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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times John Selldorff, center, is chief executive of Legrand. The company lost power at its manufacturing facility in Fairfield, N.J. In fits and starts, businesses across a broad swath of the East Coast...
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MarketWatch
| 7 months ago
Residents walk by debris on the boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy in Ocean City, Md. MarketWatch) Officials and residents of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States struggled Tuesday evening to assess damage from Sandy's hammer blow to the region,...
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Big News Network
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama will visit the storm-battered state of New Jersey Wednesday to view damage with the governor and thank emergency workers struggling to cope with the disaster. The visit, announced Tuesday by the White House, comes as a vast...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Hearst Washington Bureau On the day after Hurricane Sandy smashed into the mid-Atlantic states, the presidential campaign was on hold...Though official campaign efforts for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were on hold because of the disaster that...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
38 Millions of Americans remain without power or transportation in the wake of Sandy, the record-setting "super storm" which caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of damage along the East Coast of the United States.
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The independent
| 7 months ago
Suggested Topics The United States' East Coast yesterday began a massive clean-up and recovery effort likely to last for weeks after Hurricane Sandy brought a nightmare mix of wind and rain, floods and fire, blackouts and transport paralysis. The...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Sandy broke the record for lowest pressure north of the Carolinas. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The worst of Sandy has passed for most of us in the northeastern United States . The storm lived up to expectations and lashed out a blow that...
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Canada.com
| 7 months ago
This can make him, or break him and he can't be seen to care either way...President Barack Obama has been handed a disaster on a scale that can define a presidency. The sheer size of the area devastated by Hurricane Sandy stretching up the eastern...
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NY1
| 7 months ago
Transit Updates MTA officials hope to have all bus routes running by Wednesday, and the rides will continue to be fare-free...Seven East River subway tubes, two Long Island Rail Road tubes linking Manhattan with Queens, and two vehicular tunnels were...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Manhattan remained paralyzed with hundreds of thousands without power and its subway system shut, portions flooded. About 80 homes were destroyed by fire in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. The Jersey Shore has suffered "incalculable" losses,...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Sandy the super-storm has blown the US presidential race off track with just a week to go until the elections. President Barack Obama cancelled Wednesday campaign events as he stayed in Washington focusing on relief efforts for the devastated East...
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Fiji Times
| 7 months ago
Superstorm Sandy kept in touch and remained calm as the hurricane slammed into East Coast America, plunging New York into darkness and knocking out power to at least 5.3 million people. Apisai Tuiqere, a Qalikarua, Matuku, native living in Vermont,...
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Popeater
| 7 months ago
A huge tree split apart and fell over the front yard and fence of a home on Carpenter Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct., 30, 2012, in Sea Cliff, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) Little Ferry, N.J. Olivia Loesner, 16, hugs her...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
In this case, it was once-in-a-lifetime Superstorm Sandy, which caused the outspoken Republican governor of New Jersey to declare a state of emergency and seek federal help for widespread devastation. Interviewed Tuesday on NBC, Christie described...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country's most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Here is a look at how the behemoth storm Sandy affected the nation's largest city and its suburbs. With power out to more than 750,000 New Yorkers, much of the nation's financial capital was dark Tuesday. Some narrow streets in the neighborhoods of...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 7 months ago
New York City Marathon organizers say they are moving ahead with plans for Sunday's race even as the city staggers through the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. Five days before the marathon, public transportation was shut, airports closed and streets...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
The floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural disaster in the transit system's 108-year history...Corrosive salt water could have destroyed essential...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
Superstorm Sandy muffled vitriolic campaigning a week from the US election, as President Barack Obama managed the aftermath Tuesday and Mitt Romney faced a post-disaster political minefield. Obama stayed in the White House, acting as a leader in the...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
People in the path of the devastating Superstorm Sandy have begun to assess the widespread damage along the US East Coast. The high winds and driving rain knocked out power to more than nine million people and 39 people lost their lives as a result...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Evoking harrowing memories of Hurricane Katrina, nearly 300 patients were evacuated floor by floor from a premiere hospital that lost generator power at the height of superstorm Sandy. Rescuers and staff at New York University Langone Medical Center,...
