Homes that are devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane
Sandy are seen at the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New
York October 30, 2012. (Reuters/
Oct. 30, 10:39 EDT: New Jersey Governor Christie says 2.4 million households have been affected by Sandy – twice the number from Hurricane Irene in 2011; over 5,000 people have been placed in shelters.
Oct. 30, 10:36 EDT: New Jersey Governor Christie: "The devastation is unprecedented – like nothing we've ever seen reported before."
Oct. 30, 10:23 EDT: NJ Governor Christie said the state of NJ is working with the Salvation Army and Red Cross to bring in mobile kitchens. He also said the state is utilizing FEMA food and water resources.
Oct. 30, 10:21 EDT: In a press conference, NJ Governor Chris Christie said there is major damage on each and every one of New Jersey's rail lines.
Oct. 30, 09:54 EDT: MTA chairman says New Yorkers should expect mass transit to return “in pieces and parts” in the days to come.
Oct. 30, 09:51 EDT: Sewage is flowing into the main stem of the Little Patuxent River in Savage, Maryland at a rate of 2 million gallons per hour. Officials say a power outage at a water treatment plant is to blame.
Oct. 30, 09:37 EDT: NYC metro, rail, and bus service to resume on limited schedule (Sunday service) at 2pm EDT.
Oct. 30, 09:22 EDT: Officials say the fire in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens involves 80 to 100 homes. A fire department spokesman says nearly 200 firefighters are currently at the scene.
Homes that are devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy are seen at the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Oct. 30, 09:15 EDT: MTA chairman says all seven subway tunnels that connect Manhattan to Brooklyn & Queens are flooded.
Oct. 30, 08:51 EDT: At least 5,751 flights have been canceled in North America for Tuesday, around 15,500 flights have been affected by the storm.
Oct. 30, 08:23 EDT: Since midnight, 911 has received 8,362 calls. 4,807 calls are waiting to be answered.
Oct. 30, 08:03 EDT: The Red Cross reported that nearly 11,000 people spent Monday night in its shelters across 16 states.
Oct. 30, 07:55 EDT: Power company Con Edison is reporting 684,000 customers without power in the New York City area.
Oct. 30, 06:40 EDT: Damage costs estimates to exceed $20 billion in US alone.
Cars floating in a flooded subterranian basement following Hurricaine Sandy on October 30, 2012 in the Financial District of New York, United States. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
Debris litter a flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Oct. 30, 06:04 EDT: Post-Sandy forecast predicts five days of rain, according to National Weather Service.
Oct. 30, 05:59 EDT: Total of 83 people killed by hurricane Sandy: 15 in US, 1 in Canada, and 67 in the Caribbean.
Oct. 30, 05:53 EDT: Authorities in Bergen County, New Jersey, are evacuating residences after the storm broke a levee and flooded several communities with up to 5 feet (1.5m) of water.
People walk through water on the beach near the time of high tide as Hurricane Sandy approaches October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)
Oct. 30, 05:44 EDT: President Obama declared hurricane Sandy “major disaster” in New York.
Oct. 30, 05:20 EDT: Sandy death toll rises to 16 people in US.
Oct. 30, 04:11 EDT: At least 50 homes were completely destroyed in Breezy Point fire, NY.
Oct. 30, 03:59 EDT: Fire engulfs 15 houses in Breezy Point, Queens, NY, as 170 firefighters are on scene battling the blaze.
Image from Facebook/OccupyWallSt1
Oct. 30, 03:53 EDT:
At least 13 people have been killed across the US and Canada in
storm-related incidents as Sandy continues to devastate the East Coast.
Oct. 30, 03:52 EDT: 6.5 million of people remain without power across the US as the result of hurricane Sandy.
Oct. 30, 03:40 EDT: New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority stated this is worst disaster in the history of the NYC subway system.
Oct. 30, 02:29 EDT: It could take up to four days to get the water out of the flooded NY subway tunnels, according to Metro Transit Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
Oct. 30, 02:26 EDT: Woman has died after being rescued in the Atlantic along with 14 other crewmembers having abandoned HMS Bounty ship in rough Sandy weather, US Coast guard reported.
Oct. 30, 02:26 EDT: Seven New York subway tunnels have been flooded as a result of Sandy.
Oct. 30, 02:22 EDT: 6.5 million people are now without power across the US because of Sandy.
