With inevitable Power Outages that could last for days, if not more than a week. Thats why hundreds of thousands of people who live, work or play near the water, including the spot youre looking at right now, atlantic city, theyre all under a mandatory Evacuation Order. Its why classes are canceled for more than 2 million schoolchildren. Its why more than 10 million commuters in new york, philadelphia and washington have no bus service, have no Subway Service today. And thousands of airline flights, almost 10,000, in fact, into and out of the northeast corridor are canceled. If you need to drive anywhere in connecticut today, you better hurry up because the governor of connecticut has Just Announced hes shutting down the highways at 1 00 eastern. And that is just two hours from now. Here where i am in new york and where we begin our mega coverage, my colleague, john berman is down in battery park city, which pretty well can be expected to get battered as the namesake is. Sandy is turni
Right now we know of at least 116,000 homes without power. Those numbers will obviously change. But i just want to hit home this point, that everything about sandy is huge. You see the system. This is on your screen here. The wind field, this is something well talk to chad about, the wind field roughly 900 miles wide, 60 Million People all the way from North Carolina to maine could be affected by this hurricane. About 61,000 National Guard troops have been deployed. The president making the point that a lot of the resources, as best as they can, have been prepositioned in anticipation of this storm. 87 billion worth of homes reportedly at risk. And in manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange closed today and we know it will be closed tomorrow. Also shut down, amtrak, subways in new york, washington, d. C. , philadelphia, and in boston. And at the top of the hour here we can tell you now that new yorks holland tunnel and the brooklyn battery bridge are shutting down, closing. No traffic t
a new timeline of the events in libya. what it says about the administration s response. let s go outfront. good evening. tonight, the wreckage. millions growing more desperate as they struggle to cope with the loss of homes, power and family in the wake of hurricane sandy. the u.s. death toll has risen to 88. 44 in new york state alone and the number continues to grow as many people are still missing. i spent the day on staten island where more have died in new york than anywhere else. some of the worst devastation is here and people told us they re not getting enough help as we visited some of the hardest hit areas with congressman michael brim, searchers discovered the body of two young boys. ageing 2 and 4, in the march. they were swept from their mother s arms. some were hoping for a miracle. there was no one today. we ve confirmed four bodies. the two children they were looking for, they found the bodies. also in a different location, found an elderly couple. at l
around like toys. i ll talk to some of them in just a moment. and another huge storm could hit next week. i ll talk to chad myers about that. in the wake of a superstorm, climate change. and five days until election day. listen to what mitt romney said in virginia beach earlier. would you want four more years where i think it will be helpful to have a president who actually understands job creation. our cnn orc pochlt shows obama at 50 and romney at 48. we begin with one of the hardest hit areas from hurricane sandy, staten island where the death toll continues to rise. with me now is the assembly woman and another resident of staten island, anthony, who rescued his brother from the storm. welcome to you both. thank you very much. let me start with you, if i may, assembly woman. this is what the staten island president james molinaro said about the red cross response. he said it s an absolute disgrace. he said he was so infuriated and outraged by the lack of help th
calls quit working, the political campaigns show up on doorsteps in ohio. what s it like to be a door-to-door campaign volunteer? newsroom starts now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. new death toll and deepening concern from hurricane sandy three days after the storm washed ashore. here is a time lapsed video. that s what you re look iing at right now. watch the right side of your screen as the new york city skyline is plunged into darkness. there it goes. today, nearly 5 million homes and businesses are still without power. the death toll is inching up again. superstorm blamed for 56 deaths in the united states. half the victims just in new york city. the mayor says he expects that number to rise. officials say it is a miracle no one died in the firestorm that burned 111 homes to the ground in queens. likely cause? broken lines of natural gas. dozens of those fires still burn in several states. we ll have more on that in a minute. last