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| Extreme Global Weather: ‘the Unprecedented Is the New Normal’ Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:22 PM PDT A rising death toll, the catastrophic flooding and destruction of entire neighborhoods, and billions of dollars in property damage. The impact of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the East Coast earlier this week, will be felt for years, both in the United States and in the Caribbean region where it had earlier killed more than 70 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Adios to Buckyballs Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 03:53 PM PDT Buckyballs, the popular magnetic desktop toy (for grown-ups!), are being discontinued. Maxfield & Oberton, the company behind the minimagnets, released a snarky statement explaining why. "Due to baseless and relentless legal badgering by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Maxfield and Oberton is discontinuing production of the world's most popular adult desk toys this [...] Full Story | Top |
| With Christie, Obama vows, ‘We will not quit until this is done’ Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:44 PM PDT Just six days before the election, President Barack Obama toured storm-ravaged areas with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He told Garden State residents struggling in the superstorm's aftermath that all of America shares their painâ€"and their government is there to help. "The main message I wanted to send is the entire country has been watching [...] Full Story | Top |
| Reporters getting too close to superstorm Sandy Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:19 PM PDT Journalists by definition are a curious bunch. Weather reporters may take that to the extreme, especially when extreme weather is at hand. This video covers a montage of intrepid reporters taking some ill-advised moves into superstorm Sandyâ€"all in the service of giving television viewers a sense of how bad it is during the worst of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney camp stands by Christie for working with Obama during storm Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:03 PM PDT President Barack Obama spent part of the day Wednesday touring sections of New Jersey hit by superstorm Sandy with GOP Gov. Chris Christie, a move officials from Mitt Romney's campaign stood by after grumblings from some Republicans. "Gov. Christie's doing his job," Romney senior adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters on a conference call when asked [...] Full Story | Top |
| Time-lapse video captures superstorm Sandy’s wrath on New York City Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 01:48 PM PDT A video on YouTube condenses superstorm Sandy's strike on New York City into about two minutes. The video was created by SMvideoChan, who confirmed to Yahoo News on email that it is taken from the Northside Piers Towers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The bridge you can see is the Williamsburg Bridge. The time-lapse video covers two [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama releases radio ad with Colin Powell endorsement Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:58 PM PDT With the fight for the White House in its final round, President Barack Obama's campaign released a new radio ad Wednesday highlighting former Secretary of State Colin Powell's full-throated endorsement of the incumbent's re-election. The 60-second commercial will run in Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and Colorado, according to the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Superstorm Sandy: Before and after photos Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:34 PM PDT Images of the aftermath of superstorm Sandy clearly show the devastation it wrought, including at least 64 deaths and billions of dollars in damages throughout the East Coast. These amazing before and after photographs help bear witness to the destructive force of the powerful wind gusts, torrential rains and massive storm surges. The Battery Park [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘It’s the president, stupid’: Elections drive the economy, too Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:29 PM PDT Last year, the Signal noticed an eerie correspondence between the highs and lows of the S&P 500 stock market index and the ups and downs of President Barack Obama's odds of winning re-election in the prediction markets. Almost a year later, the two data sets continue to move in remarkable lockstep. As thorny correlation issues [...] Full Story | Top |
| Powerless Connecticut families and commuters seek unlikely refuge to stay working Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:21 PM PDT Danbury Fair mall functions as a satellite office and cell-phone charge station for hundreds of Connecticut and New York residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy. (Beau Brendler/Yahoo! News) DANBURY, Conn.â€"Sit down, plug in, power up, log in. It's a morning work ritual for many, but not usually practiced steps from a blaring antique merry-go-round and an [...] Full Story | Top |
| Powerless Connecticut families, stranded commuters seek unlikely refuge to stay working Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 11:57 AM PDT DANBURY, Conn.--Sit down, plug in, power up, log in. It's a morning work ritual for many, but one not usually practiced steps from a blaring antique merry-go-round and an Astroturf fantasyland with three-foot-high shiny plastic worms and fire engines--not to mention Arby's and two Chinese restaurants if you count Famous Cajun Grill. A fellowship of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Air New Zealand honors ‘The Hobbit’ with preflight video Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 11:32 AM PDT Airline safety videos aren't known for being particularly creative. Here's how the tray-table works. Lavatories are in the back. Sit down. Don't move. The end. But Air New Zealand decided to do something with its preflight video by honoring the upcoming film "The Hobbit." And, really, these guys went all out. Air New Zealand partnered [...] Full Story | Top |
