big damage from hurricane sandy. and what miami marrow hilario. what can you tell us about the power outages in rhode island? we have right now reporting more than 1100,000 customers an households out wower. that s in terms of people that several hundred thousand people in rhode island without power right now. national grid are the power utility here. they have crews staged and ready to go, several hundred cruise on the ground. the trucks are on standby in several locations just waiting for the wins to die down so it s safe enough tore the crews to get up in the bucket trucks and start clearing out the debris, the trees and fixing the power lines so right now, several, several hundred thousand people in the dark. all right, mario hilario on the coast of rhode island. thank you very much. we want to go to the scene of that fire that we ve been showing you in old saybrook, connecticut.
. 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