:00:03. > :00:07.Hi, I'm Sam. Here's our check on the global news channels.
:00:07. > :00:10."Battleground Gaza" was the RT headline. They were one of many to
:00:10. > :00:13.lead on the renewed Middle East violence. Fox had a dramatic
:00:13. > :00:16.eyewitness report from Israel as rockets landed.
:00:16. > :00:20.China's CCTV introduced viewers to the country's new generation of
:00:20. > :00:24.leaders, or, as Japan's NHK put it, their "new cheese". Xi Jinping now
:00:24. > :00:27.leads the communist party. A warning about energy drinks on
:00:27. > :00:31.ABC: officials are looking into claims that they are linked to
:00:31. > :00:33.thirteen deaths. 5-hour Energy told them it only had the same caffeine
:00:33. > :00:37.as a coffee. CNN asked, "Where's John McAfee?"
:00:37. > :00:40.They were live in Belize. Police want to question the internet
:00:40. > :00:42.security boss about the killing of a neighbour. The PM called him
:00:42. > :00:46.bonkers. And Zlatan Ibrahimovic's amazing
:00:46. > :00:51.goal was big in Sweden. TV4 said it wouldn't even be in a Hollywood
:00:51. > :00:53.script. The man himself told SVT he felt the bicycle kick was his best
:00:53. > :01:03.ever. Stay with Three now for Superstorm
:01:03. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :02:00.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds
:02:00. > :02:10.This programme contains some strong language. This is the Apocalypse.
:02:10. > :02:10.
:02:11. > :02:15.It's just before 6pm on Monday October 29, 16-year-old John Mateer
:02:15. > :02:20.is about to record the superstorm which will hit his neighbourhood.
:02:20. > :02:26.It's crazy. You see a face up against the glass. In a moment John
:02:26. > :02:36.will film images that will become world famous. Oh, my God. Oh, my
:02:36. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:48.God. Oh! Oh, my God. Shit, our tree. It hit your car. Oh, my God. It hit
:02:48. > :02:56.my car. Oh, that car! The footage of the largest Atlantic superstorm
:02:56. > :03:01.on record captured by those who witnessed it. From the Caribbean to
:03:01. > :03:05.the major cities of America's East Coast, this was the first natural
:03:05. > :03:15.disaster documented on personal phones and video cameras before,
:03:15. > :03:22.
:03:22. > :03:28.Hurricane Sandy! Within moments of being recorded, images were
:03:28. > :03:33.uploaded for all the world to see. We asked people who recorded them
:03:33. > :03:37.to allow us to use their videos to show what happened from the
:03:37. > :03:41.eyewitness point of view. With their cooperation and combined with
:03:41. > :03:47.the footage we've shot ourselves, this is how Superstorm Sandy, one
:03:47. > :03:51.of the biggest storms ever to hit the USA, was kaugtd on camera.
:03:51. > :03:54.I'm going to film the individual quo for you, so you see the
:03:54. > :04:04.devastation just a block from my house. This street is totally
:04:04. > :04:09.
:04:09. > :04:16.blocked and the cars are pretty I'm Scott McPartland and I've been
:04:16. > :04:23.storm chasing since I was 13 years old. You can clearly see the
:04:23. > :04:27.rotation. Clearly see it. It's kicking up a heck of a lot of dust.
:04:27. > :04:31.Over the years my fascination of storms has grown into what is
:04:31. > :04:38.essentially a career for me now. This is what we're protecting from
:04:38. > :04:47.right here. This fell like two minutes ago, easily a three-inch
:04:47. > :04:52.hail stone, super spiky - whoa, I didn't see that! As well as being
:04:52. > :04:56.one of America's most famous storm chasers, Scott McPartland is
:04:56. > :05:02.meriorologist. When the superstorm was first detected he was on the
:05:02. > :05:07.case. I remember a week out, some of the forecast models were showing
:05:07. > :05:11.a hit in the mid-Atlantic and north-east. This was completely
:05:11. > :05:16.outlandish at the time. Nobody had seen anything like that. Haiti, in
:05:16. > :05:26.the Caribbean, was first to feel the effects. Flooding killed 52
:05:26. > :05:34.
:05:34. > :05:39.people, caused food shortages and The superstorm headed north, the
:05:39. > :05:44.next day, October 23, the Bahamas issued a tropical storm watch and
:05:44. > :05:47.at 3pm sandy was upgraded to hurricane status. Two people died
:05:47. > :05:54.and the structural damage is estimated to run into many millions
:05:54. > :05:58.of dollars. By this time, when Sandy was in the Bahamas, she was
:05:58. > :06:07.growing substantially. The storm was huge. I believe at one point
:06:07. > :06:11.almost a thousand miles wide. after 5am, on October 25, Hurricane
:06:11. > :06:21.Sandy twisted and made landfall in Cuba's second biggest city,
:06:21. > :06:23.
:06:23. > :06:28.Vanessa and Kieran Ash, both 25, from Stoke-on-Trent, were getting
:06:28. > :06:38.married at the tourist resort of Guardalavaca and had taken 17
:06:38. > :06:42.
:06:42. > :06:44.Everybody started to panic a bit, especially when you could see the
:06:44. > :06:53.really dark, grey clouds with the rain in the distance coming over
:06:53. > :06:56.the hills. Told to go to their rooms, Vanessa and her husband and
:06:56. > :07:00.two-year-old daughter, took refuge in the bathroom. The wind was
:07:00. > :07:04.roaring around the building. You could hear is swooshing through the
:07:04. > :07:11.vents and you could hear the wind hitting things against the wall. I
:07:11. > :07:16.think that was the scariest part. We felt scared for our lives is the
:07:16. > :07:20.best way to describe it. I went to the patio door windows and peaked
:07:20. > :07:24.round the curtain. The glass was bending and creeking. Soy got my
:07:24. > :07:28.mobile phone and the camcorder wand as getting footage to remember
:07:28. > :07:32.exactly what we had gone through. I hid behind the curtains for about
:07:32. > :07:40.ten seconds and ran back into the room because I was so terrified
:07:40. > :07:43.that the window was going to come through.
