superheroes and all that. you love it. i mean, i have got my wonder woman blanket. he keeps it very cold here. i do like it cold. i saw this. i thought, wow, the rock wins halloween, as, look, look, look, the hulk. he looks just like the hulk. he looks just like him. it s so good. it s so good. wow. so good. that s the rock, man, all green. impressive. like lou ferrigno. like normal dude didn t need the fake muscles. that is all him. it was right there. fantastic. you like that picture, huh? i see you got a little smile, uh-huh, all right. [ laughter ] who doesn t like the rock? of course, also, you ve heard a lot of talk about the jersey shore in light of sandy here, but it s also the name of the incredibly popular mtv show in its last season here. you hear so much, so many pictures from seaside heights, almost wiped off the map. there it is obviously on the show featured during much, much better days.
and again again, native new yorker. been to hoboken so many times. unfathomable. when i think about it and i look at those pictures. this type of thing doesn t happen in this part of the country. nobody has seen any like it before. well, the situation is just as dire along the jersey shore where sandy made landfall. several completely devastated beachside communities remain virtually cut off and that s not even the worst part. this is really scary. gas lines into those towns are the source of a major potentially explosive problem. abc s terry moran reports. reporter: fires rage in the town of mantoloking on the jersey shore, fueled by natural gas. fueled by natural gas. it is a harbinger of a worst case scenario, disaster after the disaster. you can smell gas. you can hear the gas. you can smell the gas. everywhere you go you hear shhh, just the gas, open gas lines going. just scared to death. [ hissing ] reporter: do you hear that?
that is the sound that everyone left in the towns is fearing the most now. it is a hissing gas main. you hear it on street after street. right up the shore. you can smell the gas in the air. and fire officials are concerned that these towns are basically ticking time bombs. everywhere we went, along the jersey shore [ hissing ] in town after town, the air was filled with his this hissing menace. [ hissing ] as the wind shifts it is going to get into the crawlspace. god forbid a spark. reporter: in the town of ortley beach frank is worried and getting angry. have you called the gas company about this? five times. reporter: what has the response been? we ll get there as soon as we can. reporter: a high-pressure gas main broke in the floodwaters right next to his home. you can actually see the gas pouring out. it ruptured monday night. i don t know why there s not more trucks here right now. i mean this is where we took the main shot.
who refused orders to evacuate ahead of sandy are stuck in shelters this morning. this center along the jersey shore wasn t originally supposed to provide shelter. but volunteers made a last minute decision. local restaurants are helping out donating food and cooks to provide three square meals a day. now everyone is just waiting for the all clear. our home was down on 12th street north. we heard that part of the island took a huge hit. we haven t been able to make it back there yet. so pretty much, we are just looking at complete loss. now there were some reassuring signs of normal life in the garden state. despite the governor s request to postpone halloween until monday the 5th. these little ones went trick or treating in the town of oradell. looking good. i like that. like that. kids have got to have a halloween. i like that too. well, work crews from all over the country are pouring into the areas hard hit by sandy.
with just five days to go until the big vote. here is abc s karen travers. reporter: in the final sprint to election day both candidates have been angling for any advantage. and in new jersey, president obama had the biggest one of all, the power of the presidency. off the campaign trail for a third straight day, president obama surveyed the damage along a nearly 60-mile stretch of the jersey shore with governor chris christie. we are here for you. and we will not forget, we will follow up to make sure that you get all of the help that you need, until you rebuild. reporter: obama and christie are a very unlikely paring with less than a week until election day. the blunt, brash, republican governor one of mitt romney s most staunch supporters. with his state facing historic devastation and massive rebuilding, christie welcomed the president s help. he has worked incredibly closely with me since before the storm hit.