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News. tracking sandy. hurricane sandy, the visitor nobody wants but who's coming anyway. >> don't try to go out there and be a hero or anything as if there's nothing going on here. >> tonight sandy poised to turn into a monster and no more business as usual. schools are closed, and so is mass transit. good evening. i'm sade. >> and i'm bill ritter. the city that never sleeps tonight, at 11:00, basically shut down, shut down by a storm that has already killed 65 people. and the main reason, the subways are shut down. that's why the city's shut down. all 378 stations closed since 7:00 tonigh...

Superstorm expected to make landfall in new jersey tonight. 900 miles. just think of a 900-mile-wide wing span. >> i know. from cloud to cloud. that's a massive storm. this morning, of course, complete coverage of hurricane sandy, the forecast, the storm's track and very important, tips to help you and your family stay safe. also, new york city, like several other cities up and down the east coast, is all but shut down. scenes we don't see here a lot. just subway stations empty. times square empty. everything just shut down. there is no mass transit, limited flights. people are urged simply to...

Hurricane sandy, one of the most ferocious storms this country has ever seen as forecasters warn of an unprecedented scenario and serious danger. >> sandy is a massive system barreling toward landfall most likely at this point. the landfall will happen in new jersey, late monday, early tuesday morning. hurricane-force winds of 75 miles an hour. extend 175 miles from the storm's center. and tropical storm winds cover 520 miles in every direction. that tells you the size of this thing. one estimate says there could be $80 billion in damage to homes in the mid-atlantic states. >> sandy is a beast...

Feel the effts welcome back, everybody. well, even if you won't be directly hit by sandy, you may feel the effects of the storm anyway. >> both presidential candidates have been blown off course, especially mr. obama whose day job is calling. abc's political correspondent jonathan karl has the details. >> reporter: it's mother nature's october surprise, a storm so big and so destructive, it could throw the campaign's final week into chaos. >> the storm will throw havoc into the race. >> reporter: for president obama it meant canceling two upcoming campaign events and visiting fema headquarte...

>> hundreds of thousands have been ordered to get to higher ground, but many are refusing to go. reporter jim dolan of our new york city station has the story. >> reporter: so many people who evacuated during irene have decided to stay in the rockaways this time. they know the storm is bigger. they know the water could be higher, they know there will be days without electricity. doesn't seem to matter. they're committed to riding it out. police can do little more than patrol the rockaways tonight. you just can't force people to leave their homes. most businesses here are closed. but the ones t...