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Free gas on its way to New York
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Anna Kooiman reports from New York
- Duration 2:25
- Date Nov 4, 2012
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In new York -- New Jersey lines for gas are absolutely insane the crisis.
Is crippling many stations have run out of fuel and those that do have gas many of those.
Don't have the power in order to pump it during the height of the storm the pipelines and refineries shut down so production.
Is -- now in New Jersey governor Chris Christie has imposed an odd even system and -- here.
License plate ends and an odd number you can get gas on an odd day that ends in an even number you get gas.
On an even day we've reported tempers flaring at the -- even.
Fights breaking out -- folks trying to cut in line -- hearing me or cut the governor Andrew Cuomo has put together five emergency mobile fueling stations.
This is one of -- -- come out here and get ten gallons of gas for free.
But if you see behind me.
It's miles and miles it doesn't matter if here you're walking what they can't or if you've got your -- we even ran into one guy.
Who's having to push his car he's been in line for four hours.
So let's go and I -- at a gas already.
Yeah I've been here since supported attend this morning they said that the truck was going to be one I decided to -- on line.
I don't know what time is it now exactly tell you but I didn't have a sense.
This is the light at the end of the tunnel the oasis in the -- -- -- and Staten Island it's not armory where a hundred national Guardsmen are filling -- joined now by.
The man charged captain Ryan avid -- and doing well thank you -- and how how.
How does everybody behaving because this line he stays two and a half miles long they they're -- civil today actually we're quite happy to help everybody out.
Ten gallons -- gas is not just her -- people's vehicles this of course is very their generators to keep them warm temperatures are dropped.
Thank yeah.
People are coming and we Jerry cans gas cans and I think they can seem to bring in that they can hold -- and -- -- -- those away that don't have the correct containers for the fuel but they are using it for their generators and hopefully demands have generators they have.
Should run them at least a night of ninety.
And how long do you plan on being here -- Currently our tests come down for a period of anywhere between seven and ten days.
The current force that we have here from Syracuse -- We're looking to be here until the jobs anonymously -- that or else somebody else comes to relieve us and we'll thanks so much and and you really are helping these people awesome actually tip -- -- CEO Kevin -- again her.