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Could Take Weeks Before NYC Subway Service Up

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    Hurricane Sandy slammed the nation's largest mass transit system.

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The -- news -- recovery is the word of the day folks and shaky New Yorkers try to take back some sense of normalcy.

And it's coming back a little by little but boy look at what so many folks are facing.

Hundred a hundred homes in this beach front community.

Burned to the ground as the one most devastating size of all I am gonna talk more about this when we meet with someone who.

Who is from Mac community -- congressman.

And they were 22 deaths that were reported -- in the city alone.

Extensive damage where both Hudson and east rivers overflowed their banks and filled into the streets look at these pictures of the near city subway system.

In this is how we start on this crazy day is Halloween you've got six days till the election and look at this scene in New York City.

Good to have everybody with -- today I'm Martha -- And I'm Bill Hemmer good morning to you at home -- know when darkness arrived last evening half a -- at a Manhattan was in the dark.

You could divide the island and -- half -- across the river looking back on New York he would view a town that appears somewhat spooky.

Now that Halloween has arrived today but it could be weeks it could be even months before the subways reopen fully yet again.

The system -- with the worst disaster it is seen and -- hundred an eight year history.

Don't think it's any secret that -- -- sandy hit us very hard it was a storm of historic intensity.

But New Yorkers are resilient and we have seen an enormous outpouring of support from people eager to volunteer donate and help out.

We have a plan for recovery and a recovery is already beginning I'm happy to say it's the beginning of a process that we all know -- Take awhile but.

This is.

The year end of the downside and hopefully from -- is going.

Things going up the good news from -- Charlie Miller joins us live from.

One of those subway stations in lower Manhattan with recovery operations.

He says are underway what do you see -- David Lane.

I'm seeing up a lot of worried MTA workers take a look over my shoulder this is the south ferry subway station -- it is in the southernmost tip of Manhattan.

It is as you can clearly see boarded up you can see the caution tape you can see this sandbags what you can see right down that escalator I walked down there a few moments ago.

There is fifty feet 5050.

Feet of water.

In this subway station and newly renovated subway station and off in the distance -- even get a peek at it from here the Army Corps of Engineers is here.

Off in the distance you can see their emergency operation struck a special elite team has now arrived consisting of hydrologist as well as engineers.

They are going to assist the Army Corps of Engineers and others to try and restore the New York City Subway station.

But it's not going to be up and running anytime soon.

At least as far as most New Yorkers are concerned and very quickly I want to add -- very disturbing that happened a few moments ago.

A young -- showed up here with what appeared to be fake -- TA that's the people who run the subway credentials he tried to get into the subway system he was dot.

They don't know what he was planning to do.

He is now.

Under arrest.

-- -- As our -- we'll have -- I was on our -- A lot of strange things no doubt and -- aftermath of all of this but.

In -- see those trucks and you know that and every day we'll make a little bit of progress in kind getting things somewhere back towards normalcy.

What about the other parts of New York City David -- how how's it going there.

A lot needs to be accomplished them he's been around here this is the ferry station for the Staten Island -- this is where the boats depart from Manhattan.

I'm Staten Island we -- tell that the very stationed there is quote completely devastated.

And yesterday NYPD new York city police department.

Had to make out a number of rescues in Staten Island -- -- they used a helicopter to a -- six people off of rooftops.

They had to drop a basket five adults and one child.

During that emergency evacuation.

Staten Island overall still in very rough condition you said a moment ago Tony -- people have died in New York City seven of those deaths in Staten Island.

One of them and off duty new York city police officer who died in Staten Island.

He apparently was electrocuted.

And possibly the hardest hit location in the five -- of New York City breezy point queens.

We've heard about the 100 homes destroyed by fire.

Let's not forget the fact that -- more than 100 more have suffered their extensive flood damage people were told to evacuate from there.

But more than half of them simply refused to do so and lastly let me tell you about what's happening across the Hudson River from here in Hoboken.

The streets there are still covered with water mark -- many streets have barely pass the ball.

The if the officials there say 20000 people now want to be evacuated.

They need emergency supplies they need food they need generators they need -- they need they say.

A great deal of -- out and lastly now taking advantage of all this bad news.

Here in New York City that -- -- people taken into custody.

For looting.

-- Napa -- ends up being part of the story of 20000 people need to be evacuated still from Hoboken and that is.

An unbelievable story and fifty feet of water.

In that subway station behind you -- it I -- area.

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