Oct. 30, 02:10 EDT: Sandy is estimated to cost insurers somewhere between $5-10 billion, Wall Street Journal reports.
Oct. 30, 01:51 EDT: Post-tropical storm Sandy is now located just south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Oct. 30, 01:31 EDT: Reports of major fire in the Rockaway Park area of Queens, New York.
Oct. 30, 00:35 EDT: Sandy death toll reaches 13 nationwide.
Oct. 30, 00:19 EDT: 5.8 million people left without power nationwide from Sandy as of midnight.
Oct. 30, 00:05 EDT: Dozens of ambulances are evacuating NYU hospital patients to Sloan Kettering and Mt. Sinai hospitals due to a generator failure.
Paramedics evacuate patients from New York University Tisch Hospital due to a power outage as Hurricane Sandy makes its approach in New York October 29, 2012. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
Oct. 30, 00:01 EDT:
Power has been lost at the New York University Hospital in Lower
Manhattan. Mayor Bloomberg says the city will now start evacuating
people from the facility.
Oct. 29, 23:53 EDT : Up to 14 inches of snow reported in Tucker County, West Virginia – Weather Channel
Oct. 29, 23:41 EDT: More than 1.5 million people in New York State are without power, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted.
Oct. 29, 23:11 EDT: As the storm pounds the East Coast, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared an "Alert" at a power plant in Oyster Creek, New Jersey.
“The plant, currently in a regularly scheduled outage, declared the Alert at approximately 8:45 p.m. EDT due to water exceeding certain high water level criteria in the plant’s water intake structure,” the agency said in a statement.
Oct. 29, 23:00 EDT: 911 is receiving 10,000 calls per half hour, NYC Mayor’s Office reports.
Oct. 29, 22:55 EDT: The main building of Brooklyn's Coney Island Hospital is on fire, local news blog Sheepshead Bites reports. Emergency services cannot reach the site, as the streets surrounding the hospital are flooded.
Oct. 29, 22:26 EDT: At least 10 people have been killed by the disaster, according to AP. Casualties were reported in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
One woman has been killed by a falling sign in Toronto as high winds reached Canada.
Oct. 29, 22:20 EDT: Reports of flooding from Sandy in PATH train stations in Hoboken and Jersey City along the Hudson River.
This CCTV photo released by the official Twitter feed of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey shows flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rushing in to the Hoboken PATH station through an elevator shaft on October 29, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AFP Photo/The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey)
Oct. 29, 22:19 EDT:
The National Weather Service confirms that high tide has passed in New
York City, and water should begin receding from Lower Manhattan.
Oct. 29, 22:05 EDT: A New York Stock Exchange official has told ABC News that prior reports of flooding on the exchange's floor off Wall Street in Lower Manhattan are "egregiously false."
Oct. 29, 22:00 EDT: The death toll in New York City due to Sandy has now reached five.
Oct. 29, 21:40 EDT: At least one man has been killed after a tree fell on his house in the Queens section of New York City.
Oct. 29, 20:47 EDT: An explosion took place at a Con Edison power station in Manhattan, New York.
Oct. 29, 20:45 EDT: Social networks users on Manhattan's Lower East Side are reporting a "huge explosion" that preceded power going out.
(Image from instagram user@georgeweld)
Oct. 29, 20:35 EDT:
Power has gone out in much of Lower Manhattan, though it has not been
confirmed whether it was an outage or an intentional shutdown by
Consolidated Edison.
(Image from twitter user@ alananewhouse)
Oct. 29, 20:30 EDT:The
Statue of Liberty's torch has gone out. It was followed by flickering
lights across Lower Manhattan, and what appeared to be two explosions in
the sky over New Jersey, close to New York City.
Oct. 29, 20:14 EDT: The center of superstorm Sandy has reached the US state of New Jersey, the National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 20:00 EDT: In Manhattan's East Village district, streets two blocks in from the East River are under roughly two feet of water, according to pictures circulating on Twitter.
(Image from twitter user@carloswhitt)
Oct. 29, 19:54 EDT:NYC's
Robert F. Kennedy Bridge has been shut down due to winds exceeding 100
mph, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reports.
Oct. 29, 19:51 EDT: NYC's utilities provider, Consolidated Edison, cuts power to part of lower Manhattan to avoid storm damage.