:07:43. > :07:50.Next day, Vanessa films the damage, the hotel was flooded and there was
:07:50. > :07:54.destruction everywhere. Normally these storms when they start,
:07:54. > :07:57.especially this late in the season, they ride up the East Coast. You
:07:57. > :08:05.have a cold front that's swinging through the east, picks it up and
:08:05. > :08:08.sends her safely out to sea. At sea, the storm caught up with the Disney
:08:08. > :08:18.Fantasy, cruising the Atlantic, 2,000 passengers, many of whom
:08:18. > :08:21.
:08:21. > :08:29.recorded the action and uploaded it Hurricane Sandy on our Disney
:08:29. > :08:39.Fantasy Cruise 2012. We're in the middle of the ocean. Not a fun day
:08:39. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:52.to be on a boat. Ready for the hurricane? Yeah! Ready, go! Whoa!
:08:52. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:02.When this footage was uploaded many believed the ship had take anyone
:09:02. > :09:08.sea water, but it was actually water from the indoor paddling pool
:09:08. > :09:18.being tossed and turned by the hurricane. Online, this video was
:09:18. > :09:22.
:09:22. > :09:25.presented by swuesswuesswues aged eight from Florida. Last night, we
:09:25. > :09:35.went through a hurricane. The gift shops are all messed up. All the
:09:35. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:41.toys are on the floor. Also the desks. I was surprised because a
:09:41. > :09:50.really big desk was here. Even in the jewellery shops. All the
:09:50. > :09:57.jewellery fell too. Over here. It was very hard last night. Can you
:09:57. > :10:02.see over here, a bunch of presents fell, like a whole rack on the
:10:02. > :10:08.floor. You can see back over there, you'll get a better view this way,
:10:08. > :10:14.back there, you could see that all the watches and necklaces and all
:10:14. > :10:19.crammed up in there. Most of the things broke and that's what
:10:19. > :10:24.happened on the Disney cruise last night. The other thing with
:10:24. > :10:27.Hurricane Sandy that prevented her from going safely out to sea was we
:10:27. > :10:31.had another storm in the North Atlantic Hurricane Tony, blocking
:10:31. > :10:36.her escape. This was what was going to pull her back towards the East
:10:36. > :10:41.Coast. What ended up happening was kind of a guide track that pulled
:10:41. > :10:45.her straight up and this trough of low pressure phased with her and
:10:45. > :10:49.pulled her into the Jersey coastline. This was something we've
:10:49. > :10:54.never seen before. The phasing of these two systems was going to
:10:54. > :10:58.ininject a large amount of energy into Sandy. In turn, she would grow
:10:58. > :11:04.into a superstorm. As the superstorm approached, the
:11:04. > :11:09.authorities began to issue warnings. We should plan to see heavy rain
:11:09. > :11:13.that lasts for 36 hours once the storm starts to hit, flooding is
:11:13. > :11:19.very real and serious concern. The hard reality is even if we do
:11:19. > :11:26.everything, we can't stop the storm. Continuing to move north on October
:11:26. > :11:29.28th, the first winds and rain hit Hatteras Island, a narrow strip
:11:29. > :11:33.reaching from North Carolina into the Atlantic. A local estate agent
:11:33. > :11:43.recorded the storm's arrival. can almost see it through the
:11:43. > :11:44.
:11:44. > :11:50.It's just eating away the sand right there.
:11:50. > :11:56.We're dough to try to get up there at some point. We're worried about
:11:56. > :12:05.downed power lines and typical hazards. This way, over my shoulder,
:12:05. > :12:08.looks deeper towards waves. But I'm going to try to give you a look at
:12:09. > :12:14.the ocean. Let's see if we can see the waves coming through. Those are
:12:14. > :12:18.the waves coming through. Those are pretty big. Really big.
:12:18. > :12:21.It's hard to nail down exactly where it would come ashore. But it
:12:21. > :12:31.didn't matter because the storm was so massive everybody was going to
:12:31. > :12:32.
:12:32. > :12:39.As the superstorm threatened a warning message from the President
:12:39. > :12:44.himself. This is a serious and big storm. My first message is to all
:12:44. > :12:46.the people across the eastern sea board, mid-Atlantic, going north
:12:46. > :12:55.board, mid-Atlantic, going north that you need to take this very
:12:55. > :13:05.seriously. Regardless of the warnings many people went out to
:13:05. > :13:05.
:13:05. > :13:09.the coast to record their own piece of history. There was complacency
:13:09. > :13:17.because we didn't have anything to pull from and say, remember how bad
:13:17. > :13:23.it was last time? There was no last time. Of course, had you all these
:13:23. > :13:28.people, I call them the looky-loos. They want to come out and see it.
:13:28. > :13:33.It was very hard to get that point across, because I had heard time
:13:33. > :13:43.and again stories like "Well I've been here for 45 years. It's never
:13:43. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:54.been as bad as they say it's going to be." Cheese! Say Hurricane
:13:54. > :13:55.
:13:55. > :14:02.Some people taking on the turbulent ocean was too good a photo
:14:02. > :14:06.opportunity to miss. Reckless out there, man. I don't even feel cold
:14:06. > :14:16.now. I think it's the hypothermia kicking in.
