that is right down in that southern tip of manhattan. all of those central offices are back, one way or another. the vast majority are commercial power. we have a handful that are still on generators. including broad street. my partner and i expect the to be back inc.o. a couple of days. >> mr., mudge are there limits when it comes to an emergency? a 40% of americans do not have landlines anymore. >> the cell phone network, i can speak a little bit more broadly -- even at the height of the storm, our wireless network was operating at 94% capacity. we are already back to full capacity, pre storm. i think many people, not just to telecommunications, but with the power outage, learned and found out the electricity is very important along with telecommunications. it is a reminder, good wireline and could wire service is very helpful because they can help offset each other. >> the so-called triple play packages offered by the cable companies and verizon and others, do they have the same boat -- reliability as the old style telephones with the

we also had other very important impacts and many people were aware of the impact on southern manhattan where the storm surge actually took out the power plants from both west street and broad street in the central offices, which is on the southern tip of manhattan. we had almost 300 others. all of those offices are back one way or another. we have a handful that are on our generators, including broad street. my partner and i, tony malone, we expect to be back on commercial power within a matter of days. >> host: mr. robert mudge, are there limits to technology when it comes to this? 40% of americans are now landline less. they don't have a landline, they just have cell phones. >> guest: even at the heart of the storm, our wireless network was operating at 94% capacity. we argued back to full capacity pre-store. so i think that many people, not just through the telecommunications, but with the power outage, learned and found out the electricity is very important along with telecommunications. i think it's a reminder for many of our customers that good wireline service is very helpful. b

many people are aware of the impact on southern manhattan where the storm surge actually took out the power plants from both our west street and broad street central offices, which is, again, right down in that southern tip of manhattan. but we had almost 300 others. all of those central offices are back one way or another. the vast majority are on commercial power. we have a handful that are still on our generators including broad street, and by partner and i, tony malone, expect the broad street co to be back on commercial power within a matter of days. >> host: now, mr. mudge, are there limits to cell phone and internet technology when it comes to an emergency like this? i mean, 40% of americans are now land lineless, they don't have land lines anymore, just cell phones. >> guest: well, the cell phone network, again, i can speak a little bit more broadly. each at the height of the -- even at the height of the storm, our wireless network was operating at 94% capacity. we're already back to full capacity prestorm. so i think many people, peter, not just through the telecommunications

he has one filling station in southern manhattan and one in northern manhattan.re is, you will have to build out. you talked about natural gas infrastructure for homes, it is true, it exists. you do not have one for cars and trucks. it will cost billions. >> right. by that ended the year, every 250 miles, not talking about heavy-duty trucks, every 250 miles there will be a truck stop. you mentioned our friends out pilate filled the natural gas truck stops. it is not enough? no, of course not. more will be needed. liz: a lot of these gas stations do not have electricity so they cannot extract the gasoline. >> right. we had toobringgdiesel generators and. [talking over each other] as soon as the water subsided, we got all the stations back up and running. david: the cab driver told me he saves have the money that other drivers pay. >> that is why, you know, i think this will happen. the infrastructure has to be felt up. the economics are on our side. liz: absolutely. we met out here in california, we have pretty expensive gallium. our customers save a lot of money.

manhattan. unique look from other side of the river. down at the southern tip of manhattanning world strayed center, a few -- word trade center, a few lights in battery park, then pan north in manhattan, tribeca, west village, chelsea, all dark. lights coming on there at all. and then, you get to midtown, manhattan, iconic ige of the empire state building then beyond that, times square, that is where new yorkers have power, but downtown, as you can just see, still, in almost complete darkness tonight. >> as we know, 200,000 or 250,000 people in southern tip of manhattan without power. i think so many have looked at the situation, and decided maybe it is over and done, are people in hoboken angry now? are they you know beyond frustrated with how long it is faking for rescue operations? >> reporter: i think the thrustration is begin -- frustration is beginning to build a little here, and many other places. but, most of the people we spoke to today, were pretty sanguine, saying they knew what they were doing when they refused to follow all those orders from of

