Video: Connecticut residents assess damage

>> this story reaches from new england as we you saw earlier all the way west to the midwest. places like massachusetts, rhode island and right where you're seeing, connecticut , specifically old say brook right there on the water, long island sound. stephanie gosk has our reporting from there. stephanie , good evening.

>> good evening, brian. the story of construction on the connecticut coast is going to sound familiar. the surge came up fast and high, reaching to about my shoulders. it was then that one of these houses here caught fire from a downed power cable . it then set the neighboring house on fire , and, of course, there was nothing the fire department could do because of all the water here. they couldn't get in here until later on this afternoon when the waters receded. they did what they could to put out what remained of the blaze, at that point the houses were already destroyed. connecticut like the other new england states as far north as paine are in a state of recovery, that means that residents from communities like this one are coming back in to assess the damage. and the residents of old saybrook are in something of a state of shock , because last year, hurricane irene came in around the same time and did extensive damage. they spent the year trying to repair that damage only to have their houses damaged again last night by hurricane sandy. we talked to a lot of them, and they actually added a silver lining . hard to imagine amidst all of this damage, they said, even with the damage and the floods and the fires, no one in this community was hurt, that's because when they were told to leave, that's exactly what they did. brian?

>> stephanie , you can hear millions of people from new york to l.a. just say together, what is going on here? what are we witnessing. stephanie gosk on the connecticut coastline tonight.

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