the whole rockaways is black. they hav generator out there on the boulevard, but in the middle of the project, we can get some lights. >> we are standing in line because we have no means to survive. we stand in line every day. we get supplies from the army and the government, and that is about it. today, we have been in line for about three hours. we have to wait. we have no other options. yesterday was four hours. as people who need, we are 0 to stay out here 10 hours to feed our kids. >> what would you tell to mayor bloomberg? >> he stepped it up with the transportation, and now he needs to step up and come out here and see us and help us. he needs to come out here instead of sending people out here. we are not mad at him, nothing he can do, but he could do more. >> we're getting some water. >> we need more help, with electricity. >> how would you describe this past week? >> sad. i really felt like i was in south africa. when it is pitch dark, walking down the dirt road, that is what it looks like. >> we are goi

the rockaways are a funny place. it has a dozen distinct neighborhoods with a lot of housing for the elderly and a lot of housing projects when the city put thousands of families way out there, an hour's ride from the manhattan skyline that everybody e thinks of when they think of new york. half a century ago when the projects went up, the urban planners thought the elderly and poor people didn't need to be near town or near jobs, so they put them way out there in the rockaways. now working poor families making long commutes from the beach to their jobs in the city and conversely in the summer, you can find surfers toting their surf boards on the subway out to the part of new york city where the word swells means waves. it's thanks to that miraculous and very long subway route that you can move between the rockaways and town. it just takes awhile. that was the deal before hurricane sandy. i'm sorry to tell you these trusty tracks with the families and the surfers and the commuting pigeons, they got washed out last mo

teresa garcia is in rockaway beach, new york. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, terrell. like it or not, ready or not, people in this tri-state region are pretty storm weary but they had to power through a nor'easter that brought a lot of snow, windy conditions, slushy and miserable out there. this is actually a snowstorm that's proving to be on track to break records for snowfall in november. for example, in central park about four inches fell. here at rockaway beach on the boardwalk, definitely more than three. and all this snow is bascally going to make those clean up efforts after superstorm sandy that much more difficult for those neighborhoods hard hit. high winds and heavy snow whipped the boardwalk in rockaway beach in queens, new york. that's where tom ford lives. he was told to evacuate his badly damaged home before the winter storm hit but he's not budging. >> i got too much invested. >> reporter: he said he'll weather this storm like the last one. with a little help. >> share some food. get some heat. >>

>> let's see, first of all it's cold in rockaway.he best thing about katrina it happens in new orleans during the summer, is it wasn't cold. but the devastation along the coast line is similar. just without the flooding. the water just stayed there. in katrina the traditional hugertraditionalhurricane damage was not the problem. it was that the floodwaters stayed. >> eliot: the lack of fundamental energies, heat food the devastation the public is getting equally upset in terms of the frustration levels. >> i don't think the people people--rockaway is the peninsula which is have very interesting point because it starts at breezy point, and then it goes down to the far rock rockaway. so you've got this racial ethnic kind of kaleidoscope there. but then you have everybody in the same boat because anybody has any power or water. no hot water. and it's just--it mounts up. it's like a geometric progression. if you don't have heat and hot water for four days. that's in the so bad. but every day that you go through it, and now it's almost be

john's episcopal in the rockaways. out millions of dollars for doing the right thing and of course, we remember veterans day tonight. >> thank you very much. our fifth story, still in the dark. as flights come in from around the world from people going to manhattan to jfk, they fly over where we were today, landing in the dark. a community desperate for help. >> milk, juices, cookies. there will always be a clothes drive. >> each day, the line outside the thriftway in far rockaway forms early. >> there are elderly who cannot leave their homes. if you can get one to them, i would appreciate it. >> people here wait for hours. not for gas, but for food, water and clothing. a wait that can sometimes be in vain. >> we've been out here for going on three hours now, waiting for this truck that's supposed to have been coming here today at 11:00.120,000 people, the rockaway peninsula is struggling as thousands are still without power, including stores, restaurants and banks. for those who live in a high-rise like this one, they

