A car is seen in a sink hole after rains from Hurricane Irene washed out a section of a road in New Jersey. Hurricane Irene has caused more than USD 10 billion in damages to the United States after it swept the east coast with heavy winds and flooding, a leading risk-assessment firm says. Eqecat, a risk assessment company, has estimated that over 40 million people living on US east coast were hit with... 

The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight, but wasn’t yet through with the U.S. on Monday, as floodwaters threatened Vermont towns and big-city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems. The storm left millions without power across much of the Eastern Seaboard, killed more than three dozen and forced airlines to cancel about 13,600 flights.... 

New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensational news comes as storm experts and politicians today laid out an apocalyptic warning of what will happen to Manhattan if Hurricane Irene makes a direct hit on New York City. Governor Andrew Cuomo... 

President Obama went to the airwaves early Friday urging people to prepare for an apocalyptic nightmare that could strike the East Coast this weekend as Hurricane Irene encroaches across America. Issuing a warning on Friday morning, the president urged Americans to take heed of what he says will go down as a “historic hurricane” that will prove to be both extremely dangerous and costly. “I...