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This is that crane falling today. yeah, it has toppled cranes on skyscrapers, it has flooded the eastern sea board. it has messed up the presidential election. but this giant storm called sandy is not over yet. the storm making landfall just outside atlantic city, new jersey, at 8:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. forecasters calling sandy a post pos post-tropical cyclone which might sound better, but it isn t better. all it means is the storm has lost the characteristics of a tropical cyclone but still has hurricane-force winds. we want to go near where sandy made landfall. thank you for joining us. what can you tell us about the scene at the site of the landfall? reporter: things are a little calmer now than a couple hours ....
Flames. we ll keep you updated throughout the morning on that developing scene. but imagine that. 50 homes. wow! it s all going to be about the aftermath this morning. ocean city, maryland, also took a major hit in the storm. tahman bradley is there this morning watching things up and down the coast for us at this hour. good morning, tahman. reporter: well, good morning to you, paula. things have actually let up a bit here in ocean city, but it s still very cold. sandy is the monster that we all feared. it s going to take days to determine the devastation. but we know that millions of americans wake up this morning impacted. along the east coast this morning, signs of sandy s fury. lady liberty s torch is out as power outages spread. nearly 5 million people this morning are in the door. more than 1.5 million were forced to evacuate. sandy made landfall along the new jersey coast, bringing 80-mile-per-hour winds and flooding. high tides and rough surf battered the coastline. oh, ....
scott goldberg here on a wet and storm-weary new york. thanks a lot. parts of new jersey remains under water after that monstrous storm surge along the coast. sandy made landfall, powerful surf crashed into atlantic city s famous boardwalk, washing away a 300-yard section of it. floodwaters also filled up along towns, along the popular jersey shores. they plunged into darkness. abc s steve is in the thick of things. reporter: the water started to overtake the dunes. at that point we felt we had to move our trucks because the water was coming in onto the streets, not just in the areas right by the beach, but actually flooding some of the city s streets. so we decided to move a half mile away and rebase. we were broadcasting and all of a sudden the water crept up behind us there. now, the national guard and other firefighters spent much of the night rescuing people who refused to obey evacuation orders. ....