that includes much of southern manhattan, which remains dark tonight. authorities have also discovered several residents of staten island drowned in their homes. many were alone and in some cases elderly. that brings the number of dead just in new york city to 34. the damage on long island, new york is severe. about 77% of power customers do not have electricity and could remain in the dark for as long as ten days. partial subway service is scheduled to resume tomorrow in new york city along with more railway and bus service. and we have new video released by firefighters in greenwich, connecticut showing the conditions during the storm as they tried to put out a massive fire that destroyed multiple homes. in hoboken, new jersey just across the river from manhattan portions of the city remain underwater tonight. the national guard has been brought in to help people stranded in their homes in hoboken. joining me now by phone is nbc news chuck todd, who was traveling with president obama and governor christie today in new jersey. chuck, tell us what the t

and if we're going to have a city at sea level like southern manhattan, we're going to have to protectth walls. whatever you think about climate change, the weather is changing, we're going to have more of these events. >> rose: the cause is changing. >> exactly. it is changing and these events are more intense than they were before. and i fear that it will take several more such crises before the political system is able to fully respond. >> rose: why this title? >> you probably have to ask my boss. the editor of the magazine, josh terangrl who wrote those cover words. but i think the aim is obvious. the aim is to grab people by the lapels and shake them. >> rose: it is related to global warming. >> that's right. again, i quoted a guy in that article who compared this to barry bonds, the former and disgraced baseball slugger on steroids. he said you can't say that any one home run that barry bonds hit was because he was on steroids. it's pretty silly to say the fact he was taking steroids didn't contribute to more home runs overall and hitting the ball farther. and i think that's a ve

southern manhattan, it's still dark around me.t way of action, either because it's forced upon you or because you choose to be, maybe by foot. the gas situation is a serious one going forward. >> what is the latest on the power restoration in manhattan, new jersey and other places? >> reporter: you aren't unfortunately, the estimates aren't much improved, maybe delayed a day or two. this is day four. lower manhattan would take four days to see recovery. we haven't seen a lot of lights. lower manhattan, up to seven or eight days. the outer borrows, the numbers echoed for new jersey. you have the below the ground problem where you have to dry out the infrastructure and repair. the aboveground problem where it's a manpower thing. you have to clear the lines from the debris. you have to get trained linemen in here. a lot of them coming from out of state. there's so many trees and power lines down it's going to take that long to get everybody back up and running. >> rob, thanks very much. >>> gasoline shortages aren't the only problem

traffic is actually moving, southern manhattan. the bridges are moving.y here. one more thing to talk about, there you go, some of the traffic moving around there. i want to talk to you about airports because finally we did get la guardia open, and so here, we did get some arrivals here. dailia air, the 2048 from detroit arrived already. i'm going to scroll up and up. we're going to go to the closer arrivals now. all those words over there, canceled, canceled. air wisconsin, ahs sirways, mesa air, canceled, canceled. yet, there's probably hundreds of them and then we get to the delays. then there are still some en route. we have about 65 planes. this is a miracle. la guardia looks like a lake, and now it's moving. >> well, at least you have some planes moving. thank you, chad. appreciate it. >> superstorm sandy's timing really not the best here. the presidential election only five days away, so people in the northeast we are focussing on recovering. in colorado they are working to get the vote out. these months they are walking the walk, not just talking

that connects the tip of southern manhattan. as close to a city wide gridlock as i've ever seen on the east side, west side, uptown, downtown. so many people have driven their cars in there. new restrictions beginning today that mayor bloomberg put in in terms of car pooling at certain times across bridges and tunnels. it was a devastating, tough day. took people three and four hours to get into new york city and three and four hours it get home. >> gretchen: those regulations haven't been in effect since after 9-11, the first time that some of the restrictions came into place. luckily mass transit, will be up and running at least partially. >> steve: that's right. peter, you used the word devastating. the president of the united states got a good look at the devastation yesterday when he toured it with chris christie. afterwards, he did have some comments about how the federal government was there to help. this is actually two days ago, the president talking about how he was going to eliminate the red tape. >> my message to the

south ferry, at the southern tip of manhattan. >> we had barricaded up top with wood plywood and sandbags to keep the water out, but when the surge came, it brought down all this material that doesn't belong here. large pieces of lumber, and that broke through the barrier and allowed more water to come in. >> reporter: that's water just a few steps down from the top of the steps. but the tracks are another two levels underneath that. so as much as the water's gone down, we're still two levels worth of water till we get to the tracks? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it will take a week alone just to pump out the water. but the subway system will begin limited service tomorrow. limited mass transit has left city streets choked with cars, a telling sign of just how badly the city needs to ease the stress on the roads. in midtown manhattan, grand central terminal reopened after its longest closure ever in its 100-year history. tell me why you're up here? this 70-year-old man, his name is michael, lives in lower manhattan without power. he walked 30 blocks to join these folks and charge his cell p

