Superstorm sandy has pounded huge portions of the northeast and midatlantic 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. Im 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 last night. People
At the ceremony today. We were told that the pilot ejected safely from the f16. He is okay. This is video from the graduation just before the jets went back to land. The thunderbirds perform on behalf of the u. S. Air force, much like the blue angels do for the navy. Michelle breaking from the campaign trail. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will vote for donald trump. This is the first public backing that ryan has given the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee. He writes that trump, would help us turn this agenda into laws to help improve peoples lives. Alison this afternoon we also have new information about the death of pop icon prince. The Associated Press is now reporting it was an opioid overdose. Jonathan remember, prince was found dead at his paisley park compound ady before he a day before he was supposed to meet with a doctor specializing the painkiller addiction. Michelle he had seen a doctor in minnesota the day bere results of the autopsy. Alison updating yesterdays
Happened. Reporter one of the counsellors came to coles aid. He collapsed in her arms. She has been given some time off. The lady actually came to his rescue. I thought she was somebody crossing by. I didnt even know she knew the boy. Reporter i visited coles family today. They were not up to talking on co camera, but one Family Member told me they know he is peacefully at rest. We have been telling you for sometime now to get ready for some big delays in your commute. Starting next week as metro begins a years worth of major track repairs. Mark segraves joins us live. Reporter you dont have to ride metro for the metro track work to impact you. It is going to who tries to commute in our region for the next year. Mayor bowser rolled out an implementation of changes. We are preparing to have more cars on already congested roads. Reporter metros safetrack plan will mean single tracking and some closures for the next year beginning next week with the orange and silver lines. Metro will als
Yeah, were fine. Were fine. Got on the boat never said a word. I dont know if they were in shock. But when we were sailing home. They were siting there, like they were enjoying the breeze on the boat. Like they were enjoying the boat ride. He got this picture of the rescuers at wingate maryland. About 25 miles south of cambridge. And today, some of the teachers and chaperones who did not want to speak to reporters, came to speak to them. Seen in a School Instagram post before their threeday environmental adventure on the bay. Posted by the Noonan Center in dorchester county. Im just glad everybody made it safe. It wasntad bad wasnt as bad as it could have been. Shockley was there. He said its clear to him that this education boat had struck an Old Army Tank that sits on the bottom out at this ar its an area that used to be on land. Bloodsworth island used to be a navy target practice range. And theres all kinds of debris out there. Boat suggest allowed. But it is in a restricted zone t