more than 75% of the long island power authority's customer base that has no electricity right now. we also have one fatality that's been blamed on sandy. a man in nast awe county in the community of rosalyn was killed when a tree fell on him earlier this evening. he's not been identified yet. with that tragedy we've also had countless stories of heroism and had 12 firefighters rescued from the second floor of a home that they got caught in, rising floodwaters caught them in there and some of their colleagues and first responders had to come in and get them out. also in the riverhead area, members of a hospital here traveled to the east to a hospital in greenport that was being surrounded by floodwaters, they got 12 patients out of the hospital and took them by ambulance back here to riverhead to a hospital that's being run by generators and those folks

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