are in westchester and other outages are spread fairly well equally.ueens 78,000 brooklyn 71,000 stated ten island 79. >> it is the largest damage wide. this is an ep he can storm. it has lived up to the billing in eerie way. the storm surges were eminent. we took out a few. we thut shut town some. they are easier to restore that took out 6500 customers that occurred at 5:30 yesterday. there was an explosion at 8:30 at our east 13th street sub ska station that wound up shutting down a number of other networks that affected a quarter of a million people. >> receiving the video of that. quite a large fire was sparked. >> how do you expect to get power streered for the feektsed? >> it will take our damage assessors after the storm stops a little time to figure out exactly when we can get everybody back. we think the substations will take 3-4 days to restore. the other one affected obviously the one by the explosion can take a bit longer. we can reconfigure networks in the path that can minimize the outages some what. it will be several days to a week and

liz: let me clarify, you said westchester county mostly? >> it is a mix between westchester county and also our customers in staten island are being impacted right now. liz: well at least in west customerster you're looking at long island sound that. is huge issue. if you look at overhead map it is a finger that extends in between two land masses. the water comes in from the atlantic ocean and just piles up. that causes extreme flooding which causes outages. david: sandy, excuse me, sarah, how long will it take for the outages to be fixed? is it just a matter of downed power lines or what? >> we anticipate some outages may last several days i want to assure customers we have thousands of employees that have been and will continue to work around the clock to make sure that the impact on their service is minimized. liz: okay. here's the issue. how many workers do you have coming in? we've been hearing repprts that some utilities are i mr. ing in people as far as away as washington state to help out? >> that's correct. we've been working with

obviously they have lots of work to do across westchester and new york. we're sitting here without power because they've shut down the power on the lower east side. >>> we have to take a short break. when we come back, we have a lot to get to. 50 homes have already burned to the ground, we'll tell you about the dam break that's happening in burgin county, new jersey, evacuation of homes now under way. we'll update you on rescue efforts there as well. 1,000 people might require rescuing from their homes. those stories and much more as we ten to cover hurricane superstorm sandy as it makes its way forthnorth. back in just a moment. ly, who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. [ female announcer ] ...without swanson. the broth cooks trust most when making soup. mmmm! [ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. 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

. >> part of the island to westchester where they pointed out the sites in westchester county, then came looked at the tracks on the western side of the island, the cowrch coming down the hudson river. the -- first, congratulate the first responders out there doing a magnificent job under difficult sishes. we should all be very proud. second, i thank the elected officials who have really performed admirably. county executive and westchester county executive balone and others, mayor bloomberg and his team, really been extraordinary. i believe this situation would have been much, much worse were it not for the outstanding local leadership we have. i want to thank them. our function now is to come up with a coordinated plan for the region, one that coordinated the assets and the best resources of the federal government, state government, and the local governments, new york city, and the county governments to make sure we are all being deployed as effectively as possible. that's part of the function of today, to come up with a real reconstruction and recovery plan, long term plan that coordi

>> yes. >> the westchester detective loaned may $5,000 of her own money. when prosecutors learned of it, they removed detective carpentier from the case. the defense, they admonished, would kay she bought witness testimony. >> i couldn't sleep if i knew something happened when i woke up in the morning. >> if i didn't move when i did, i wouldn't be here today. >> almost a year after ben's murder, narcy was indicted and walked before the cameras of "american's most wanted." she and her brother, cristobal, were charged with racketeering and conspiracy for two murders, witness tampering, and a host of other charges. >> the plot that led to the death of ben novack of a family affair. >> when the trial got underway in federal court, garcia, the hit man, testified in ice-cold detail how he killed ben novack jr. how did they get into the room? >> narcy opened the door and let them in. >> prosecutors argued that morning there was a small window of opportunity for narcy to let the hitmen in and direct the assault on her sleeping husband. >> the victim is in bed. the

