Hurricane Sandy: Live Updates

Hurricane Sandy: Live Updates

4:58 PM EDT: AP increases nationwide death toll from Sandy to 39.

4:42 PM EDT: In a sign of the times, the Montclair, N.J. city council will open its chambers to the public on Wednesday, so residents without power can charge their cell phones.

3:42 PM EDT: New York City cancels Wednesday’s Halloween parade, for the first time 39 years.

2:58 PM EDT:  “My message to governors and mayors and through them the communities hit so hard, we’re going to do everything we can to get resources to you and make sure any unmet need is responded to as soon as possible,” said President Obama at Red Cross HQ in Washington.

2:56 PM EDT: MTA announces limited bus service returning to New York City beginning this evening at 5 pm.

2:37 PM EDT: At Red Cross HQ, President Obama warns of more flooding, saying: “This storm is not yet over.”

2:35 PM EDT:  Death toll rises to 38 across seven states, according to AP.

1:14 PM EDT: A spokesman for Rep. Bob Turner, a Republican from Queens, N.Y, confirms that the congressman’s home was among those burned in a series of storm-related fires that broke out in the Breezy Point section of the borough.

12:54 PM EDT: New York Stock Exchange confirms they will open tomorrow.

11:52 AM EDT: Firefighters using boats and military vehicles tell WABC-TV that they have “a couple hundred” more people to rescue in Little Ferry, N.J before high tide comes in again.

Hurricane Sandy is currently located 40 miles south of Atlantic City, moving west-northwest at 28 mph. Landfall is expected to occur in the next two hours, somewhere along the southern New Jersey coast or just south of it.

Maximum sustained winds remain at 90 mph with higher gusts, and it is not expected to weaken until landfall, according to a 5 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Floodwaters are rising rapidly along the New Jersey coast as the evening high tide approaches, and some areas are nearing all-time record high water marks.

Hurricane Sandy: Live Updates