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| ‘Superstorm’ Sandy snaps trees, floods streets: Residents’ stories from the storm Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 11:43 AM PDT Overnight winds from Sandy blew over this tree in New York. Click image to see more Sandy photos. (Stephanie Jeannot/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. [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Man in Moon’ created by asteroid impact the size of Austria Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 11:18 AM PDT The famous flattened image across the surface of the moon, long dubbed the "Man in the Moon," appears to have been created by a giant asteroid the size of Austria. A new study published in the British journal Nature Geoscience says the flattened, 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon's Procellarum basin was caused after the large [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney turns rally into a ‘storm relief event’ Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 10:27 AM PDT KETTERING, Ohioâ€"There was no Kid Rock playing on the loudspeakers, and the campaign signs were gone, replaced by a giant American flag. But Mitt Romney's "storm relief event" held at a local athletic complex here still had some of the trappings of a regular campaign rally, from the biographical Romney video to the woman in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Atlantic City mayor wants to go ‘mano a mano’ with Gov. Christie Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 10:19 AM PDT New Jersey was hammered by Hurricane Sandyâ€"and a storm of words also blew up between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford. The mayor pushed back against Christie's criticism that he had failed to protect residents of his city. The mayor, in a phone interview, told "Today" host Matt Lauer, "I [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama gets Sandy update, scraps more campaign plans Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:17 AM PDT ORLANDO, Fla.â€"President Barack Obama scrapped plans to campaign Wednesday in the pivotal battleground state of Ohio and will stay in Washington, D.C., to monitor the federal government's response to the superstorm, the White House said. On Tuesday, Obama got an update on Hurricane Sandy via teleconference in the White House's Situation Room. "The president expressed [...] Full Story | Top |
| Elmo answers young New Yorkers’ questions about superstorm Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 08:27 AM PDT Radio listeners in the New York area got poststorm analysis from an unexpected source Tuesday morningâ€"Elmo. The "Brian Lehrer Show" on WNYC had on the "Sesame Street" star (ID'ed on its guest list as "Elmo, resident of Sesame Street") to discuss the storm for younger listeners. "Sesame Street" had previously done an episode about dealing [...] Full Story | Top |
| Prankster redeems 22-year-old Pizza Hut coupon Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 07:54 AM PDT DayGlo hat? Check. Zubaz-style pants? Check. Sealed "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" VHS tape complete with exclusive Pizza Hut coupons? Check and mate! Take a trip back to the (early) '90s with an oddly dressed prankster who attempts to use a Pizza Hut coupon from inside a VHS copy of the 1990 cinematic classic. The thrifty [...] Full Story | Top |
| Live-blog: Superstorm Sandy pummels New York City, northeast U.S. Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 07:50 AM PDT [Updated at 3:10 p.m. ET] At least a 39 people are reportedly dead and more than eight million homes and businesses are without power after the former Hurricane Sandy plowed into the northeast Atlantic coast. Heavy rains and a record storm surge flooded streets and subways in Lower Manhattan and caused scores of people to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Stuck Staten Island residents ask local leaders for rescue Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 07:34 AM PDT The storm caused by Hurricane Sandy has downed trees, flooded homes and damaged streets in the New York City borough of Staten Island. On the island's south shore, trapped residents, some of whom ignored evacuation orders, pleaded with local officials on Facebook to send help to their flooded homes. Many families were stuck in their [...] Full Story | Top |
| Meet FDNY’s one-woman Twitter response team guiding New Yorkers through storm Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 07:11 AM PDT As Storm Sandy barreled down on the Northeast on Monday, a one-woman response team at the Fire Department of New York monitored Twitter through the night to help people in need. Emily Rahimi, a seven-year veteran at the FDNY, kept New Yorkers updated on developments from a storm that flooded many parts of the city [...] Full Story | Top |
| National polls are meaningless at this stage in the election Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 06:54 AM PDT One would think that Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, every sufficiently wealthy news organization and anyone else interested in conducting a poll would be familiar with the basics of the American electoral system. Why they all insist on continuing to waste precious ink on national polls, then, is completely mystifying. Gallup's latest poll of registered voters reports [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Superstorm’ blaze: At least 50 homes destroyed in massive fire in Queens, N.Y. Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 05:56 AM PDT Hurricane Sandy may have left the region, but New Yorkers woke up today to flooding, fires and destruction. A six-alarm fire in Breezy Point, Queensâ€"a coastal area under mandatory evacuation order ahead of the stormâ€"has destroyed about 50 to 100 buildings. Nearly 200 firefighters have responded to the massive blaze, a challenge to battle because [...] Full Story | Top |
| Superstorm Sandy’s wrath caught on video Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 05:30 AM PDT Want a glimpse of the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy? Check out the early video reports that have made their way to the Internet. In one video, a user filming a darkened New York City skyline captures an apparent electrical transformer exploding on video. What makes the video even more compelling is her panicked reaction [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Sandy halts presidential campaigning, and more Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 04:04 AM PDT The campaign for the White House remained suspended Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast on Monday evening. President Barack Obama remained in Washington, D.C., for a second day to monitor the impact of the storm, which has killed at least 16 people in seven states and cut power to more [...] 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 |
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