customers out throughout new york city and westchester county and we're looking at about, in manhattanere the bulk of them are at at this point, 240,000 customers out. charles: alfonso, how does con edison assess where to go initially, to to help initially, is there a system for figuring out priorities? because i'm sure you're inundated with calls and everybody calling things that their emergency is the top one on the list. >> well, the first thing that we have to do now is now that the storm is settling down, is to send out damage assessors, what they do, try to find out where the damage is, how bad it is and how we can actually go by attacking the outage. and then, what we will do, we'll find the equipment that serves the most customers and make those repairs first and then move out west. charles: is it too early to make assessment how long-- everybody understands you guys have a difficult job. as each day goes on without power, the public respect of this doesn't shine brightly on con-ed or any utility company. is it too early to assess how long it will take everybody to get up and r

of new york city and westchester. >> to go back to the lower manhattan situation, is there a predicted way this power will return? will it start to return north to south? from 39th street down or -- because you have what now looks like a very substantial chunk of the island, basically, black, below 39th street. >> well, with the exception of the tip of the southwest part of manhattan at the battery, that's correct. but by and large, we'll probably see that power return more quickly than we'll see power return in other areas where there's significant tree damage and wires down was there can be network engineersing that reckon figure our system to address some of the outages. obviously, there will be longer time restorations for any networks where we have equipment under water. but in the outlying areas where we have wires down and trees down and streets will have to be cleared to essentially address those wires and situations it will probably be substantially longer. >> it's fair to say manhattan is likely to get power back more quickly than queens and out areas where it's because of do

you know, we do have central overhead damage in westchester. we won't even know until tomorrow morning because there could be more customers that wind up losing power. and then we will have our damage assessors go out and begin to evaluate where they can affect the greatest number of restorations as soon as possible. you know, we are looking at probably a week for some spots. it is obviously a major event. >> bob, before you go, we have dwelt on manhattan. the power outage is stark and limited and confined to one area place. queens is seeming to get the worst? >> yes. as i mentioned, queens and brooklyn, both about 70. the low-lying areas are the ones that are the most susceptible to damage from flooding. that damage from flooding, as it gets into underground equipment, the restoration period, it can be quite substantial. >> pulley, if there were not a lot of impediments in certain locations, we can get to them. >> thank you for updating us twice on that. bob from coned. >> my pleasure. >> okay, folks, we are going to take a break. we will rese

timetable, no exact date exactly when the subway trains and the rail lines serving long island and westchester county, when they will be up and running. they hope in days. a lot of the tracks are damaged. both ended up in some of those train tracks. some of these office buildings, they are dark. there are so many buildings down here. you don't see this normally, they in the dark. we do expect for workers to return to their jobs, especially down here in lower marn hat tan. wall street is around the corner. the stock exchange is set to open in about 2 1/2 hours. mayor bloomberg will be here as well. >> an eerie site. we don't see anything like this. we want to ask you about the possible gas explosion on the jersey shore. what do you know about it? >> reporter: it's scary. we've been hearing information from our newsroom. it's a natural gas explosion and it's on the barrier island in a community north of seaside. there are beautiful homes there and a lot of shops. it looks like it went from one place, either a residence to a business to other places. the problem is rescuers, first responders can'

nearly 150,000 customers in westchester county without power. about 75% of the village of marionette without power. right now, the big problem has been the trees are down. some of the roads have to be closed because the trees have been obstructing the roadway there. that is a problem for many people. they simply don't have enough electricity. in terms of the flooding, what we are seeing is it is going down right now. it could be a problem earlier in the morning. we still don't have a full idea of just how bad it is all along the coastline. the mayor of the village told people if you're not out by early this evening, that he did not want to risk the lives of first responders to come and go get them. nonetheless, talking with police officers and marine unit first responders tonight that said if they do need to go out and rescue people, that's what they do. that's who they are. but they are going to go out there. right now, the water is going down. the winds are whipping around. still whipping around. not as fierce as before. but we are checking it

