good idea. caller: i don t want to jeopardize my family. i will bring them with me i will drag them with me. this scared me this year. evelyn santiago, in wildwood, new jersey, best of luck to you and your family, thank you so much. good luck to you. i want to pause and take a quick check of the headlines for you. the energy department saying that this storm has left more than 3 1/2 million customers without power so far. but some put that number at closer to 5 million. we have heard 5.2. in virginia, arlington national cemetery has been closed to tourist, but the army continues to stand guard over the tomb of the unknown. broadway theaters will be closed on tuesday for the third day because of safety concerns, the broadway league hopes all will be back to normal by wednesday and the new york stock exchange also cloals closed tomorrow.
water marks and what has happened, and what is happening in manhattan. that will be pretty amazing for the history books. but there is a lot of damage of there is a lot to discover. we have a blizzard on the west side, breaking records out there. there are people there covering that. i think when we are done, this storm is going to produce more records, on all kinds of damage for tunnel surges, storm surge, wind gust, the size of the storm, as far as that, at then of the day, it will be the dollar damage. i think it will exceed $20 billion. thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us, you have been called america s bravest weatherman, perhaps tonight and today is the reason why. caller: thank you. the super storm making landfall, 5 1/2 hours ago, causing massive damage on the northeast, all night long. at least 13 people kale killed. the worst might be over. tracking sandy all night.
will have to take place. this debris along here, this is part of the sand dune. it really got pummeled by the storm. they will have to come in and replenish that. that s going to cost money for the people here in delaware. all along the area, beyond the beach front, there are some low levels. those low levels have experienced flooding. there will have to be plenty of work for that to be done. we are cut off, due to the fact that the chesapeake bay bridge is closed. the tidings bridge, which crosses the susquehanna is also closed. so there is damage all the way along the line. people are finding themselves in low-lying area, only toke to be backed up because they can t ged get across because of the floods. there is power on here in rehoboth. there are very few people here in rehoboth, except those of us
us, new jersey likely to emerge as one of the states hardest hit by this unprecedented system. take a look at the images from the jersey shore. that explains why, it has been pounded, absolutely pounded by sea surges, most of monday and is likely to continue suffering the force of sandy for several more hours, maybe throughout the entire day and into the next. and through all of that, new jersey s finallest are standing by to assist anyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the storm. joining us now is sergeant adam grossman with the new jersey state police in west trenton. talk to us about what your folks have been doing. good morning. at this point, we have been monitoring the storm. being in close communication with the county oem personnel. and we are really waiting for daybreak to. survey and assess
is going to go down as one of the big of the storms in the u.s. and northeast and probably one of the most damaging storms in the u.s. as far as dollar damage. probably except $20 billion, maybe $25 billionful it will go down, it will be very expensive. but it it is a very large storm and impacts millions of people. it s one of the largest storms i have ever seen and one of the meanest. this storm was brutal. i mean, i can tell you, people at sunup, people will be amazed, i went 18 from the coast to lakewood, all the way up to new brunswick, and there is stupid damage to tree, home, skyscrapers, well inland, very, very far inland, extensive damage. it will be basked in white and i think the power will be out for weeks, if not over a month in a very large area.