:14:16. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:41.That's what I live for, hurricanes like this, hurricanes like
:14:41. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:46.Hurricane Sandy. On Long Island, New York, John
:14:46. > :14:51.Mateer and his sister were like many others. They thought they'd
:14:51. > :14:55.heard all the scare stories before. I actually wasn't expecting much. I
:14:55. > :14:59.wasn't here for Hurricane Irene. I was at college. I have never
:14:59. > :15:03.experienced anything like this before. Me and my friends were
:15:03. > :15:06.texting about what we might do tonight. We weren't prepared at all.
:15:06. > :15:11.We were preparing for like the power to be out for like, I don't
:15:11. > :15:16.know, two days, I don't know. weren't preparing for destruction.
:15:16. > :15:20.To give you an example, people were posting, I was one of those people,
:15:20. > :15:23.I posted on Twitter, like "Thanks for the day off. Nothing's
:15:23. > :15:33.happening." The wind was blowing. There was no rain ierblg. It was
:15:33. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:41.getting dark. Nothing bad was We are going to have a very, very
:15:41. > :15:45.large area affected by strong winds, a storm fall and heavy rainfall.
:15:45. > :15:52.We should not underestimate the impact of the storm or assume that
:15:52. > :15:57.predictions will be wrong. I know, probably through all my life too,
:15:57. > :16:02.people will be saying that this is not going to happen. That the
:16:02. > :16:06.weathermen do get it wrong. That we will hang out and pay attention to
:16:06. > :16:12.this. Please, don't. Be prepared for the worst.
:16:12. > :16:17.By now the superstorm had killed up to 70 people. On the ground people
:16:17. > :16:27.had filmed floods and structural damage. The superstorm was heading
:16:27. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:35.for the world famous Jersey Shore with winds speeds of up to 80mph.
:16:35. > :16:40.Five days now... Filming it all was New Jersey's most prolific social
:16:40. > :16:47.media blogger, Alexander Higgins, with more than 3 million viewers on
:16:47. > :16:52.his YouTube channel. This is Alexander Higgins, I am on
:16:53. > :16:57.Bridge Avenue. The first I heard of this was online. We are here at the
:16:57. > :17:03.Napa Auto Centre. You can see that Hurricane Sandy is here. This roof
:17:03. > :17:07.is continuing to blow off under the force of the winds. We have
:17:07. > :17:13.widespread destruction from the winds in Point Pleasant.
:17:13. > :17:18.Across the road we can see that the shingles are blowing off. I went
:17:18. > :17:24.down to different disaster point areas to collect videos and photos
:17:24. > :17:34.to put online. Here we are at the Pizza Hut. This is Brick Boulevard.
:17:34. > :17:34.
:17:34. > :17:41.We have another downed tree here. Trees are down everywhere.
:17:41. > :17:48.As he videoed more evidence that the superstorm had hit New Jersey,
:17:48. > :17:52.Alexander Higgins posted it on line. We are here on Bridge Avenue in
:17:52. > :17:58.Bayhead. This telephone wire pole here, we have sparks flying off it.
:17:58. > :18:06.As you can see, there is a tree down right here. This is just
:18:06. > :18:11.across the entire road. These wires right here are flapping off of the
:18:11. > :18:15.telephone pole. Sparks are flying off this wire.
:18:15. > :18:24.Now this is a big tree that has been uprooted right here in front
:18:24. > :18:30.of us. With Sandy, the disaster is
:18:30. > :18:32.imminent. You see it coming ashore it is my responsibility to let
:18:32. > :18:38.others know that this is heading their way.
:18:38. > :18:43.I just really felt that I had to let people know on Twitter or
:18:43. > :18:53.Facebook that by this time tomorrow your house is going to be under
:18:53. > :19:05.
:19:05. > :19:10.water. To get out of there now, to This YouTube user posted videos of
:19:10. > :19:14.a flooded street in Bayhead, New Jersey. His grandmother, aunts and
:19:14. > :19:20.cousin were stranded. Canoes were used for rescue missions.
:19:20. > :19:25.If you are still able to hear me, we need you to hunker down and get
:19:25. > :19:33.to the highest point possible in the dwelling you are in. We cannot
:19:33. > :19:36.help until day light tomorrow. Defences were going up in Manhattan,
:19:36. > :19:43.New York. North of New Jersey, the storm had not reached yet, but
:19:43. > :19:53.people were taking precautions and filming the drama.
:19:53. > :19:56.
:19:57. > :20:02.I was going to walk into the shop Trader Joe's, then I saw the line.
:20:02. > :20:08.This is unusual. This is about 12.00pm. There is a
:20:08. > :20:12.line around the block for Trader Joe's to get into the store. You
:20:12. > :20:16.would think there was a rock concert going on in there. There is
:20:16. > :20:21.not. For a quality of video stand-point,
:20:21. > :20:26.it is dreadful, but it tell as story of a long line of people and
:20:26. > :20:31.even a Trader Joe's employee, helping people, so they were not on
:20:31. > :20:37.the path of other people on the sidewalk. It was impulsive to get
:20:37. > :20:42.that shock. I am glad that I did. A lot of people are watching.
:20:42. > :20:46.We had a lot of lead time. I am Anthony da Rosa. There was at least
:20:46. > :20:50.a day or two days when people were going through how they were going
:20:50. > :20:54.to prepare for this storm. People were stocking up on food, talking
:20:54. > :21:01.about how the stores that they were going to was running out of items.
:21:01. > :21:04.So there are a lot of phonows on the videos of the panic beforehand.
:21:05. > :21:10.Of people trying to get material that they could have in their homes
:21:10. > :21:15.before the storm. Getting candles, flashlights, food.
:21:15. > :21:23.Why is this empty? What happened? There are no eggs, what happened?
