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blizzard warning while north carolina s governor has declared a state of emergency in 24 counties. and take a look at manhattan. this is times square. we have a live picture here. i can tell you i come to work generally around 4:30 in the morning and those streets are usually busy. there are at least cabs, a lot of delivery trucks bringing bread and food and newspapers and it s a ghost town through much of manhattan and that s what the mayor have asked for, people stay off the streets. there s still a lot of downed power lines. there s flooding. a dangerous situation in a lot of manhattan and, frankly, there s no public transportation so it s tough to get anywhere anyway. joining me on the phone now is dennis pilla, the mayor of port chester, new york, on the coast of long island sound. mr. mayor, good morning to you and how are things looking in your community? pretty dark. we have about half the village without power as we speak and we had historic flooding last
bag in brooklyn. for the most part we were able to withstand the brunt of the storm with minimal rain and electrical disruption in my district, but i know communities just outside of the boundaries of my communities that have experienced extreme flooding as well as electrical disruption. i m sure you are following, congresswoman, the reports from the metropolitan transit authority that in the 108-year history of the subway system in new york, they ve never seen anything like this. massive flooding. we re going to get an update in the morning but how concerned are you about the transportation situation come dawn? well, we re just concerned that they re able to do whatever they need to do to get the subway and bus services running once we re clear of the storm. i think that the mayor did the
coverage on msnbc and to give you a sense of the devastation in new jersey, listen to a few of these numbers. nearly 2.2 million homes are without power. three adults were killed. two children hurt. all of them in accidents involving trees. there are thousands of people who are still in shelters. we want to go to asbury park. anybody who is a bruce springsteen fan knows about it. ed johnson is the mayor there. how are things looking at 4:46 a.m.? we have some severe damage here in asbury park. i m in the middle of touring the city with a police officer and we have large trees down. there s power out around the city. power lines down. there s been severe damage to our boardwalk and oceanfront area. it s really a devastating scene. give us a sense of what you re seeing. can you give us some descriptions? well, i m actually sitting here on third avenue right now.
village data assessment at 7:00 once the sun comes up and really first and foremost will be working with con ed to make sure we can get power restored to our village and see how we can help to get our downtown back to being the vibrant commerce center that it was before sandy arrived. unbelievable. dennis pilla, the mayor of port chester, new york, good luck to you and thanks so much for talking to us. at the height of the storm a generator went out and 215 patients had to be evacuated from nyu medical center here in manhattan. nbc s rehema ellis has been there since the beginning of the evacuation and joins us now with an update. when we spoke last hour they were still evacuating, rehema, have they finished yet? reporter: not yet, chris. this has been a long night. it s often long nights in hospitals, but i m not certain how much sleep any of these patients got because of the fact
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