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the rockaways are to the east in the borough of queens. the area is a known flood zone, a mandatory evacuation zone as sandy approached. not everyone left. some of them stayed, the frailest with urgent medical needs. debroah feyerick reports. >> reporter: when the water rose and the lights went out, people who had planned to ride out the storm had no choice but to evacuate. >> it was a war zone. there were patients everywhere. there was stuff trying to figure out who people were and what they needed. ems was lined up with stretchers out the ambulance door. they couldn't even get into the emergency room. it was horrible. >> reporter: the rockaways has one of the highest concentration of elderly and disabled adults in the country. people vulnerable, even on a good day. they went to the one place they knew they would get help. st. john's episcopal hospital, high ground, 14 feet above sea level. >> they couldn't power their medical devices and they needed electricity to power their ventilators and they needed oxygen. some patients just needed

here in rockaway beach they had at least 4." and all this snow is causing the clean-up efforts to be that much more difficult. >> high winds and heavy snow whipped the boardwalk in rockaway beach in queens, new york. that's where tom ford lives. he was told to evacuate his sandy-damaged home before the winter storm hit but he is not budging. >> i got too much invested here. >> reporter: he said he will weather this storm like the last one with a little help. >> share some food the neighbors come back and get some heat from the fire. >> reporter: towns up and down the coast are scrambling to redirect resources from cleaning up to shoring up. belimar, new jersey, is rebuilding sand dunes on the beach and the pumps clearing out floodwaters will keep running around the clock. >> we want to be aggressive protecting our community. >> reporter: meteorologists say the snow is a blessing and curse. it's less likely to contribute to flooding, but the snow is more likely to take down trees meaning more power outages. joe and his family hav

but the rockaways were an acute disaster, and coping mechanisms were not in place.ee weeks later 40% of the people still didn't have heat. 30% i still didn't have electricity, and 20% were still with functional phone lines and there weren't mechanisms in how to deal with these things. >> jennifer: you've been to africaish and you wouldn't expect this in the united states. was that hard? >> um, yeah, it was pretty difficult. we surveyed people and spent the whole day talk talking to people, and having them lose their entire life in a night was difficult. i ran into who women who had infants at home. to cope with the heat they had gas burners on all day with their windows and doors shut. they didn't even understand the risk of carbon monoxide to them or their infants. it was really, really difficult to see people struggle and come up with their own solutions. some of them were barely viable. at the same time it was really incredible to see the stories that came out of it and the heroic efforts that were made to help. there was one area in the rockaways where one house

communities like rockaway beach are out for blocks and blocks. the hope is sooner than later. >> people are huddling together out there. teresa, thank you. >> thank you. >>> we are going to lawrence who is live at the hurricane relief telethon hopefully getting all those phones ringing down there. >> they are ringing off the hook. >> they just had a call in for a $500 and one for $1,000. i think roberta is going to be giving tours for the next 20 years. [ laughter ] >> folks, if you are heading around the bay area today, expect some cool brisk breezy conditions early on, clouds have rolled in and there's a chance of showers in the forecast. especially as we head into the middle of the day and the afternoon. hi-def doppler looking for rain, fairly quiet but in far northern california it's moving in associated with the low that's starting to slide down the coastline bringing with it a chance of rain. partly cloudy skies outside right now. it's a little chilly and the winds continuing to whip around so watch out for debris on the roads. temperatures

theresa garcia, cbs news, rockaway beach, new york. >> you can join us tomorrow starting at 6 a.m. for a telethon to raise money for the american red cross for hurricane sandy relief. we have more details on cbs.com. >>> you became the first man to win consecutive elections with 50% of the vote. now the hard part begins. as we hear, there is a particular word buzzing around washington tonight. cooperation. >> hi, guys. >> reporter: president obama and the first family returned to the white house wednesday evening. in his words, more determined about the work that lies ahead. the president laid out part of the second term agenda in his victory speech tuesday night. >> reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil. more work to do. >> reporter: he embraced staffers in chicago. he acknowledged he has to bring the country together after a costly and bruising campaign. >> whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you. >> reporter: and the g.o.p. listened, too. house speaker john boehner promises the party is r

