0 we have reporters all across the region. and msnbc meteorologist bill karins on hand here in new york. now, as of 11:30 pennsylvania's utility company reported more than 1 million people were without power in that state. the "associated press" reports that's about 20% of the state's electric customers. joining me now is philadelphia mayor michael nutter. mayor, it's good to talk to you again. we've been talking about how fluid the situation is. you and i talked about two hours ago. since then i understand one person was killed after a tree fell on a house in berks county. what's going on in philly? >> in philadelphia we do have some significant, for us, significant power outage. about 40,000 customers without power. pico energy is our provider. they do an excellent job under these circumstances, getting people back online. about 400,000 in the region, and so, again, that's a significant number, but i am quite confident that they will chop that number down over the course of the next few days. our primary concerns are about flooding, the heavy winds, continued rain, and treacherous conditions for people. obviously we've been encouraging our citizens to stay in at home, stay off the streets, stay out of your car, and this is not the kind of weather you want to be out in. the city was closed on monday, will be closed on tuesday. schools canceled. colleges and university, many of them not having classes as well. mass transit system is shut down. and certainly won't be operational for the bulk of the day on tuesday. but all in all, philadelphians are rallying around each other. we've not experienced any significant incidents. we have had some structural challenges and at least one fire that i'm aware of. it should soon be under control. so you put it all together, this is a big, bad storm, but philadelphians are rough and tough and have responded in kind. our plan is primarily working, and that comes from good preparations and a great group of public employees who are dedicated to this kind of work. >> i know major bridges were shut down. so were some major interstates. will that continue? or to you expect traffic to be flowing again tomorrow? >> that actually was a decision by the pennsylvania department of transportation. penndot, under the jurisdiction of governor corbett. i think at the time it was certainly the right decision, but obviously to try to get the city and the region back in business after the storm damage overnight, which we're anticipating and the assessment in the morning, obviously we want to get roads opened as quickly as possible but also as safely as possible. >> one of the challenges, obviously, any city has in a situation like this, is getting trying to rescue people in boats in some cases and just a very ugly scene, and that's what you'd expect. the historic storm that just, you know, had such a large winfield. it was just able to take so much water. to like a big huge hand in the bathtub and push it right on the shore when it came in today. that's when all the problems occurred from manhattan southward. you can only imagine the billions of dollars that this storm is going to cost us. it will be interesting to see where it goes down in the history books. first things first. we'll worry about that when everyone is safe and the cleanup has begun. we have the potential for more problems. as far as wind gusts, downed trees. and maybe a little more flooding. the winds have come down. this is the lowest they've been in new york city for a while. 38 miles per hour. same with you in philly. notice it's still a pretty strong all the green on the map shows you where it's raining. the darker green is the rain. the yellow is heavier than that. there are bands of rain wrapping around this thing going through northern jersey and nice, solid band through northern virginia, the baltimore, d.c. area, right into delaware. you're not done with your rainfall yet. the winds are going to continue to howl. we're not bad right now. 20 to 30 mile per hour winds in the delmarva. rainfall totals were impressive. 3 to 4 inches in general around philadelphia. and 5 to 6 inches down around washington, d.c. you notice richmond, you just got brushed by light rain right now. your friends in charleston, west virginia, and all through the mountains, look at that white expand. that's snow, folks. we're in a full-fledged snowstorm in the middle of west virginia. it was above 4,000 feet but now it's just about everywhere as the cold air gets wrapped in to what was a hurricane that is now more like a snowstorm as we go through halloween. looks like there will be snow on the pumpkins and everything else in west virginia along with downed trees. not all the leaves were off. there are so many concerns out there. you could go here all night talking about all the hardships people are going to have to endure. it's just -- it was an unbelievable storm. it was really well predicted, too, which is scary. even, chris, the power outages were predicted to be somewhere between 5 million and maybe 8 million. what did you say, almost 6 million now? >> about 6 million people. 670,000 just in new york, which is new york city, which is the largest in the history of this city. >> that's the scary thing. four days in advance we thought this was possible and the forecast was very accurate and we still had, what, almost 15 or so deaths and all these catastrophes out there and power outages. just shows you sometimes with so many people in the way, doesn't matter how prepared we are. >> we should also say thank you, bill karins. we was telling you about the snow in west virginia. the president signed an emergency declaration there which means more federal help for the folks of west virginia who will surely need it. throughout the evening we've been trying to take you to different places and sometimes it's just a matter of safety when we can safely get our correspondents who are out on the scene to report to you. wnbc reporter, harry, joins us from eaten town, new jersey. give us the geography for people who don't know exactly where that is. where is eaton town? >> reporter: eatontown is by long branch along the jersey shore. we were in long branch, five miles away from here, all day yesterday, watching the waves crashing up on to the boardwalk in long branch. it was very dramatic, very dangerous. and the wind actually has not died down at all in eatontown, central jersey, right smack in the middle of jersey closer to the shore. as i mentioned, the winds are still picking up here. the rain is falling. there's so much damage. we're actually outside our hotel right now. we have to go to three different hotels two days ago to get a room because all the people who were evacuated from their homes along the jersey shore came to these hotels as a safe hahaven. so far it's been working although power is out and we're not even able to get out of the parking lot. there's a barricade there due to the flooding and due to all the other damage. definitely pitch black around us. all we're seeing and hearing is the wind. not really knowing exactly how bad the damage is around long branch. i know when we came back here about ten hours ago, or i'd say more like eight hours ago it was flooding and there were, you know, power lines down, trees down all throughout this area in new jersey. definitely carnage and definitely very disappointing to see what's gone on here in this area. >> harry, thank you for that update. in eatontown, new jersey. we've also just gotten in the first video from nyu medical center. we've been telling you about the evacuations there. and we will have a live report from the scene, the very latest on some critical care patients, more than 200 of them having to be moved after a power outage affected that hospital. we'll be right back. customer erin swenson bought from us online today.
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