. >> were on the southern tip of manhattan, the area known as the battery, named the cannons that were defending it back in the 17th century. but nothing could protect the city when the water of water came crashing on shore. >> a huge portion of the eastern seaboard is crippled tonight. millions of viewers cannot see this broadcast because they are heading into another night of the dark. >> millions are trying to recover super storm sandy. >> it was billed the biggest storm to the atlantic coast delivered a crippling storm to the northeast. >> jon: hurricane sandy. the media often get criticized for hyping or overhyping these things. how did they do this time? >> howard kurtz, this is the rare storm that lived up to its hype. this is everything the forecasters would said it would be and maybe worse. i think the coverage, the elections were uncertain and talking about the storm. i think rightly so it's a bigger story. >> jon: did the media approach it with an agenda or just to tell the stories? >> i think there is kind desire on the part of the media to make it a big story. there was a

% >> well there is still a lot of frustration out there, particularly on the southern half of manhattand then also again in nasa county, long island they are having a difficult time clearing some of the roads. they need to do that first before the power crews can work on the substations and utility lines, so there's a process there, and when you hear the power company say, oh, it might be four or five days you talk to elected officials and they said know, it may be more like seven to ten days. >> jennifer: so the counties that we talked about, and new york city, man -- manhattan, how are they preparing for election day? >> every one of them said what they are doing is first trying to bring in generators to make sure they can have essential i will portable power brought into the precinct locations. if the precinct locations are damaged or underwater they will have signs directing the people where to go or in some cases they will have tents set up. if they didn't have electricity, they will have people cast ballots and then the ballots will be transported to an area where they do have pow

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

manhattan. these pictures are heartrending. what can you tell us is happening? >> eliot, it's very heartbreaking to look at the devastation. some of the neighborhoods have been completely wiped out. here on the southern of manhattan we have a little bit of good news to report. the power is slowly coming on. not fully but we're starting to see the lights come back. there are areas without power. including bellevue hospital. there are evacuations under way there. that hospital has been without power since the hurricane struck, but the issue has been their generators. they've had back-up generators, but the power has not been enough. right now the national guard is going in and helping to pull those people out. when it comes to the subway system, another good news for new yorkers. there will be limited subway service starting tomorrow morning as well, eliot. >> eliot: that certainly is good news. something that will be in discussion at some point down the road are the hospitals and whether the hospitals need a substantial infusion of back up energy, evacuating women who are in labor should not happen no matter what the cataclysm is. that will bring a lot of attention. what is going on in new jersey. we

southern italy. the twister blew a crane int >>> a worker is missing after a freak tornado stuck a steel manhattan inaly blowing a crane into the sea when it slammed into the plant yesterday. strong winds and lightning also took dunn a tower and a chimney at the facility. at least 2 dozen workers were hurt. >> think i would run. >>> more discussions are planned or capitol hill today in an effort to avoid that dreaded "fiscal cliff." the treasury secretary tim geithner and another man will visit separately with house and senate leaders to find common ground on how to avert a series of tax increases and spending cuts beginning in january. >>> president obama will have lunch in just a few hours with mitt romney. it will be the first time they have met face to face since the final debate shortly before this month's election. the event will be held at the white house. it is private, no aides present, no media, just the president and the former gop nominee. they will hash it out. >> should be interesting. >> maybe he will bring mitt into the fold. who knows. >> we'll see. >>> just from the labor department

>> amy, we're going to show you pictures out of southern california, manhattan beach, by the way.se you. take a look at the surf. it's not normally this rough. and waves can be up to 20 feet in some cases. and all of the safety experts are saying, unless you are an experienced surfer, this could be very, very dangerous surf. here's what we're talking about. this is the second in a series of storms to make its way up the coastline. and though the storms are kind of concentrated in northern california and points north, a lot of the roughest surf is just to the south, because of the way the wind is blowing on these storms. from san diego all the way to san francisco, there could be waves up to about 20 feet. and the water is really dangerous, really chopped up. best advised to stay out that of and know this will be a rough time period through the weekend. in comes what could be some snow from this arctic blast of air and this stationary front. new york state, new hampshire, vermont, on into possibly maine. >> all that weather was brought to you by bp. josh? amy? george? lara? >> am?

