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N.J. Residents Begin to Assess the Damage to Their Homes

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    FBN’s Jeff Flock on the impact of Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey residents.

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Part of the action as we continue to survey the field here -- again.

This is an historic storm it is historic for many reasons particularly the damage it's done let's go to Jeff Flock.

He's in Point Pleasant beach New Jersey Jeff I'm wondering if the homeowners are coming back into their houses now and try to assess the -- Just talk to a couple people like you looked down here people have been waiting in and out.

There's a guy Danner boots are some people of waded through in bare feet believe it or not.

I talked to one guy who who came in.

In -- our boat -- in in a boat and surveyed his house road back out there's no other way to get and they -- move caught off access and back we cannot get out.

If you look -- -- spent around ensure all mark truck.

If you were those sir are uplink trucks that we used to and transmit our signal if Jimmy -- more to the left you see the same -- in the road look at all that sand.

-- number of folks have gotten stuck in there we can't get out to the main road because there's so much sand in the city streets.

That's gonna have to be moved there's a lot of work here to do guy's picture looks like it and as I understand that -- -- far away as two or three blocks is that true Jeff.

More than that I work work two blocks down and it goes maybe 34 more blocks beyond that -- there were rivers of water.

Bearing a sand for last night it was a good time he should have been here.

Highway 11 of the deaths we just put down that 29 people died US of course more people died outside US as well.

But one of those deaths at least one that we can report on in the New York area was somebody who stepped into a pond that.

That had a downed power line that the person was electrocuted to death -- they wanna pass that warning on to the people that you saw bare feet.

Fortunately the power has all been caught here and that's one good thing these these -- -- oceanfront communities they cut the power before they start to lose it just so that that's sort of thing doesn't happen.

Jeff Flock live there in Point Pleasant beach New Jersey and -- you see some of the pictures here.

And Jeff I don't know if you've heard about the aerials that we've gotten in on Atlantic City, New Jersey -- sustainable dramatic and blocks of homes first and second floor completely swamped look at -- sand here.

Bunched up against homes you could see all of the -- is completely destroyed.

You're looking at -- a bunch of homes that are on that level sort of on the coast this is Atlantic City David.

And and Jeff you can see this as well and in your monitor it's it's just a horrible situation with firefighters rescuing people.

This of course was at the height of the storm when you could really see the action but.

Reports of people seeing fish floating in their kitchen floors it's it's just it it is stunning -- that as as Jeff said blocks.

From the actual 85%.

Of Atlantic City was flooded 85%.

To -- it it just begins to count up the damage.

The dollar damage of this storm which clearly is gonna be in the tens of billions if not hundreds of billions Jeff there's nothing -- -- replace the people that have been misplaced and and in fact that 29 deaths what about the hospitals we -- awful situation here in New York City -- -- NYU hospital one of the biggest.

Had to be evacuated a couple of other fists of facilities close by like Bellevue hospital also had to be evacuated.

Any of that going on there what about the hospitals.

Fortunately most of this was confined to the shore area and had been -- areas near the Atlantic and so that that's not so much because the hospitals a look at it'll -- -- here.

I don't know about Atlantic City observe the hospital situation or -- but knew that the talking about it.

As the New Orleans of New Jersey get it it really could be bad there.

Thanks Jeff Jeff Flock equity.

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