Live: Hurricane Sandy Gains Strength
Hurricane Sandy is making its turn toward land and will hit the East Coast later today. We'll have updates all day long.
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The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center puts the sustained winds at 85 m.p.h., up from 75 m.p.h. on Sunday. The latest forecast has the storm making an abrupt left turn this morning and making landfalll along the coast of Southern New Jersey and Delware, moving inland toward Philadelphia and central Pennsylvania, then turn due north and heading for upstate New York and eventually Canada. At the moment it appears, the biggest city, New York will avoid a direct hit, but a "life-threatening storm surge" and hurricane force winds are expected to impact the entire east seaboard from Virginia to Boston.
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Some updates on what's happening this morning.
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Then entire U.S. financial system is shut down today as all of lower Manhattan has been closed, leading major exchanges to shut both their phystical and electronic trading
All public roads have been closed in the state of Delaware.
Waves in New Jersey are already at 19 feet. All boardwalk casinos have been shuttered in Atlantic City.
