figure out what to do about the subways and bus, don t you think. you hear the mayor tried to talk about people getting to work the best way they can. you hope they live near their place of employment but as you suggest many of us depend on the public transit system here so it s going to be very difficult for a lot of the people to get to work, for a lot of the stores to open. for a lot of the other kind of businesses and things that we depend on around here to be active at all. but based on what you re seeing where you are, does it look at least like further uptown in new york that there may be a relatively small amount of cleanup? oh, the cleanup is just extensive. i mean you walk around and you got debris all over the place. most of it is branches that have been torn away, particularly from the older trees. you have a lot of garbage, you know they tried to get some
. superstorm sandy has pounded huge portions of the northeast and mid-atlantic at this hour, we know at least 16 people have died. more than 7 million people have been plunged into the dark and local officials have been stunned by the damage and devastation. good tuesday morning. i m chris jansing reporting live from new york and parts of new york city are underwater this morning. the images from lower manhattan shows cars half submerged. tunnels, subways and the financial district flooded. all of lower manhattan is in the dark. some of those outages caused by a con ed substation that exploded overnight. more than 1.5 million have lost power across new york city, long island and westchester. now we also want to show you these pictures from breezy point, queens, at least 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. further east at least seven homes on fire island have fallen into the ocean. atlantic city, new jersey, took the full force of sandy when it came ashore around 8:00 las