Every corner of the storm. Tonight, the moment it crashes on land, our team in the storm zone bringing you whats happening at this hour as world news begins. Good evening, and welcome to this special onehour edition of world news and as we come on the air, it is happening right now, Hurricane Sandy crashing on shore. Winds now at 90 Miles Per Hour and this storm is so big, so vast, 60 million americans will feel its power. Tonight our extreme weather team is all over the storm zone ready to report so lets go straight to abcs meteorologist ginger zee who is right in the bullseye as the storm is hitting the shore now in Atlantic City, new jersey. Ginger . Were essentially inside the storm. Diane. Were easily getting into some of the worst stuff, 60 to even 74 Miles Per Hour, that threshold of hurricane force, one of the worst storms that has ever hit Atlantic City. This city is basically under water. Water from the ocean, water from the bay. It is everywhere. This is the storm that we forecasted and then some. It is chaos along the jersey shore. The super storm battering the Barrier Island. In the crosshairs Atlantic City. The road into this sea front town is completely submerged. Damage started early, massive chunks of boardwalk littering the streets. Streets after avenue after culdesac inundated. So we just picked one. Plain street and started knocking on doors. The water starts coming in our house well go upstairs and we got our kids. Reporter once it peaked waves at the shore could grow to 20 feet. Out at sea up to 40 feet. You got to take a look at how the waves picked up. This is what happened. Debris like pieces of the boardwalk three blocks, the ocean back there. Crashes up and over. You see that one, pushing ocean water. The storm is on top of us right now. And its only going to get worse during the next high tide. So this is taking shelter, what youre seeing right now. Thats what were doing if you can believe it or not one of the safest and driest places. This will be a historic storm for so many but the storm surge is still 90 minutes away from high tide here. Well have many more pictures throughout the broadcast but head back to diane. Thank you, ginger. Well check in with you throughout this onehour broadcast. This is the view from above. The super storm stretching across onethird of this country from florida to canada. 1,000 miles long delivering the kind of rain seen once every century. The flooding waters rising for hours to come as ginger said and abcs weather editor sam champion is reporting from Lower Manhattan, also about to be hit, sam. Yes, and, diane, im standing in water, new york harbor is actually over the edge here and were standing in it. This is, by the way, driftwood that just washed up. Now you know before i came to abc news i discovered new york weather for 25 years. I have never seen water in Lower Manhattan. There is water now on the streets in Lower Manhattan. Lets show you where this storm, by the way, is going to make its move once its now on shore but follow this and its very difficult to see where the center of the storm is but its practically right on that jersey shoreline but then this storm continues to be a problem even once its on shore. Kind of stepping into that pennsylvania border by the time we get to tuesday. Then spins tuesday almost all day tuesday in pennsylvania. Then wednesday, almost all day wednesday into thursday in western new york state. Each one of those areas will have tropical stormforce wind gusts and still some heavy rain and flooding to be delivered with this storm. And it was an amazing little surprise that sandy had in store for us when at the very last minute almost like going for the finish line sandy made a motion straight for the jersey shoreline almost doubling its speed. The east coast is being pummeled with the power of a recordbreaking super storm. Oh, my god. Its washing everything away. Reporter 90mileperhour winds driving rain, recordbreaking high tides and rough surf lashed the coastline. As the storm made landfall in southern new jersey. The midatlantic and southern new england shores hit hard by flooding. Water lapping at the doors and sea foam piled up high on the boardwalk in seaside heights. In new york city a construction crane buckled dangling in high winds and raising the concern of other construction sites. The governor closed bridges, tunnels and doubled the number of National Guard troops depl deployed the. North carolina has been pounded by sandy for over 50 hours. Roads have been washed away and this house in rodanthe swept into pieces. It was breaking records and had one big surprise doubling its speed and barreling toward the shore faster than anyone expected. Residents were warned to stay home and take mandatory orders for lowlying areas seriously. It is not a time to be stupid but save yourself and your family. Reporter Public Transportation for over 12 Million People was shut down in new york, philadelphia and washington, d. C. And concerns dont ease after sandys landfall. More than a Million People in 11 states are already without power. And as many as 10 million may lose electricity as the storm pushing inland. This is a record surge of water, diane, that were witnessing right now. If you can see on the other side of new york harbor, one of the superlatives, it hooked new jersey right over there at eight feet and now this water is rushing over the edge of Lower Manhattan and if you think this storm was just new jersey coast windmaker, yes, those winds were about 90 Miles Per Hour on the shore there but we had an 86mileperhour wind gust as far north as the rhode island coast, diane . Okay, sam, well be checking in with you, as well and now we go to Rehoboth Beach, delaware. 