Parts of New York City are submerged under 13 feet of water, but help is on the way: As we speak, a specialized unit called the "National Unwatering SWAT Team" is en route to Gotham. Ever heard of 'em ...

Parts of New York City are submerged under 13 feet of water, but help is on the way: As we speak, a specialized unit called the "National Unwatering SWAT Team" is en route to Gotham. Ever heard of 'em ...

For the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has been upgraded to a $20-million mission assignment since the storm struck the Northeast U.S. region Monday, unwatering is the main focus of that mission.

The scale is staggering: Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City's network of underground and vehicular tunnels with up to 400 million gallons of water. On Thursday, the U.S. military began to bring ...

Most of Sandy’s flood waters on New York City’s streets have receded, but much of the water beneath the streets remains trapped. TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie met with Roger Less of the Army Corps of ...

"The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night." That's how Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan ...

The commander of the Rock Island District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been handed the Herculean task of getting the floodwaters out of New Orleans. Col. Duane Gapinski, who has been ...

(CBS News) Superstorm Sandy brought 60 million gallons of water rushing in to the historic Brooklyn Battery Tunnel at the southern tip of Manhattan. The storm's surge flooded nearly two miles of the ...

The hurricane that struck New York City left parts of the city flooded, but at levels far less than the storm that hit New Orleans seven years ago. However, work crews will have a tougher time ...