Oct. 29, 19:42 EDT:The storm caused a façade of an entire building to collapse in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Watch the video:
Oct. 29, 19:17 EDT: Sandy is no longer a hurricane, but a "post-tropical" storm and is expected to make landfall in about an hour, the National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 19:15 EDT: Consolidated Edison, New York City's utilities provider, is calling residents in low-lying parts of the city to warn that power could be shut off before the end of the night.
Oct 29, 18:50 EDT: More than 12,000 flights have been grounded as Hurricane Sandy pounds the US East Coast on Monday.
Oct. 29, 18:32 EDT: Sandy has so far left more than 1.5 million people without power in 11 states along the East Coast.
Oct. 29, 18:17 EDT: Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns that conditions are expected to worsen, urging New Yorkers to stay inside. “Conditions outside are dangerous, and they are only going to get worse in the hours ahead,” he told a press conference.
Oct. 29, 18:10 EDT: The United Nations headquarters in Manhattan will remain closed through Tuesday due to the weather.
Oct. 29, 17:56 EDT: All Broadway performances in NYC have been cancelled on Monday and Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy, the Broadway League says.
Oct. 29, 17:30 EDT: Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall around 6 pm EST just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sandy is moving "quickly" towards southern New Jersey and Delaware, The National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 17:00 EDT: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo orders the closing of several NYC bridges, except those in Staten Island.
President Obama receives an update on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy in the Situation Room. (Image from twitter.com/whitehouse)
Oct. 29, 16:09 EDT: Hurricane
Sandy has left more than 765,000 customers in ten states without power.
The affected states include NY, NJ, MA, PA, CT, DE, MD, RI, NH, ME and
Washington, DC.
Waves crash over Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (AFP Photo / Darren Mccollester)
Oct. 29, 16:00 EDT: Windows
have been blown out of buildings in New London, Connecticut, as the
center of the storm is moving toward Cape May, NJ. Landfall is expected
in 2-3 hours.
Oct. 29, 15:57 EDT: Schools in Washington DC will be closed Tuesday.
Oct. 29, 15:51 EDT: US Federal Government offices are to be closed Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy.
People brave high winds and waves along Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (AFP Photo / Darren Mccollester)
Oct. 29, 15:48 EDT: New
York’s Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River will be closed at 4pm
Monday due the to weather conditions, says NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Oct. 29, 15:43 EDT: Battery Park in NYC is now six feet above normal tide level; the water is rising rapidly, reports TWC.
People walk down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy moves up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Getty images / Mario Tama)
Oct. 29, 15:32 EDT: Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) and Dulles International Airport (IAD) are added to the list of airports without flights.
Oct. 29, 15:27 EDT: Sandy’s center is just 3-5 hours from landfall in southern New Jersey, says the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to slow on Tuesday.
Oct. 29, 15:23 EDT: Amtrak has canceled all Tuesday service due to high winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy. Passenger service between Boston and Raleigh, NC, and between the East Coast and Chicago, New Orleans and Florida will be suspended for the second day in a row. Passengers who paid but did not travel because of the service disruption will receive a refund or a voucher for future travel, the company said in a statement.
Oct. 29, 15:11 EDT: Emergency workers have been summoned to a 65-story building in New York City, where winds have apparently broken a construction crane. The crane's arm is dangling dangerously. Winds in Manhattan have been blowing at about 20 mph with gusts reaching 40 mph. Officials have ordered evacuation of upper floors of several buildings near the site.
"High crane on top of a building on W 57th street is breaking" (Image from twitter user@57UN)
Oct. 29, 14:58 EDT: Chesapeake Bay Bridge gets closed as winds there exceed 55 mph.
Oct. 29, 14:41 EDT: Hurricane-force wind gusts hit the New Jersey shore, reports TWC. The hurricane's center is heading for toward southern NJ.
Oct. 29, 14:33 EDT: Ocean City, Maryland, is set to go through probably the highest storm surge since Hurricane Gloria in 1985, says Mayor Rick Meehan. Sandy is forecast to impact the city for at least another 12 hours and has already caused significant flooding.
A woman holds the hand of her child as they run from their house to their car before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Scituate, Massachusetts October 29, 2012. (Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi)
Oct. 29, 14:21 EDT:
The number of customers without power hits 300,000 in seven states,
reports CNN. A large plurality of them – 92,000 – are in New Jersey,
followed by New York with 90,000.
