New York: Hurricane Sandy will close US stock markets for a second day on Tuesday, as Wall Street turned its attention to whether markets would be able to resume functioning on the month's final trading day on Wednesday. US stock markets closed on Monday due to weather for the first time in 27 years. Bond markets closed early, at noon, as winds and waves from Hurricane Sandy lashed the Eastern...
11:46 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: 9:21 pm IST: The White House has said that US President Barack Obama will remain in Washington on Wednesday to monitor the response to Hurricane Sandy and will not participate in campaign events that had been scheduled in Ohio. 8:55 pm IST: At least 21 people have died as a result of superstorm Sandy in the United States. 8:41 pm IST: New York City schools will be closed...
07:27 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. The city had shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of the superstorm Sandy...
07:23 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Atlantic City: Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore after washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk and putting the presidential campaign on hold. Just before its center reached land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still...
05:55 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: Okay so officially this storm has kicked into a higher gear, in New York. We still have a few hours to go till the big moment -- 8-ish or so is when it's expected to hit. "The most severe part of the storm is now beginning," says Mayor Mike Bloomberg, addressing a news conference again at 5.45 Monday evening EST saying the time for evacuation and re-location is...
03:39 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York/Rehoboth Beach: Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, lashed the densely populated East Coast on Monday, shutting down transportation, forcing evacuations in flood-prone areas and interrupting the presidential campaign. Fierce winds and flooding racked hundreds of miles of Atlantic coastline and heavy snows were forecast farther inland at higher elevations as the center of the storm moves ashore along the coast of...
02:32 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Along the East Coast, residents are weathering the effects of Hurricane Sandy and anticipating its merging with two other weather systems to create a fearsome storm. Here are their stories. --- Most businesses near the Hudson River in Hoboken, NJ, piled sandbags at their doorsteps and taped up windows in preparation for the worst of the potential superstorm late Monday. Even Carlo's Bakery, home of the cable TV's "Cake Boss,"...
01:34 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Boston/London: Hurricane Sandy has the potential to cause some of the largest losses the global insurance industry has faced this year, but nothing that would strain insurers financially aside from hurting earnings this quarter, analysts said on Monday. Disaster modeling company Eqecat, used by the industry to forecast storm exposure, said Monday there was no way to assess what kind of losses Sandy might ultimately cause until after landfall sometime...
01:00 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama delivered a sober warning to millions in the path of Hurricane Sandy on Monday, declaring that even though food, water and generators have been moved into position, "this is going to be a difficult storm" with long-term power and transportation outages possible. In a direct appeal to those who live in harm's way, the president said, "Please listen to what your state and local officials are...
12:31 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: Stock trading will be closed in the US for a second day Tuesday as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast. Bond trading will also be closed. The last time the New York Stock Exchange was closed for weather was in 1985 because of Hurricane Gloria, and it will be the first time since 1888 that the exchange will have been closed for two consecutive days because...
12:18 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: Tens of millions of Americans braced themselves up for a potentially devastating Hurricane Sandy as its wind speed crossed the dangerous 90 miles per hour, threatening "unprecedented damage" with forecasters warning that it will slam cities from New York to Washington. Authorities declared a state of emergency from North Carolina to Connecticut as the superstorm made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other...
11:52 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Washington: Fully focused on gearing up his entire administrative machinery towards preparing for potentially devastating Hurricane Sandy, US President Barack Obama on Monday said that he is not worried about elections, which is about a week from now. "I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election. I'm worried about the impact on families, and I'm worried about the impact on our first responders. I'm worried...
11:52 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: A fast-strengthening Hurricane Sandy churned north on Monday, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools were closed across the region of 50 million people, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was deserted, and thousands fled inland to await the storm's fury. The monster hurricane was expected to make a westward lurch and aim for New Jersey, blowing ashore...
10:33 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Hurricane Sandy is churning off the East Coast and is expected to join up with two other weather systems to create a huge and problematic storm affecting 50 million people. Here's a snapshot of what is happening or expected, state by state. Carolinas The US Coast Guard rescued 14 members of a crew forced to abandon a tall ship about 90 miles off the North Carolina coast and continued to...
09:43 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Early this morning (Monday), I peered through the blinds and reassured by what I saw - that is, nothing - went back to sleep. It seeped in at some point that the usually busy street outside my window was too calm. Eerie. And then, there's only some amount of window rattling that even the stoutest of heart can take...and I'm not the stoutest of heart, by a long...
09:20 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the US northeast on Monday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe. 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, United and Delta cancelled all flights into and out...
08:59 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. About 50 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to Canada were in the path of the nearly 1,000-mile-wide (1,600-km-wide) storm, which forecasters said could be the largest to hit the mainland...
08:25 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: Jet Airways and Air India on Monday cancelled its flights to Newark and New York due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United States. These are among more than 7,600 flights that have been cancelled across cities on the East Coast due to the hurricane even as millions of people were evacuated from cities that are likely to be affected. Air...
08:20 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: It's almost an apocalyptic feeling here in New York - with streets largely deserted, the essential transport services now shut down. The subway and buses have been shut down, people have been warned to stay out of parks, and to hunker down indoors, as Hurricane Sandy approaches, about to clash with two stormfronts, making this officially the mother of all frankenstorms. It's got some people remembering the panic...
07:34 PM, Oct 29, 2012
