill? >> good morning to you guys. and it's just starting to settle in. and once these pictures come in, it's just going to be incredible. the kind of damage that sandy created. over my shoulder here, you're looking at one of the strongest storms to go through the mid-atlantic region and caused the most destruction of our lifetime. this has never happened for a storm like this in the jersey shore of this intensity. lowest pressure readings ever in philadelphia and atlantic city, new jersey, and the storm surge, the highest ever measured in areas like new york city. that is so rare. and the effects we're just beginning to realize. and wait until we find out how long it's going to take for the new york subway to get running again. let's take you throu

. >> doctors, nurses and hospital staff sought to evacuate patients from nyu langone medical center monday vulnerable, 20 newborn babies clinging to life in the neonatal intensive care unit. >> all these monitors here, there's a lot of buzzing and everything just went. >> joann's son jackson born 27 weeks prematurely was carried in the dark by a nurse who also held his oxygen tank. >> we had to go down nine flight of stairs that were wet and had adult patients lying on the floors in like stretchers. it was pretty crazy. all of this in complete darkness. >> people running around, pushing gurneys. >> outside the hospital, jeremy checked on his son william who was born three weeks ago with congenital heart disease but no one would let him in. >> i tried to explain i had a 3-week-old fresh off heart surgery. >> he waited outside in the driving wind and rain for two hours. finally a doctor escorted him inside. >> we jog, ran up 15 flights of stairs up to his floor and got to the top of the steps and the floor was pitch black. i found my son, found his nurse and kind of an awesome moment and the

nyu langone medical center had to evacuate patients yesterday. and this hospital. what do we expect other hospitals in manhattan, new york, new jersey area could face similar problems? >> it all depends on how long the power is out. how long the generators can hold on and keep going, how long they still have diesel fuel, do they have to reload, refuel? the fuel doesn't really last that long. they have to burn it out every once in a while, refuel it. they put stable in it to keep it fresh, but if you have to try to refuel -- refill these reservoirs and get the generators going again, we have generators here at cnn and they're supposed to work for about four days. that means if we're longer than that, somehow we have to get fuel to them. that's the same problem with all of these hospitals on all of these backup generators, it's the fuel. >> chad, standby for a moment. actually, i want to ask one additional question before i let you go. if this situation, it now looks like the weather's clearing up in major parts of the devastated area, that's going to help in the reb

nyu langone also had to be evacuated overnight. that is virtually complete.tal has lost power but at the moment is operating on backup power. coney island hospital has been evacuated. the department of health is sending people to each of the hospitals and chronic care facilities in zone "a." we've had significant challenges at many of our hospitals and health care facility. fortunately as of now, there has been no storm-related fatalities at any of them. there are more than 6,100 people in our emergency shelters, and i'm happy to say there are more than 2,200 city staff working in those shelters right now. a number of our shelters lost power last night, but we were able to give backup generation to those that didn't have them. received service requests since the storm began, for damaged or falling trees. majority of those are in queens. let me just urge everybody, 311 for downed trees. >> mayor mike bloomberg going through the storm that he calls devastating, maybe the worst ever experienced by the city of new york. three-quarters of a million people without

langone's medical center at nyu, backup power failed.our newborns in the neonatal care unit were on respirators. nurses had to use manual pumps to keep them breathing. we did see flashes of several transformers blowing throughout new york. at this moment, probably because of what you're seeing there, much of lower manhattan is dark right now. con ed is saying this is the biggest snow-related -- storm-related outage, rather, in our history. it's not just new york. lock at this, as we were saying, about 2 million people in new york, it was really new jersey where sandy made landfall, where more than 2 million people are without power. in massachusetts even, about 322,000 people are without power. the emergency -- there's an emergency agency in massachusetts, carol, warning people of dangerous winds today. 300,000 in massachusetts, that could go up as far as the number of people without power. car carol? >> and it's so cold, too. >> it is. >> it's not like your normal hurricane where it's hot and humid afterwards. it's more cold and rain. >

for some there was a worst-case scenario, power went out at nyu langone medical center. ower but it was eventually restored. >> we talked to officials at nyu hospital, they managed to get patients out of the hospital in time. people are asking the question, when is my power coming back on? how do they determine who gets power restored first? >> finding out this is a process. we talked to several states and they need to figure out who needs power on the most. with the crews, they first get power back on in hospitals, 911 centers, shelters, water treatment facilities and work their way down to the residential areas that were hit the hard effort. the good news is, some pour's been restored in delaware and maryland. and you know, also helping that authorities were proactive before the storm hit. what they did they shut the electricity down ahead of time. but it could be a while before the power comes back on. mayor bloomberg says power could be out in new york city for two, three days. corey booker says it will be several days. get used to it. when you least expect it, you'll

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

here in new york city more than 200 patients at nyu langone medical center had to be taken to nearby amazing delivery. >> this is micah, and he was born 12:42 a.m. >> reporter: almost five hours after hurricane sandy hit land, micah marcus was born, but it was a labor of love bringing him into the world. >> it was more crazy than we could possibly imagine. >> reporter: julia was having contractions at new york university langone medical center when the power went out and the backup generator failed. her husband was getting something to eat >> i walked into the cafeteria, full-on blackout. he couldn't see the storm but could hear it. >> i think the hurricane was battering the hospital. everything was shaking, and i heard this crazy rushing of water sound. it was coming off the fdr into first avenue, and into the hospital. the basement was flooded. the ground floor was flooded at that point. >> reporter: pack in the delivery room julia was having powerful contractions. >> they were like 30 seconds apart. it started being like really painful. >> reporter: and, i mean, at that point i wa

. >>> frightening moments at the nyu langone medical center was evacuated after the backup generator. this baby alice was born sunday four weeks prematurely. charles lived with his family on the 13th floor when he heard the power was going to go and he told anderson cooper what happened. >> i heard the nurses talking about how in 15 minutes that all the electricity was going to be going down. so obviously like a good father i scooted right back to my room and told my wife, kim, and we started talking about what was going to be the next step. >> look at that baby there. >> that's a fighter baby, i call it. because i was watching this and he was holding his head up. that's a fighter baby. >> he's an awesome baby. he stuck it out overnight. mother and daughter were released from the hospital tuesday morning after tracking down 13 flights of stairs. everyone is doing just fine this morning. >> nice to see stories like that. >>> following a brief hiatus for the storm, president obama and mitt romney return to the campaign trail, and with less than a week before the voters head to the poll

langone started arriving. >> it's frightening, and when you are dealing with tiny babies that are so fragile, it really can be an extraordinary circumstance. >> reporter: in front of nyuical center, mt. sinai is about four clocks to the west. just over there is the east river. at company 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 generator failed, and then all of a sudden, the 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. >> confirmed by a family member they were calling me on the phone, because suddenly i lost outage in my apartment. no access to the tv no, access to the internet. no phone service at home. just our cell. >> imagine the desperation, the nightmare. 13-day-old baby rushed through the streets of new york city in the middle of hurricane sandy, while they were stuck at home in new jersey. all they could do was hope, p