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The federal government to the stock market is shut down. In the calm before the storm. An eerie silence in times square with mass transit across new york city halted. Ahead of the hurricane. Not just mass transit, bus, light rail, amtrak on the east coast, airlines, the city is for all intents and purposes shut down. Nothing, nothing going on. The scope of the storm is just incredible. Forecasters expect High Altitude wind to whip through every state east of the mississippi. And as people prepare now to go days without power, well have the best advice for coping with the storm and also, stayin...

>> 50 million people are in harm's way, and many have been heeding the warnings, scrambling to get ready, boarding up their houses, buying whatever supplies they kl can find, and fleeing their homes if they have to. but a lot of folks are staying put, keeping themselves in harm's way unfortunately. >> which is hard to understand in a storm like this, but a lot of coastal communities up and down the coast, people are being told to get out. hopefully most of those folks have heeded the warnings. it's getting to a point where it will be too late to turn back. things are going to slowly deteriorat...

Are back to normal. lisa stark, abc news, reagan national airport. for those of you watching us in airports, hang tough. it's going to be a long few days if you're stuck in one of those airports. >> looks like ma faris will be staying a little bit longer at my place, a lot longer than expected. >> on top of all this, the full moon. when you talk about a perfect storm, so many factors coming together to make it tough. so a full moon's going to add to the storm surge, add to the tides here, so that's just another in a long list of factors. >> they say almost 20% higher in terms of the tides ju...

0 now" -- this morning on "world news now" -- a race against time. in a matter of hours, hurricane sandy will come ashore, bringing some of the most dangerous conditions seen in decades. >> this morning, major east coast cities are literally shut down, and coastal communities have already been evacuated. it is monday, october 29th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." usually we say good morning. but it doesn't seem appropriate on this monday. all eyes on sandy, what's going to be a very tough probably 36 to 72 hours for millions of folks along the east coast. good mornin...