challenges are a good thing. make a choice for yourself. make a choice and commit yourself to saying i m going to try to believe. i m not going to quit and try to be as positive as i can can be and if you implement those things into your life you can do the two things i learned how to do adapt and overcome. all right. craig, j.r. was inspiring. also disappointed. you ve been here, though, enough about the marathon. everybody agrees i was tremendously relieved. i was very angry when it was scheduled. i was tremendously relieved as . what of all the vignette you have seen, what touched you the most? the area in tottenville, one family was completely wiped out. they decided to ride out the storm because during hurricane irene they left their home and their home was looted when they came back. so decided to ride it out. a 13-year-old girl was washed away with her dad and her mom,
explain what happened between early friday when the marathon was on and later friday when it was cancelled. what simply happened was that it became a source of dissense and we don t need that right now. and hopefully next year we ll have a great event where people can come to the city and enjoy what the city has to offer and compete and participate, and the spirit of the race is to bring people together. when it became a divisive issue, i just made the decision that it should not go on. thank god he cancelled the marathon. you know why? it s not fair. you have people in staten island whose homes are flooded out. if the bridge is cleared and the streets are clear, i don t
and we have to continue to remind people that this is one of the greatest cities on the earth. but having gone through hell and high water, residents near staten island are thinking survival rather than triumph of spirit. i know there s a lot of plans and a lot of things involved, but there s people here that lost their lives. we are in desperate need. these are people s lives. everything we re picking up here, it s not debris. it s remnants of people s lives. you think those 47,000 people who came for the marathon can turn it around or come here to help you? that would be the ideal. not only me but so many people in need. while some runners pledged to help. j.r. martinez feels new yorkers will also come out stronger as they overcome yet another difficult challenge. is there a parallel between you have your obvious scars, your personality shines through. you re an incredible person and an inspiration. how does that transfer into this situation?
we have to not only get people in their homes we got to get power on. still areas don t have power and he definitely, definitely, definitely, have to remember we did lose lives here. we have to keep the families that are grieving in our prayers because we lost 22 and probably more, and they re going through hell. they really are. 22 just on staten island. just on staten island. 42 citywide, well over 100 nationwide, coming up, j.r. martinez, you remember him from dancing with the stars. he was going to run in the marathon. after this.
electricity will have paper ballots available. and a quick reminder to set your clocks back one hour tonight. standard time kicks in at 2:00 a.m. now, back to geraldo. explain what happened between early friday when the marathon was on and later friday when it was cancelled. what simply happened was that it became a source of dissense and we don t need that right now. and hopefully next year we ll have a great event where people can come to the city and enjoy what the city has to offer and compete and participate, and the spirit of the race is to bring people together. when it became a divisive issue, i just made the decision that it should not go on. thank god he cancelled the marathon. you know why? it s not fair. you have people in staten island whose homes are flooded out. if the bridge is cleared and the streets are clear, i don t