Tuesday, October 30, 2012

FIFTY DEAD...and it's NOT over: Obama's grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane 'major disaster' tomorrow

FIFTY DEAD...and it's NOT over: Obama's grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane 'major disaster' tomorrow

Storm damage projected at £12bn // Ten people in New York among the dead // Many killed by falling trees

President Barack Obama has declared a 'major disaster' in New York and Long Island

President announces that he will visit New Jersey on Wednesday and warns that the crisis 'is not yet over'

At least 7.4m properties across US East have lost power // New York City could be without power for a week

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 'Tragically we expect that number to go up' referring to New York death toll

Record 13ft storm surge threatening lower Manhattan and howling winds left crane hanging from high-rise building

Battle: More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire in the Breezy Point section, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire


Beached: A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island

Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225108/Hurricane-Sandy-2012-Obama-declares-major-disaster-New-York-39-people-die-Superstorm.html#ixzz2AqCPPxSh
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