This week on World View, we track the US elections, who is ahead in the race for the White house and will hurricane Sandy impact the US elections? ...
12:55 PM, Nov 02, 2012
The US on Wednesday dismissed as "hollow" the offer of humanitarian aid for superstorm victims from JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and for whom the US has offered a bounty of $10 million. "As you all well know, Saeed is believed to be behind organising the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which 166 people were killed, including six Americans. That is why he is actually ...
07:40 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New York: Sandy split New York City in two. The massive storm left people damp, miserable and in the dark in the lower part of the city. Yet in much of the rest of Manhattan, life was almost normal, albeit without some of the usual urban comforts. Almost every street below Times Square in the city's Midtown district lost power on Monday night after an explosion at a Consolidated Edison...
06:40 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Millions of Americans over a 700-mile stretch across eight states up and down the East Coast prepared to meet the onslaught of approaching Hurricane Sandy and its potentially devastating impact. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in the national capital as also Maryland, Massachusetts and New York as he headed back to Washington to monitor the situation from the White House after changing his campaign plans. Washington's Metro ...
02:06 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday. As the rains stopped and rivers began to recede, authorities were getting a fuller idea of how much damage Sandy brought on Haiti. Bridges collapsed....
01:16 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: Air India on Monday said its Mumbai-Newark and Delhi-New York flights have been "indefinitely delayed" due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United States. An Air India spokesperson said AI 191 Mumbai-Newark and AI 101 Delhi-New York have been indefinitely delayed due to the hurricane. Passengers have been informed and transit passengers have been provided hotel accommodation in Delhi, the spokesperson...
12:11 PM, Oct 29, 2012
The US is bracing for Hurricane Sandy. People all along the Eastern Seaboard are making all possible arrangements to keep them out of harm's way. The Category One storm is churning off the coast of North Carolina, packing maximum sustained winds of 75-miles-per-hour. Forecasters fear it could collide with a cold front and morph into a 'superstorm'. ...
11:24 AM, Oct 29, 2012
The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a "worst case scenario" with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro area, government forecasters said Sunday. The more they observe it, the more the experts worry about the water - which usually kills and does more damage than winds in hurricanes. In this case, seas will be amped up by giant waves and full-moon-powered high ...
11:16 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Kensington: The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a "worst case scenario" with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro area, government forecasters said Sunday. The more they observe it, the more the experts worry about the water - which usually kills and does more damage than winds in hurricanes. In this case, seas will be amped up by giant waves and full-moon-powered...
10:54 AM, Oct 29, 2012
The US is bracing for Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit its east coast either later on Monday or on Tuesday morning. It has already unleashed its wrath on Central America and the Caribbean. At least 60 deaths have been reported in the Caribbean. ...
10:44 AM, Oct 29, 2012
US Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have had to postpone their plans due to Hurricane Sandy. Their campaign plans can change depending on the gravity of the tragedy as it will make campaigning difficult. Meanwhile, early voting camps have been shut as a precaution on the US east coast. ...
10:34 AM, Oct 29, 2012
1. A Northbound Hurricane Hurricane Sandy is moving slowly northeast and but is expected to turn to the north and west later Sunday and Monday, forecasters say. At some point, it's expected to become what's known as an extratropical storm. Unlike a hurricane, which gets its power from warm ocean waters, extratropical systems are driven by temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Although Sandy is a hurricane, it's important not to...
09:01 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Update 2: Frankenstorm frame of mind The day after tomorrow has arrived, or so it seems. I evacuated my oldy-moldy yet comfy room for an air mattress in my friend's swanky apartment complex with a backup generator. The light is flickering, and the Internet is on its lowest bar. Armed with enough food to last me a week (sans bread and milk as the neighborhood grocery store ran...
08:47 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: The New York Stock Exchange will close its trading floor Monday as Hurricane Sandy barrels its way up the Northeast, but Big Board trading will continue electronically. NYSE Euronext said Sunday it is putting in place its contingency plans beginning Monday and will announce later when the trading floor will reopen. The New York Mercantile Exchange, a commodity futures exchange, also will be shutting on Monday its trading...
07:18 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York,...
07:08 AM, Oct 29, 2012
1. A Northbound Hurricane Hurricane Sandy is moving slowly toward the north-northeast but is expected to turn to the north and west later Sunday and Monday, forecasters say. At some point, it's expected to become what's known as an extratropical storm. Unlike a tropical system like a hurricane, which gets its power from warm ocean waters, extratropical systems are driven by temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Although Sandy is currently...
10:56 PM, Oct 28, 2012
North Carolina: Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it comes ashore on Monday night, bringing strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic states to New England, forecasters said on Sunday. Sandy could have a brutal impact on major cities in the target zone like Boston, New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, one of the most densely populated regions...
10:10 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Ship Bottom, NJ: Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern US will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60...
07:42 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Bloomsburg: The National Weather Service has downgraded Sandy from a hurricane to a tropical storm but warns that "widespread impacts" are still expected into next week for the US East Coast. The storm was expected to increase in speed and move away from the Bahamas and parallel to the southeast coast of the United States later this weekend. Maximum sustained winds dropped to near 70 mph early Saturday, pushing it...
02:56 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Duck: A year after being walloped by Hurricane Irene, residents rushed to put away boats, harvest crops and sandbag boardwalks on Friday as the Eastern Seaboard braced for a rare megastorm that experts said would cause much greater havoc. Hurricane Sandy, moving north from the Caribbean, was expected to make landfall on Monday night near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a...
08:39 AM, Oct 27, 2012
