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Day in photos Coping with Sandy’s devastation, Day of the Dead, Mikhail Gorbachev visits President George H.W. Bush and more.
Nov. 1, 2012
Commuters exit a Metro-North train arriving at New York’s Grand Central Terminal during the morning rush. Some trains are back up and running into Grand Central following shutdowns in the aftermath of Sandy. Subway train service in the city is back in a limited capacity, but with much of lower Manhattan still without power, trains are not running there and buses are replacing them.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Tenants of a New York housing project collect non-potable water from a fire hydrant after being without power and water since Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast. Residents are carrying water up several flights of stairs to their apartments to flush toilets. Some boil the water to bathe. Gas stoves have been the only source of heat for most affected people.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Grace Chow, 22, carries a bucket of water on a 20-floor trip to help an older resident at Confucius Plaza in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York. Chow was volunteering with the New York United Dragon and Lion Dance group.
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AP
Nov. 1, 2012
Bianca Nolasco, left, and Hazel Nolasco use a long rope to hoist gallons of water up to their fifth-floor apartment after being without water and power since Hurricane Sandy hit.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
Nov. 1, 2012
Yoriko Maio, left, and Kijung Takii wash clothes in the driveway of their home, which was flooded and is without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in Little Ferry, N.J. People across the state were urged to conserve water. At least 1.7 million customers remained without electricity.
Mike Groll
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AP
Nov. 1, 2012
Consolidated Edison employees deliver dry ice to people waiting at a station set up to deliver food, water and clothing to those devastated by Hurricane Sandy on the south side of the Staten Island. Deaths in the United States and Canada from the massive storm rose to at least 95 on Thursday after the number of victims reported by authorities in New York jumped and deaths in New Jersey and elsewhere also rose.
Mike Segar
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Reuters
Oct. 31, 2012
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee prepares hoses to pump 43 million gallons of water out of each of the tubes of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in New York. Two key tunnels connecting Manhattan to New Jersey and Brooklyn are still closed due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy.
Patrick Cashin
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MTA via Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
A sign marks the front door of a condemned house in the Ocean Breeze area of Staten Island. Most homes in the seaside community were inundated by the ocean surge caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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Nov. 1, 2012
A woman weeps after finding family photographs inside her heavily damaged home in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of Staten Island.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
A woman takes her hat off as she takes a break from throwing away her home’s flood-damaged belongings in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of Staten Island. New York power company Consolidated Edison said Thursday it still had about 659,400 homes and businesses without power three days after monster storm Sandy slammed into the East Coast.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
A man rides a stationary bicycle to charge mobile devices for people in Manhattan’s East Village. Residents of the neighborhood are still without power and some of the public housing buildings in the area flooded during the storm.
Mario Tama
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Nov. 1, 2012
Chris Zaturoski uses a garden hose to attempt to siphon gasoline from his car to use in a generator at his Little Ferry, N.J.,house, which lost power in Hurricane Sandy.
Mike Groll
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AP
Nov. 1, 2012
A woman covers her face in frustration while waiting for hours in line to get fuel outside a gas station in Queens.
Adrees Latif
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
Regina Yahara-Splain cleans out her home after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Highlands, N.J.
Andrew Burton
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Nov. 1, 2012
A trailer home, spray-painted by its owners before it was abandoned, is left in ruins in Highlands, N.J. , after Hurricane Sandy plowed through the area.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Southern California Edison equipment and utility trucks are loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo jet at March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif. More than 70 SCE utility trucks are being prepared for transport to the East Coast to help restore power to areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
Jean Anderson
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Southern California Edison via Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
A coast guard officer waves a red flare outside the parliament in Athens as he takes part in an anti-austerity protest with other officers and members of police, coast guard and fire brigade unions. A Greek court ruled Thursday that pension reform demanded by foreign lenders may be unconstitutional.
John Kolesidis
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Reuters
Nov. 2, 2012
The leaves of the Doma Pass Alpine Route in the town of Yeongdong, in central South Korea, turn red and yellow during autumn.
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Yonhap News via European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 1, 2012
A view of Nueva Esperanza cemetery during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, Peru.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
Musicians perform in front of graves at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery during Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, in Peru’s Lima Province. Each year people visit the cemetery, one of Latin America's largest, to honor the dead.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
A procession walks through the vineyards of Ruedesheim am Rhein, Germany. A pontifical Mass took place at St. Hildegard Abbey in honor of Hildegard von Bingen's appointment as Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI. St. Hildegard was born in 1098 and died in 1179.
Frederick von Erichsen
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EPA
Nov. 1, 2012
Shaolin monks perform qigong, a type of traditional Chinese martial arts, during the opening ceremony of the fourth Southern Shaolin Martial Arts Cultural Festival in Putian city, China.
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China Daily via Reuters
Oct. 31, 2012
An 8-year-old girl struggles for life outside a hospital after she was injured in an aerial attack by government forces in the Bab al-Neyrab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.
Narciso Contreras
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AP
Nov. 1, 2012
Damaged cars and buildings are seen in the Juret al-Shayah neighborhood of Homs, Syria.
Yazan Homsy
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Reuters
Nov. 1, 2012
Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev, left, is greeted by former U.S. president George H.W. Bush in Houston. Gorbachev was in the city to speak at the Brilliant Lecture Series.
David J. Phillip
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AP
Nov. 2, 2012
A baby sable antelope mistakes the nose of zookeeper Martin Damboldt for a source of milk during feeding at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin. After the mother of the month-old antelope stopped feeding it, zookeepers intervened and now feed the antelope milk from a bottle.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Dutch Queen Beatrix protects herself from the rain with an umbrella as she attends the opening of Cultuur Kwartier Sneek (Cultural Quarter Sneek) in Sneek, the Netherlands.
Bas Czerwinski
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European Pressphoto Agency
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