manhattan and into brooklyn. multiple tunnels and stations in that area remain flooded with sea water. >> where are he? >> reporter: joe leader oversees maintenance for the transit authority. south ferry at the southern tip of manhattan. >> as much as the water has gone down we're still two levels worth of water until we get to the tracks? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it will take a week to pump out the water. that's the first step. >> assessment afterwards will be very difficult because these escalators have to beaken apart. elevators have to be looked at. >> reporter: the city is doing what it can to relieve congestion, made much worse in lower manhattan where 227,000 customers are still without power. >> give you like five bucks. >> reporter: new york's taxi rules are modified to allow drivers to pick up more than one passenger at one time and mayor michael bloomberg announced seven major routes into the city would be limited to vehicles carrying three or more people. >> i know it is an inconvenience for a lot of people but the bottom line is the streets can only handle so much. >> reporter: also yesterday commuter trains started to run to the northern suburbs through grand central terminal, bus se

to see how it's getting fixed we board a boat for governor's island off of manhattan's southern tip asst guard, army corps of engineers and new york transit workers fought through another storm, this week's nor'easter. >> this latest storm doesn't make things easier on you >> no. that's a concern for us all. what that could do could bring more water into the area. additionally the high winds is a concern. >> reporter: when we arrived, it didn't take long to see water still rushing out. all of it getting pumped from deep underground. is this facility engineer. >> one of the biggest challenges in pumping water out that's seven stories deep? >> the pressure loss access, electric cal power, restoring power. >> reporter: each of these tubes can clear 2,000 gallons a minute. powered by punches using these four diesel generators. >> they drop the pumps into the water from here and from here it's 150 feet down. >> reporter: to see just how much gravity they are up against, engineers took us all the day down. the only access point, a darkened stairwell that sandy knocked out power to. when we r

manhattan by the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york.'s go back to ben bernanke. >> the bank's overly tight lending standards. what can the fed do to improve this and, there for example increase mortgage lending, beyond mortgage interest rates? >> so, as ieindicated in my remarks the housing sector has been a major player in this drama, first with the boom and then the collapse and now, playing a role in the recovery, as we hope. in terms of expanding mortgage lending, the growth of the housing sec to you said beyond interest rate policy, i have to mention interest rate policy. i think one of the strongest things that we can do is maintain low mortgage interest rates. they are at historic lows, as you know, and combined with a 30% decline in house prices across the country, it means we have extensive affordability now for people who are interested in buying new homes. now, the reason i bring this up is that i think there are some positive dynamics that can occur here, in particular, to the extent that the housing market appears to now be

he showed us some of the damage at the hardest hit station, south ferry at the southern tip of manhattan. >> as much as the water has gone down, we're still two levels -- we're at the water till we get to the tracks? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it will take a week just to pump out the water. that's only the first step. >> the assessment afterwards will be very difficult because they'll have to be taken apart, elevators will have to be looked at, controls will have to be changed out. >> reporter: meantime, the city is doing what they can to relieve congestion, made much worse in lower manhattan where customers are still without power. new york's taxi rules were modified, allowing drivers to pick up more than one passenger at a time. mayor michael bloomberg announced that seven major routes into the city would be limited to vehicles carrying three or more people. >> i know it is inconvenient for a lot of people. but the bottom line is the streets can only handle so much. >> reporter: so we've seen some commuter train service now starting from grand central terminal to the northern suburbs,

tuesday, a fisherman in southern california threw out his line in manhattan beach and reeled in a great white shark. it was about seven feet long. sharks are a protected species, so the fisherman had to throw the guy back. another fisherman caught a great white shark in july. can you imagine reeling that in? >> no, i don't think you reel one in. >> definitely. >> i am sure they fight. >> anyway. >>> thank you so much for joining us at 5. >> the news edge at 6 starts now. >>> right off the top on the news edge, a news alert out of stafford county. a man wanted for three pipe bombings has been arrested in montana. lawrence allen stewart has been on the run since tuesday after police say he bombed three houses, his ex-girlfriend and two police officers. it's believed it was in retaliation for his arrest in connection to two other crimes. john henrehan is live with more. >> reporter: he put up a fight in montana, too. if law enforcement authorities are to be believed, and there is no reason

