Nightly News   |  October 31, 2012

Dramatic aerials of Breezy Point

In Breezy Point, N.Y., a Queens neighborhood that lost more than 100 homes, endured catastrophic damage. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>> striking view to show you from the air. this is a neighborhood also in new york city , in the borough of queens, and they have been asked to bear a lot. keep in mind this is home to a lot of police officers and firefighters. they lost a lot of residents on 9/11. after that they had a plane crash , and now the community of breezy point has lost over 100 homes to fire. somebody said this tiny couple of blocks area looked like dresden while the fires were burning, jumping from house to house, because they couldn't take fire trucks to the area because there was standing water. the extent of the damage is catastrophic, where block upon block neighbors are pledging to rebuild, what is usually a lovely, close neighborhood there in queens new york.