Orlando: President Barack Obama cancelled a campaign event in Florida on Monday to return to Washington ahead of Hurricane Sandy, a White House spokesman said. "Due to deteriorating weather conditions in the Washington area, the President will not attend today's campaign event in Orlando," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. "The President will return to the White House to monitor the preparations for and early response to...
07:28 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...
06:00 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities on Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet tall. Sandy stayed on a predicted path that could take it over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York on...
02:26 PM, Oct 29, 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
This time-lapse animation shows Hurricane Sandy from the vantage point of geostationary orbit"35,800 km (22,300 miles) above the Earth. The animation shows Sandy on October 28, 2012, from 7:15 to 6:26 EDT. Light from the changing angles of the sun highlight the structure of the clouds. The images were collected by NOAA's GOES-14 satellite.The "super rapid scan" images"one every minute from 7:15 AM until 6:30 PM EDT"reveal details of the...
01:47 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
Washington/New York: 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....
12:36 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
Washington: President Barack Obama said Sunday that the storm taking aim at the East Coast is a "serious and big storm" that will be slow-moving and might take time to clear up. Obama met with federal emergency officials Sunday for an update on the storm's path and the danger it poses to the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The storm is set to hit one week before Election Day. Asked whether...
12:10 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
