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| ‘Superstorm’ Sandy snaps trees, floods streets: Residents’ stories from the storm Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:34 PM PDT Sandy uprooted this tree in Denville, N.J. Click image to see more Sandy photos. (Gioia Degenaars/Yahoo! Contributor Network) From Florida to New England, residents along the eastern seaboard are sharing their anecdotes, photos and videos of Hurricane-turned-"Superstorm" Sandy. Below are excerpts from the latest dispatches from people living through the storm. All times on posts [...] Full Story | Top |
| Live-blog: Superstorm Sandy batters New York City, East Coast Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:09 PM PDT [Updated at 3 a.m. ET] At least a dozen people have been killed and some six million residents are without power after the former Hurricane Sandy slammed into the northeast Atlantic coast on Monday. A record storm surge flooded streets and subways in Lower Manhattan and beyond. The storm, estimated to be nearly a 1,000 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sandy wreaks havoc on New York City Monday, Oct 29, 2012 05:17 PM PDT Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City on Monday, reportedly killing one person, causing a crane to collapse and the facade of a four-story building to crumble. Full Story | Top |
| Team Obama tries to run Romney’s Jeep charge off the road Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:40 PM PDT ORLANDO, Florida--President Barack Obama's re-election team waged all-out political war on Monday against a controversial ad by Republican rival Mitt Romney. The ad implies, falsely, that Jeep plans to move jobs to China from Ohio--a charge that could resonate in that pivotal battleground state. The Obama campaign released a commercial rebutting the allegation, while Vice [...] Full Story | Top |
| British man sues telemarketers for wasting his time Monday, Oct 29, 2012 03:52 PM PDT Fed up with calls from telemarketers, Richard Herman of the U.K. issued an ultimatum: Call again and he would start charging 10 pounds (about $16) per minute for his time. Herman's warning went unheeded. He continued to receive calls, despite being on the U.K.'s Telephone Preference Service (similar to the Do Not Call list). So [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman arrested for speaking too long at city council meeting Monday, Oct 29, 2012 02:06 PM PDT A 60-year-old woman was arrested after exceeding her allotted three minutes of speaking time at a California city council meeting. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Karen Wright's arrested was caught on video, when she was handcuffed by police and cited for disrupting a public meeting during a Riverside City Council meeting. "Can you see my [...] Full Story | Top |
| Would Romney abolish FEMA? His campaign says no Monday, Oct 29, 2012 01:23 PM PDT DAVENPORT, Iowaâ€"As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Mitt Romney's campaign is pushing back against suggestions that he wants to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agencyâ€"insisting that he would simply prefer to see states take a greater role in disaster relief. At a GOP primary debate in June 2011, Romney, when asked about [...] Full Story | Top |
| People named Sandy more likely to give to Obama Monday, Oct 29, 2012 12:03 PM PDT Is the National Hurricane Center secretly a puppet of the Obama administration? People named Sandy are considerably more likely to have donated to President Obama than to Mitt Romney or another Republican primary candidate this year, according to a recent Yahoo News analysis of FEC records. Of the 353 Sandys who gave at least $200 this cycle, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane Sandy: How to help Monday, Oct 29, 2012 10:40 AM PDT  The Category 1 storm, dubbed 'Frankenstorm,' is on track to hit the East Coast and evacuations have been ordered from Maryland to Maine, where storm surges and high winds are expected to wipe out power to millions. Full Story | Top |
| Empty New York: City becomes ghost town ahead of Hurricane Sandy Monday, Oct 29, 2012 10:13 AM PDT Click on the images to see more photos. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the city's transit system to be shut down late Sunday and the evacuation of several low-lying sections, including part of lower Manhattan, as forecasters said Hurricane Sandy could bring a 6- to 11-foot storm surge to New York Harbor on [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama ‘not worried’ about Sandy’s impact on election Monday, Oct 29, 2012 10:08 AM PDT President Barack Obama pleaded Monday with Americans still in deadly Hurricane Sandy's path not to ignore orders to evacuate, warning that failure to flee to safety would lead to "fatalities that could have been avoided." Obama, who canceled campaign events in order to return to Washington, D.C., to oversee the federal government's response to the devastating [...] Full Story | Top |
| Guards at Tomb of the Unknowns to remain on-site during hurricane Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:51 AM PDT WASHINGTONâ€"Hurricane Sandy is expected to slam the East Coast and the federal government is shut downâ€"but the U.S. servicemen who guard the outdoor Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery will remain on duty. "They will not abandon their post," an employee who answered the Arlington Cemetery's phone confirmed to Yahoo News. He identified [...] Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey weather service goes all Jersey in its warning Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:36 AM PDT Hurricane Sandy is still hours away from hitting New Jersey, but the warning system is in full effect. The National Weather Service sent out an all-caps bulletin to help get its dire message across. And the wording certainly caught the attention of the Web for its Jersey-style vibe. The New Jersey Newsroom described the weather [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Benghazi may have been ‘big breakdown’ Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:34 AM PDT President Barack Obama said in an interview that if the investigation into the Sept. 11 attack on the American compound in Libya finds that "there was a big breakdown, and somebody didn't do their job, they'll be held accountable." Speaking with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program on Monday, the president said that "ultimately, as commander in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Liberal super PAC jumps into Ohio air war with its first TV ad Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:10 AM PDT The Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century launched its first ad campaign of the election cycle Monday with a television commercial airing in Ohio. The ad, titled "Romnopoly," emphasizes President Barack Obama's primary attack line against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. It suggests that Romney supports policies that would allow wealthy Americans to "play by [...] Full Story | Top |
| Time-lapse views from space show Hurricane Sandy’s enormity Monday, Oct 29, 2012 08:34 AM PDT Time-lapse images from high above Earth show Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast, highlighting the storm's enormous size. NASA's Earth Observatory has released time-lapse animation of the powerful hurricane from a satellite 22,300 miles above ground. The images reveal details of Sandy's motion and eye wall. Hurricane Sandy was shown approximately 275 miles [...] Full Story | Top |
| Happy first birthday, 2012 presidential campaign Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:42 AM PDT If this election is starting to feel interminable, Sunday was an incredible anniversary: Oct. 28, 2012, was the one-year anniversary of the filing date for the New Hampshire primary. I do not want to sell the election season short. The official campaign began a year ago, but the unofficial campaign began well before that. This [...] Full Story | Top |
| For Romney and Obama, a disruptive storm at a pivotal time Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:20 AM PDT AVON LAKE, Ohioâ€"With just eight days to go before Election Day, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney face what could be the worst scenario for an October surprise: a potentially life-threatening storm. The superstorm, picking up speed and forceâ€"and expected to hit the swing states of New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginaâ€"is [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama scraps Florida campaign event, returns to DC Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:27 AM PDT ORLANDO, Florida - President Barack Obama scrapped his planned campaign appearance here with Bill Clinton on Monday and planned to return to Washington to oversee the response to deadly Hurricane Sandy. "Due to deteriorating weather conditions in the Washington area, the President will not attend today's campaign event in Orlando," White House press secretary Jay [...] Full Story | Top |
| Monday in politics: Sandy forces Obama back to Washington, Romney inland, and more Monday, Oct 29, 2012 03:24 AM PDT UPDATE 7:30 a.m. EDT: President Obama will not attend the morning rally in Florida, and is traveling back to Washington. Blame it on Hurricane Sandy. The giant storm, which is affecting parts of four battleground states â€" Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and New Hampshire â€" has the presidential campaigns scheduling and then re-scheduling events. President [...] Full Story | Top |
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