The nor'easter also caused thousands of outages in the five boroughs. Con Ed is reporting more than 62,000 with no electricity in the City. CBS 2's Magee Hickey reports from Staten Island.
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“…Because thousands of outages right here in the five Burr on -- is reporting more than 62000 people with no electricity in the city with Staten Island being the hardest hit and that's where CBS two's Magee Hickey is live this morning in the Duncan hills section. -- …”
“…power line here this is the problem that's why they're such severe outages here on Staten Island the winds were up to sixty miles per hour if they height of this fierce nor'easter close to five inches of rain fell. . Condit says they hope to get the power back on by three this afternoon in -- and they're keeping their fingers crossed hoping that's a possibility. We've spoken to many Staten Island residents who are really having a tough time without power. What's it …”
The weather wreaked havoc on NJ Transit service around the state. CBS 2's Mary Calvi reports.
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“…The wreaked havoc on new Jersey transit service around the stay nearly 500 passengers were trapped on an NJ transit train for five hours yesterday because of power outages on the rail lines. The train finally got moving. Around 1030 last night and one of the passengers stuck on the train …”
CBS 2's Elise Finch says to expect more cloudy skies and more rain on Sunday after a stormy Saturday that saw downed trees and power lines and flooded streets across the tri-state. It will be better though, with lighter winds and rain.
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“…not going to be completely out of the woods with this system. Coastal flooding still an issue for Fairfield Westchester the Bronx queens Nassau and Suffolk counties. Were also still talking about these high surf advisory so beach erosion is an issue. And again this in is in effect until 7 o'clock tomorrow morning so where are we right now with these winds. We're looking at these winds out of the east northeast generally speaking anywhere from ten to still about thirty miles per hour sustained winds. Earlier this hour we did have a 41 mile an hour wind gusts. . So the winds are still quite dangerous right now as we talk about the rain west Milford you can see right here …”
“…this area of low pressure you can see it's actually sending some stormy weather around the Delmarva peninsula. That should -- just early tomorrow so we should save between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. We can be seeing some additional heavy pockets of -- now today 45 degrees that are high temperature. And really we just hit that short time ago so what were sitting at 45 right now so really temperaturewise not bad for us. But again the temperature has really been the least of our worries today continues with a heavy rain …”

































