there. there is a couple of feet of sand on the road and a lot of debris with nails coming out of boards. it s hazardous but we ll try and get down there so we can survey some more of the awful results of this hurricane that has come ashore in atlantic city on the atlantic coast, a direct hit on the new jersey shore. martha: obviously a lot of people will be tempted to get into that heir kwrafplt the man yoarea. the man you spoke with, his son is on route 35 which is the route that goes through that area. how is the communication as to what people should and should not do. people are in the dark. there is no power here. there are a couple of million new jersey residents without power, and most of them don t have cell service either. we ve heard a lot of complaints this morning that people can t make phone calls if they get a text or a call it lasts for four seconds and then they lose signal again. we are having issues with cells
sandy made landfall with atlantic city, new jersey with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. that was around 8:00 p.m. eastern time. so the storm continued to move inland and over portions of pennsylvania. it dumped rain over several states. new jersey seeming to get brunt of it, or gotten the brunt of it, just shy of a foot of rain reported there. it is still raining there. it is likely we ll exceed a foot of rain. otherwise delaware, 9.55 inch muches of rain in milford. a lot of areas seeing heavy rain as well. bill? bill: maria, blizzard conditions in west virginia, a foot or two on the ground there. 1.2 million without power in pennsylvania. greater number in new jersey and higher than in new york. what does sandy do,000? and who will be most impacted over the next day, or 48 hours from now? everyone from the great lakes to parts of the east coast across
atlantic city. you hear a lot about storms that get hyped and clearly that does happen from time to time but not this time, folks. the widespread path of the he do instruction that was left by sandy is really beginning to be discovered where the storm bends next, is a big concern today. keep it here for team fox coverage. we ll be right back. my name is hunter cannon.
are getting to new jersey citizens who chose not to evacuate or got caught in floodwaters. our pr priority is to assure the safety and security of every new jersey citizen. our helicopters are in the air as we speak engaging in coastline rescue efforts. our swift water team is positioned in atlantic city and has begun rescue and recovery for hose who remained in atlantic city. teams units from central and south to union beach. middletown, bell mar. madelsquain are beginning rescue april rations. we saw tied alflooding in several areas. new york city, the bay area, monake and little ferry. weee diswatched state and federally supported teams to assist in rescues and providing
this super storm sent a record breaking storm surge into lower manhattan, the likes which has never seen. a wall of 14 feet of water, like a freight train into lower manhattan. sandy churned up dangerous seas over a stretch of atlantic nearly 1600 miles in diameter. and one of the worst stories is the six alarm fire sweeping through a flooded neighborhood as if the flood wasn t bad enough, then came the fire in queens, new york. this is a very old neighborhood, an area where people do not like to leave their homes. the flames destroyed more than 50 family homes in breezy point. it is still burning as we speak. 200 firefighters responded to this scene. they found a large number of people who had ignored warnings to get out of that area. the water started rising and then the fire came and that forced the firefighters to put their own lives at risk to save people from those flames. one of them describes the