like a land mass. it looks like a lake or a pond. as we fly around the lower tip of manhattan. even new york s waterways are scarred. a lot of oil or something right down there. by pier 17. reporter: every one of the skyscrapers are without power. they re just dark. there is no street lights. there is no stop lights. in fact, the only lights are the headlights of the comed trucks frantically trying to restore power. as they work through the night, which may be fitting for a city that never sleeps. i m juju chang in manhattan. what a view on the destruction. oh, amazing piece. president obama visits new jersey later today to see the damage firsthand. the state s famed jersey shore took a direct hit as sandy roared ashore. powerful winds and ocean surge knocked houses off their foundations, demolished boardwalks, and wrecked amusement rides. viewing the damage was obviously an emotional moment for the state s usually brash governor. as a kid who was born and raised in this
wall of water. you could see the damage everywhere. the city s vital infrastructure, its underground subways crippled. the system that carries 5 million riders every day, still a deluge tunnel of darkness. authorities say it will take days to pump the water out of 46 miles of flooded track. largely because of that, the city is paralyzed for now. schools, restaurants, and many businesses remain closed. with subways shut down, the only way on and off this island are its bridges and tunnels, which are slowly beginning to reopen. open for business. oh, my goodness. that is amazing. reporter: but flying out of this city is easier said than done. looks like la guardia is sinking into the ocean. reporter: that s laguardia down there. it normally handles a thousand flights a day. now a modern-day atlantis. it looks like a river. it does. i couldn t see it at first. reporter: it doesn t look
it s devastated. the building is gone entirely. reporter: their mission, to get a more accurate picture of sandy s impact. just more flooding down here on the left side. reporter: new york s rivers surged above the banks of lower manhattan with a record 13-foot wall of water. you could see the damage everywhere. the city s vital infrastructure, its underground subways crippled. the system that carries 5 million riders every day, still a deluge tunnel of darkness. authorities say it will take days to pump the water out of 46 miles of flooded track. largely because of that, the city is paralyzed for now. schools, restaurants, and many businesses remain closed. with subways shut down, the only way on and off this island are its bridges and tunnels, which are slowly beginning to reopen. open for business. oh, my goodness. that is amazing. reporter: but flying out of this city is easier said than done. looks like la guardia is sinking into the ocean. reporter: that s lag
here. not from the hurricane. reporter: it is not over yet. blizzard warnings remain. lisa stark, abc new, grandville, maryland. the storm was amazing. you think about it. hurricane wrapped in a nor easter wrapped in a blizzard. it was everything. the most all-encompassing system. most have ever witnessed. beyond the flooding and rain here. you had feet of snow. incredible. some places up to 26 inches of snow. my family back in michigan. columbus, ohio, got drilled with snow as well. lake michigan expecting the highest waves on record. around 22 feet high. that was the thing about the storm, the sheer size of it. 1,000 miles from cloud to cloud. in addition to being, at the center, category 3. don t let category 1 fool you. center terms of pressure. cat 3. same size as katrina. size of it cloud to cloud, hard to escape its grip for most of the country. just an amazing system. ñsñs
sign up at rid-x.com. and, finally, what turned hurricane sandy into a hybrid monster was that arctic front that it collided with when it arrived on land. and that triggered a blizzard on the edges of the storm, and abc s lisa stark put on her snow boots to find out how people are coping with their early blast of winter. reporter: western maryland remains buried in snow. up to 2 feet in some areas. one of eight states walloped with blizzard conditions when sandy roared through. in west virginia even those sent out to rescue others had to be rescued. and at the snowshoe mountain resort, snow drifted into piles