Look. We are looking outside, we are happy today. It is looking great. I can tell you right now the construction all moving out of the way. We do have two minor accidents , wont slow you down too much, just know it is there. Adjusting her traffic organizer over there. Looks pretty good weather wise , too, we had some rain yesterday, granted scattered but still slowing folks down, thankfully today allinall looks pretty good. Clear sky out there. I dont want to rule out shower. It might fire up specially midday, in just couple of spots, but for the most part this forecast does look quiet today, and actually summer like, too, so, it looks good at the onset in short. Then when you walk out the door, i would say, you can get away without the umbrella for a change here today. Meanwhile temperature wise, off to very mild start. There is something about five am that this clipper just hates to work for me at 5 00 a. M. Come on, come on, any day now, my point, though, it is nice and mild outside
University hospital on the east side of the city when that facility lost power forcing the evacuation of hundreds of patients just as the storm was at its most severe. Rehema ellis is there covering it for the last several hours. Whats the latest . Reporter chris, i can tell you its an eerie scene where you go up to a hospital and theres just row after row of emergency vehicles of ambulances, theyre not there dropping patients off for care, but they have lined up to pick up patients. More than 215 patients and transport them, evacuate them from the hospital to another facility. Transporting them because as you say, they have lost power in this area. New york citys mayor Michael Bloomberg talked about there are massive Power Outages and flooding in the area. You can see the lights behind me but when my cameraman will pan up a little bit, take a look, you can see the traffic light but the power is out. Imagine what it will be like in the morning if we still do not have power and people d
Power fwrid is still destroyed. Cruise lines are a useful tool to deliver supplies. Royal krin caribbean delivered jen rarts and medical supplies yesterday. A lot of people on the island are running out of basic supplies including food. Cydney long met a worried family say iing their relatives only he a little bit of bread left. Shes joining us live from medford with more on what that family is doing here to try to help their relatives on the island. Reporter they put these plywood sign heres out by the road and these barrels for donations. But plain and simple they are cooking right inside their home and right here on their lunch truck. All of the money raised for these meals will be going to puerto rico. Now they will be able to help an entire town. For husband and wife. We raised 1600 in two hours. Its all about the food. They are like fried dough with cinnamon on them. In the shade of the medford. Its rough. We have a lot of food here. Its all for puerto rico. They are eating bread
W are you ever going to solve the problem if you dont look at all of the pieces . Tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. Youre welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. Sharp tongue, quick whit and above all, politically direct. You just think there is no low they wont go to. Oh, no. If al gores watching today. Announcer heard around the country and seen on current tv announcer this is the bill press show. Bill all right. 26 minutes after the hour. Talking about it many different ways here on the bill press show. Many ditch ways Hurricane Sandy has impacted this election both in terms of the physical impact and in terms of the message of the campaign. Peter, we were talking during the break early voting is another way. It shut down Campaign Events. The state of maryland and other states have shut down early voting. And also think about there are a lot of polling places that are are either going to be wiped out or not ready in some c
Downed power liens started this fire. The big problem for the firefighters, a lack of water appreciate your. 50 homes have burned to the ground. Two dozen more are in the process of burning. We are following the story for you as the day continues. Well have more information on that. More to tell you about, including floods and Power Outages. New york city brought to its knees in a large way. Superstorm sandy was an epic weather event, many people are calling it. Millions of lives have been disrupted now. A transformer explosion happened at a con ed plant about 15 blocks from where im standing right now. What that has done is put basically this neighborhood in Lower Manhattan completely in the dark. They were concerned about this transformer so theyve shut it off as well. That has plunged tens of thousands, people here but more than 600,000 people across new york and into Westchester County are without power today. Backup generator failed at nyu langone Medical Center, probably about 35