:21:24. > :21:30.It is because of the Hurricane Sandy. Have you got milk? Oh, my
:21:31. > :21:36.God! By 5pm the bread was gone. Where is the bread? The bread is
:21:36. > :21:40.gone! One man went on to YouTube to proudly explain he was prepared for
:21:40. > :21:46.the worst. This is on my phone, I wanted to
:21:46. > :21:51.make a video. I have candles there. Batteries, always need those things.
:21:51. > :21:56.Zippo fluid for my Zippo as you always need to make fire. Water.
:21:56. > :22:00.You know it is really unlikely that something will happen with the
:22:00. > :22:05.regular water, but it is better to be safe than sorry. It sounds like
:22:05. > :22:10.it could be a pretty serious storm. So here we go, a bunch of stuff you
:22:10. > :22:16.don't have to cook to eat. Especially for me, you know canned
:22:16. > :22:21.stuff. I have an electric stove so, if the power goes out I will not be
:22:21. > :22:27.able to cook everything. Also I got charcoal to cook after the storm
:22:27. > :22:32.has passed, if the need be. I have to get out of here. I am getting
:22:32. > :22:35.seawater in the engine. Scott McPartland was following the storm
:22:35. > :22:43.and witnessed neighbourhoods fighting a losing battle.
:22:43. > :22:47.We drove up to Bayside in Queens. There, there were neighbourhoods
:22:47. > :22:53.under water. That is when I thought this is going to be terrible. This
:22:53. > :23:00.was ten hours away from the storm. Then we knew that this would be bad.
:23:00. > :23:07.The outlying areas of New York City began to feel the first effects of
:23:07. > :23:11.the superstorm on October 29th. This was Breezy Point on the Bore
:23:11. > :23:21.accounting of Queens on the Atlantic coast.
:23:21. > :23:25.
:23:26. > :23:33.People were trying to catch their own moment of Superstorm Sandy.
:23:33. > :23:38.Breezy Point is part of the Rockaway particular, it is home to
:23:38. > :23:42.many Irish immigrants, so many it is known as the Irish Riviera. In
:23:42. > :23:52.this bar, the customers did not look like they were worried too
:23:52. > :24:00.much about the building superstorm. Have a pot where there is a drip...
:24:00. > :24:05.To miles along the coast in Wantagh, 16-year-old John Mateer was told to
:24:05. > :24:11.take the day off school. From here, I saw the wind blowing.
:24:11. > :24:15.I was standing here with my camera. Filming the wind. I am used to
:24:15. > :24:20.filming stuff and sending it to people and joke being it. I film a
:24:20. > :24:30.lot of stuff. I was just pulling it out to film the gust of wind and
:24:30. > :24:36.
:24:36. > :24:42.possibly send it to a friend. This is the apocalypse! Oh, shit! That
:24:42. > :24:52.creeped me out. Did you see a face? It was up against the glass.
:24:52. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:06.That's when mayhem struck. Oh, my God. Oh, my God! Oh! Oh, my
:25:06. > :25:08.
:25:08. > :25:18.God. Shit, our tree! It hit your car. Oh, my God. It hit my car?!
:25:18. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:31.got that all on film. Oh, my God! What happened? The car got crushed.
:25:31. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:37.What? Oh, my gosh! You're lucky. Erin... Your car bounced, though.
:25:37. > :25:42.The back is completely destroyed, John.
:25:42. > :25:48.I was in shock. Then it hit me we should not be by the wind we are at
:25:48. > :25:51.all. There is a fire, Dad! Oh, my gosh!
:25:51. > :25:56.There ain't nothing that I can do about that. OK, get away from the
:25:56. > :26:04.trees. I got that all on film, you guys.
:26:04. > :26:07.Oh, my gosh! Show me that video! Here is a satellite image of
:26:07. > :26:13.Hurricane Sandy just prior to landing. About four or five hours
:26:13. > :26:18.before. The first thing that you notice is how huge this is. It
:26:18. > :26:23.literally takes up the entire screen.
:26:23. > :26:29.A time lapse camera captured the superstorm sweeping towards
:26:29. > :26:35.Manhattan Island and the rain arriving. The USA's commercial and
:26:35. > :26:41.cultural capital, 1.5 million people crammed into 23 square miles.
:26:41. > :26:48.The New York Stock Exchange closed, thousands had fled and many more
:26:48. > :26:56.had locked themselves behind doors, but some were out filming. Here, a
:26:56. > :27:01.drain was swaying dangerously. In a nearby hotel, robin and Lou Gillard
:27:01. > :27:08.were recording this message. You have to evacuate the building.
:27:08. > :27:14.Due to the possibility that the crane up the street, above the
:27:14. > :27:19.construction site might fall. So, please, in an orderly manner, make
:27:19. > :27:29.your way to the nearest staircase and exit the building through the
:27:29. > :27:31.
:27:31. > :27:38.hotel lobby. But then part of the crane crashed.
:27:38. > :27:48.The hotel told people to stay indoors. Then Lou was heading
:27:48. > :28:19.
:28:20. > :28:23.The levels along the coasts and along the waterways began to rise.
:28:23. > :28:28.They were expected to remain at higher than normal levels for the
:28:29. > :28:33.next 24 hours. The surge will be about 8.00pm tonight, plus or minus
:28:33. > :28:36.a couple of hours. Michele Mitchell went out in the
:28:36. > :28:44.storm to record images on her mobile phone.
:28:44. > :28:47.I ran into folks on the Upper West Side, and they said that they
:28:47. > :28:53.watched the video. She remembers the moment when the
:28:53. > :28:57.city started to lose power and the seawater surged.
:28:57. > :29:07.I realised that electricity was not working. The Wi-Fi had gone. The
:29:07. > :29:12.
:29:12. > :29:16.cable had gone. Then I could hear a Mac truck coming down the street...