when we were skittish and there was an engine in someone's backyard, that was the rockaways.ey is with us from the the "wall street journal," parent company of this network. and you can see this. it is happening in new york and that is stunning. >>reporter: a reminder of the force of nature. how does it play into the jobs numbers, too in it will slow down economic activity in the new york area. in the short-term. and people debate if a disaster in a clinical sense is it good or bad for job growth and it is probably a wash it will not affect the election. >>shepard: you have spent time in this area and you lived here for a while and do see the rockaways, can you see what happened there, it picked up the boardwalk and moved it and it moved people in a lot of cases and those of us who have lived in hurricane-prone areas all our lives, in florida, and mississippi and louisiana, you are not used to it. you know the drill. no one knows the drill around here. they don't realize, yet, in three days i don't care. three days they are going to be mad. this is going to be tough. a lot of

. >> woodruff: paul solman reports from the rockaways on new york's long island about insurance woes for victims of hurricane sandy. >> everything you're looking at here is destroyed. this used to be a really beautiful restaurant. >> where is the financing coming from if you don't have flood insurance? >> i don't know. i really don't. >> brown: and we close with the first of several conversations we'll have with newly elected senators. tonight: maine independent angus king. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> intel. sponsors of tomorrow. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: egypt's leaders tried today to mediate a truce

allison harmalin for cbs news, rockaway, queens. >>> in storm-damaged new jersey, election officials scrambled to relocate polls and if voters simply cannot get to a polling place, state officials are allowing them to e-mail or fax their ballot. >>> coming up next howard with our forecast. >> jc, it's been a chilly election day. temperatures right now low- to mid-40s. thankfully the winds are light. we'll take a to break with a look at some of those temps. still only 42 in rockville, 46 in reston and 46 in buoy. back with the seven-day forecast and we'll see about that nor'easter and how it may affect us as we go through the middle of the week. you're watching 9 news now at noon. >>> howard is here with the latest information on the storm that is approaching. yeah, this nor'easter. we got low pressure coming out of georgia, south carolina, it's coming up the coast. that's going to happen tomorrow. shouldn't be too much of an impact here. we'll get some rain and maybe a couple of showers, but the coastal areas will see it a lot worse. yes, in new jersey they're going to get pretty har

rockaway i think this is about to go it's coney island. was actually these volunteers have set up a meeting places that have organized orientations for volunteers to give out food water first aid even to pump water from people's homes and to help with the cleanup of the massive amount of rubble and trash left in sandy's wake remember this is a group that has always spoken out and worked in defense of the homes being destroyed the before it was not by a hurricane but by mass foreclosures and corruption still their presence has been extremely valuable and i want to speak now to sarah jaffe an associate editor for alter net and sara you have seen some of these operations firsthand tell me what you've witnessed. i it blows my mind i mean they're really really they were always good and the most impressive thing that happened it's a part was always the really strong infrastructure the the ability to feed people get close people to make sure people face it needs one that was always a skill that this movement had and now they're putting it into pr

in the hard hit rockaways neighborhood, this woman is at her breaking point. >> eight days. mayor talks. the governor says the sun is out today. who cares? who cares if the sun is out today. get us the services that everybody need out here. we are desperate. >> reporter: after the storm, jane stayed behind with her elderly parents. the ambulance for her mother couldn't make it through the sand-clogged streets. >> i have resorted to putting on the gas jets on the stove. >> among the 1.4 million people without power in the weak of hurricane sandy. 115,000 right here in new york city. with temperatures expected to dip below freezing, hypothermia is a threat especially for the elderly and young children. sandy's death toll its at 106 peopw york city alone. and the cold brings fresh fear. >> nypd patrol officers would use loud speakers to urge people to go where they can be warm. >> shelters have bed available. some rockaway residents, like katie richardson i met last week aren't interested. >> it's our home. it's our home. would you leave our place and you don't know if they're

