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.