Hurricane Sandy - CBS Evening News - 2012-10-30

Name: Hurricane Sandy - CBS Evening News - 2012-10-30
Uploaded: 2023-08-20
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[0:00] tonight the East Coast struggles to

[0:03] recover from Hurricane Sandy

[0:05] up and down the coast homes have been

[0:08] destroyed by Wind by Water by fire

[0:12] we're just shocked and shocked that it's

[0:15] happened to us millions are without

[0:17] power

[0:18] roadways and tunnels are flooded it is

[0:21] beyond anything I thought I'd ever see

[0:24] dozens of people have died the damage is

[0:28] in the tens of billions of dollars the

[0:31] cleanup and Recovery could take months

[0:33] on day one we'll have extensive coverage

[0:36] from our entire CBS News team

[0:43] this is the CBS Evening News with Scott

[0:46] Pelley reporting tonight from lower

[0:49] Manhattan

[0:51] this is a special Expanded Edition good

[0:54] evening we're on the southern tip of

[0:56] Manhattan the area known as the battery

[0:58] named for the battery of cannons erected

[1:01] here in the 17th century to defend a

[1:03] young City but nothing could defend New

[1:06] York City from the wall of water that

[1:08] came crashing ashore in one of the

[1:10] biggest storms so far of the 21st

[1:13] century Hurricane Sandy filled the

[1:15] tunnels here with flood waters unlike

[1:17] anything this city has seen in decades

[1:21] the storm brought misery to 14 States

[1:24] from North Carolina to Maine at least 35

[1:27] people in nine states have been killed

[1:30] and more than 7 million homes and

[1:32] businesses up and down the coast are

[1:34] without electricity tonight officials

[1:37] say it could be days if not weeks before

[1:39] all the power is restored

[1:41] close to 1 million people have been

[1:44] evacuated more than eighteen thousand

[1:46] are living in shelters

[1:48] downtown New York City the financial

[1:50] capital of the world was largely shut

[1:52] down