alison harmelin is in the rockaways section of queens. >> reporter: crowds have been streaming into these tents all morning to cast their votes. people roaming through devastated neighborhoods to find this makeshift polling place. >> they don't have internet, they don't have tv, they don't have radio -- a lot of them don't have radio so there are not aware this is set up. >> i wanted to vote and it's too involved not to find out where to vote and get out there. >> reporter: election officials brought in generators to power these polling tents in the rockaways in queens, new york. a week after hurricane sandy, the neighborhood is still flooded and still without power. even with all of the chaos, the system here in the tents seems to be working. but with only the generators for power, it's cold and the lights are dim. >> it's because there's a lowlight in here because of the tents and there's not enough light at the little booths here. >> reporter: in nearby breezy point, more than 100 homes burned to the ground during the storm. the city is sending buses to pick up voters and bring them to

that includes the rockaways on the coast of the south of here where a group of men all local dads whoall themselves the gray beards are making a difference. their story tonight from nbc's katy tur. >> reporter: across the bay from the brightly lit new york city skyline, a donated generator powers a meeting of the gray beards. >> just knocking on every single door is not impossible. >> reporter: over a can of bud, this home grown charity is plotting a rockaway comeback. >> we have to remind people, we're all in the same boat. >> the group of 180 firefighters, cops, executives and lawyers are the guys who make new york city work. keep things safe, and since 9/11, the guys who have made it their duty, even while off duty to help. the man who answered the call for help need help themselves. nearly every one of these guys lost something in the storm. some, everything. >> i'm not the type of person who's ever going to ask for anything. nor would anybody else in this community. sometimes it's necessary. >> three weeks later, blackened streets, skeletons of homes and trash as far as the eye c

everywhere. >> sean heeren: people from rockaway, we're just very...e by the ocean and we respect it, but we don't we don't fear it really. >> pelley: we sat down at st. francis with fireman sean heeren and james brennan, childhood friends who'd seen their town survive before and didn't imagine losing it to the sea they love. >> heeren: you know, i had my wife, my... my sister, and my sister-in-law with four young children. and it was, by far, the scariest night of my life. god forbid, if i did have to get them all out of the house, you know, how was i going to do it? and luckily, i didn't have to. so... but, you know, i think my brother was watching down on me. >> pelley: your brother was watching down on you. tell me about your brother. >> heeren: he got killed in 9/11, and you know, was a great kid, very well-liked, hard worker, just a great kid >> pelley: his brother was charlie heeren, a bond trader at the world trade center. belle harbor lost ten people that day, five of them firemen. and among those grieving was charlie heeren's best friend, chr

the boardwalk in rockaway beach in queens, new york. that's where tom ford lives. he was told to evacuate his sandy-damaged home before the winter storm hit, but he is not budging. >> i got too much invested here. >> reporter: he says he will weather this storm like he did the last one with a little help. >> share some food, neighbors come back and get some heat, some fire. >> reporter: towns up and down the coast are scrambling to redirect resources from cleaning up to shoring up. belimar, new jersey, is rebuilding sand dunes on the beach and the pump clearing out floodwaters will keep running around the clock. >> we want to be aggressive about protecting our community. >> reporter: meteorologists say this snow is both a blessing and a curse. the snow is less likely to contribute to flooding. but it's more likely to take down tree limbs, which means more power outages. >> it's great, watching tv. >> reporter: joe and his family have been without power for 10 days. they got it back yesterday, only to lose it a few hours later when the s

