who has been working through the night, well into the morning to save lives and get power back. there's a lot of damage, and i made clear to the governors that my team at the federal emergency management agency, fema, is on the ground and ready to provide all the assistance that's needed. >> all right. we have reporters across the northeast. let's begin with evan mcmorrow santora in queens. that's where the majority of the deaths were reported. evan, what do you know? >> reporter: that's right, victor and alisyn. you talk about the horror story of being in a basement during a flash flood. i'm standing in the place where one of those most tragic stories happened. this street in queens where i'm standing right now, it is dry, it is a nice day out, but last night around 9:00, 9:30 there were feet of water here. it swept through, filling up basements and filling up people's driveways. behind me you can barely see, you can see right through there a hole where the water swept through and it collapsed a wall