46 dead, millions without power, transit after Sandy

As New York City and New Jersey slowly began digging out Tuesday, the scale of the devastation of Superstorm Sandy became heartbreakingly apparent, leaving 46 people dead and authorities with an enormous undertaking to restore power and transit for millions of others.

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"That recovery is a mammoth job," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday evening, assessing the scope of a once-in-a-generation hurricane that swept homes into the ocean, flooded large swaths of coastal areas, left millions of people without power and crippled transportation.

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President Barack Obama declared major disasters in New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut, promising that the federal government would do all it could to help local authorities cope with damage. The president was scheduled to visit damaged areas in New Jersey on Wednesday, the White House said.

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Details of the devastation became clearer late Tuesday after authorities made their way through severely damaged areas across 20 states stretching from New England to Tennessee:

• Forty-six people had been killed in the U.S., 23 of them in New York ? including 18 in New York City, NBC News reported. Six people had been killed in New Jersey, as well as? five in Pennsylvania; four in Connecticut; two apiece in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia; and one each in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. Before it made its way north, Sandy was blamed for 68 other deaths in the Caribbean.
• More than 6 million homes and businesses were without electricity, about half of them in New York and New Jersey. That number represents individual structures, including large businesses, meaning the number of people without light, heat or refrigeration is likely much higher.
• More than 18,000 flights have been canceled so far, and New York City's airports remained closed Tuesday. Amtrak canceled all of its Northeast Corridor rail service, in addition to some other lines.
• Subway service was unlikely to resume for four to five days, Bloomberg said, but free bus service had resumed on a Saturday schedule, and about 4,000 cabs were running on city streets. PATH train service between Manhattan and New Jersey is likely to be suspended for seven to 10 days, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
• The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the South Ferry subway station was "flooded up to the ceiling," while each tube of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel ? better known as the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel ? was filled with 43 million gallons of water.
• At least four towns in north New Jersey were submerged by up to 6 feet of water after a levee broke.
• A half-dozen nuclear power plants were shut down or otherwise affected, while the nation's oldest facility declared a rare "alert" after the record storm surge pushed flood waters high enough to endanger a key cooling system.
• Major U.S. stock exchanges were closed Tuesday for a second day, but they planned to reopen Wednesday.

Sandy leaves NYC subway system, infrastructure licking its wounds

In Breezy Point, a seaside community in Queens, N.Y., a massive fire of undetermined origin destroyed at least 110 homes and damaged 20 others. Firefighters had difficulty reaching the blaze because of the severe weather.

"To describe it as looking like pictures we've seen of the end of World War II is not overstating it," Bloomberg said. "The area was completely leveled. Chimneys and foundations were all that was left of many of these homes."

It remained impossible to put a dollar value on Sandy's destruction. Insured losses alone will run from $7 billion to $15 billion, according to an estimate published late Tuesday by AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe modeling firm.

"I think the losses will be almost incalculable," Christie said on NBC's TODAY show.

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Even as attention was riveted on New York and New Jersey, Sandy had already moved on, remaining a dangerous storm as it dispersed north and south.

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About 90,000 customers were without power Tuesday in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the Energy Ministry said. At least one death was reported in Toronto after a woman in her 50s was hit in the head by a sign Monday night, NBC News Channel reported.

Sandy hit the mountains of West Virginia and North Carolina with full-blown blizzards, part of a storm-generated snow system stretching as far west as Kentucky and Ohio, where several inches of snow fell in Champaign County.

Officials said the 14 to 16 inches that blanketed Newfound Gap, on the Tennessee-North Carolina line, was believed to be biggest October snowfall on record. Parts of eastern Virginia were under a blizzard warning through Wednesday morning, with snowfall at 1 to 2 inches an hour expected.

'The worst that we have ever experienced'
Tuesday's disaster declarations for New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut mean federal funds will be available to people affected by the storm.

"This was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced," Bloomberg said, adding that schools would remained closed Wednesday.