cbs reporter ines ferre is in rockaway beach, queens, with the halted recovery efforts. >> reporter: frank, michelle, many people here feel like they just can't catch a break. just as they're struggling to recover from superstorm sandy, they get slammed with another storm. snow and ice covered down trees and power lines in new york city. the nor'easter brought heavy winds, rain and snow to an area trying desperately to pick up the pieces from superstorm sandy. along the storm ravaged jersey shore, the second blast is like another punch to the gut. >> it won't end now. i just want it to be over. >> reporter: wednesday's storm knocked out power to nearly 300,000 additional homes and businesses in the new york city- new jersey metro areas. many had just gotten their lights on like joe. his family spent a week in the dark before getting power back yesterday. >> it was great. watching tv. get on the computer, things you used to do. >> reporter: only to have the lights go out again four hours later. >> i had a sense, we're going to lose power. i just had a feeling. >> reporter: sandy victi

but in the hard-hit rockaways neighborhood, jane marino is at her breaking point. >> give us the servicesybody needs out here. we're desperate. >> reporter: after the storm, jane stayed behind with her elderly parents -- the ambulance for her mother couldn't make it through the sand-clogged streets. >> i've resorted to putting on the gas jets on the stove. >> reporter: they are among the 1.4 million people still without power in the wake of hurricane sandy -- 115,000 of them right here in new york city. with temperatures expected to dip below freezing tonight, hypothermia is a real threat especially for the elderly and young children. sandy's death toll is at 106 people. 40 in new york city alone. and the cold brings fresh fear. >> this evening nypd patrol officers will use loudspeakers to urge people to go where they can be warm. >> reporter: most shelters still have beds available but some rockaway residents like katie richardson who i first met last week aren't interested. >> it's our home. it's our home. would you leave your place and you don't know if they're going to loot? >> report

>> reporter: anger, frustration and despair in the rockaways, as people demand to know why the neighborhood remained dark as nearly 12 days after superstorm sandy hit this community. >> i can't get nothing. heat, garbage pickup, nothing? >> reporter: workers from the power authority known as lipa are visible but can't seem to get the electricity back in 150,000 homes, especially those in the flood area. new york's governor has threatened to pull the company's operating license. >> we paid them and we gave them a franchise because they represented themselves as experts at doing this, and they failed. and they should be held accountable for their failure. >> reporter: at the mt. carmel baptist church next to a public housing complex, volunteers worked hard at serving meals and keeping up morale. many left before sunset. the trains are still not running this far out. one woman told us it felt like martial law here with people bolted inside their homes after dark. >> there is no power, no light. you could barely see in front of you. it's difficult. you have a hard time. so usually you try to ge

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. >> reporter: 12 days ago, sandy slammed into the rockaways, the storm drowned everything here, except hope. >> you need help? your parents do. what's their address? >> reporter: jamie jord expan her sister, jillian, rockaways born and bred have been work releaptlessly to save it. >> that's my block! >> reporter: before phenomenon abefore the red crots, before any assistance arrived, the jordan sisters organized volunteers to help reclaim the community. john mccann's basement, for example, eight feet of salt water destroyed it. today, four volunteers help mccann strip it bear to prevent mold. they were sent by the jordan sisters. >> they took the bull by the horns and they've been running with it ever since. >> when we sent out volunteers, we would say, "you're going to gloria's house. her husband passed away, and she's there all by herself, and she needs her basement." >> reporter: doing that kind of thing just multiplied throughout the community. >> and it-- the word spread like wildfire. >> reporter: howard schneider is glad it did. accepted hit him hard. >> when we come here, somet

>> victor blackwell in the far rockaway section of queens.rdest-hit areas, post-hurricane sandy. victor, thank you. >>> it's 16 minutes after the hour. let's get you up to date. members of congress are demanding answers from the cia, the fbi and the white house about the chain of events that led to the stunning resignation of cia director david petraeus. he stepped down after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer paula broadwell. the affair came to light because of an fbi investigation into alleged harassing e-mails broadwell was sending to another woman close to petraeus. >>> investigators are still trying to figure out why a 64-year-old man walked into a detroit area police station and opened fire. he shot an officer in the shoulder yesterday, before other officers returned fire and killed him. the wounded officer is expected to make a full recovery. >>> the news director at the bbc and her deputy are both out off a broadcaster report wrongly linking a former conservative politician to child abuse. helen bowden and steven