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two deaths reported, both of them from falling trees. one, a man just 39 years old. he was in the car pulling out of the driveway with his wife and two children when the tree came down killing him. they were not injured. and also an 84-year-old man was struck and killed while he was also moving his car. out on long island, new york wnbc s greg sergel is checking out the scene in river head and just filed this report. reporter: here in river head, we just got hit with a down pour of rain, a reminder that sandy is not completely out of the picture yet. but for the most part, the worst of the storm seems over. nassau police have now identified the rosalynn minuan was killed yesterday, 84-year-old safar shafanori went outside to move his car when struck and killed by a tree limb. another man was killed by a falling tree limb, john miller was preparing to leave his home with his wife and two young daughters when the tree hit him.
congressman tim pitch open. good morni tim bishop. good morning. what can you tell us? well, it s very devastating. and, you know, it s 5:00 in the morning am i m not sure how much current information i have. but as of last night, there was significant coastal flooding and coastal erosion. there was significant flooding in port jefferson and downtown riverhead was particularly badly hit. greenport was underwater. the area of the north shore was particularly hard hit. so we have some very serious flooding problems. and as of about 8:00 last night, 600,000 home on long island were out of power. hundreds of trees down. power lines down. you know, utility poles down. this has been a huge, huge storm. i won t say catastrophic results
neither his wife nor his daughters were injured in the horrible incident. contrasting those two tragedies, a number of triumphs yesterday, acts of heroism and bravery by first responders and others. one of those taking place right here in river head. ambulances from the medical center here in river head traveled east to greenport at the height of the storm to rescue 12 patients from the eastern long island hospital as floodwaters were beginning to surround the hospital. the patients were brought here to riverhead. they re all doing well at a hospital being powered by generators. decisions were made around 12:00 noon with the approaching water and the rising tides for the sake of the safety of patients. we work collectively with the management team and ambulance crews. and we began moving 13 patients to this hospital around 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon.
reporter: so was eastern long island hospital in greenport the floodwaters war proeching there. they had to get the patients out and you came in and got them out? that s right. they re right on the water. and water was coming over the bulkhead. that was the right decision to make. reporter: we re in riverhead. back to you. thank you for that update. for the latest on sandy, we go to bill karins who has been tracking this all night. bill, i think what struck both of us and again we re going see a lot more when the sun come up, but so many of these local leaders and officials who we ve been talking to through the night say it actually was worse than expected. so often they say the media overhypes these kinds of storms. but this has been absolutely devastating. yeah. it s not often that [ no audio ] bill? can you check your mike? i m not sure your microphone is
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