May 19 2013 Latest news: The facade of a four-story building on
14th Street and 8th Avenue collapsed onto the sidewalk, Monday,
Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Hurricane Sandy bore down on the
Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown
of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal
residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high
winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet
tall. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) Mark Shields, * Tuesday,
October 30, 2012 Forecasters in the US say that the centre of
Superstorm Sandy has roared ashore on the New Jersey coast,
packing high winds and a life-threatening storm surge. The
National Hurricane Centre in Miami said the centre of the
enormous storm made landfall at 8pm near Atlantic City after it
was reclassified from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone.
Sandy had sustained winds of 85mph. Forecasters say it is no
longer a hurricane, but was still a vast and dangerous hybrid
storm. Sandy is combining with a wintry s