East Coast Begins To Clean Up And Assess Damage From Hurricane Sandy

AVALON, NJ – OCTOBER 30: The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. US President Barack Obama has declared the situation a ‘major disaster’ for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City, with wide spread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city. ()