Oct. 29, 14:17 EDT: The hurricane is about 110 miles southeast of Atlantic City, NJ, and about 175 miles south-southeast of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Oct. 29, 14:10 EDT: Sandy's landfall is expected to hit south of Atlantic City, NJ, at around 6pm. From then until midnight, New York City is expected to see the worst of the storm.
Water driven onto a roadway by Hurricane Sandy breaks over a safety barrier in Southampton, New York, October 29, 2012. (Reuters / Lucas Jackson)
Oct. 29, 14:02 EDT:
Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall early Monday evening,
according to the National Hurricane Center. The
storm's maximum sustained winds are now at 90 mph (145 kmph); the
hurricane is moving northwest at the speed of 28 mph (45 kmph).
A man stands on the beach as heavy surf from Hurricane Sandy pound the shoreline, on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Mark Wilson)
Oct. 29, 13:48 EST: A
curfew has been implemented in the resort town of Atlantic City, N.J.
It will last 6 pm Monday to 6 am Tuesday. Hurricane Sandy is expected to
make landfall near the city late tonight.
Oct. 29, 13:36 EST: All US stock exchanges will be closed Tuesday due to the hurricane, says CNBC.
Oct. 29, 13:33 EST: A state of emergency has been declared for the state of Delaware due to Hurricane Sandy, according to a release from the White House.
Oct. 29, 13:25 EST: The New York Stock Exchange will close Tuesday, and is tentatively set to reopen Wednesday.
Oct. 29, 13:11 EST: Sandy is speeding up, moving northwest at 25-30 mph. It could make landfall southern New Jersey around 5 pm. Hurricane winds are approaching New Jersey and southern New York, Greg Forbes, a weather expert at The Weather Channel, tweeted.
Oct. 29, 12:59 EST: West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declares state of emergency.
A flooded street between two casinos along the Boardwalk before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Stan Honda)
Oct. 29, 12:54 EST: Obama: Power and transport are likely take to several days to recover after the hurricane.
Oct. 29, 12:52 EST: Obama: “Please listen to what your state and local officials are saying. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. Do not delay, don’t pose, don’t question the instructions that are being given because this is a serious storm and it could potentially have fatal consequences for people who have not acted quickly.”
Oct. 29, 12:51 EST: Obama: “We anticipate that the center of the storm is going to hit land sometime this evening. But because of the nature of this storm we are certain this will be a slow moving process through a wide swathe of the country. Millions of people are going to be affected.”
Oct. 29, 12:44 EST: Over 8,900 domestic and international flights have been cancelled over the storm while some 116,000 power consumers across seven states are without electricity, power providers say at their websites.
Oct. 29, 12:30 EST: Hurricane Sandy intensifies, with 90 mph sustained winds and wind gusts of up to 115 mph reported.
A truck moves west on East State street as high tide and winds from Hurricane Sandy combine to flood the area on October 28, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow (AFP Photo / Mike Stobe)
Oct. 29, 12:15 EST:
In Iowa, a new daily rainfall record has been set. A total of 2.43
inches of rain has fallen at Atlantic City International Airport – and
more is expected. The previous record was 2.33 inches of rain in 1908.
Oct. 29, 12:10 EST: Atlantic City has been totally flooded, reports BuzzFeed.
Oct. 29, 12:05 EST: Waters are already rising to Irene levels in New York City as Sandy approaches the East Coast.
Atlantic City getting totally flooded (Image from facebook.com/BuzzFeed)
Oct. 29, 12:00 EST: NYC’s
emergency storm shelters are mostly empty. Less than 3,000 people
checked in so far, which means the 76 shelters are only filled to about
four percent of capacity.
Oct. 29, 11:59 EST: Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered NYC schools closed on Tuesday. Federal and state courts in New York won't convene on Tuesday; cases have been rescheduled for Thursday and later.
Debris litter a flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after
the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012
i
n New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Water
rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel),
caused by Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2012, in the Financial District
of New York, United States. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
Oct. 30, 10:55 EDT: All three airports serving the
New York City area – JFK, LaGuardia and Newark – remain closed. Airports
in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC are open.Oct. 30, 10:39 EDT: New Jersey Governor Christie says 2.4 million households have been affected by Sandy – twice the number from Hurricane Irene in 2011; over 5,000 people have been placed in shelters.
Oct. 30, 10:36 EDT: New Jersey Governor Christie: "The devastation is unprecedented – like nothing we've ever seen reported before."
