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| Northeast back to business after Sandy's hard hit Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:40 AM PDT  The northeastern United States battled epic flood waters and lengthy power outages on Tuesday after the massive storm Sandy pummeled the coast with a record storm surge, high winds and heavy rains that killed at least 45 people and caused billion of dollars in losses. Millions of people in New York City and other hard-hit areas will spend days or weeks recovering from a storm already seen as far more destructive that Hurricane Irene, which slammed into the same region a year ago. One disaster modeling company said Sandy may have caused up to $15 billion in insured losses. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Waffle House Index' tells FEMA where help is needed Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 06:52 PM PDT  Officials use a system involving the restaurants to help determine which areas need emergency aid first. Full Story | Top |
| Flooded subways deep underground may pose biggest threat to recovery Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 08:18 PM PDT  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. Full Story | Top |
| Storify: Readers' tweets and photos in the aftermath of Sandy Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 08:50 PM PDT  We asked our Yahoo! News readers, contributors and Twitter followers what's happening as the storm hits the East Coast -- here are their tweets and photos. We'll keep updating it as the storm continues. Full Story | Top |
| Inside Breezy Point: An inferno in a flood Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:31 PM PDT  When we were sent out on Monday afternoon to report on the “holdouts†of Hurricane Sandy â€" those who refused to leave their homes despite New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s mandatory evacuation  orders â€" we  expected... Full Story | Top |
| National Guard comes to aid of flooded Hoboken, NJ Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:37 PM PDT  The New Jersey National Guard arrived Tuesday evening in Hoboken to help residents of the heavily flooded city on the Hudson River across from New York City. Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane takes down big websites Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 08:33 PM PDT  It was inevitable. With power out along the Eastern Seaboard for millions of people, the data centers and servers powering many websites were also hit, knocking popular websites offline for hours. Full Story | Top |
| No bustle, no subway; New Yorkers find a changed city Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:32 PM PDT  Stripped of its bustle and mostly cut off from the world, New York was left wondering Tuesday when its particular way of life â€" carried by subway, lit by skyline and powered by 24-hour deli â€" would return. Full Story | Top |
| Port Authority reopens NY, NJ airports after storm Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:44 PM PDT  Some limited air travel is expected to return to the New York City metro area on Wednesday following the superstorm. Full Story | Top |
| South Dakota executes man who murdered 9-year-old girl Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:50 PM PDT  A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade. Full Story | Top |
| Disney's $4 billion Lucasfilm deal began with lightsabers in Orlando Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:44 PM PDT Walt Disney Co's $4 billion deal to buy George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd, Disney's third major entertainment acquisition in seven years, started taking shape in May 2011, when the "Star Wars" creator had to show Disney CEO Bob Iger how to use a lightsaber. Lucas and Iger were at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, brandishing the toys at the grand opening of a 3-D version of the park's Star Tours ride, Iger recalls, and "George had to show me how to use it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Washington, D.C., largely unfazed by superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:37 PM PDT  Mayor Vincent C. Gray spent Tuesday morning riding through the streets here with the U.S. National Guard in a Humvee caravan to assess the damage left by the storm. Full Story | Top |
| Sandy takes out 25 percent of cell towers Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:45 PM PDT  Superstorm Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers in an area spreading across 10 states, and the situation could get worse, federal regulators said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in casino chip theft arrested in Calif. Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:36 PM PDT A man suspected of sneaking into a restricted area of the Venetian resort and stealing $1.6 million in casino chips was arrested in Southern California, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Teen found guilty of murder in deadly Craigslist robbery scheme Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 06:27 PM PDT AKRON, Ohio - An Ohio teenager taken under the wing of a man defence attorneys described as a master manipulator was found guilty of aggravated murder Tuesday for his role in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work with phoney Craigslist job offers. Full Story | Top |
| Smokers miss work more often, cost UK billions: study Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 07:22 PM PDT (Reuters) - Smokers miss an average of two or three more days of work each year than non-smokers, with this absenteeism costing the UK alone 1.4 billion pounds last year, according to a UK study. The report, which appeared in the journal Addiction, analysed 29 separate studies conducted between 1960 and 2011 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States and Japan, with a total of over 71,000 public and private sector workers. ... Full Story | Top |
| In uptown Manhattan, storm leaves a hanging crane and minor damage Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 01:06 PM PDT  Monday's giant storm inflicted the greatest damage on the lower half of New York City, but uptown, on West 57th Street, a massive, dangling crane is drawing crowds. At a thousand feet above the ground, the 80-ton swing arm dangles next to the tallest condominium under construction in the city, located between 6th and 7th [...] Full Story | Top |
| How much caffeine becomes lethal? Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 05:37 PM PDT After the recent lawsuit against the manufacturers of Monster energy drinks, Popular Science looked into the question of "how much caffeine would it take to kill you?" In short, it would take at least six gallons of McDonald's coffee. In April, a coroner's report cited a New Zealand woman's consumption of Coca-Cola as being related [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sandy shuts down Northeast air travel Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 06:57 PM PDT  Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: Superstorm Sandy wreaks havoc Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 05:18 PM PDT  A damaged house is seen after Hurricane Sandy passed through in the greatly affected community of Atlantique on Fire Island, New York October 30, 2012. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the whipping winds and heavy rains of the massive storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and many parts of the eastern U.S. struggled with epic flooding and extensive power outages. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER) Full Story | Top |
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