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Extra
| 7 months ago
As we arrived in New York, we took to Duane Reed to collect all the essential supplies for Sandy. Monday, October 29 8:00 AM: We added to out final stock of supplies and packed our backpacks with everything we'd need in case we're stranded, which...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Washington and in Kettering, Ohio Barack Obama at the Red Cross headquarters. Photograph: Chris Kleponis/Getty Images/Pool Barack Obama scrapped plans to campaign on Wednesday the third day in a row as he and his rival Mitt Romney sought to navigate...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Manhattan in flood water yesterday after Hurricane Sandy swept across the eastern seaboard of the US. Photograph: Christos Pathiakis/Getty Images Should the apocalypse ever strike New York City, there will presumably still be a few Spandex-clad...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 7 months ago
Sandy carved a harrowing path of destruction through the East Coast, promising to add to its legacy as one of the most damaging storms to menace the Northeast. As Hurricane Sandy recedes, some homeowners will get a sick feeling as they survey the...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
The death toll from superstorm Sandy has risen to 35 in the United States and Canada, and was expected to climb further as several people remained missing, officials said Tuesday. Sandy has risen to 35 in the United States and Canada, and was...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 7 months ago
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the power company said it could be several days before the lights come on for hundreds of thousands of people plunged into darkness by what was once Hurricane Sandy. And Bloomberg said it could be four or five days before...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Oct. 1. On top of more than $1 billion left over in the Disaster Relief Fund from last year, Congress has appropriated $7.1 billion for fiscal 2013. President Obama's decision to make emergency declarations in 10 states and the District of Columbia...
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Hollywood Reporter Film
| 7 months ago
Box office revenues could be down by as much as 25 percent, representing millions of dollars in losses; all AMC Theaters in Manhattan and Long Island will remain closed through Tuesday. Roughly 300 movie theaters stretching from the nation's capitol...
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The Mercury News
| 7 months ago
Font Resize National editor's pick of the top news stories in the nation and world at this hour: At least 38 people were dead, up to 100 homes burned and millions were without power Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy barreled through New Jersey and New...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
Amidst torrential rain and as much as 50cm of snow in high-country blizzards, the dawn tally was gob-smacking in a storm path sweeping from the New Jersey coast and up through New York state and central Pennsylvania. There were almost 40 storm...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
A blacked-out New York City skyline on Monday night as hurricane Sandy made landfall. Photograph: Reuters Millions of people on the US east coast faced the prospect several days without power after superstorm Sandy ripped through power lines on her...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
East Coast began cleaning up Tuesday the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Sandy and it was immediately clear that the bill for the unprecedented late season storm is likely to be astronomical and shared by all Americans. One of the big lessons here...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
As storm-battered residents came to terms with the extent of the damage Tuesday, organizers of the New York City Marathon were trying to determine if flight cancellations, flooding and power outages would affect Sunday's race. "We are going to give...
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Truthdig
| 7 months ago
Oct 30, 2012 Superstorm Sandy turned out to be everything it was promised to be and more. The hurricane ripped through the Eastern Seaboard on Monday, leaving millions without power, destroying homes, causing rampant flooding, impacting air travel...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
At least 33 deaths were reported in seven states, according to the Associated Press. Of the dead, at least 10 were in New York City -- and three of the victims were children, one about 8 years old. As many as 7.5 million people had lost electrical...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and a wide swathe of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages. Sandy, which crashed ashore with...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Water spills over into Manhattan in Battery Park in New York City on October 29, 2012. Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Hurricane Sandy left 16 dead, zapped power and left millions of people anxious to return to homes Tuesday, and the storm wasn't done yet, U.S.
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
The waters were churning down the Hudson River into the Upper Bay around the tip of Manhattan, spitting up whitecaps. On Monday morning the high tide caused a minor breach in Battery Park. Officials were concerned that Monday evening's high tide...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Sandy has caused large-scale damage, but only a quarter of that caused by Hurrican Katrina. Rex Features Residents in large parts of America's east coast spent Tuesday surveying the damage caused by one of the worst storms ever to hit the region.
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
Superstorm Sandy battered the US East Coast today with fierce winds and heavy rains, killing at least 17 people, plunging millions into darkness and leaving the New York Stock Exchange shut for two straight days for the first time since 1888,...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Opinion Power remained out for roughly six million people, including a large swath of Manhattan. Early risers stepped out into debris-littered streets that remained mostly deserted as dawn shed light on the extent of the damage. Bridges remained...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
US President Barack Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York state after storm Sandy smashed into the US East Coast, causing flooding and cutting power to millions. A record 4m (13ft) tidal surge sent seawater cascading into large parts of...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
Super storm Sandy had crippled downtown New York's transport network and power grid Tuesday after forcing a massive surge of seawater into the streets of lower Manhattan. The storm declared a major disaster by President Barack Obama left at least one...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
Major storm hits east coast, killing 13; 6.8 million people without power; New Jersey nuclear plant raises alert level; storm "unfolding as the Northeast's Katrina. Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, battered the nation's...
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Herald Tribune
| 7 months ago
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 5:33 a.m...As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark.
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
16 Hurricane hammers NY: 6 dead, houses destroyed by fire, freak floods in subway (Image from Facebook/OccupyWallSt1) (7.4Mb) embed video Explosions, fires, and floods have devastated New York, killing at least six people statewide.
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Local officials have reported a total 13 deaths from the massive storm as it hammered the cities of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina. At least five people were killed in New York State including a 30-year-...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Super storm Sandy engulfed the eastern United States early on Tuesday, flooding much of New York City, battering several states with heavy winds and torrential rain, and leaving at least 13 people dead. (click here for more photos) The massive storm...