Oct. 30, 10:23 EDT: NJ Governor Christie said the state of NJ is working with the Salvation Army and Red Cross to bring in mobile kitchens. He also said the state is utilizing FEMA food and water resources.
Oct. 30, 10:21 EDT: In a press conference, NJ Governor Chris Christie said there is major damage on each and every one of New Jersey's rail lines.
Oct. 30, 09:54 EDT: MTA chairman says New Yorkers should expect mass transit to return “in pieces and parts” in the days to come.
Oct. 30, 09:51 EDT: Sewage is flowing into the main stem of the Little Patuxent River in Savage, Maryland at a rate of 2 million gallons per hour. Officials say a power outage at a water treatment plant is to blame.
Oct. 30, 09:37 EDT: NYC metro, rail, and bus service to resume on limited schedule (Sunday service) at 2pm EDT.
Oct. 30, 09:22 EDT: Officials say the fire in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens involves 80 to 100 homes. A fire department spokesman says nearly 200 firefighters are currently at the scene.
Homes that are devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy are seen at the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York October 30, 2012. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Oct. 30, 08:51 EDT: At least 5,751 flights have been canceled in North America for Tuesday, around 15,500 flights have been affected by the storm.
Oct. 30, 08:23 EDT: Since midnight, 911 has received 8,362 calls. 4,807 calls are waiting to be answered.
Oct. 30, 08:03 EDT: The Red Cross reported that nearly 11,000 people spent Monday night in its shelters across 16 states.
Oct. 30, 07:55 EDT: Power company Con Edison is reporting 684,000 customers without power in the New York City area.
Oct. 30, 06:40 EDT: Damage costs estimates to exceed $20 billion in US alone.
Cars floating in a flooded subterranian basement following Hurricaine Sandy on October 30, 2012 in the Financial District of New York, United States. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
Debris litter a flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Oct. 30, 05:59 EDT: Total of 83 people killed by hurricane Sandy: 15 in US, 1 in Canada, and 67 in the Caribbean.
Oct. 30, 05:53 EDT: Authorities in Bergen County, New Jersey, are evacuating residences after the storm broke a levee and flooded several communities with up to 5 feet (1.5m) of water.
People walk through water on the beach near the time of high tide as Hurricane Sandy approaches October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)
Oct. 30, 05:20 EDT: Sandy death toll rises to 16 people in US.
Oct. 30, 04:11 EDT: At least 50 homes were completely destroyed in Breezy Point fire, NY.
Oct. 30, 03:59 EDT: Fire engulfs 15 houses in Breezy Point, Queens, NY, as 170 firefighters are on scene battling the blaze.
Image from Facebook/OccupyWallSt1
Oct. 30, 03:52 EDT: 6.5 million of people remain without power across the US as the result of hurricane Sandy.
Oct. 30, 03:40 EDT: New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority stated this is worst disaster in the history of the NYC subway system.
Oct. 30, 02:29 EDT: It could take up to four days to get the water out of the flooded NY subway tunnels, according to Metro Transit Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
Oct. 30, 02:26 EDT: Woman has died after being rescued in the Atlantic along with 14 other crewmembers having abandoned HMS Bounty ship in rough Sandy weather, US Coast guard reported.
Oct. 30, 02:26 EDT: Seven New York subway tunnels have been flooded as a result of Sandy.
Oct. 30, 02:22 EDT: 6.5 million people are now without power across the US because of Sandy.
Oct. 30, 02:10 EDT: Sandy is estimated to cost insurers somewhere between $5-10 billion, Wall Street Journal reports.
Oct. 30, 01:51 EDT: Post-tropical storm Sandy is now located just south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Oct. 30, 01:31 EDT: Reports of major fire in the Rockaway Park area of Queens, New York.
Oct. 30, 00:35 EDT: Sandy death toll reaches 13 nationwide.
Oct. 30, 00:19 EDT: 5.8 million people left without power nationwide from Sandy as of midnight.
Oct. 30, 00:05 EDT: Dozens of ambulances are evacuating NYU hospital patients to Sloan Kettering and Mt. Sinai hospitals due to a generator failure.
Paramedics evacuate patients from New York University Tisch Hospital due to a power outage as Hurricane Sandy makes its approach in New York October 29, 2012. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
Oct. 29, 23:53 EDT : Up to 14 inches of snow reported in Tucker County, West Virginia – Weather Channel
Oct. 29, 23:41 EDT: More than 1.5 million people in New York State are without power, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted.
