Video: Conn. governor: ?Rescue efforts under way?

>> malloy is with us right now. governor, good morning to you.

>> good morning.

>> yesterday you used the word catastrophic to describe what would happen with this storm. did it live up to that expectation? how bad is it?

>> it's pretty bad. the fire fighter died in easton is emblematic of that. we have trees down everywhere, poles down everywhere. the amount of flooding damage is unbelievable. we had thousands of people trapped in homes at the height of the storm last night. in fact, i went on tv to tell people to stay in place because we didn't want people to try to be swimming out or walking out through high water or driving out. having said all of that, i think the connecticut folks responded pretty well. most heeded the call. most did the right thing to get out of harm's way. we had a series of fires last night in greenwich and saybrook. we lost a number of houses and housing units to fires, to flooding, to wind damage. obviously there will be a lot more assessment today. we know we have over 635,000 customers without power. we know we have water damage to at least three if not four major sewer treatment facilities that will take some period of time to repair. so we've got a lot of work ahead of us. i want to thank the president. united states who did a magnificent job in fema who had really done some amazing early work to get us ready, but now the hard work will start.

>> and governor, you talked about the evacuations. do you have any sense of how many people may still be stranded this morning? do you have search and rescue efforts under way?

>> we do have search and rescue efforts under way. we have -- we had mobilized 850 troops. they have been deployed throughout the state. we have a number of teams, regional teams, as well as others that are responding. the water's receded for a period of time, though they will start to come back to some extent, much lower than what we saw last night, but, you know, we're going door to door and house to house to make sure people are okay and that if they need our assistance at this point, we're making it available. we had thousands of people in shelters last night, certainly hundreds of thousands of people probably staying with friends or relatives elsewhere in connecticut . i'm very grateful to the people of connecticut to responding. our municipal officials by and large did a magnificent job preparatory to the storm so that handling the storm at its height was more manageable than we might have thought. only because of the hard work that was done.

>> well, a long day and days ahead for you and your team there. connecticut governor dannel malloy , thank you so much.

>> thank you.

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