The historic storm, which made landfall at 6:45 p.m. ET Monday, hurled a wall of water up to 13 feet high at the Northeast coast. It surged into Lower Manhattan and areas of Brooklyn, submerging entire streets and parks. A record tide of 13.88 feet was set at The Battery in Lower Manhattan on Monday night, breaking the previous record of 11.2 feet in 1821.

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The powerful storm flooded sections of Atlantic City and other areas of the New Jersey shore. Part of the Atlantic City boardwalk was washed away.

Atlantic City's casinos, which were closed Sunday afternoon, may not reopen until Thursday, officials said. Although they sustained only minor damage, the flooding and heavy damage to surrounding infrastructure means employees and customers can't get to them.

Officials estimated that the casinos alone are losing $5 million every day they're shuttered.

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New York paralyzed as Sandy slams into eastern U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, battered the nation's eastern seaboard on Tuesday, swamping New York City streets with record levels of floodwater, blacking out power to millions of people and bringing transportation to a halt through much of the region.

At least 13 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy, which dropped just below hurricane status before going ashore in New Jersey on Monday, according to officials and media reports. More than 1 million people across a dozen states were under orders to evacuate as the massive system continued to plow westward.

One disaster forecasting company predicted economic losses could ultimately reach $20 billion, only half insured.

The storm also slowed the presidential campaign at a key time ahead of next week's vote and closed U.S. markets for two days.

Sandy, which was especially imposing because of its wide-raging winds, brought a record surge of almost 14 feet to downtown Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10 feet during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.

Water poured into the subway system and tunnels that run under the rivers around Manhattan, raising concerns that the world's financial capital could be hobbled for days to come.

"Hitting at high tide, the strongest surge and the strongest winds all hit at the worst possible time," said Jeffrey Tongue, meteorologist for the weather service in Brookhaven, New York.

Hurricane-force winds as high as 90 miles per hour were recorded, he said.

"Hopefully it's a once-in-a-lifetime storm," Tongue said.

Large sections of New York City were in darkness without power and transportation in the metropolitan area was at a standstill.

"In 108 years our employees have never faced a challenge like the one that confronts us now," Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said in a statement.

It could take anywhere from 14 hours to four days to get the water out of the flooded subway tunnels, the MTA said.

"The damage has been geographically very widespread throughout the entire subway, bus, LIRR (Long Island Railroad) and Metro North system, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said.

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The unprecedented flooding was hampering efforts to fight a massive fire in one of the city's barrier island neighborhoods, Breezy Point in the borough Queens, the New York Fire Department said. More than 170 firefighters battled a fire that destroyed more than 50 homes.

Two people were reported dead in New York City - a man in a house hit by a tree and a woman who stepped into an electrified puddle of water. Two other people were killed in suburban Westchester County, north of New York City, and a motor vehicle death in Massachusetts was blamed in part on the bad weather.

Two others were killed in Maryland in storm-related incidents, state authorities said, and deaths also were reported in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, CNN said.

Toronto police also recorded one death - a woman hit by flying debris.

Some 6.8 million people in several states were left without electrical power by the storm, which crashed ashore late on Monday near the gambling resort of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In New Jersey, Exelon Corp declared an alert around its Oyster Creek nuclear power plant because of rising waters, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. Officials said if waters rose further, they might be forced to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.

An alert-level incident, the second-lowest of four action levels, means there's a "potential substantial degradation in the level of safety" at a reactor.

The storm's wind field stretched from South Carolina north to the Canadian border and from West Virginia to a point in the Atlantic Ocean halfway to Bermuda, easily one of the largest ever seen, the National Hurricane Center said.

Heavy snow fell in higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountain inland, and the population centers of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were in the slow-moving storm's path.

In New York, a crane partially collapsed and dangled from a 90-story luxury apartment building under construction in midtown Manhattan, and authorities evacuated residents in the area out of fear that high winds would bring the entire rig down.