in staten island and in westchester county, but what happened down at the sea is we had this massive flooding and it really soaked all of our equipment in lower manhattan and in all of those low-lying areas that stored all of our equipment that serves power to new york city. >> 780,000 people without power and how are you gridding the emergency efforts to get the dispatches going and getting the crews where they need to be? >> yes. our first objective today is number one, assessing the damage and number two, pumping water, that's basically it and after that we will go to each piece of equipment that needs to be repaired. we're going repair the equipment that's safest to repair and the equipment that serves the most people first and once we put that list together we'll start at the top and work our way don. con edison spokesperson alfonso quiroz, i appreciate it. >> super storm sandy has knocked the candidates off the campaign trail and mitt romney is in a critically important battleground state in ohio. how could sandy affect the presidential election? we'll talk with sean spicer com

. >> jacqueline is miss westchester teen. she gave operation prom the gown she wore for her beauty pageant. >> i donated my winning dress because i felt amazing in it and i wanted other girls to have that same feeling when they're going to their prom. >> jacqueline is one of the many teen volunteers here today to make finding the right dress easy and fun. >> i'm helping girls pick out dresses for their prom. and i'm around that age of where girls are getting ready for prom, so i'm just as excited as they are to find that perfect dress. >> no, this lady's not looking for a dress for herself. one of her students couldn't make it here today, so she's shopping for her with a little help from technology. so how did you find one for her? >> well, i went around, looked at different colors that she requested, and then i took pictures, i sent them to her, and she replied. >> the reactions i see from the students is excitement. they're ready for their night, they're so excited that their dress fits, and it's just so nice to see them ha

connecticut, westchester. >> that's correct. that is going to be long island sound.y have yet to have high tide. that will be coming in between 11:40 p.m. and 12:15 a.m., the western edge of long island sound which will include the kinetic is short. looking at some of the new numbers, by the way. and water levels of to of a 16- 17 feet in anywhere from bridgeport to stanford and going on southwestward toward the western edge of the long island sound. a lot of water. kings point passing the 14-foot mark right now. so that is going to cause a major flooding of the western edge of the long and unsound. the north shore. the income as we talked about, western connecticut. in the meantime, the water is receding in lower manhattan, down about 13 feet. still going down. but, i have to tell you, flood waters, again, up over into cardiac island, up into jamaica bay. kennedy airport and laguardia under water. and this is significant for a couple of reasons. we know going in and out of there, but the water was so extensive it may have damaged the approach lighting systems or, an

. >>> let's go to the howard cosell of westchester county. time for sports. >> we start with the thursday night nfl game. the 49ers trying to rebound after an ugly loss to the giants on sunday. we pick it up in the third quarter. 49ers trailing by 3 before alex smith connects with lonnie walker. niners take the lead, 10-6. same score later in the third quarter. russell wilson gets pressured on the throw, lobs the ball into triple coverage and the 49ers come down with the interception. san fran wins this one, 13-6. niners improve to 5-2 on season. seahawks fall to 4- >> as you look at all the players on the field of this incredible football game last night, mika, you know what they all have in common? >> what. >> you don't know the names of one of them. >> i'm not messing up the names. >> you're not. >> i do sports now. the yankees were in detroit last night trying to avoid the sweep at the hands of the tiger. a-rod "new york times" lineup for the second straight game. top of the fourth, tigers up by two. miguel cabrera hits a towering two-run

a tree fell on a house in westchester county, that is outside of new york city killing two boys. the floodwaters have filled up the subways and the tunnels making getting around impossible. this is a ory for days. >> look at this video for you. the facade of a building in manhattan just fell off. you can see into the apartments on the second and third floors. no one was hurt. but events like this including fires in new york city. right now, there is a fire involving 50 homes in new york. >>> now, atlantic city, new jersey, the particular spot is a terrorists town. it is flooded. it would be full of cars, but it impassable. sandy made landfall at 8:00. the area is under water. a 50-foot piece of the boardwalk washed away earlier in the day. at least 13 people in new jersey died from this storm. they are saying there could be more deaths downed as they start the recovery efforts today. >>> we are calling it a super storm. the wind and the rains that we're dealing with. in parts of north carolina snow. students in appalachian state university had to bundle up on their way to class.