manhattan alone. much of the southern half of the island in pitch black. this morning nearly 1 million people in new jersey remain without power or heat. as overnight temperatures dip near freezing. as cold weather sets in, new york city mayor michael bloomberg says as many as 40,000 people may need to find new places to live. that is a daunting task for a city known for its already tight housing market. the announcement set up the potential return of fema trailers like those used in the wake of hurricane katrina. gas lines hours long stretched through the weekend across the tri-state area. in some cases stations are now using gas-powered generators to pump the fuel out of the ground. new york governor andrew cuomo says it could be several more days before the region's fuel shortage is resolved. in new york city, where 145,000 households are still without power, yesterday's marathon, of course, as we mentioned, was canceled for the first time in 40 years. that didn't stop, though, as we mentioned at the top of the show hundreds of runners from showing up w

manhattan. but most areas on the list are in the southern united states.d on last night's show, the suit has now reached the supreme court. let's bring in dale ho assistant counsel on the political participation group for the naacp legal defense and education fund. >> thank you for having me. >> eliot: whywhy does shelby county feel aggrieved. >> shelby county is saying they actually no longer need section 5 of the voting rights act because the fight free process is over. while it's true that the nation has seen progress since 1965, we're unfortunate not at the place where everyone can participate on full footing. >> eliot: now we're in a very odd moment that those who want the tricks structures of section 5 want to be lift, but many say yes we only succeed in doing that because the voting right acts was used to strike down voter right laws that would disenfranchise thousands. >> we've seen a lot of progress. and with respect to racial discrimination and voting is really a product of the voting rights act itself. had we seen enough progress that we no long

could sub merge the rock aways coney island, much of the southern brooklyn and queens portions of flushing meadows corona park, queens, lower manhattan, and eastern staten island from the grate kills harbor. guess what, it didn't take a hurricane 3 level hurricane for that to happen. they said this, with an one meter sea level rise the paper found that what is currently a 20-year event by 2100 meaning they're coming quicker and quicker. james hansen at nasa, climate scientist who has been warning us since 1988 at least. look at his testimony in front of congress back then. >> all together this evidence represents a very strong case in my opinion that the greenhouse has been detected and it's changing our climate now. barring a remarkable and improbable cooling 1988 will be the warmest year on record. >> cenk: now dr. hanson, author of "storms of my grandchildren" joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> cenk: i want to ask you how much worse it has gotten since your testimony in 1988. >> well, it's gotten worse because the planet is warming and nothing is being done about it. it was great that governor cuom

manhattan. that's terminating midtown. the rest of the lines operating in brooklyn and southern queens are terminating in downtown brooklyn. to get people across the east river, we normally have six tunnels underneath the six rivers that are -- service the subway lines. right now we're limited to operating buses over the manhattan and the brooklyn bridges and so instead of six tunnels, we have buses over three bridges. we're working hard to get those tunnels back up. >> eliot: tell us what you can, we all understand the tunnels got flooded. a lot of people don't appreciate when the tunnels are filled with water, it is not easy -- you don't just pull a plug and have them drain out. what's involved in getting the water out of the tunnels. when we say they're flooded does it mean there are two feet or they're flooded from the sort of the roadway that you would ride on if you were driving through them or if the subway train were going through them all the way up to the ceiling? give us a visual sense of what it means. >> okay well speaking of the brooklyn brooklyn-battery tunnel, that was filled all the way to the max of the c

still part of new york city, but it's more than an hour's ride from manhattan and it has sand and waves and lifeguards all at the southern edge of new york city. 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 surfer

you can see the power in manhattan and queens and brooklyn. but the southernedge of long island, toward the atlantic, the district that you represent, it was dark as night down there. and there were generator lights on about every 300 yards, you could see. there were police sirens on various street corners. i have to to tell you, it looked, on a cold chilly night in the northeast, a place where you just do not want to be. >> it was very cold last night. in fact, last night was the coldest night we have had and on wednesday, there is a possible nor'easter. i was in long beach yesterday with secretary napolitano. and it was a minute or two before she realized, it was the street and not the beach. all the sand was overwhelming the city. guto other places like south masa piqua and lindenhurst. you can go to the door and everything's gone. it is a drastic situation. and even though, unlike katrina, where you could see the flooding. part of it is you can see the devastation of the homes, but you can't tell, unless you are flying over at night that there is almost a