Oct. 29, 23:11 EDT: As the storm pounds the East Coast, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared an "Alert" at a power plant in Oyster Creek, New Jersey.
“The plant, currently in a regularly scheduled outage, declared the Alert at approximately 8:45 p.m. EDT due to water exceeding certain high water level criteria in the plant’s water intake structure,” the agency said in a statement.
Oct. 29, 23:00 EDT: 911 is receiving 10,000 calls per half hour, NYC Mayor’s Office reports.
Oct. 29, 22:55 EDT: The main building of Brooklyn's Coney Island Hospital is on fire, local news blog Sheepshead Bites reports. Emergency services cannot reach the site, as the streets surrounding the hospital are flooded.
Oct. 29, 22:26 EDT: At least 10 people have been killed by the disaster, according to AP. Casualties were reported in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
One woman has been killed by a falling sign in Toronto as high winds reached Canada.
Oct. 29, 22:20 EDT: Reports of flooding from Sandy in PATH train stations in Hoboken and Jersey City along the Hudson River.
This CCTV photo released by the official Twitter feed of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey shows flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rushing in to the Hoboken PATH station through an elevator shaft on October 29, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AFP Photo/The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey)
Oct. 29, 22:05 EDT: A New York Stock Exchange official has told ABC News that prior reports of flooding on the exchange's floor off Wall Street in Lower Manhattan are "egregiously false."
Oct. 29, 22:00 EDT: The death toll in New York City due to Sandy has now reached five.
Oct. 29, 21:40 EDT: At least one man has been killed after a tree fell on his house in the Queens section of New York City.
Oct. 29, 20:47 EDT: An explosion took place at a Con Edison power station in Manhattan, New York.
Oct. 29, 20:45 EDT: Social networks users on Manhattan's Lower East Side are reporting a "huge explosion" that preceded power going out.
(Image from instagram user@georgeweld)
(Image from twitter user@ alananewhouse)
Oct. 29, 20:14 EDT: The center of superstorm Sandy has reached the US state of New Jersey, the National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 20:00 EDT: In Manhattan's East Village district, streets two blocks in from the East River are under roughly two feet of water, according to pictures circulating on Twitter.
(Image from twitter user@carloswhitt)
Oct. 29, 19:51 EDT: NYC's utilities provider, Consolidated Edison, cuts power to part of lower Manhattan to avoid storm damage.
Oct. 29, 19:42 EDT:The storm caused a façade of an entire building to collapse in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Watch the video:
Oct. 29, 19:17 EDT: Sandy is no longer a hurricane, but a "post-tropical" storm and is expected to make landfall in about an hour, the National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 19:15 EDT: Consolidated Edison, New York City's utilities provider, is calling residents in low-lying parts of the city to warn that power could be shut off before the end of the night.
Oct 29, 18:50 EDT: More than 12,000 flights have been grounded as Hurricane Sandy pounds the US East Coast on Monday.
Oct. 29, 18:32 EDT: Sandy has so far left more than 1.5 million people without power in 11 states along the East Coast.
Oct. 29, 18:17 EDT: Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns that conditions are expected to worsen, urging New Yorkers to stay inside. “Conditions outside are dangerous, and they are only going to get worse in the hours ahead,” he told a press conference.
Oct. 29, 18:10 EDT: The United Nations headquarters in Manhattan will remain closed through Tuesday due to the weather.
Oct. 29, 17:56 EDT: All Broadway performances in NYC have been cancelled on Monday and Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy, the Broadway League says.
Oct. 29, 17:30 EDT: Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall around 6 pm EST just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sandy is moving "quickly" towards southern New Jersey and Delaware, The National Hurricane Center says.
Oct. 29, 17:00 EDT: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo orders the closing of several NYC bridges, except those in Staten Island.
President Obama receives an update on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy in the Situation Room. (Image from twitter.com/whitehouse)
Waves crash over Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (AFP Photo / Darren Mccollester)
Oct. 29, 15:57 EDT: Schools in Washington DC will be closed Tuesday.
Oct. 29, 15:51 EDT: US Federal Government offices are to be closed Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy.
People brave high winds and waves along Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (AFP Photo / Darren Mccollester)
Oct. 29, 15:43 EDT: Battery Park in NYC is now six feet above normal tide level; the water is rising rapidly, reports TWC.
