You saw them about every ten minutes, some of them were white, some of them were green, some of them were red and then youd see entire towns along the river in new jersey go black. Much more on sandy much right now on morning joe. I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election. Im worried about the impact on families and im worried about the impact on our First Responders. Im worried about the impact on our economy and on transportation. You know, the election will take care of itself next week. Right now, our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives, that our search and rescue teams are going to be in place, that people are going to get the food, the water, the shelter they need in case of emergency and that we respond as quickly as possible to get the economy back on track. Good morning, its tuesday, october 30th. Welcome to morning joe. With us onset, we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and senior political analyst Mark Haleprin. Well begin,
Downed power liens started this fire. The big problem for the firefighters, a lack of water appreciate your. 50 homes have burned to the ground. Two dozen more are in the process of burning. We are following the story for you as the day continues. Well have more information on that. More to tell you about, including floods and Power Outages. New york city brought to its knees in a large way. Superstorm sandy was an epic weather event, many people are calling it. Millions of lives have been disrupted now. A transformer explosion happened at a con ed plant about 15 blocks from where im standing right now. What that has done is put basically this neighborhood in Lower Manhattan completely in the dark. They were concerned about this transformer so theyve shut it off as well. That has plunged tens of thousands, people here but more than 600,000 people across new york and into Westchester County are without power today. Backup generator failed at nyu langone Medical Center, probably about 35
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
Away. I was just updated from police in the last few seconds. She was sexually assaulted, but they tell me she was not raped. Differentiating the difference between those two terms there. Investigators also tell me they are still searching for one missing ear bud, a head phone and one missing shoe they have not been able to find yet. Her funeral and wake have been scheduled. The wake is tomorrow afternoon and evening. Her funeral mass will be here in howard beach on saturday at 12 00 noon. Ida siegal, news 4 new york. Such a disturbing story. Thank you very much. Also at 4 00, another disturbing story out of new jersey, someone boobytrapping a hiking trail in a park in wayne. Screws and nails sticking out of the dirt this happening at High Mountain park. Reporter High Mountain park preserve is a huge property that spans 1,200 acres in three different towns. The university of union paterson. Police were telling us earlier today and describing them to us. Lets show you the rest of the pi
And then heavily traveled areas that will cause some delays. Like i said, the accident 90 over west 100 17th is, gone but still some slowdown starting to break up it was solid at one point near columbia, but no more. This is over by west 44th a couple of vehicles off to the right hand side 90 eastbound approaching the inner belt with flashing lights off to the inside side a do we normally have at this time. For 80 over by granger also does not break up until Warrensville Center road heading towards u i to 71. Water main break on the west side in bay village o lanes closed and both directions. They are detouring you throughan with a residential area. So please, no more than 25. Back to you. And what the city this is supposed to revamp the procedures the Cleveland Police department calls for her with Excessive Force increasing the that may look great on paper does not necessarily workout on the streets. The can send consent to create Monitoring Teams will release their new plan over the