October 29, 2012, 8:04pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hurricane Sandy threatened some 50 million people on the heavily populated East Coast on Monday, and forecasters warned that New York could bear the brunt of the one-of-a-kind superstorm.
Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate warned that the “time for preparing and talking is about over,” as Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the US.
“People need to be acting now,” he said.Read on...