| Post-storm, climate change skeptics denying reality, say lawmakers, activists Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 11:01 AM PDT Climate change doubters looking for proof of global warming can stop looking. That, at least, is what many lawmakers and activists are saying after Monday's deadly storm. "There has been a series of extreme weather incidents," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday after assessing the catastrophic damage left in the superstorm's wake. "That [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sandy moves inland, cuts power and ices roads: Residents’ stories from the storm Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 10:54 AM PDT Sandy's winds knocked around boats in Little Egg Harbor, N.J. Click image to see more Sandy photos. (Maria Malone/Yahoo! Contributor Network) From Florida to New England, residents along the eastern seaboard are sharing their anecdotes, photos and videos of Hurricane-turned-"Superstorm" Sandy. Below are excerpts from the latest dispatches from people living through the storm. All [...] Full Story | Top |
| Republican group makes final-stretch push for female candidates Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 10:51 AM PDT A Republican advocacy group that promotes emerging candidates is making a push for female contenders in five House districts. The YG Network, a nonprofit wing of a GOP organization founded by former aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, purchased digital ad space for the candidates. Officials say it's part of an effort to push [...] Full Story | Top |
| Heroes of superstorm Sandy Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:48 AM PDT Monday's deadly storm was the most destructive event to strike the northern East Coast in decades, but the resolve and heroism of both those under threat and the many emergency workers have been just as remarkable. From firefighters in Manasquan, N.J., to the Federal Emergency Management Agency crew that saved NYU's Tisch Hospital in Manhattan, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Back to campaigning, ‘optimist’ Romney urges post-Sandy unity Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:45 AM PDT TAMPA, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, offering a toned-down version of his stump speech as the East Coast struggles to recover from the impact of superstorm Sandy and urging supporters to contribute to the American Red Cross. The Republican presidential nominee omitted lines from his speech that attacked President Barack Obama [...] Full Story | Top |
| High-Tech Ways to Save on Home Energy Costs Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 08:04 AM PDT My home energy bills keep going up â€" and I don't imagine I'm alone. But in addition to the usual solutions like "turn down your thermostat" and "switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs â€" or better yet, LEDs", I've discovered some high-tech tools that help save energy â€" and money. The Department of Energy estimates [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama and Romney make young girl cry Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:56 AM PDT After months of buildup leading to the presidential election in November, 4-year-old Abigael Evans has had enough. The Fort Collins, Colo., girl broke down in tears after listening to yet another report on the radio about the race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a local NBC TV station reported. "I'm tired [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYT called out city’s flood-protection problems in September Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:26 AM PDT In a prescient New York Times article in September, scientists warned that New York City could become paralyzed for a month or more if a stormâ€"or rising sea levels caused by climate changeâ€"caused significant flooding. This passage, flagged by Reuters' Felix Salmon, stands out in particular: Consolidated Edison, the utility that supplies electricity to most [...] Full Story | Top |
| Moment the lights went out in NYC (VIDEO) Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:11 AM PDT Talk about perfect timing to capture an awful moment: Sean Blackwell was filming the flooding from Hurricane Sandy on the Lower East Side of New York City at the intersection of Eighth Street and Avenue C at the moment of the blackout. As the camera pans across the intersection, a mind-boggling view of water-logged streets [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama back on campaign trail Thursday as final push begins Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:03 AM PDT President Barack Obama will return to campaigning after spending three days managing the federal response to the deadly superstorm. He's launching a frenetic final push with stops in Wisconsin, Colorado and Nevada. Come Election Day, the Democrat will watch the results come in at what aides are billing with characteristic audacity (bluster?) as a "victory [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney to focus on 11 states in final election push Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:30 AM PDT TAMPA, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney will focus on 11 states before Election Day. The push in the election's final six days comes amid polls showing the GOP challenger in a dead hit with President Barack Obama in many battleground states, including Florida and Ohio. Between now and Tuesday, Romney and his key surrogates will attend rallies in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wednesday in politics: Obama with Christie in N.J., Romney in Florida, and more Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 03:28 AM PDT President Barack Obama is taking a third day off from campaigning Wednesday to survey Superstorm Sandy damage in New Jersey with Gov. Chris Christie. Christie is a strong supporter of Republican nominee Mitt Romney, but he had words of praise Tuesday for Obama's response to Sandy. Obama originally had planned to campaign Wednesday in Ohio, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Washington, D.C., largely unfazed by superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:37 PM PDT WASHINGTONâ€"Mayor Vincent C. Gray spent Tuesday morning riding through the streets here with the U.S. National Guard in a Humvee caravan to assess the damage left by the superstorm. He probably could have done it in a Prius. By Tuesday afternoon, the city's public transportation network was back up and running. The communal Bikeshare program [...] Full Story | Top |
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