Bergen county, new jersey, after a levee break there. Right now an enormous fire is burning in the queens section of new york. 50 homes have destroyed. A transformer explosion to tell you about. Ripped through the night as people described a powerful explosion, very loud. Look at those pictures. Update you on what happened at that con ed plant. 260 patients including babies from the nicu evacuated from a Major Hospital in new york city. Historic recordbreaking flooding consuming manhattan and parts of the northeast, as well. Homes are under water and more than 6 Million People are in the dark this morning. Transportation is at a standstill. Could be days before things get back to normal. Cnn is covering the aftermath of the storm, and Superstorm Sandys next path, like no other network can. It is tuesday, october 30th, and special coverage begins right here on starting point. Lots to get to this morning. Lets start with breaking news. Rescue efforts are now under way in three new jersey
Find out the unusual reason why in just two minutes. Good morning. Welcome to early start for a monday morning. Yes. Hard to get up on a monday, isnt it . It sure is. Im alina cho. Im Zoraida Sambolin. Today is december 3rd. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. The rain keeps coming in Northern California. The third pacific storm unleashing floodwaters, knocking out power to thousands in san francisc francisco, sacramento and thousands of others. This thing just went up fast. Real fast. We had previously had it gotten up high, but it hasnt gotten this bad. You live right here in the park . Right there. Right there. Right there. I got my mom out. I took her down to a friends house down the street. You never know with water like this what it will do. People are evacuating out of the park. People are trying to totally get out. I had to park up the hill and walk down the side hill to get in here. Its really, really, its very bad in here. What a mess. Rob marciano has been tracking the storms that
Also pat houston, Whitney Houstons sisterinlaw and manager and jeopardy champion ken jennings written a new book. Its tuesday, december 4th, starting point begins right now. Welcome everybody, youre watching starting point. Were honored this morning to have the former british Prime Minister tony blair with us as our guest. Hes going to be weighing in as a number of topics. Were going to talk about the fiscal cliff, were going to talk about the global economy. Were going to talk about the civil war in syria. Well talk about the royal baby coming soon. First we want to get right to Zoraida Sambolin for an update on the days top stories. Soledad, the fiscal cliff debacle, with 28 days remaining before drastic tax hikes and spending cuts take effect, a republican spending plan has been rejected by the white house. Brianna keilar is live from washington. What now, brianna . Well, right now its about the pressure building and the clock kicking, zoraida. As House Republicans in the white hous
Protests against political moves by the president , Mohamed Morsi, have turned deadly. Tanks, armored personnel vehicles, all stationed outside the president ial analysis cairo. Not only are they guarding the palace, theyre also keeping apart supporters and opponents of morsi. Hundreds of his islamist supporters already taking to the streets in cairo this morning. Opponents are gathering not very far away. Last night the two sides clashed right outside the palace. The violence killed at least five people. Hundreds of other people were injured. Opponents are demanding that morsi dial back on those sweeping powers that he has granted himself. Cnns reza sayah is live for us in cairo this morning. Whats the latest . Reporter soledad, were getting the first signs that maybe, just maybe, cooler heads are prevailing and peace could be extraordinary in front of the president ial palace. Within the past 20 minutes, weve seen about a few thousand of president morsis supporters move away from the
The New York Post photographer who took the picture of the man in the subway tracks before he was hit sits down to tell his side of the story. Well hear from him this hour on cnn. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. And im Zoraida Sambolin. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking news massive earthquake in japan. It happened off the coast of japan, about 300 miles northeast of tokyo you can see on the tower cam that we are going to buildings swayed for several minutes there. Lets go to alex zolbert live in tokyo what can you tell us . This happened friday evening b an hour and a half ago. An unnerving scene. A 7. 3 magnitude earthquake. As we understand it, this came along the same fault line that triggered that massive tsunami in march of 2011. We have been watching all the local stations, trying to gather all the information we can. Heres what we know at this point in terms of a tsunami. We have seen several small waves come in, about four waves. The biggest one