:29:16. > :29:26.I kept looking alt Downtown Manhattan, so all of this went dark.
:29:26. > :29:27.
:29:27. > :29:32.This was the moment when the lights went out in Downtown Manhattan. It
:29:33. > :29:36.was 8.30pm. A electricity substation explodes after it fills
:29:36. > :29:46.with seawater. We stood outside and could watch
:29:46. > :29:47.
:29:47. > :29:52.the transformers blowing up. What is going on? I don't know what
:29:52. > :30:02.is going on? What is this? Something just exploded.
:30:02. > :30:04.
:30:04. > :30:09.It looked like a bomb was hitting On 14th street Brian Trombley
:30:09. > :30:17.leaned out of the window of his sixth-floor apartment to capture
:30:18. > :30:24.footage of the storm hitting Downtown Manhattan. Whoa! Shit.
:30:24. > :30:34.What just happened? What just happened? Next door, the same
:30:34. > :30:37.
:30:37. > :30:47.collapse was also filmed by Mark Oh, my gosh. There is no wall for
:30:47. > :30:52.
:30:52. > :30:56.these apartments. No F-ing walls on No heat, no power, no water. The
:30:56. > :31:00.buildings started loseing water pressure. In many cases you were
:31:00. > :31:04.camping in your apartments. It became deserted. If you had the
:31:04. > :31:10.means to get out, you did. It looked like it was something out of
:31:10. > :31:13.that movie I Am Legend. It was completely deserted. The camera
:31:13. > :31:18.recorded candles and flash lights appearing in the buildings at the
:31:18. > :31:28.bottom of the shot. When I went to shoot the video at my neighbourhood
:31:28. > :31:30.
:31:30. > :31:37.restaurant, I walk in and there they were. Bonjour Michel, c'estVa.
:31:37. > :31:44.There was Michel serving hamburgers. What power are you use sning Gas. -
:31:44. > :31:54.- Using? Gas. How many people have you served today? This is
:31:54. > :31:55.
:31:55. > :32:00.incredible. I don't know. It's OK. On the night of the storm nothing
:32:00. > :32:03.was working. But I had a crank radio. I left my house and had the
:32:03. > :32:07.radio with me. I was cranking it and listening to the records on the
:32:07. > :32:13.radio of what had been going on. That was the most useful technology
:32:13. > :32:19.that I had when the power went out. Surging sea water flooded all ten
:32:19. > :32:29.tunnels between Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island. The flooding of
:32:29. > :32:29.
:32:29. > :32:34.mid-town tunnel was filmed by Louis Bejarano. I'm in the news business.
:32:34. > :32:37.Until I got on the streets and shot these streets of Soho, and people
:32:37. > :32:41.showing ingenious ways of getting their businesses up and running,
:32:41. > :32:44.you didn't see those stories. You started to see it more in
:32:44. > :32:54.mainstream media. Social media shaped the coverage of this
:32:54. > :32:54.
:32:54. > :33:00.disaster. There were nearly 15,000 emergency calls to the New York
:33:00. > :33:05.Fire Department. Ten times the usual number. Social media, Twitter
:33:05. > :33:15.and Facebook were monitored throughout and played a vital role.
:33:15. > :33:15.
:33:15. > :33:19.27Th Street. I'm Emily Rahini, the social media manager for the fire
:33:19. > :33:25.department. It's ten social media channels. Most of it is focused on
:33:25. > :33:31.Facebook, Twitter and U tube. It was busy that night. I'd leave my
:33:31. > :33:34.desk for two mib its and come back to 150tweets. This woman says her
:33:34. > :33:44.parents are trapped in their home on Staten Island. I contacted
:33:44. > :33:46.
:33:46. > :33:49.dispatchers to make sure that they 200 firefighters were called to
:33:49. > :33:56.Breezy Point in Queen's where just hours earlier residents had posed
:33:56. > :34:00.for photographs and drunk in the bar as storms lashed the seafront.
:34:00. > :34:05.There was 25 civilians on the roof of the building. The fire was
:34:05. > :34:15.spreading? The fire was in the two- storey building next door. It was
:34:15. > :34:18.
:34:18. > :34:23.When dawn broke and the fires were finally put out, this was all that
:34:23. > :34:33.was left of Breezy Point. An electrical fault was blamed for the
:34:33. > :34:38.
:34:38. > :34:48.This high-definition video was shot by Roy Currlin, an Irish man who
:34:48. > :34:53.
:34:53. > :35:03.Roy doesn't expect to be able to move back into his home for six
:35:03. > :35:08.months. Also gone, 2,700 more houses, all flooded out. The
:35:08. > :35:18.shopping centre, two churches, a bar and a liquor store, Breezy
:35:18. > :35:50.
:35:50. > :35:53.Filmed by the US Coastguard, this The home of East Coast legalised
:35:53. > :36:02.gambling it was at the centre of the superstorm when it made
:36:02. > :36:10.landfall. Most of the iconic boardwalk, America's first and more
:36:10. > :36:14.than 140 years old, had been smashed to pieces. Land marks made
:36:14. > :36:24.famous by TV series such as boardwalk empire were reduced to
:36:24. > :36:36.
:36:36. > :36:46.rubble. The city's 12 casinos were Along the coastline, storm chaser
:36:46. > :36:48.
:36:48. > :36:56.Scott McPartland went filming. that boat was initially over here
:36:56. > :37:01.and then was swept up. You can see the foundation right here. Oh, yes.
:37:01. > :37:05.House shifted to the left. You can see everything under here, all the
:37:05. > :37:08.water, the pipes broke up there. Literally when the storm surge came
:37:08. > :37:13.in, obviously it moved this boat. This was not the originally
:37:13. > :37:20.location of this boat. It literally moved the foundation or moved the
:37:21. > :37:25.house off its foundation. Several feet off its foundation. You look
:37:25. > :37:31.at the damage to the coastline, it's tremendous and so widespread.
