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2. A construction crane is dangling¹ off a luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan. It's prompting a large emergency response as a huge storm bears down on New York city. Emergency crews say residents in surrounding building have been ordered to move to lower floors and the streets below were cleared.

 

 

 

3. This Hurricane is also grounded thousands of flights in North East and other ended travel plans across the global. Passengers from Hong Kong to Europe was stranded² because of the weather. The super storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.

 

 

 

4. Sandy also disrupted the Presidential campaign eight days before the election. President Barack Obama and Republican Romney Mitt³ called off campaign rallies as the storm strengthened.

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