We're going to meet up with the crew right now, swap out gear, swap out trucks, gas
up and see what the night has for us.
We just got set up, what is this, about 12
street and broad channel where we were here last year for Hurricane Irene and they get
flooding really badly.
You still see dry spots on the street right here, that's going to be gone really quickly.
You can see the water pushing up already, that's far rock away, this is the sound and
the water is rushing up through the winds and then with the high tide, so even without
it right now, we're hours away from high tide and it's already coming up a fair amount.
The west end of Long Island Sound could really be enormous and we do expect the storm to
rearrange the coastline and the record books as we go through this evening and tonight
the wind and rains slowly subsiding tomorrow.
We need gas to last this night, we're going to definitely be out here until easily three
to four o'clock in the morning and that all depends on how bad the storm is.
Gas station, closest gas station, so you know if a gas station is open right now?
No.
Alright.
We might have a problem trying to find gas, there is a car in there, beautiful.
I'm going to ask Pete about it in a second, right now this water is at low tide, which
is a really bad sign because this is pretty high for what it is, can't see, you can see
here, but let me grab Pete, did you see there was another boat out there?
No.
You can't tell, you don't have a cover on that, so let's get some more in there, but
almost like there was fog already coming up.
Right over here, when I was facing this way you know it was, I think I was zoomed in and
then all the rain that I had on the lens just made it look foggy.
We're going to cut some soundbites, send it in and then let's do another hit then.
We've got to move back to ours, you know last time for the first time, we had a lot of
rain, it took us hours to move back and now we're going back like every 25 minutes because
that's how fast it's rising and if it hits the exhaust there, that's what James tells
us, if it hits the exhaust we're toast.
At what point do you actually start getting scared?
You know something, I love my job man, this kind of stuff excites me, we're always looking
for that big story and I don't know, I get scared, heights and an overabundance of water,
so as much as we want a good story, it's not worth it if it gets ugly.
What happens if the water comes all the way to the median?
To the median, we keep moving the higher ground because we still have a job to do, the people
at home that need to know that the guy that just came out of his house, he said he wouldn't
have known to leave if he didn't see our report just now, he had no idea the water was rising
as fast as it did, he saw our report, put his boots on, hopped outside of the house
and left, you know, that's what we're here for, that's what we got to do, so we have
to make sure we protect ourselves so that people can protect themselves.
I mean, we got people in that house over there, if they're in that great hospital, you know.
Oh, shit, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The wind has been knocking our dish back and forth, back and forth, which fluctuates the
signal in a dramatic way and they lost our shot, we're going to try and re-attempt it.
Well, the cop just said that there was one area that's the highest area on the island,
so we'll go to where he said, because he knows the island and try to re-establish our life
signal from there just to be safe.
But this may be the kind of thing where there's no getting away from it, and at this point
with the bridge closed, we're in, we're in till it's over.
We can't get stuck.
One power, baby, one power.
This is not good.
Why'd you stop?
You're stuck.
I'm going to try.
I'm going to try.
We got to flag down the truck.
Stalled.
Stalled.
I can't.
The fire truck has to do it.
All right, let's do it, let's try.
All right, stand by.
You're going to push them out?
I'm going to try to.
With the car?
Yeah.
This is not good.
This is not good.
You look ahead, I can't see anything.
What are we looking at?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see that.
High ground?
Yeah, I see high ground.
I'm pushing our microwave truck.
I'm pushing our microwave truck out of the water.
The water, it got so high that it stalled, got into the engine.
I'm just hoping right now I'm praying that we don't end up in the same situation.
I'm just hoping right now we don't end up in the same situation.
Hey, what's going on?
Hello?
What's the Skype address we should call in to?
Okay.
Hello, we're standing by, tell us when.
Tom, I just lost the signal.
Hold on, I think I just lost the signal.
No, he's got a laptop and I got a cell phone.
We're both trying separately and I think it's just the signal.
What?
In this area until 8am, we're going to take shelter now.
Who sent that?
OEM.
This is the first.
We are in the truck, we are powerless.
The street lamps right outside us just blacked out about 20 minutes ago as well.
We basically pushed up to the ramp of the Cross Bay Bridge because obviously the bridge
is going to be the highest elevation.
Although we cannot go on the bridge, we're on the ramp on higher ground.
I guess we picked the right spot because the stranded fire truck is sitting alongside us.
Our engine appears to have gotten flooded and so we're dead in the water so to speak
and we're pushed out by our own SUV but that's why we're not coming to you live with video right now.
The situation on Broadchannel is not good. People who live here deal with floods on a regular basis
every full moon and they say drawing back to even Hurricane Donna that this is the worst
that they've ever seen.
Essentially this entire island including us and anybody remaining is isolated.
By the water getting flooded you're most likely sitting by candlelight or flashlight because you don't have any power.
The wind keeps swirling around and just when you think it's all over and you get a break,
here comes another dust blowing from one way to the other.
They're saying that this was just going to be one, two, three things and the city was going to come back up.
We'll start with Far Rockaway and then we'll work our way back.
Okay, gotcha.
If we get in a Far Rockaway, we knock it out as quickly as we can.
If we can't, we do Broadchannel with the zigzag pick up and then we got to make a decision.
We'll just have to get it done with half a tank.
All this was done to water last night.
How you doing officer? From PIX 11.
Thank you, man.
Excuse me, brother.
Do you know where the fires were last night?
Smoke over there.
Yeah.
Oh, jeez.
I want to get a ride, get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
Get out to see the fire.
So after trying and trying and trying, we are going to try to go live one more time from Queens.
Especially now that we know what we know and see what we've seen out in Breezy Point.
With the 90 homes that were burned down and countless others that were taken out by winds.
And with the road buildings that we saw taken out in that fire.
Actually, two rows of buildings that we saw in different places in Rockaway that have been taken out of fire.
So we just want to, we've basically been off the grid because of our technical problems.
We have incredible material and we want to share it with our audience and let them know how serious this was out here.
We lost the truck. We have this piece of equipment called the DeGiro which allows us to go live via cell phone signals.
From almost anywhere we can get a cell phone signal.
So we just drove around, we found a signal that we can use that's strong enough.
Just hug the camera into it. Keep our fingers crossed.
When's the last time you guys were live?
I don't know exactly. 21 hours ago.
We would have dialed into it if we could. We don't have very good cell service out here.
And then I'll try to dial into the tell on my cell phone.
Which apparently is the only phone working out here.
Hey, it's Arthur. Can we roll?
Hello, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Hello.
Hello.
2424.
I don't even think we've begun to measure exactly how much of a tragedy occurred out in this area.
Right now there is no official estimate. There are no officials out here as I said.
Can you give us an estimate of how many people are missing?