Much of the city was deserted, as its subways, buses, commuter trains, bridges and airports were closed.

Neighborhoods along the East and Hudson rivers were underwater, as were low-lying streets near Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood.

Power and back-up generators failed at New York University Hospital, forcing patients to be moved elsewhere for care.

In lower Manhattan, firefighters used inflatable orange boats to rescue utility workers stranded for three hours by rising floodwaters inside a power substation.

One of the Con Ed workers pulled from the floodwater, Angelo Amato, said he was part of a crew who had offered to work through the storm.

"This is what happens when you volunteer," he said.

MARKETS, CAMPAIGN IMPACTED

Trees were downed across the region, falling debris closed a major bridge in Boston and floodwater and gusts of wind buffeted coastal towns such as Fairfield, Connecticut, home to many commuters into New York City.

With eight days to go before the election, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney canceled scheduled campaign events and acted cautiously to avoid coming across as overtly political while millions of people are imperiled.

U.S. stock markets were set to be closed on Tuesday. They closed on Monday for the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The federal government in Washington was closed and schools were shut up and down the East Coast.

NYSE Euronext said there had been no damage to the New York Stock Exchange headquarters that could impair trading floor operations but it was making contingency plans in case of such damage.

Sandy killed 66 people in the Caribbean last week before pounding U.S. coastal areas.

(Additional reporting Edith Honan, Greg Roumeliotis, Janet McGurty, Scott DiSavino and Martinne Geller in New York Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; editing by Dan Burns and Bill Trott)

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We're listening along with Apple's Q4 2012 financial results conference call and we'll be jotting down notes as we go.