. >> reporter: this is bronxville, westchester county, new york, where the storm of a lifetime has turned this sleepy suburban community into a town of haves and have-nots. spaghetti-like electric lines, thanks to downed trees, have left hundreds of homes without power. and con-ed is saying it could take seven days before the lights turn back on. downtown bronxville has power and is open for business. the local a&p is out of bread, but at topps bakery, there's plenty on shelves. and most importantly, there's still lots of coffee, because it's going to be a very long week. >> reporter: suzanne pratt, nbr, bronxville, new york. >> the streets are busy, and the e-mails are taking longer than usual. and in my own personal case. no tv, and no internet. it's typical to be a news reporter in these circumstances. tom, you may be use to it. you're in florida and used to dealing with tropical storms and hurricanes, but for us in the big apple. it's a brand new experience. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, october 30. good night, everyone, and stay safe. we'll see you online at n

. >> within two days we'll have boots on the ground in manhattan and westchester county. and the best part is they'll have their own trucks that they're used to using every day. we're putting the trucks on flatbeds today. these trucks will literally nonstop. >> reporter: pge and others are expected to be in the area for at least three weeks. the california national guard has also been called in to help. airplanes, helicopters, and two specialized rescue teams, including the 129 rescue wing out of moffitt field have been mobilized. it's one of only thee of its kind in the country and will be taking the lead in rescue operations. so what can you do to help? so many people want to send supplies, but the red cross says in this case, cash is king. cash donations will help the most and will help immediately. live in san jose, kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. >>> well, new york is the financial capital of the world, but sandy has shut it down. until now, after two days of closure, the new york stock exchange and nasdaq will reopen tomorrow. it's the first weather-related shutdo

this is a late fall, still leaves on the trees, the northern suburbs of the area, connecticut, westchester county, there are power outages that we don't yet know about. that will be three or four days from now, before the camera -- power crews get up there. >> reporter: i'm afraid this storm, brian, is coming to pretty much be everything that we thought it was going to be. and i know it was so unbelievable for many, including, you know, officials to actually buy into this thing. but everything that it was supposed to do, sadly, it is doing. >> yeah, that is absolutely right, jim cantore of the weather channel, lower manhattan tonight where they are taking on water. we'll take a break and continue right after this. n every day. i told him, sure. can't hurt, right? then i heard this news about a multivitamin study looking at long-term health benefits for men over 50. the one they used in that study... centrum silver. that's what i take. my doctor! he knows his stuff. [ male announcer ] centrum. the most recommended. most preferred. most studied. centrum, always your most complete. begins wit

the commuter rail system out to westchester and long island still is down, and so as we try and get backs still the issue that we're facing. >> scott, thank you so much for that. by the way, the mayor's office of emergency management saying that new york city schools will be closed again tomorrow which will throw a wrench into that business as usual. >> yes. to listen to him, so calm. wow, the bridges, everything will be kind of working but then as you get individual components of the city, they are not holding up. >> city operates, stands on multiple pillars, and schools will not be one of them. hoboken, new jersey, seeing serious flooding as a result of sandy. we'll talk to the owner of a local ace hardware store to see how he and the community are being affected. we're back after a short break. oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're not. i know. you know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than a witch in a broom factory. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save

