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Staten Island residents plead for help 3 days after storm

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    Anna Kooiman reports from New York

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Fox News alert now because the frustration is mounting throughout New York City and its surrounding towns.

The scene of some of the most heartbreaking devastation and a half the storm related deaths.

In New York that is video from Staten Island only moments ago people -- there begging for food and water and clothing.

And begging for information and a -- is live in Staten Island today what are you hearing from folks there.

Will they are desperate Delaware -- an an area that looks like a war zone -- about a hundred feet from the water here.

And you see trash piling up EC mud -- mattresses you see bulbs that clearly got caught up in hurricane sandy storm surge they've popped up on top of cars they've toppled street lights.

They have that slammed into the sides of homes and their even blocking the streets.

Over this way in -- town leaders and residents.

They say eight has been super slow to -- to sat silent.

I don't have any big.

-- we have to go out of them -- closed.

All the clothes I have they let big eight -- -- -- -- -- so now I went to a shelter Monday night after the stop.

People come and and -- no -- -- have no shoes that would that would desperate -- -- houses were destroyed those pride won't debate clause.

Well we do have your information the red cries.

Is in town they've got ten trucks here on Staten Island they say they tried to make it into town yesterday but were caught up and all that traffic the -- -- You know and a Staten Island has lost a lot of lives after hurricane sandy and why you think about parts that I that I mean -- it's elevator a little bit it's it's higher than areas around it.

But not for the images -- you know lower around the -- -- -- David wiped out.

Yeah absolutely I mean if there's shells of -- you can hardly even.

Recognize that there are crews from other states that are coming in to help New York City firefighters they've been doing.

Water rescues and they're hoping to find survivors and not victims -- a very tragic story that is.

Really -- heavy hearts across America 39 year old mother Glenda more -- her two children.

A two year old and a four year old Brandon and Connor they were ripped from her arms -- car -- out during the height of the storm she is trying to evacuate to Brooklyn.

And they got caught in the storm surge literally ripped out of -- arms they were just found yesterday a hundred feet apart from one another.

In a march and there were some -- teen lives lost -- on Staten Island and forty in all of New York City.

The homeland secretary.

-- security secretary Janet Napolitano does plan on -- this area later today bill.

Let's look at this -- -- -- on Friday.

After that storm came on Monday night and I thank you don't go far for back.

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