• Peter Oppenheimer: 4.9 million Macs. 1% growth. New record. Compares to 8% contraction of market. Portables grew 9%. 80% of Mac mix. 3-4 weeks of inventory, below range of 5-6. Talks about new Macs.
• 5.2 million iPods. iPod touch still over half. Still over 70% of market. Continues to be top seller in most markets they track. Talks about new iPods.
• iTunes record results. Almost 2.1 billion thanks to music, apps, video. Launching new iTunes (iTunes 11). Talking about new iTunes.
• iPhone sold 26.9 million. 58% year over year growth, compared to 45% of smartphone market overall. iPhone 5 demand phenomenal. Talks about new iPhone. Demand still outstrips supply. Ended with 9.1 million in channel inventory, up 800,0000. Below 4-6 weeks of inventory. Revenue was 17.1 billion. Increased 56%. Talks iPhone in business. Canon uses them for secure CRM system. Amtrak deployed thousands to train conductors, ticketing, workflow. Custom app. Revolutionized paper based process. BBC, CTV, WSJ are using iPhone cameras to capture HD video for broadcast on TV and web.
• iPad 14 million sold. Increase of 26%. Ahead of expectations. Strong year-over-year in every region. Talks iPad mini. Talks 4th gen iPad. Revenue was 7.5 billion. Up 9%. 3.4 million in inventory. Up 200,000. Just over 4 weeks of inventory target.
• Talks iPad in industry. VW has over 30 in-house apps across the company. Monitoring, scheduling, customer greeting apps. Ping An insurance in China. Car accident inspectors. Brazil Bank using iPads. Completing customer transactions, inform and educate customers.
• iOS devices 44 million sold in September Q. Over 700,000 apps. 250,000 iPad apps. New Q record. 6.5 billion in cumulative payments to developers.
• Talking iCloud. iCloud
• Over 200,000,000 iOS 6 devices. Talks iOS 6. Number of improvements to maps, will work non-stop until it lives up to standards.
• Apple Store up 18%. Best iPhone launch ever. New Q record for Mac sales. 18 new stores in 10 countries, first store in Sweden, second in Hong Kong. 390 stores, 140 outside US. 11.2 million revenue on avergae per store. 94 million visitors. Up 22%. 19,000 per store per week on average.
• Total gross margin was 40%. Better than expected commodity, costs, higher than expected sales, better exchange. OpEx was 3.5 billion. (Lots of financial stuff.)
• 121.3 billion in cash at the end of Q (after dividend payout). Up 4 billion. 83 billion offshore.
• Talking dividends, repurchases.
• December Q will span 13 weeks, not 14 like last year. Last week 1/14th of total revenue. Expects 52 billion. Expects margin to be 36%.
• 200 million iOS devices, 58 million iPads, 35 million iPods. 63 countries for iTunes music. 190 million iCloud users. Strongest line up ever.
• Q&A time!
• Q: Why will EPR go down despite new lineup?
• PO: Change year over year being driven by loss of 14th week, this time normal 13 weeks. Stronger US dollar. Change in gross margin. Most prolific product history, unprecendent, record level of demand. 80% of total December revenue. Costs associated with demand. New form factors. All have higher costs, lower gross margins, height of cost curve. Nothing new. Sheer number of new products in short period of time. Lowered cost of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Strongest iPhone lineup ever. iPhone 4 starting at free. iPad mini priced aggressively. Gross margin significantly lower than average.
• (So more expensive products sold at lower margin will depress earnings until the economies of scale kick in?)
• Tim Cook: Dedicated to making best products in the world, think of smallest of details, unwilling to cut corners. Relentless commitment to excellence. Reason customers buy their products. Managing the company for the long run, make long term decisions. Confident in strategy. Will delight customers.
• Q: Supply ramp for iPhone 5 for holiday?
• TC: Demand for iPhone is extremely robust. Thrilled. Significant backlog right now. Output has improved significantly since earlier in the month. Pleased with progress, please with output. Largest volume ramp in Apple history. Confident in ability to supply.
• Q: Continue to anticipate rolling out to all 100 countries this Q? Impact on cost of goods sold to decline?
• TC: Still anticipate rolling out to the 100 countries. Fastest rollout ever. Large countries in December. Each new product has learning curves for ramping production. Now is no exception. Difference is the number of new products at once. Most prolific period in history. Past 6 weeks have been phenomenal in terms of introductions. Doesn't see costs accelerating on per-unit basis. Production ramp across many new products.
• Q: Any chance of larger tablets? Incremental PC functionality?
• TC: Don't comment on future views on products and roadmaps. Continue to be confident that tablet market will surpass PC market. Incredible development in ecosystem and product in tablet space. Already compelling. Particularly an iPad over PC. Enormous opportunity for Apple. 80-90 million PCs sold. iPad family will all be extremely popular in lieu of PCs. Extremely pleased to launch iPad mini.
• Q: China?
• TC: Revenue was 5.7 billion, up 26%. Mac was up 46%. Launched portables in july. iPad up 45%. iPhone was up 38%. Fantastic Q. Full fiscal revenue number of 23.8 billion for China. Up 10-billion, 78% year-over-year. 15% of Apple. Extremely happy. Expanding retail, partners. Extremely exciting.
