US braced for Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is threatening 50 million people on America's heavily-populated east coast today and forecasters warned that New York could bear the brunt of the one-of-a-kind superstorm.

Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate warned that the "time for preparing and talking is about over" as Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the US.