Sandy's impact: State by state New York: At least five killed, 1.7 million without power West Virginia: A woman is killed in a car accident after the storm dumps 5 inches of snow New Jersey: Sandy has killed at least three in the Garden State. Pennsylvania: Two die under falling trees Monday night. Have you been affected by Sandy? (CNN) -- States along the East Coast were pummeled by post-tropical storm Sandy as it came crashing ashore. The storm officially made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey, but it is affecting a much wider area. By early Tuesday, nearly 6.5 million customers were without power across 13 states and the District of Columbia, according to the latest CNN estimate. At least 13 people have died. Presdient Obama has declared states of emergency for at least five states and the nation's capital. One person was killed and two sustained injuries that weren't life-threatening after a large tree fell on them in Mansfield, according to a statement from Connecticut State Police. 629,378 lost power according to Connecticut Light and Power. The state emergency management office sent out an ominous tweet to trapped residents: "If u find urself surrounded by H2O, call 4 help if u can & then get 2 highest level of home. Hang a white sheet out a street side window. Power went down for 78,677 customers in Delaware, Delmarva Power reported. The company says it cannot assess the time it will take to restore power, due to the intensity of the storm. Driving restrictions will be in place until at least 8:30 a.m. ET Tuesday. Non-essential state employees are told not to go to work. Over 490,000 lost power in Washington and its suburbs, according to CNN affiliate WJLA. The city's mass transit system, known as the Metro, will stay idle Tuesday. All Washington public schools will be closed Tuesday. Flooding FDR 87,790 homes and businesses are without electricity, according to Central Maine Power. Around 1,000 workers will begin repairing lines early Tuesday. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. reported that nearly 215,000 customers had lost power but that over 58,000 of them already had power restored. A state of emergency remains in effect, according to Maryland's Emergency Management Agency. Authorities lowered the speed limit to 45 mph on all interstates and U.S. routes "effective immediately and until further notice," according to state police. State employees will be going to work Tuesday, according to the government's website. But he state moved the start of the office day up to 10 a.m. The Bay State's emergency agency warned residents of continuing dangerous winds into Tuesday, which could cause power outages, and reminded them that coastal flooding was expected overnight. Hoping to avoid the kind of criticism utilities received after last year's Hurricane Irene and other storms, Gov. Deval Patrick said utilities plan to pair tree removal and power restoration crews, rather than having them work separately, so that work can be done more efficiently. New Hampshire's power suppliers reported a total of 187,203 customers without electricity. Gov. John Lynch's urged drivers to stay off the state's roads. The governor asked the National Guard to place 100 troops on active duty, with 100 more on standby. Sandy has killed at least three in the Garden State, which also had the biggest loss of electricity. Two people in Morris County died Monday evening when a tree fell on their car, authorities said. A male of unknown age was also killed in Hawthorne when a tree fell on a house, according to Hawthorne Fire Chief Joseph Speranza. Sandy has left 2,132,543 customers without electricity. Several feet of water flooded parts of Atlantic City on Monday, and authorities worked to evacuate hundreds of people from West Atlantic City, where waters were "dangerously high," said Linda Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Atlantic County. Wind blasted out the windows in a building were a U.S. senator lives Monday night. "I think it's the worst we have seen here in my lifetime," Sen. Bob Menendez of North Bergen, NJ, said of the damage in his state. Half the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, is flooded, said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. The city of 50,000 has had to evacuate two of its fire stations. New Jersey Transit will remain suspended indefinitely. Flooding from Sandy also forced the closure of Newark Liberty International and Teterboro airports. Sandy has killed five state-wide, and a record-setting power outage in New York City darkened a large Manhattan hospital, triggering a patient evacuation. 670,000 customers are currently without power, 300,000 of them due to electrical lines knocked down by falling trees, and these numbers could rise, according to a power company spokesman. "This will be the largest storm related outage in our history," said John Miksad, senior vice president at power company Con Edison, which serves 3.2 million customers in all five Burroughs of New York City as well as Westchester County. According to a CNN tally using data from the power providers statewide, 1,768,620 total have lost electricity. New York University Langone Medical Center went dark late Monday. More than 200 patients were being evacuated after backup power failed, said Lisa Greiner, NYU Longone spokeswoman. Among them were newborns from a neonatal care unit. Four of them were on respirators that shut down, and nurses used manual pumps to keep them breathing. The hospital had more than 10 feet of water in its basement. At least two dozen homes were burning in a six-alarm fire inthe Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. Nearly 200 firefighters are on scene fighting the blaze. Subway stations in Lower Manhattan flooded, as did some subway tunnels, Metro Transit Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said late Monday. It will take 14 hours to four days to get out the water out of the tunnels, he said. Flooding also forced the closure of two major airports, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia. The runway intersection at the latter was covered by water. A crane atop a luxury Manhattan skyscraper under construction partly collapsed Monday, leaving its arm precariously perched and hanging over West 57th Street. The captain of HMS Bounty, a tall ship used for classic adventure films, remains missing after Hurricane Sandy forced them the crew to abandon ship about 90 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Two helicopter crews saved 14 people stranded in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. A deckhand missing from the ship was found dead, the Coast Guard said. 6,694 customers were without power. North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties in the western part of her state due to snow. Sandy claimed its first victims in Pennsylvania Monday night. An 8-year-old boy died Monday after being struck by a tree limb in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He was pronounced dead at the scene at a residence in Franklin Township, according to state police. 62 year-old Gerald Witman of Oley was killed when he was struck by a falling tree, according to Pennsylvania State Police spokesman David Beohm. The smallest state in the union with just over 1 million residents reported 112,357 customers without electricity, which gets its power supply from the National Grid. Outages were concentrated in the southern part of the state, affiliate WPRI reported. Few used public evacuation shelters. There is widespread road debris "but no casualties and relatively little alarm," according to WPRI. President Obama declared a state of emergency in Virginia late Monday, ordering federal assistance on top of state and local efforts. Gov. Bob McDonnell earlier in the day had asked for a federal emergency declaration, which would free up funding. All public schools in Fairfax County, a large school district in northern Virginia, will be closed Tuesday. A woman was killed when her car collided with a cement truck after the storm dumped 5 inches of snow on the town of Davis, authorities said. West Virginia has declared a state of emergency as Sandy is dumping heavy snow and rain in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. CNN's Soledad O'Brien, Suzanne Malveaux, Mark Norman, Jason Kessler, George Howell and Athena Jones contributed to this report.