:37:31. > :37:41.You know, boardwalks decimated. Homes decimated. There are boats in
:37:41. > :37:42.
:37:42. > :37:51.the middle of the street. Boats in the middle of people's homes. A
:37:51. > :37:54.boat has landed. Amazing, DJ Gerano recording this. Look at this,
:37:54. > :37:59.another boat, jet ski, amazing, looks like a war zone out here,
:37:59. > :38:03.ladies and gentleman, a war zone. There's so much devastation, it's
:38:03. > :38:07.comparable to any Hurricane I've ever seen. A lot of things came
:38:07. > :38:12.together to make Sandy the storm she was. The size of the storm, the
:38:12. > :38:15.size of the wind field, the amount of water that was being pushed, the
:38:15. > :38:18.phasing with the system that was coming through the midwest and into
:38:18. > :38:22.the east and the all important track. You put those things
:38:22. > :38:29.together and then you tack on a full moon on p to -- top of that,
:38:29. > :38:35.worst case scenario. A scenario of rising tides of torrential rain
:38:35. > :38:42.meant devastating floods along the East Coast of the USA. At Hatteras
:38:42. > :38:49.Island the estate agents ventured out with cameras again. This is
:38:49. > :38:55.Kurt and Jason recording with Outer Beaches Realty. This is caisy out
:38:55. > :39:01.here. Actually we made -- crazy out here. Actually we made our way to
:39:01. > :39:04.the Green Lantern, the first house on the right. It leaves us
:39:04. > :39:14.speechless. So we're just going to go ahead and show you what we see
:39:14. > :39:34.
:39:34. > :39:40.We are in ocean City New Jersey. Several people on this block have
:39:40. > :39:50.indeed stayed. Oh, looks like Chris's car is totally under water
:39:50. > :40:00.down there. High tide should be going down. The streets are totally
:40:00. > :40:02.
:40:02. > :40:07.gone. And our steps... Under the house. The water finds a way. Water
:40:07. > :40:10.finds a way in. It will do what it wants. It will go where it wants.
:40:10. > :40:15.It doesn't care about your personal belongings or this you just bought
:40:15. > :40:19.or that you just bought. It's going to wreck everything. On Staten
:40:20. > :40:29.Island, when the water was too dangerous Forres cue boats, Pablo
:40:30. > :40:36.
:40:36. > :40:46.Cruz, a Mexican, filmed people Holy shit. Located at the back of
:40:46. > :40:55.
:40:55. > :40:59.New York harbour, Staten Island had 21 people died on Staten Island,
:40:59. > :41:09.mostly through drowning. Half the total number of those killed by the
:41:09. > :41:22.
:41:22. > :41:28.New York City closed its 468 subway stations during the assume storm.
:41:28. > :41:35.But that didn'tston the flooding. When the 14-foot storm surge hit
:41:35. > :41:42.down town, it was only going one way, downwards.
:41:42. > :41:50.This may be slipy. Across the East Coast of America, the total
:41:50. > :41:52.commercial and personal damage is estimated at up to $50 billion. The
:41:52. > :42:02.Metropolitan Transit Authority went underground to film one of its
:42:02. > :42:17.
:42:17. > :42:22.There was no escape for cars, left Inland, the problem was not floods,
:42:22. > :42:27.but falling trees. Having recorded his famous video, John Mateer was
:42:27. > :42:34.forced to take cover. We stayed in the basement all night
:42:34. > :42:38.and we emerged in the morning. This was the view from our window. It
:42:38. > :42:46.was crazy. You couldn't even look at it because there was just a
:42:46. > :42:51.gigantic tree in the way. There is a picture of a, an entire tree
:42:51. > :42:56.covering our house. So we basically live in a tree house. This one was
:42:56. > :43:01.the tree in front of our house, the reason why we couldn't get out of
:43:01. > :43:07.our house. We had to climb under the trunk, which was an interesting
:43:07. > :43:12.feat. It shows the neighbour's car there. I'm a curious person. I like
:43:12. > :43:16.to film things. I post things on social media and everything.
:43:16. > :43:24.Brooklyn journalist Becky Griffin had had to stay indoors during the
:43:24. > :43:28.storm. Once it was safe to go out, she filmed with her mobile phone.
:43:28. > :43:32.This was just way too crazy to take still photos of. So I'm going to
:43:32. > :43:40.film the video for you, so you see the devastation just a block away
:43:40. > :43:44.from my house. This street is totally blocked. --
:43:44. > :43:54.blocked by the tree and the cars are pretty much ruined underneath
:43:54. > :43:58.
:43:58. > :44:06.it. Here's the first one. And the second one. And the third one
:44:06. > :44:15.caught too. More cars stuck and ruined. I don't even know how to
:44:15. > :44:19.walk past this thing. I was shocked. I was totally
:44:19. > :44:24.shocked. A bunch of thoughts were running through my head at the same
:44:25. > :44:29.time. First one was - oh, my God. Never seen anything like this. And
:44:29. > :44:37.the second was - thank God people weren't hurt.
:44:37. > :44:41.There's another big one that just came out on the street. And that
:44:41. > :44:47.one was on the house. So yeah, I filmed it and I pretty
:44:47. > :44:57.much called the video, you know I wrote "counting my blessings". See
:44:57. > :45:04.
:45:04. > :45:08.one, two. And another one. Three. Wow. There's trees down in the
:45:08. > :45:11.neighbourhood, wires down and it feels like you're in a war zone,
:45:11. > :45:16.but it's strange because this is where I grew up. This is where I've
:45:16. > :45:26.lived my whole life. I've never had something like this hit so close to
:45:26. > :45:28.
