Flooding fema sent National Underwater team to drain the downtown area. More than seven million are without power. Heres brandi hitt. Reporter good afternoon. New york is slowly starting to come back to life. Superstorm sandy is living up to all warnings. At least 35 people have been killed. More than eight mill are without power. Djg million are without power. Sandy is leaving death, darkness and flooding as it moves inland. Oh my gosh. No walls. Reporter the storm lost hurricane status monday as it made landfall on the new jersey shore 80 mile per hour winds. Sandy had enough strength to flood Lower Manhattan with 13 foot storm surge and pushed this 700 ton tanker on to a Staten Island street. New york city subways under several feet of water. Weve got all our resources to get everything open i am reporter the damage is extensive in new york. A crane collapsed and still dangling 80 stories above streets. Get on the sidewalk. Reporter Major Hospital was evacuated after its backup gene
Back to work and back to school tuesday. That breaking news, though. Severe weather blamed for at least five deaths in south. A tree crushed a mobile home in southern alabama, killing four people inside. Three other people escaped without injury. We want to show you the live radar. The severe storm system moving eastward. Throughout is the south. Across alabama and florida and into the panhandle. Tennessee, georgia, and the carolinas not spared. Janai norman with more. Reporter tornadoes, flooding, and deadly storms. Sweeping across the southeast. Were just asking everybody to stay in. Reporter blaring winds, upwards of 60 miles per hour, blasted through cities south of dallas, hurling debris and tearing down powerlines. We have a big dent right here. Reporter in parts of mississippi, the winds overturning a tractor trailer and ripping up this roof. The same system packed six inches of rain. Heavy downpours turned yards into ponds. I want you to see this. It is completely submerged. It
Later. As we say good morning on this back to work and back to school tuesday. Severe weather blamed for at least five deaths in south. A tree physical on a mobile home killing four. Three other people escaped without injury. We want to show you the live radar. The se sere storm system moving eastward. Across alabama and florida and into the panhandle. Gentlem janai norman with more. Reporter tornadoes, flooding, and deadly storms. Were just asking everybody to stay in. Reporter winds upwards of 60 miles an hour blasted through cities south of dallas. We have a big dent right here. Reporter in parts of mississippi, the winds overturning a tractor trailer and ripping up this room. The same system pakd six inches of rain. It is completely submerged. It is not passable. Reporter and drenched parts of alabama facing a flood emergency. Law enforcement asked residents to stay inside. This is a fine example as to why not be out. Because then we have a vehicle submerged in water at this time.
And 15 counties in texas. And in the panhandle area heavy rain, causing major flooding, that turned deadly in florida. A man in Walton County florida drowned near his car that was completely submerged. Police believe he was trying to evacuate when he drowned. This same system set to bring us some heavy rain in just a few hours. Eileen . Rain today, heaviest for am rush cold coming thursday lasts through early next week snow showers possible late thurs. Into friday possible impacts to fri. Am commute milder next week today rain, heaviest this morning. Highs 4550 winds e 5 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Some clearing possible. Patchy fog. Lows 4245 winds w 5 mph wednesday partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs 5257 winds nw 515 g 25 mph eileen toss to suzanne suz toss to julie breaking overnight. You could call it a bit of bad luck for a car thief in the district. Dc police say a man driving a stolen vehicle accidentally hit a mpd cruiser. A Prince Georges County police other cars before crashing into
As we say good morning on this back to work and back to school tuesday. Severe weather blamed for at least five deaths in south. A tree physical on a mobile home killing four. Three other people escaped without injury. We want to show you the live radar. The se sere storm system moving eastward. Across alabama and florida and into the panhandle. Gentlem janai norman with more. Reporter tornadoes, flooding, and deadly storms. Were just asking everybody to stay in. Reporter winds upwards of 60 miles an hour blasted through cities south of dallas. We have a big dent right here. Reporter in parts of mississippi, the winds overturning a tractor trailer and ripping up this room. The same system pakd six inches of rain. I want you to see this. It is completely submerged. It is not passable. Reporter and drenched parts of alabama facing a flood emergency. Law enforcement asked residents to stay inside. This is a fine example as to why not be out. Because then we have a vehicle submerged in wat