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It is two minutes past midnight on the east coast. This is msnbcs live coverage of Hurricane Sandy. Im chris jansing. We will be here all through the night along with meteorologist bill karins. Lets get you caught up on how things are looking and start in new york city right now. Where it is eerily dark. Over pretty much all of lower manhattan. More than 300,000 new yorkers without power. More than 3 million up and down the east coast are i want sesti the dark at this hour. Some of the worst dam...

Today. Right now the storm is over pennsylvania. Torrential rain and in some places, blizzard conditions. Here is the big picture as best we know it. 67 in the caribbean. Close to 8 million customers in 15 states and the District Of Columbia have no electricity. Spent last night in red cross operated shelters. This may be the worst storm ever to hit new york city. One of the Biggest Challenges is where the massive subway system is shut down, tunnels and stations are filled with high water. No id...

Just a dozen days left in the race for the white house. The candidates, their campaigns are now pulling out all the stops. And so are we. Our cnn correspondents are reporting from all of the most critical states in this very, very tight race as president obama and governor romney throw virtually everything in their Campaign Arsenals at the battleground states. Lets start with the Obama Campaign right now. The president drew a huge crowd in richmond, virginia, today. His most recent stop on a whi...

Days from the president election, and nowhere is the Campaign Battle being waged more fiercely than in the battleground state of ohio. 18 electoral votes are at stake there. President obama took them in 2008. Our brand new cnn orc poll is just coming in and it shows president obama leading in ohio right now 50 to mitt romneys 46 . But thats within the sampling error. Its a statistical tie in other words. Our chief National Correspondent john king is joining us. John, break down the numbers for u...

Good morning, everyone. Im christi paul in for randi kaye. So glad to have your company. 10 00 on the east coast. 7 00 on the west. I want to begin with suhurrican sandy, which has regained strength. One area thats really starting to feel the effects is the coast of North Carolina and thats where we have George Howell. In the last couple of hours, have you seen conditions change there, george . Christi, good morning. Were starting to feel a little bit of the rainfall from this system. A lot of t...

Bomber hit a crowded mosque today. Witnesses say the bomber was wearing a policemans uniform. Like i said, today starts a major muslim holiday. The mosque was so packed at the time of the explosion many people were praying outside. Silvio berlusconi sentenced it to four years for tax fraud. Its a complicated case that dragged on for years involving berlusconis Media Company and a swiss bank account. Prosecutors say the Company Bought the tv broadcasting rights for some 3,000 american films. Well...

Has more than 50 billion, they have to put pennies on hundred dollars for a fund to insure the banks so when you go down and say i never missed a payment, let me refinance, theyll say okay. Theyre against this. We will get that done. Folks, look. This is all about expanding the middle class. Its about giving people a way. So many hard working folks trying to climb into the middle class and so many hard working folks have been banged out of the middle class. As my dad used to say, its a lot more....

Fourteen days until americans pick the next president. Cnn is geared up to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of these final two weeks of the campaign. Our correspondents are in the most critical battleground states across the country as president obama and mitt romney try to win over those few remaining undecided voters who could very well sway this expected very, very close election. We have both of these president ial campaigns live this hour. You see joe biden, democratic Vice Preside...

Just 13 days until the president ial election and the obama and Romney Campaigns, they are kicking into overdrive as the candidates make their final push to win the white house. Cnn correspondents are following their every move. Theyre reporting from coast to coast and from all the most crucial states, any one of which has the potential to decide who the next president of the United States will be. Lets begin this hours coverage in iowa where president obama kicked off a twoday coasttocoast swin...

Richard mourdock said this. The i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that god intended to happen. Eliot some republicans backed off michigan quickly. Mike pens has urged Richard Mourdock to apologize. And others say quote Richard Mourdocks comments damage all republicans especially romney as the fight for the womens vote intensifies. This could be a defining moment for romney and he should immediately denounce both murdoch and the comment. With the ...