Another Possible Storm Heading To Northeast; Heavy Rain, Cold Expected in Northeast
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: The people hammered by Superstorm Sandy have not suffered enough. Trying to just recover. There's a new storm that is about to make matters a lot worse. Here's what we know right now. 179 people have died since the storm started its track across the Caribbean last week. Includes 110 deaths here in the United States. More than 250,000 customers still without power in New Jersey and New York. Now there is a freezing cold nor'easter expected to complicate power restoration. Snow already falling in Connecticut right now. Heavy rain, coastal floods, mix of snow. It's going to sweep through New York and New Jersey in a few hours. I'm sure to add to misery the families you are seeing there. They are going to get some help from FEMA. It just approved more than $156 million to help the folks in New York. Rob Marciano is joining us from Staten Island. Rob, explain to us what you are seeing there. I understand you are actually at a home who -- I guess the first floor completely gutted from the storm. And this nor'easter is coming.</s>ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, you know, it's been over a week now, Suzanne. And these poor people on Staten Island, obviously, New Jersey, Long Island, even Connecticut, a lot of them have just been surviving day-to-day. Temperatures have been getting colder and colder and colder. For many of them, the feeling of getting, as I talked to them, they are just kind of beat down. And with this now snow coming in and the potential for another flood coming in this afternoon and tonight, with the storm surge from this nor'easter, that's just heartbreaking stuff. So this is one of the many streets near Staten Island that was completely inundated by the storm, Sandy. You see all sorts of debris pulled outside of homes. Lines the entire streets. Personal belongings. For many of these homes, water up to shoulder height, if not more than that. I want to bring you inside. This is Nick Camerata's (ph) home. He's lived here at least 20 years. And took the entire week now, gutting was incredibly damaged walls and flooring in through here. Actually, been staying here because the night they left for the storm, this whole neighborhood was looted. Fearing that happening again, they're going to stay in here. Hey, Nick? NICK CAMERATA (ph),</s>STORM VICTIM: Yes.</s>MARCIANO: So there's Nick, his wife. The neighbors, the community is helping out quite a bit. You are working on just trying to get heat tonight? CAMERATA )ph): Me and my buddy, Mike, trying to get the salamander working but it's got a fitting that's five-sixteenth fine thread and can't find it nowhere.</s>MARCIANO: We can hear the exhaustion in your voice. We talked earlier about how devastating this is. Try to put into words what you've experienced this week.</s>CAMERATA (ph): Everything that I own is here, and I'm trying to save it. My wife, my kids, my best friend, Mike. And I'm just going to lose everything. I mean, my body is shutting down. There's no words to explain or express the stress, the pain, the suffering. And I just want to get back so that I can provide for my kids to send my kids to college. If I can just get this place livable, not even -- I would live with insulation on the walls so that I don't lose my house right now. My house is everything I have. And the most important thing is right now is to get my kids through college.</s>MARCIANO: So Nick was telling me earlier -- thank you, Nick. Obviously, you are busy and emotionally and physically trying. Words can't even summarize what he and his family feel right now. But just a little back story there. Four kids by my count. At least one in college. UPS -- worked for UPS for 20 years. Just retired. Kind of a handy man, fix-it guy, real good mechanic. Bought all sorts of equipment to start a business. Much of that equipment completely damaged if not destroyed by this storm. Heartbreaking stuff, Suzanne. And his story, just one of many that is happening here across the borough of Staten Island.</s>MALVEAUX: His story is very heartbreaking. You just stop in your tracks and you hold on to every word. He clearly is suffering. Does he feel like in some way he's prepared for this weather that is going to be about to hit him and his community again?</s>MARCIANO: Not at all. They feel a little bit helpless but they take some comfort in get something information when we arrived on the scene. Obviously, the information is not very free flowing when you don't have power. They are actually plugged into our truck and another satellite out, helping them out with some generation just to get some light on the situation. But they were hearing at least an eight-foot surge coming in here. That would be devastating. The berm that was protecting them, much of that damage washed away. The shore line completely changed. So a lot of this along with Jersey and Long Island, more on protecting than it ever has been. They took a little comfort in getting information from me and that they'll probably not have much more than three or four-foot storm surge and that will not nearly do the damage that Sandy did, but hopefully won't even flood these streets. We'll have to wait and see in to the next two high tide cycles. His words tell it all. Your heart goes out to these people.</s>MALVEAUX: Trying to find a way to help him and his community there. Thank you, Rob. We appreciate it. For supporters, it was hugs, high-fives after the president's re- election. But traders on the stock market not having the same reaction. Stocks are now selling off.