People walk down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy moves up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Getty images / Mario Tama)
Oct. 29, 15:27 EDT: Sandy’s center is just 3-5 hours from landfall in southern New Jersey, says the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to slow on Tuesday.
Oct. 29, 15:23 EDT: Amtrak has canceled all Tuesday service due to high winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy. Passenger service between Boston and Raleigh, NC, and between the East Coast and Chicago, New Orleans and Florida will be suspended for the second day in a row. Passengers who paid but did not travel because of the service disruption will receive a refund or a voucher for future travel, the company said in a statement.
Oct. 29, 15:11 EDT: Emergency workers have been summoned to a 65-story building in New York City, where winds have apparently broken a construction crane. The crane's arm is dangling dangerously. Winds in Manhattan have been blowing at about 20 mph with gusts reaching 40 mph. Officials have ordered evacuation of upper floors of several buildings near the site.
"High crane on top of a building on W 57th street is breaking" (Image from twitter user@57UN)
Oct. 29, 14:41 EDT: Hurricane-force wind gusts hit the New Jersey shore, reports TWC. The hurricane's center is heading for toward southern NJ.
Oct. 29, 14:33 EDT: Ocean City, Maryland, is set to go through probably the highest storm surge since Hurricane Gloria in 1985, says Mayor Rick Meehan. Sandy is forecast to impact the city for at least another 12 hours and has already caused significant flooding.
A woman holds the hand of her child as they run from their house to their car before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Scituate, Massachusetts October 29, 2012. (Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi)
Oct. 29, 14:17 EDT: The hurricane is about 110 miles southeast of Atlantic City, NJ, and about 175 miles south-southeast of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Oct. 29, 14:10 EDT: Sandy's landfall is expected to hit south of Atlantic City, NJ, at around 6pm. From then until midnight, New York City is expected to see the worst of the storm.
Water driven onto a roadway by Hurricane Sandy breaks over a safety barrier in Southampton, New York, October 29, 2012. (Reuters / Lucas Jackson)
A man stands on the beach as heavy surf from Hurricane Sandy pound the shoreline, on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Mark Wilson)
Oct. 29, 13:36 EST: All US stock exchanges will be closed Tuesday due to the hurricane, says CNBC.
Oct. 29, 13:33 EST: A state of emergency has been declared for the state of Delaware due to Hurricane Sandy, according to a release from the White House.
Oct. 29, 13:25 EST: The New York Stock Exchange will close Tuesday, and is tentatively set to reopen Wednesday.
Oct. 29, 13:11 EST: Sandy is speeding up, moving northwest at 25-30 mph. It could make landfall southern New Jersey around 5 pm. Hurricane winds are approaching New Jersey and southern New York, Greg Forbes, a weather expert at The Weather Channel, tweeted.
Oct. 29, 12:59 EST: West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declares state of emergency.
A flooded street between two casinos along the Boardwalk before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFP Photo / Stan Honda)
Oct. 29, 12:52 EST: Obama: “Please listen to what your state and local officials are saying. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. Do not delay, don’t pose, don’t question the instructions that are being given because this is a serious storm and it could potentially have fatal consequences for people who have not acted quickly.”
Oct. 29, 12:51 EST: Obama: “We anticipate that the center of the storm is going to hit land sometime this evening. But because of the nature of this storm we are certain this will be a slow moving process through a wide swathe of the country. Millions of people are going to be affected.”
Oct. 29, 12:44 EST: Over 8,900 domestic and international flights have been cancelled over the storm while some 116,000 power consumers across seven states are without electricity, power providers say at their websites.
Oct. 29, 12:30 EST: Hurricane Sandy intensifies, with 90 mph sustained winds and wind gusts of up to 115 mph reported.
A truck moves west on East State street as high tide and winds from Hurricane Sandy combine to flood the area on October 28, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow (AFP Photo / Mike Stobe)
Oct. 29, 12:10 EST: Atlantic City has been totally flooded, reports BuzzFeed.
Oct. 29, 12:05 EST: Waters are already rising to Irene levels in New York City as Sandy approaches the East Coast.
Atlantic City getting totally flooded (Image from facebook.com/BuzzFeed)
Oct. 29, 11:59 EST: Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered NYC schools closed on Tuesday. Federal and state courts in New York won't convene on Tuesday; cases have been rescheduled for Thursday and later.
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