10 million are at risk of losing power and we asked david kerley to tell us whats happening there. Reporter good evening, diane. You can take a look at some of these waves back here. As an angry, angry ocean that is coming going to be up on the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach but the one thing weve been keeping an eye on. Its this lamp post and these lights are still on. Still electricity, more than 1. 25 Million People without power. Well have more on whats going to happen to them in the coming hours. Good to check in with you. Long beach, new york, built a wall of sand as a defense against the ocean and abcs r r claiborne is there to tell us if its holding. Reporter good evening, diane. That wall of the sand berm they built along the shore held out for quite a while but if you look over my shoulder it is all but now obliterated. The pounding surf and rising tide took it out, the erosion and wind and gone and that water is flowing from the beach here into the city of 35,000. This suburb of new york city. Theyre expecting a storm surge of somewhere between 4 and 8 feet. It is possible this entire lowlying Barrier Island will be overshowed with water in the next 12 hours or so, diane. Okay, ron and now as you have heard, the water is flooding into new york city. And its where were tracking the National Damage and also the winds are bearing down on the city of skyscrapers tonight, 20 20 anchor chris cuomo is covering this city in this storm. Chris. Reporter hello, diane. You know, we wish we didnt have to be standing in the water but its moving too quickly to change positions. Already weve had more water from sandy than we did last year from irene. Were being told that protectively theyll shut off power down here soon so we hope everybody has gotten somewhere safe. Sandy is coming. The question is, how will new york city handle it . The big apple has been shut down to its core. Lower manhattan looks like a ghost town. Wall street will be closed for consecutive days because of weather for the first timing since the 1800s in a place where you have to look up to see where many live, skyscrapers are a concern. Wind speeds on the ground are half those on the top floors. Sometimes forcing buildings to sway. The further up you live the more reason you should close your drapes and just stay away from windows. Reporter watch this bath water slosh in a brookline highrise in gusts of barely 40 miles an hour. Half whats expected from sandy. At ground zero still under construction special precautions as teams worked to latch down machinery. Fears heightened by that tenton steel arm dangling from a highrise building. But the main threat from sandy is storm surge. Not just flooding, surge effect hits like a liquid fist powered by 80mileanhour winds. Sandy brings potentially an extra 6 to 12 feet of sand enriver flow that could fill manhattan like a basin. 375,000 people have been told to evacuate. Directed to 76 shelters around the city. But this is new york and that means there are others who are deciding to stick. A tenfoot wall of water and people want to stick. Have a couple of pints. We sink or swim. Its a community in new york city, no better place. Reporter the truth is, this is no joking matter, diane, were still almost two hours from the full moon high tide. So we dont know what sandy will bring. 17 miles southeast of here, a bowie measured a wave at 29 feet. Still 17 miles away but it just shows that its no joking matter. Hopefully tomorrow well be able to say sandy wasnt as bad as we expected but right now we ask everyone please prepare for the worst. Diane . All right, chriss rorting in. And here in new york, it is the second strange storm, second year in a row. 14 months ago you may remember this was hurricane irene moving in but by comparison Hurricane Sandy is twice as big. And heres another sign that sandy is like no hurricane weve seen. As it hit charleston, west virginia, tonight because of that cold front moving in, it dumped snow, a blizzard of snow. Expected to dump up to three feet of snow, hurricane snow in the southern appalachian mountains. And the turbulence of Hurricane Sandy has shaken the race for the white house eight days till americans go to the polls, your voice, your vote today president obama and governor romney put the bricks on the campaign until sandy is over. Jake tapper explains. Reporter president obama was a no show to his own rally whisked away on air force one to get ahead of the worst of Hurricane Sandy and to warn those in its path. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. Reporter the white house eager to share the president looking in command released these two photographs meeting with advisers preparing for the storm. Between his and mitt romneys campaigns, 30 events have been canceled. Two events went on without the president. Including one in youngstown, ohio where many former president clinton and Vice President biden got a firsthand feel for the storms winds. Those heavy winds and rain may impact early voting in ohio and four or contested states are directly in the storms path also with early voting. S president is not scheduled to be back on the campaign trail till wednesday but that like Everything Else this week is subject to cancellation. Diane . All right, jake, thank you and coming up here, incredibly dramatic story, Hurricane Sandy sinks a mighty ship. Survivors pulled from the open ocean, one washed away. The search tonight. Ally bank. Why they have a raise your rate cd. Tonight our guest, thomas sargent. 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A replica a 200yearold free masted ship sailed into the wrath of the storm and battled 18foot waves until the ship went down and passengers huddled in a small raft in 40mileperhour winds and incredibly brave helicopter pilots came to their rescue and our matt guttman is with that story in elizabeth city, north carolina. Reporter with them slamming around in 50 Miles Per Hour their fuel burning fast the first divers lowered into the unknown. You can see the h. M. S. Bounty crew bobbing in waves 30 feet. Their faces poking out. Rescue swimmer dan todd, one of todays heroes. I jumped in. I said, hey, im dan, i heard you need a ride. Reporter pulling the survivor into the water he would swim it to the helicopter. The pilot fighting to hold it steady at nearly 30 feet. This one is swinging really bad. Reporter survivors hoisted up one at a time. Yeah, 20 to 30foot waves hitting you from different sides. I was tired and then we straight over to the next life raft with three more people. Reporter 14 total across from the mountainous waves and the twohour flight back to land. Denny fields was one of the pilots. As we left the seen some got emotional realizing they had left shipmates behind. Reporter partly because two sailors are still missing. This chopper going back to look. This featured in mutiny on the bounty and pirates of the caribbean. Look at it in this video two years ago and the ships captain facebooking its safer at sea than port but it loses its generator, the the bounty is taking on water. The crew has abandoned ships and human corks bopping and passengers on the Disney Fantasy cruise leafed around, doors slamming, terrified passengers told to stay in their rooms. Just stay in your cabin. Reporter diane, the coast guard told us moments ago they went back out to sea. They managed to find one of those two missing people. They tried to revive the woman. She was unresponsive. The captain of the bounty, diane, is still missing out at sea. 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As the rising water is visible in Atlantic City underneath the dark as you saw there, as many as 85,000 citizen soldiers, we are told, and airmen are ready to respond, fly in and help their neighbors in this storm. And among those standing watch in new york, a dedicated group of diving Response Team taking on huge waves in the darkness to save anyone who needs help. 14year veteran sergeant Terrence Sullivan is one of them and he joined me today at the waters edge. How big are these swells, these waves going to be . Its going to be, you know, five to ten feet swells here. Somebody was to fall in the water or jumps in the water were going to respond and try to get them out. Reporter during irene did you have to pull anyone out . S high kayakers. Reporter kayakers. Yes, i dont know what they were thinking. Reporter you rescue people out of their cars . Yes, unfortunately people still driving out there and whats going to happen when the water comes back up again, its going to be higher than it was earlier today and people will call 911 and well respond. Give me a sense of being in a 2 25footwave in scuba gear. How much does it weigh . Probably 25 pounds. Do you say anything to each other before you head out on this kind of night . To the men its all about being safe right now. Whatever we do we have to make sure nobody gets hurt today. What do you say to them . Well, im not going to lie to you. My wife wasnt happy i had to go to work today and i probably wont be going home tonight. Ill see her in a few days and thats about it. What a team and, by the way, you couldnt see it quite there but as we were standing there, the statue of liberty was in the rainy distance. I asked the sergeant about that. Its been closed down because of the hurricane. He said shes never been tested this way and we dont want to lose the statue today. 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Where this storm is going now that its found its home along the shoreline. We believe this storm is going to continue cutting across southern new jersey and run that little border of pennsylvania right there with delaware and park itself there for a little while. Now during the day tomorrow, it will still have these strong tropical stormforce winds and plenty of rain and doesnt exit the u. S. Until friday into saturday in the northern way. Okay, sam, i think i can see that water up to your knees right now and want to tell for those of you were saying good night but for the rest of you we will take a short break and be more with our special onehour broadcast of world news, so please stay with us. Have a safe night