The storm's effects reached far and wide, according to the National Hurricane Center report.
It was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation's history, a recent National Hurricane Center report said.
Laura Trevelyan describes what it was like to report on Hurricane Sandy.
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Mr. Holloway and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs introduced the new flood-zone map Friday as part of the city's Hurricane Sandy After Action report, an overview of the emergency response to one of the worst storms in New York City's history.
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Meanwhile, the New York and Philadelphia districts "rebounded from the immediate impacts of Hurricane Sandy", the report said.
Scientists, moreover, report a striking decline in hurricane activity during recent years.
Comptroller General Walker has decided to publicize an incomplete "preliminary report" on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) efforts in Hurricane Katrina without even bothering to talk to the senior leadership of DHS. The resulting report is premature and unprofessional.
For more on the death rate in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta's report on Anderson Cooper 360 tonight at 10 p.m.
The report also predicted an above-average risk of a major hurricane landfall in the Caribbean and in the Bahamas.
House Republican investigators today released a scathing 520-page report listing hundreds of mistakes and misjudgments in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, is the first report of a federally funded tracking survey of the mental health needs of about a thousand adult pre-hurricane residents of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
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