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The storm coming somewhere in the next hour, hour and a half. we re concerned about coastal flooding from the delaware river with heights of ten feet or so. the record for the delaware is 10 1/2 feet. we re particularly concerned about that as well as surges in rivers and streams. and tributaries all across the city of philadelphia. we have a number of people 350 plus people who are in shelters in three locations around the city of philadelphia. 90 to 100 trees down. 40 some thousand folks without power. we are working with the utility company to get power on as quick as possible. we have a quick plan and great people and citizens who are paying attention and focused. ....
Levels there. but also on the lower shore of maryland as well as southern maryland. you know, tremendous amount of precipitation and winds and then, as you mentioned, the root system of trees tend toway, and expecting to see a lot of downed trees, downed wires, and power outages that will probably last days, if not, you know, into, you know, early next week. and certainly don t want to be in the business of forecasting when we ll restore power, but just sufficient e it to say it going to be a long time before we get all homes and businesses restored power. you think it could be until next week, some people will continue to not have electricity? yeah, it will be quite some time. we, you know, our utilities have requested mutual assistance from other states. i know we ll be competing with surrounding states for that same assistance. but i think it s going to be ....
But now that there s such massive flooding, getting that system up and running again is going to be extremely difficult. the other issue downtown tonight is the power. the power is out where we are and we re told that anyone south of 39th street, for those familiar with manhattan, have lost power as well. the traffic lights are out. the apartment buildings are out, the industrial buildings are out. no one has a backup generator going. even though the floodwaters are receding, which, of course, is great news, it s still a dangerous and precarious situation out here. a ghost town in lower manhattan, if you ve ever seen one because, quite frankly, even though the storm look like the worst of it is on its way out, we re still dealing with the after effects which is the power and the flooding. ida siegal in lower manhattan. officials said from the mta it would take anywhere from 14 ....
Good morning. good evening. thank you. give us the latest, first of all, on the situation with power. everybody about beneath 39th street has no electricity? correct. everyone in manhattan just about south of let s say 40th street, give or take, has no power. part of that is subsystems down, flooding, we have a system so that you don t lose power, you lose the machinery and the flooding has caused a fire at one of our coned stations on 14th street that created more of an outage beyond the pre-emptive outage. we also have widespread outages in the boroughs outside of manhattan who have overhead wires that provide their electric electricity. ....
Power company about how long those people may be without juice? well, the initial concern had been that the high winds would persist over a long period of time and that that would interfere with the ability to get repairs done. so far we ve been able to get power back done. not for everyone, obviously, but for more people than we had initially anticipated. we want to get everybody s power back on but that process, although it s obviously not where we would want it to be, it s going much better than we had expected and that s in large part due to the fact that the power company saw this coming and brought additional resources into the state in advance. thank you very much, lieutenant governor, and good luck to you. i know you will have cleanup to do tomorrow. that s matthew denn. and to the point of power and 3.6 million people without power, we talked about those pictures and we ve literally seen caravans of power workers ....