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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 record-breaking 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 sandy s 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. let s start with breaking news. rescue efforts are now under wa ....
and 15,000 flights across the country have been canceled. ines ferre has the latest in new york city. reporter: thousands of new yorkers today are without power and the southern part of manhattan is virtually shut down. reporter: a storm surge nearly 14 feet high pushed ashore flooding hundreds of miles of coastline from virginia to massachusetts. it s the most flooding i have seen in all the years i have lived here. reporter: floodwater and high winds have knocked out power to millions of people. we are seeing a large number of fires caused by downed wires and electrical problems relating to outages. reporter: more than 200 firefighters are still battling a blaze in an evacuation in queens. more than 50 homes have already been destroyed. the cause of the fire is still being investigated. and power outages prompted a mass evacuation from nyu hospital when a backup generator failed. dozens of ambulances lined up to evacuate more than 200 patients throughout t ....
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art. that is how my brain works. that is not funny. three, two. diana, it looks like art behind you. i hear fin new york, where take a look that. a 300-year-old mansion here on blight street has undergone. you are stapping in or reasonable nal room from 1810. of course. the project is a brainchild of over 100 artists and broug from the streets to the traditional long island city. i think the first in the house. it got out of control. the home stood abandoned million the owner bought the play is in 2016 with time to open a restaurant. before he did that, he did this. have the artists come in and the house with graffiti and topography. the walls inside are covered in rainbow graffiti with the walls spray painted with everything from zombies to robots then this. oh, it is so hot. but outside, that is the real controversy. negativity actually freed a lot of curiosity. a the house is a landmark if you want to put anything on the outside of this house, ....
yeah, like, not to speak. everyone was just, like, surprised. at first we thought it was just, like, practice. but it wasn t. and then she locked us in and we were just there waiting for announcements. reporter: now, the injured students are recovering at san francisco general hospital this morning. one of the students, a girl, was in life-threatening condition at last check. there was also one boy who went to the bayview police station 2.5 miles away from the school. police are saying this was a targeted shooting and they are saying they know who the target was. but they have no suspect description to give us at this time. all know is that there were four men wearing hoodies, a vague description. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. all right. let s check in with roqui now for a look at our morning commute. first the altamont pass leading into the traffic alert area. very slow conditions coming out of tracy at just 18 miles per hour. north tracy bouleva ....