Fox News reports that at least 10 people are dead from the storm which first reached the New Jersey shore at around 6 PM.
The storm was downgraded from a hurricane, but it’s 85-mph winds (with gusts up to 90 mph) along with 13 foot ocean swells, caused by the 900 mile-wide storm, are wreaking havoc in New Jersey and New York and surrounding states.
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NYU Hospital was being evacuated after a generator failed.
Power was knocked out in different parts of Manhattan. Bridges and tunnels were closed. Part of the subway was flooded.
250,000 people in New York City are without power. There was also an explosion at a Con Ed substation on 14th Street.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated.
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