:45:28. > :45:33.The insurance came said it was a loss. It was crushed by the tree,
:45:33. > :45:38.so we will get nothing back. looks like something from a movie
:45:38. > :45:43.set. I cannot imagine it is my car. The second car received damage from
:45:43. > :45:47.the same tree. There is also damage in the back yard. We will show you.
:45:47. > :45:52.There is too much structural damage on the roof from weight of the tree
:45:52. > :45:55.falling on it. It ripped the sheet metal off the door. We thought from
:45:55. > :46:04.that side it looks like nothing happened, but obviously the whole
:46:04. > :46:07.door was ripped off it looked like somebody came in from the movie,
:46:07. > :46:11.Terminator. That is just what happened in the front yard. From
:46:11. > :46:15.the back yard, there is more damage. Remember the The Wizard of Oz? It
:46:15. > :46:19.looks like when the house fell on the witch. There are no words for
:46:19. > :46:27.this... This happened later on at night, whether it was darker. We
:46:27. > :46:31.didn't see this tree falling this way. We heard something. Terese
:46:31. > :46:36.said look out of the window, the shed is not where it is supposed to
:46:37. > :46:42.be. It is unbelievable how nature can pick this whole thing up. The
:46:42. > :46:47.shed is in tact. There nothing wrong with this. As horrific as it
:46:47. > :46:52.looks we are all here to talk about it. It is just things. We are
:46:52. > :46:57.fortunate no-one got hurt. This is Alexander Higgins.
:46:57. > :47:01.Here is my street... I am driving down it.
:47:01. > :47:09.Back at Jersey Shore, Alexander Higgins is still reporting on the
:47:09. > :47:16.superstorm, but now the story had come directly home.
:47:16. > :47:20.All my neighbourhood lost everything. We are all... We are
:47:20. > :47:30.all pretty much devastated by all of this.
:47:30. > :47:36.This is my son's girlfriend's, he is only seven. You can see that
:47:36. > :47:41.every single street... Here is my aunt and uncle's house. Even with
:47:41. > :47:47.all of the stuff that they have in there, they have not even moved out
:47:47. > :47:55.10% of their stuff. That is my neighbour, Jay. This is
:47:55. > :48:05.my house. This is all of my property.
:48:05. > :48:07.
:48:07. > :48:13.It's just like an absolute war zone. Everybody got hit. Hard.
:48:13. > :48:18.A few days after filming the video for YouTube, Alex took us around
:48:18. > :48:28.what remained of his house. There is a little over here.
:48:28. > :48:34.
:48:34. > :48:40.This is my daughter's old room. It was decorated like a little
:48:40. > :48:44.princess castle. She is daddy's princess. Daddy's little girl.
:48:44. > :48:50.Purple was her favourite colour. Cleaning this room out was probably
:48:50. > :49:00.the hardest. Taking out all of the memories. Little baby socks. Her
:49:00. > :49:01.
:49:01. > :49:10.toys. They were all in here. Her barbis.
:49:10. > :49:15.DBarbies. This room right here was my room where I had tens of
:49:15. > :49:21.thousands of dollars of electronic equipment. Networking equipment.
:49:21. > :49:27.Servers, my blog. Thats with my life, that is now wiped out. I
:49:27. > :49:31.don't have a job or income coming in now. That was destroyed.
:49:31. > :49:36.Insurance does not cover him for flooding, but prompted by the
:49:36. > :49:43.videos he has prosted online, friends have set up a Facebook page
:49:43. > :49:49.to raise money for the family as it rebuilds.
:49:49. > :49:53.So far, they have raised $8,000. Everywhere people were having to
:49:53. > :50:03.cope with the fallout of the superstorm. Everywhere it was
:50:03. > :50:04.
:50:04. > :50:10.recorded on video. We can call the police? Call the
:50:10. > :50:14.police. We have two hours here. This is not fair! This was Nutley,
:50:14. > :50:24.New Jersey. Panic-buying at the gas stations,
:50:24. > :50:25.
:50:25. > :50:34.it threatened to get out of control when a driver jumped the queue.
:50:34. > :50:40.People who had been waiting hours to fill up, turned on the driver.
:50:40. > :50:48.OK. You know what? You know what? We are a community here too. No.
:50:48. > :50:51.You are not going to have gas. Local maths teacher, Dan Grecko,
:50:51. > :50:58.came out with his camera to film the action.
:50:58. > :51:05.They say you are jumping the line. Don't yell. I can hear in this spot.
:51:05. > :51:12.I take from this line. Not this. but there is a line. Regardless of
:51:12. > :51:15.if you drop down. You have to back out.
:51:15. > :51:20.What's fair is fair. Thank you, officer.
:51:20. > :51:30.Dan Grecko said he carried out the filming to embarrass the driver
:51:30. > :51:30.
:51:30. > :51:40.into respecting the people who had been waiting for hours to fill up.
:51:40. > :51:43.
:51:43. > :51:47.Thank you, buddy. Hey, how long you been in line,
:51:47. > :51:52.buddy? One-and-a-half hours. I wouldn't mind, but this is not fair.
:51:52. > :51:57.And he saw the line. Yeah, how can you miss that? How can you miss
:51:57. > :52:01.that? Before, during and after the US superstorm, a new generation
:52:01. > :52:04.skilled in text and video were able to help to report and even make
:52:04. > :52:11.jokes about one of the biggest natural disasters in American
:52:11. > :52:16.history. Social media was the biggest source
:52:16. > :52:21.of actual information to get out to, not only New Yorkers, but also, you
:52:21. > :52:25.know, all over the world. You turn on the TV, you see all of these
:52:25. > :52:31.reporters out in the storm. You can't really hear what they are
:52:31. > :52:36.saying as they are cut off. The wind is going on. So, OK, you are
:52:36. > :52:41.getting a crazy weather report, but the real information was coming on
:52:41. > :52:46.social media. People were taking pictures by their homes. People
:52:46. > :52:52.writing what is going on. This is the apocalypse.
