Hurricane Sandy is making its turn toward land and will hit the East Coast later today. We'll have updates all day long.
The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center puts the sustained winds at 85 m.p.h., up from 75 m.p.h. on Sunday. The latest forecast has the storm making an abrupt left turn this morning and making landfalll along the coast of Southern New Jersey and Delware, moving inland toward Philadelphia and central Pennsylvania, then turn due north and heading for upstate New York and eventually Canada. At the moment it appears, the biggest city, New York will avoid a direct hit, but a "life-threatening storm surge" and hurricane force winds are expected to impact the entire east seaboard from Virginia to Boston.
7:00 a.m.: Here are some updates on what's happening this morning.
- Then entire U.S. financial system is shut down today as all of lower Manhattan has been closed, leading major exchanges to shut both their physical and electronic trading systems.
- All public roads have been closed in the state of Delaware.
- Waves in New Jersey, where the storm's impact is expected to be the harshest, are already at 19 feet. All boardwalk casinos have been shuttered in Atlantic City.
- President Obama has canceled all campaign events and will stay in Washington to monitor the storm from the White House. Both campaigns will try to avoid email solicitations
- Residents on DC's notoriously fragile power grid are already experiencing outages.
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