• Q: Surface, Windows 8 tablets?
• TC: Haven't played with a Surface yet. It's a fairly compromised, confusing product. One of the toughest things to do is deciding which product, make hard tradeoffs, decide what a product should be. Done that with iPad. User experience is incredible. Suppose you could design a car that flies and floats but wouldn't do all of those things well. Thinks people will conclude they really want an iPad, will continue to conclude that.
• W: iPad mini vs. iPad?
• TC: Don't have old product, only new products. Provide fantastic iPod touch, iPad 4, iPad mini, iPad 2. Customers will decide which 1, 2, 3, or all 4. Learned not to worry about cannibalization. Better for Apple to do it. Better to cannibalize PCs. Thinks a great number of those people would be better off with iPad or Mac. Much bigger opportunity. Enormous incremental opportunity.
• Q: Apple TV?
• TC: 1.3 million in Q4. Up over 100% year-over-year. Over 5 million in fiscal year, almost double previous year. Continues to do well, but the revenue is quite small compared to other businesses. Hobby but beloved hobby.
• Q: iPad deceleration?
• TC: June Q contained 1.2 million increase in channel. Actual sell-through looks different. Exceeded expectations. (Lots of channel explanations.)
• Q: Open to passing costs onto customers? (Increasing price points.)
• TC: Think we've made great choices on products and prices. Guide for current quarter, wouldn't want to talk post that.
• Q: How could revenue growth dovetail?
• PO: Looking YOY and comparing sequentials, don't forget 14th week last year. (Talks about great new products).
• Q: iPhone 5, what is global rollout? Sprinkle/backfill or targeted?
• TC: Planned 30-40 prior to introduction, rollout in 2 different dates. Balance was planned with eye towards supply, what they think demand will be.
• Q: iPad mini pricing plans?
• PO: Didn't build small, cheap tablet. Full iPad experience. Difference between mini and competition is profound. 35% larger than 7-inch tablets, much better experience. 2 great cameras, FaceTime HD, 5mp iSight. Dual Wi-Fi, A5 chip. Fit and finish is breathtaking. Higher cost, gross margin is significantly below average, height of cost curve. Wants to make large number, get cost curve down. Like other products.
• TC: Create a product people will love for months and years after they purchase it, continue using it in a robust way. Mini is designed to do. Look at usage stats. 90% of web traffic on tablets from iPads. Apple won't make a product for the moment they pay for it, rarely use it again. Not the experience they want customers to have. Use iPad mini, won't use anything other than any iPad besides that.
• Q: Enterprise? -TC: Almsot all fortune 500 testing and deploying. Penetration will only grow. Global 500 above 80% both iPhone and iPad. Doing fairly well. Much more to do. Feeling good about it.
• Q: Component environment? Volatility on OI&E?
• TC: Doesn't see component shortage. Solved some challenges, feel good. General shortages, iMac will be constrained for full quarter in significant way. 21.5 in November, 27 in December. Short amount of time to manufacture and ramp. Shortage there. Others is how big is big on demand? Tough to predict. Bullish.
• Gary: Explains OI&E.
• Q: (Didn't follow, Peter didn't eitehr)
• PO: Talks ASPs.
• Q: US activations growing faster?
• TC: Bulk of the world did not launch in, expected more significant growth in US than RoTW.
• Q: China iPhone 5 in December?
• TC: Yes, we expect it.
• Q: Expect to meet supply at end of December Q?
• TC: Not projecting balance. Feels great about manufacturing ramp. Supply significantly higher. Confident they can supply quite a few. When that balance occurs, can't tell at this point. Demand very robust.
• Q: Subsidized tablets on content and search, break even or loss? Would Apple consider that?
• TC: Seen low cost challengers before, iPad continues to beat every other tablet at every price. Thinks customers are smart, have high expectations. Want something that can do more. Making the best product will win at the end of the day. Stay true to that.
• Q: Change to supplier list adding complexity, cost structure?
• TC: Not sure what he's getting at, no significant change. No change that would have driven more cost.
• Q: LCD and Samsung?
• TC: No change driven any cost. Samsung continues to be their customer. Have commercial relationship.
• Q: Why is the time now for iPad mini? Gross margins anything structurally different?
• TC: Comments Steve made before about 7-inch tablets. Apple wouldn't make one of the 7-inch tablets. Don't think they're good products for many reasons. Different in realestate between 7.9 vs. 7 is 35%, usable area is much greater than that. 50-67%. iPad mini has same number of pixels as iPad 2. Access to all 275,000 iPad apps. iPad mini isn't compromised like 7-inch. Whole different league.

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Men's Health - November 2012 USA

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3 Chinese Warships Spotted Passing Between Okinawa, Miyako Islands

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Three Chinese warships were spotted sailing in international waters between Okinawa's main island and Miyako Island on Tuesday afternoon, the Japanese Defense Ministry's Joint Staff said.
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