At least 50 million people are bracing for the worst storm
forecasters say could be the la
rgest ever to hit the United States.
H
urricane Sandy is expected to hit the
East Coast at 8:50 this evening, and will bring that part of the
country to a standstill in the next few days with battering
winds, flooding and lengthy power outages.
State of emergency has been declared in NYC, Philadelphia, Washington
DC, Boston, Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and there's mandatory
evacuation in all all low level cities. Public transportation, subways,
bridges, schools, tunnels, businesses, have all been closed.
Much of the East Coat is on lock down right now as they are expecting a
storm surge of 6 to 11 feet above normal high tide. The hurricane is
expected to merge with winter storm and they say it has the potential to
cause "unprecedented damage."
Thousands of flights into and out of the US east-coast have been
canceled and president Obama has also canceled his presidential campaign
to monitor the storm, which could cost the US billions of dollars in
damages.