they have all of their crews out there. kevin, thank nowor all of con ed s service and kevin s estimate was probably by tuesday, day after tomorrow to get everybody back. although overhead lines are easy to see when they are down, it is easy for the crews to get to them and work and big chunks of that 62,000 should be back much earlier. the city s hospitals all have contingency plans in place for possible power loss including redundancy for emergency generators at belleville and koehler gold water that are the most vulnerable to flooding. thankfully they didn t have to use those but if the next storm were are to come through they are ready. in terms of tree damage, the storm has uprooted something like 650 trees throughout the five burroughs. i have always been fascinated by how we get the numbers exactly of trees but it is a number like that. the parks department, however, does have and this we can count, more than 100 forestry
martha: and times square in new york not ceciing the usual hustle and bustle as irene s rain bands drench the area. a look at times square this morning. up you next, police commissioner ray kelly will talk about the storm damage and the city s response. we will get that from him. while most people avoided getting soaked in the storm, this guy was sort of into the whole idea, you might say. cold, warm, what is it like? it was nice. i had a light breakfast. and the water was brisk but refreshing. [ jon ] up in alaska, we find the best sweetest crab for red lobster we can find. [ male announcer ] hurry into cbfest for 3 crab entrees under $20 likour crab and seafood bake. orur snow crab and crabutter shrimp. offer ends soon. my name s jon forsythe and i sea food differently.
of water. the house was surrounded. it happened to be in one of the lowest line parts of the tornado of the town. thank god we had vehicles with the trash pump and three extinguishers before we were able get lines set up. we were successful. we only lost the roof saved the first two floors. we had some injuries. the biggest thing is the downed powerlines, a lot of snapped telephone poles our beach took a bad hit. the wave and the surf break coming over the dunes at the height of the storm. martha: is there home damage along the beach there? we are a little lucky in that respect. the water went around the houses. we haven t had a chance to do a damage assessment yet, we are in the middle of doing that now. we have a lot of flooding damage. as for foundational damage
and was toppled earlier today. those trees are 100 years old and when they come down history coming down with them. this picture from tracy james snapped this shot of a boarded up hotel there. if you think you have seen it all. a viewer from new jersey capturing a couch floating down the street. just back behind the trees there. i guess we can sort of make it out there. give us your name and location and a brief description of what you are looking at. say subject couch floating down the river something along those lines. they do help give everybody a sense of what you are going through. send us those pictures. we appreciate it. we expected the mayor of new york an hour ago at 12:15 eastern time and it appears to be getting underway now. the office of emergency management and there you see the police commissioner behind him. that is ray kelly. we will here from mayor bloomberg in a moment and see how we are handling things here in new york. he has been out in front of this storm and
them. we have enabled a damage report tool on the city s website nyy.gov so you can report property damage online. once again for updates throughout the storm and its aftermath and now you can use it for this as well, you can go to @ nyc mayor s office or @ notify nyc on twin cities. the big news there is that the evacuation order lift as of 3 about p.m. this afternoon. kind of surpriseing that the new york airports are not going to resume service over the course of this afternoon. so that is going to back up things as we head into monday and people start doing business traveling around the country. overall a fairly good story for new york city. there is some flooding in the lower reaches of manhattan that they dealt with this morning but looks like things will probably open up as planned tomorrow morning. that is the over and the under.