Hurricane Sandy hits the US

Fire Department New York (FDNY) fire and rescue personnel lead a boat of ConEd power workers through flood waters after their power station was inmmersed in flood waters in New York. Nineteen workers were trapped inside a Consolidated Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan Monday night by rising floodwaters that accompanied the surge from powerful storm Sandy, according to a Reuters witness. A rescue worker said the station had suffered an explosion inside.