:52:52. > :52:59.It kind of made main stream media look outdated.
:52:59. > :53:04.How do you feel looking at it now? I mean, it, at first when I first
:53:04. > :53:09.looked at it. I was surprised that people were making jokes about it.
:53:09. > :53:13.I thought this was not funny. We were scared about it. Our voices
:53:13. > :53:19.sound a little dramatic. I am a little dramatic.
:53:19. > :53:24.In our family, we are like that! REPORTER: How many views has it
:53:24. > :53:30.had? On here it take as while to update, but it almost 1 million.
:53:30. > :53:40.That is a lot. Someone Auto-Tuneed our clip to be
:53:40. > :53:40.
:53:40. > :53:45.a music video, basically. We were laughing at it at first.
:53:45. > :53:52.# Oh, my God # I got that on film
:53:52. > :54:02.# Oh, my God the car got crushed # There is a fire there
:54:02. > :54:09.# Oh, my God # There is nothing you can do about
:54:09. > :54:16.that! # I was expecting people to be interested in it. It is not
:54:16. > :54:20.aften you see it like that. I was a -- expecting attention, but not
:54:20. > :54:24.that much that this clip got. But there was a darker side when
:54:24. > :54:32.the storm broke. There were a lot of tweets that
:54:32. > :54:35.were just not accurate. Like the Fire Department headquarters were
:54:35. > :54:41.evacuating. I tweeted to this person that was
:54:41. > :54:47.not the case. I knew it was not as I was sitting at my desk, but I
:54:47. > :54:51.wanted to ensure that people were not worried. A few people re-
:54:51. > :54:58.tweeted. I had to ensure I was staying on top of those. To ensure
:54:58. > :55:02.people that was not the case before that bad information spread further.
:55:02. > :55:08.You have to be careful. People give misinformation through social media.
:55:08. > :55:11.The one good thing, though, about the social media, it tends to shoot
:55:11. > :55:14.down misinformation a lot quicker than other platforms as there are
:55:14. > :55:17.so many people that can see information that is flowing through,
:55:18. > :55:22.pick it up and say that is not correct. With television it seems
:55:22. > :55:26.that often it takes a little longer for that misinformation to be shot
:55:26. > :55:30.down. After he had film the falling trees,
:55:30. > :55:38.John Mateer carried on filming for us. He was on the spot to become
:55:38. > :55:42.this film's very own weather man. You were completely terrified that
:55:42. > :55:47.tomorrow there would be a north- easter, which is a store, a big
:55:47. > :55:53.storm coming. That is a week after Hurricane Sandy hit! So, I'm at the
:55:53. > :55:58.school. It is about 11.00am. The north-easter is just beginning.
:55:59. > :56:03.It is raining. There is a little bit of wind, but it is supposed to
:56:03. > :56:11.get worse halfway through the day. So it is freezing. My hand is numb
:56:11. > :56:15.from holding the phone. Oh, my God do you see that? It is like
:56:15. > :56:20.blizzarding out! John Mateer is just one example of the new breed
:56:20. > :56:24.of camera people, who, thanks to technology has transformed way that
:56:24. > :56:29.we report the news. People are putting content on
:56:29. > :56:33.YouTube. It make it is more competitive for the professional
:56:33. > :56:36.videoographers and photographers out in the field. OK, so, hey you
:56:36. > :56:41.guys it is the day after the north- easter.
:56:41. > :56:45.We now have to compete with a guy with a cellphone.
:56:45. > :56:50.The news, it seems, has changed for good.
:56:50. > :56:57.It is crazy how much snow there is. There is snow days after Hallowe'en.
:56:57. > :57:03.That make no, sir sense! We have become used to the appalling images
:57:03. > :57:07.of what nature can throw at us. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanos,
:57:07. > :57:14.but it is not just for its destruction that Hurricane Sandy
:57:14. > :57:18.will be remembered. More than 100 people dead, homes wrecked, and
:57:18. > :57:23.lives shattered. The bill for damage is running into billions.
:57:23. > :57:27.This is a serious and big storm. should not underestimate the impact
:57:27. > :57:34.of the storm or assume that predictions will be wrong.
:57:34. > :57:42.But Superstorm Sandy also will be remembered as the first natural
:57:42. > :57:47.disaster where at each and every stage, the images were captured by
:57:47. > :57:57.eyewitnesses who witnessed its full might and awesome power.
:57:57. > :58:05.
:58:05. > :58:15.Oh, my God! Plg -- Ready, go! Hurricane Sandy! A natural disaster
:58:15. > :58:15.
:58:15. > :59:14.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds
:59:14. > :59:19.Hi, I'm Sam, with the day's entertainment news on Three.
:59:19. > :59:22.Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has tonight been released on bail.
:59:22. > :59:25.It follows his arrest this morning on suspicion of sexual offences. He
:59:25. > :59:29.had denied previous claims. ITV has taken disciplinary action
:59:29. > :59:33.at This Morning after Phillip Schofield showed the PM a list of
:59:33. > :59:36.alleged paedophiles. The network and presenter have apologised.
:59:36. > :59:40.Emily Atack has had death threats on Twitter. The Inbetweeners star
:59:40. > :59:43.said it was the most vicious thing she had ever been sent. Police are
:59:43. > :59:47.investigating. A judge in LA has thrown out a case
:59:47. > :59:50.involving a paparazzo who chased Justin Bieber. He was followed at
:59:50. > :59:54.high speed. The photographer still faces charges of reckless driving.