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FBN Producer Ralph Giordano on the devastation in Staten Island, New York from Hurricane Sandy.
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Very much the fact of the matter is you got an ignores in order to get a reaction and sometimes it starts with folks who were just saying wait a minute.
What about where I'm sort of what about the folks who I know what about my -- in my -- Roster -- works with me on this fine job.
Producer extraordinaire -- -- from Staten Island.
Has Stanley and Staten Island and -- worries about Staten Island.
And what you we're hearing -- wasn't at all.
-- the reporting you were here right.
The thing is that what happens when it takes this long to get this most attention is.
People start talking people -- it within the community start talking and I was hearing horror stories -- going on there and when I got down -- I was asking them what they're hearing what they're and it's nothing.
They're hearing hunches -- dole is from -- hundreds of bodies that's what's been uses a more of what's in what's being used as shelter.
And they didn't know what was going on could know -- reporting on.
-- -- a lot of it -- treated -- death devastation that has not been borne out although we -- -- -- rescued his is that we simply can't get to a lot of houses so.
We fear for the worse when we don't hope to see that but they do.
Fear that there are a lot of folks in in houses that they can't get to -- That did it could be Dyson who we don't know that but you'll worry more about just a fact no one even knew -- No one -- I didn't even know I was in the city here all week I found -- yesterday it was people started to on Twitter was gone wild on how all these rumors.
And I was like why is no one doing this why.
Is know when you know about this is a conference to announce and I don't know about it then we had to do something about that -- really -- -- went down there because.
It did what I saw you know people in the -- now you think you have no power that's bad you see the picture anything -- bad it's nothing compared to what you see when you're there.
It did there.
On the way there when you've driving and set -- over the bridge and everything you know is.
Is -- drag and sand and the places you grew up in the best -- you're -- it's just.
It's it's.
And -- -- just serves as -- because you were seeing all the attention paid and rightly so -- New Jersey in the battered coast and all but.
This united joked as we talk about that -- -- the Rodney Dangerfield of barrels right but but the devastation we saw there Ralph.
Looked as -- if not worse than anything else I saw.
And Evelyn says pentagon -- to joke it's not a joke it's a -- should take five days for this to happen absolutely because that's not people scared people who don't know what to do they have no power and then.
What what it mean.
The thing is the main thing that I hear from everyone down there is well look at all these supplies that they using for the marathon that -- big there that have for the marathon this setting up.
Another has canceled giving any -- that's gonna turn around go to them they hope Zell and including those to -- -- generators aren't -- out and there isn't and you know in the city.
You people relying a -- pads people lining up for this -- -- think that's just the power Arabs think it's not a power saying people who lost their homes their lives their families and.
It's -- across the river canyon around Ross river it's as if you were -- different world.
Well thank you very very much that's what I think you can get get it -- -- -- -- route to people who live in the or know the area.
When politicians of all stripes -- Our patted themselves on the back and how many times we've shown this video -- the policies are wanna thank the commission and -- -- there's -- -- -- in fact it.
Assistant secretary to the secretary of transportation -- -- sued the -- in charge of transportation notes that everything's going hunky dory.
And and help is on the way and and these poor bastards are out there they're not getting now.
Think about that my friends think about that and ask yourself this and and wonder why that one woman I talked to at the top of this show.
Was saying well these guys were patting themselves on the back who could blame so many and Staten Island to simply step back and say.
You know one.
You guys should get a kick in the ass.
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