big booyah from westchester, new york. >> my sister is up there. tell her i said hi. >> caller: i will. zynga and activision. do you think that activision could have a record fourth quarter? >> i don't like that division or that business. zynga too early to get into zynga. >> let's go to steve. steve-orino, you're up. >> caller: nice to meet you. >> how are you? >> caller: first off, i'd like to thank you for encouraging investors to manage their own money. if i can do it, anybody can do it. my question, to the t-mobile, psc deal. i would like to know, how will this affect the telecon industry? >> this is my theory on it. thank you about the kind words. i think t-mobile will merge with psc and bring it public and that will get it off telecon sheets. that's important. they don't want anything to do with t-mobile and that this is a way out. i don't think it will affect us so much. >>> ike in new york. >> caller: hey, jim. how are you? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: good, good, good. a big apple booyah to you. my question is about the comment

it could be a week for others like westchester county, there are more than 8 million people most cities are not that beg. -- big with no power, 2 million in new york, pennsylvania with more than a million in the dark, hundreds of thousands without power in connecticut, ohio and massachusets, for more on effort to get lights back on, i am owned by david owens, thank you. appreciate your time, we used the number of 8 million for the region, does that sound right to you. >> 8 million at the peak of the storm is right, but, service has been restored to roughly 20% of the customers, that have been impacted by the storm. effort on part of electric industry. we're bringing in crews from as far west as washington state, and california, far north as canada. we have strong commitment on the part of all aspects of the industry not just privately owns but also publicly owned, tremendous partnership to get the lights back on. gerri: how do you get those people here? it seems there are a lot of areas clamoring for asis tance. -- do they drive in? they can't fly in. >> yes, many have to drive, we have

particular creed, people of wealth, but some folks here as well who barely get by, the guests from westchester and the bronx, staten island, grateful all of us to be people of faith and will americans. loving a country which considers a religious liberty our first and most cherished freedom, convince faith is not just limited to an hour of sabbath worship, but affects everything we do and dream. [applause] privileged this evening to be in the company of two honorable men, will call to the noble the location of public servants whose love for god and country is to pass -- surpassed only by the love of their own wives and children can to are as happy as i hope they are to be here this evening, probably much rather be home to be with michelle and their families. that speaks volumes. all of us recall a man of deep catholic faith and patriotism who had a tear in his irish eyes for what we would call the un's of the world, the unemployed, uninsured, unwanted, unwed mother, the fragile unborn baby in her womb, the undocumented, the unhoused, the unhealthy, the unfed, the under educated. government, al

it stems from a confrontation in westchester, new york back in january. kennedy claims the nurses are simply after his cash. >>> talk show oas ellen degeneral -- host ellen degenres will receive the mark twain prize for american humor, the top prize for humor. a number of stars will be on hand to deliver tribute performances. she began her career as a comedy club emcee in new orleans and became the first female standup comedian to chat with johnny carson on the tonight show. the show will be broadcast next week on pbs. >>> singer adele confirms she is the mother of a new baby boy. the father is the grammy award winner's boyfriend. the british singer/songwriter is quoted as saying we're all over the upon n. is her first baby and she's worked on a new album and has been working on it throughout her pregnancy. we don't know the little one's name and the other details are still a mystery, too. >>> coming up, police say a new jersey mom went a little too far trying to protect her daughter from some school bullies. we'll tell you what happened there. >>> the we

more than 1.5 million have lost power across new york city, long island and westchester. now we also want to show you these pictures from breezy point, queens, at least 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. further east at least seven homes on fire island have fallen into the ocean. atlantic city, new jersey, took the full force of sandy when it came ashore around 8:00 last night. people that defied an evacuation order are trapped there now. roads are impassable. serious damage is being reported in several beach communities from point pleasant to seaside heights. rescues are under way in belmar, one of several cities that saw the boardwalk ripped away. further north in hoboken, the mayor estimates half the city is underwater. 2.2 million people are without power statewide. now, in connecticut, the national guard has been helping to evacuate shoreline residents who are trapped by high waters. at least two have been killed in that state. 600,000 people are in the dark. there's also a fire burning in old saybrook, connecticut. crews can't get to the fire because the area is

