Sandy: Half of New York subway trains run again

November 01, 2012 15:54

Just in: New York subway trains start running again, on more than half of the city's lines, officials say.

Storm Sandy left at least 64 people dead in the US, cut power from millions of homes and paralysed transport on much of the eastern US seaboard.It made landfall on Monday night in New Jersey, where some 20,000 people remain trapped in their homes by sewage-contaminated floodwater.

In New York City, the storm brought a record tidal surge that swamped the subway system and caused widespread blackouts.Earlier, it killed nearly 70 people in the Caribbean and caused extensive crop destruction in impoverished Haiti. More

Also see our slideshow: Sandy Aftermath: Grim faces say their story

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