. superstorm sandy has pounded huge portions of the northeast and mid-atlantic at this hour, we know at least 16 people have died. more than 7 million people have been plunged into the dark and local officials have been stunned by the damage and devastation. good tuesday morning. i m chris jansing reporting live from new york and parts of new york city are underwater this morning. the images from lower manhattan shows cars half submerged. tunnels, subways and the financial district flooded. all of lower manhattan is in the dark. some of those outages caused by a con ed substation that exploded overnight. more than 1.5 million have lost power across new york city, long island and westchester. now we also want to show you these pictures from breezy point, queens, at least 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. further east at least seven homes on fire island have fallen into the ocean. atlantic city, new jersey, took the full force of sandy when it came ashore around 8:00 la
i want to call them the men in black, but i think you are wearing a navy blue suit. you look great. mike wood. back for this hour. [talking over each other] i got a little bit of sleep. three hours of sleep. the thing is that mike went to the gym for half of that. [laughter] absolutely. i did some push-ups. that s good enough. [laughter] did an amazing job this storm, helping us out and helping us track its. hopefully we will be in better shape soon. obviously, the danger has not passed, we have seen the worst. continuing to go at us, we are past the storm, losing some of the power. i have to tell you. it is still going. i actually outlasted the energizer battery. [laughter] nice job, my friend. all around, we are all in this together. it is a team effort. it is midnight, so i will see later this morning. we have to ask you, it is going to be going outside, where the street like other? i stayed at the hotel in midtown. the wall waldorf. it is actua
right now on fox 5 news at dari: a bitter cold with ice and rain it has been a dangerous right night on the road. getting easier. slippery. we. we are in for stormy tuesday as well. this is an amazing temperature turnaround. nick: now into the mid-thirties and a lot of the areas temperatures will be in the mid to upper 50s. crazy transition. we have had snow earlier and now freezing rain. it s a problem with parts of the lower hudson valley nursing parts of lower hudson valley. that is still going to be an issue going through the next few let s see if i can get this to work. were were talking about the area of freezing rain where there is freezing snow. as you look at fox 5 you ll see it is all advancing eastward. as you head further south there are pockets of freezing rain all the way back to washington d.c. for a while tonight and it will be mild air as we move in tomorrow. it s freezing in the city get belmar, 45 degrees. forty-three in islip, only 20 and say six.
taylor swift was the big winner at the 2016 grammy awards she took home second best album honor. bruno mars won best record. great music there last night. oz always at the grammies. a lot of people talking about her had new hairdo with the bangs. and missing half her dress. ment big cutout there. good morning everybody i m kerry drew in for juliet this morning. i m ben past halfway in february. 16th we like that and feels like april a little bit. absolutely spring is around the corner. got a taste of it. a little meat on those bones. in the clear and wasn t this the time that we had that bet. february 17th, i think actually. i think we re done. that s it. the road. looking interesting. couple of them we we have to wait with and seep. lepts get through this one right here. we have win the weather advisory posted up to the north. that s up for a little while longer but winter precip is about gone and ice on the roadways out there. and then we have a coast the floo
oh yeah gets too warm. oh my god. wait. you are not santa. you look like a famous baseball player. former nlb baseball player lenny may have fallen from grace but he landed the north pole. i took this bad santa two gentlemen s club in midtown lack manhattan where he was surrounded by naughty and nice elves. dijkstra has lived a long way from his glory days playing for the mets and the phillies. in fact he suited up to be santa after being released from jail. i asked him if he was on santa s naughty or nice list. definitely nice. i help my kids become better father. before dijkstra was put behind bars yet a legendary career in baseball and his wealth was estimated to be about $68 million. he then started a financial advice magazine. so it s christmastime. i had to ask him what should i buy? we all know the famous jetty bot. is he charging for arbigrast? how is he making money? he was there to have fun with the elves. i did ask him though i said is this what is ne