to help out may not, the island, and westchester.of now we have 1,800 utility workers that are coming into the down state area as we speak. primarily from upstate new york coming to help their neighbors in down state new york, so we applaud them and we thank those utility workers very much. that is going to be still a day by day situation until we know how much power will be restored when. so patience and tolerance on the traffic conditions and on the power restoration conditions. i can assure you these are significant challenges that we're facing. problems many n many cases that we have not experienced before and not in a generation. patience and tolerance would be appreciated. with that let me turn it over to new york's sister senator, chuck schumer. >> thank you, governor. thank you and your entire team. great job that you have done. as well as our executives. i've been speaking to all of them. bob, who is here, county executive and malone and, of course, mayor bloomberg. >> governor cuomo giving an update on what new yorkers are

i left a senior complex in northern westchester and 250 seniors are sitting in the dark and cold andng colder. it is not like we didn't know the storm was coming. we had learning moments with irene and another winter storm that hit us with a punch and a lot of the simple things they do not communicate properly and we do not have the out of state crews work properly with our local utilities and con-ed still is not delivering dry ice. i have been personally out there delivering the try ice that has been provided and when you get off the back of the truck the ice was gone. people need it. >>neil: but it is more than that. i know in tokyo or places that are ravaged by earthquakes and tsunamis with each one they build a stronger building, but here, they build the same transformer that is no more upgraded to withstand serious weather than the prior one and we are right back in the same pot. >>guest: i share the senate homeland security committee and i will reach out and continue to reach out to the governor and my colleague, outside of new york -- outside of jerusalem, new york city is the

. >> con ed spokesman bob mcgee talking about 660,000 in the dark in new york city and westchester county. part of the 7.1 million across this wide swath of this monster storm. we've also been watching the devastating pictures coming to us from queens and this huge fire that is raging there. let me bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins and the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the terrible conditions that these 170 firefighters must be facing as they're trying to put out this fire, bill. >> scary situation, chris. i first saw a lot of tweets on it about this on twitter and i'm afraid of what lives may have been in the way of this fire. because this was an evacuation area but on twitter there was a couple of people in these homes that were trying to figure out what to do, where to go, how to take their children out of harm's way and it's a very narrow ribbon. i was probably at the beach in this area about three or four weeks ago, right around 130th beach street. it's a very narrow ribbon out on the rockaway, not a lot of room on either side. one side is the ocean, the other is t

the 11 and 13-year-old boys died when a tree struck their home in westchester county. a 15-year-old and 20-year-old were also in the home but not seriously hurt. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray plans to drive around the city today with the coast guard to assess the damage. >> he is likely to see a lot of trees down. news 4's megan mcgrath is live in cathedral with a look at the damage there. >> reporter: we have changed our location since we last spoke to you. we are down on cathedral avenue. we have a large tree that has fallen completely across the roadway. no traffic getting through. it's a big tree. going to take a little work to get out of here this morning. we're seeing pockets of damage. trees falling across roadways. smashed cars. take a look at this video. this was shot over in nebraska near nevada. a huge tree came tumbling down. actually fell between two houses. take a look at that root ball. just absolutely enormous. the ground very catch rated, very wet. a lot of trees came tumbling down in that storm. if you're out and about, be aware, you may have to detour

we're just new york city and westchester county.looking at right now is that we're paying attention to a lot of the low lying areas such as lower manhattan. we're paying attention to how high the sea water is coming. you have to remember a lot of the electrical cables that feed new york city are underground. that kind of sea water can really damage those cables. >> my apologies for the error. what happens if, in fact, you have to shut it down? as they're predicting, downtown, i know you know, may be an 11-foot storm surge. walk me through the potential scenario here. >> sure thing. what we have is storm ride rs. they are either people or cameras or another type of monitoring device that we watch how high the water is coming near our equipment throughout new york city but especially those low lying areas. if the water gets too high, we will preemptively shut down some pieces of equipment. some maybe clustered together. because it is easier for us to make restoration once the water goes as opposed to just letting it burn out by itself