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Government waives Jones Act in race to ease fuel shortages in Hurricane Sandy battered Northeast
Foreign tankers to be allowed into ports from Gulf of Mexico and military to bring in reserve supplies for emergency services The US government is scrambling to ease fuel shortages paralysing the north-east in the wake of superstorm Sandy, saying the military will buy motor fuel and truck it there…
Music Fridays: After the Hurricane Edition
Well, Hurricane Sandy was pretty terrible, but because of state, local and yes—federal—efforts, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. This storm has caused more discourse about the importance of accepting global warming, instead of simply denying it like Republicans clearly intend to do basically forever. Accepting…
Death toll nears 100 as Hurricane Sandy’s wrath lingers
A grim routine set in Friday as superstorm Sandy’s US victims struggled to adjust to gas lines, power outages and temporary housing while the death toll from the monster cyclone approached 100. New York’s famed subway lurched back to life with limited service Thursday, offering some relief from the storm-battered…
New Yorkers brace for post-Hurricane Sandy ‘ratpocalypse’
As Hurricane Sandy pushed floodwater through New York’s streets and into its subways, many wondered how the city’s infamous rat population would fare — sink or swim? For some, the deluge that accompanied Sandy raised fears of a “ratpocalypse,” with the city’s least glamorous residents crawling in their thousands up…
Sandy puts climate change back on the election agenda
The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy’s wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Campaigners said the devastating storm could turn out to be the October Surprise of…
Existing divides in New York City highlighted by Hurricane Sandy
It is a tale of two cities. In one there is light, restaurants are open and the elevators work. In the other there is darkness, hardly any water and not even a one dollar slice of pizza. This is the divide in Manhattan left by superstorm Sandy. The have-nots are…
Report: Gas leak causes 8 houses to explode in New Jersey
Dozens of smaller fires were burning out of control Wednesday morning in Mantoloking, New Jersey following a gas main rupture that reportedly blew up a number of houses. Authorities are not responding to the fire because the community is currently inaccessible by vehicle due to sand deposits on the road…
Maddow: Events like Sandy are when ‘government really matters’
Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed how natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy are the times when “government really matters.” In major emergencies, rescue and relief must be coordinated on a massive scale, she said, and it’s necessary to have infrastructure in place and smart…
Watch live: Coverage of superstorm Sandy’s aftermath
New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg provides an update on relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy LIVE VIDEO: Gov. Andrew Cuomo briefs the public on clean-up and recovery efforts in New York in the wake of…
The story behind the HMS Bounty, the ship sunk by Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina coast
The story behind the HMS Bounty, sunk by Sandy off N.C. coast (+video) Hurricane Sandy has already claimed a well-known victim, as the massive storm has sunk the tall ship HMS Bounty off the coast of North Carolina. Two US Coast Guard helicopters rescued 14 of the ship’s 16 crew…
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