they are stuck up in the tree right now. here comes the wind. the block is pitch black. imagine that, fighting fire in the midst of all that water. the fire is out. the homes destroyed. you power is out to more than 635,000 long island customers. for those 635,000 people, it is still a disaster. still a disaster as well for hundreds of thousands in new york s west chester county who might not see power for another nine days. in lower manhattan, they re at what could be billions of dollars in damage. andrew cuomo took me for a rare look at inside. when you saw the water coming out monday night, what went through your mind? it was one of the most frightening things. i mean, it was truly frightening, to say the least. all you hear is water in every direction and it really was in every direction. reporter: he was there monday night when the water was pouring in. what we saw down there is staggering today as you ll see in a moment. there is a lot of work ahead for a lo
the block is pitch black. imagine that, fighting fire in the midst of all that water. the fire is out. the homes destroyed. power is out to more than 635,000 long island customers. for those 635,000 people, it is still a disaster. still a disaster as well for hundreds of thousands in new york s west chester county who might not see power for another nine days. in lower manhattan, they re at what could be billions of dollars in damage. andrew cuomo took me for a rare look at inside. when you saw the water coming in monday night, what went through your mind? it was one of the most frightening things. i mean, it was truly frightening, to say the least. all you hear is water in every direction and it really was in every direction. reporter: he was there monday night when the water was pouring in. what we saw down there is staggering today as you ll see in a moment. there is a lot of work ahead for a lot of people. some progress to report as well. no doubt about that. th
down. all the people that would typically travel underground were trying to get to work aboveground. and boy, some places, there was chaos. i mean, people pushing and shoving, just to try to get on a bus. many buses that were traveling past 10th and 14th street weren t even stopping, because they were already full. so hopefully they get more buses up and rung today. cabs will have to double up. the tunnels into the city are still shut down, except for one. they ve got to pump the water out. subways north of 34th street will be up and running today. hopefully that will alleviate some of the problems. of course, the power downtown, where we are for the most part is still out. we re day three. coned says it will probably be day four before we start to get power up and running here, outside the cities, the outer boroughs, could be ten plus days. but in the inner city, when you re talking about people that live in mid- to high-rise buildings, in some cases are not healthy or are m
we begin with the latest on the aftermath of the superstorm hurricane ire hurricane sandy. most buses are up and running again and they are free of charge. but most of lower manhattan still has no power and temperatures are dipping into the 30s and 40s. and there are no heartbreaking picture as long the jersey shore barrier islands. houses picked up, some just buried in the sand and governor chris christie who toured the destruction with president obama said some parts of the shore may never look the same again. the death toll reached 124 people with 56 in the united states. at least 28 in new york. and close to 5 million customers are still waiting for the power to come back on. cnn has the entire disaster zone covered this morning. our correspondents spanned out across lower manhattan and all up and down the jersey shore. first, the economic capital of our country is slowly getting back to normal this morning even while facing extreme damage. power outages and peopl
while much of the country, even the presidential race is returning to normal today, we re hearing and seeing misery and growing desperation for millions of people in the northeastern united states. here is the big picture as it stands right now. hurricane sandy s blame for at least 88 deaths in the united states and two in canada raising the storm s overall death toll to 157. a little under 5 million power customers across the eastern united states awoke to no electricity again. that s down to the nearly 8 million when the storm hit on monday though. some 36,000 people now are signed up for government help from fema, the federal emergency management agency. the homeland security secretary, janet napolitano, who s in new york city, says that s only just the beginning. but many residents of staten island which was inundated by the storm s tidal surge, say they re getting virtually no help yet. and their desperation is now turning to anger. cnn s brian todd is on the island. he