W A S H I N G -TON (AP) --President BarackObama dives backinto campaigningafter three daysimmersed in man-aging the federalresponse to thestorm that batteredthe East Coast.The contours ofthe presidentialrace remain muchthe same, withObama andRepublican MittRomney locked ina tight contest andboth campaignspredicting victory.

The president's advisers insist his break fromcampaigning had minimal impact on his standing.If anything, it gave Obama a chance to offer thetype of comfort and command in a crisis that onlya president can deliver.

Still, the Democratic campaign is seeking tomake up for the lost time with a heavy travel itin-erary in the coming days, including ralliesThursday in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado.Obama's remarks Thursday will focus on boostingmiddle-class security, the key message the cam-paign is expected to push in the final days of therace.

Obama campaign spokeswoman JenniferPsaki said that while the president remainsfocused on the storm recovery, "there is a realityof a political election happening in five days andhe will return to the trail to make the case to theAmerican people on why they should send himback for four more years."

Before traveling to Wisconsin, Obama was tohold a storm briefing at the White House withFederal Emergency Management Agency admin-istrator Craig Fugate and other administration offi-cials. The White House said Obama would stay intouch with Fugate throughout the day. The presi-dent also planned to hold conference calls whiletraveling with local elected officials from affectedareas.

The storm created headaches for Romney,diverting the public's attention away from the cam-paign as he was trying to build momentum. It alsoforced the Republican challenger to temper someof his harshest critiques of the president to avoidlooking insensitive as people coped with theimpact of Superstorm Sandy.

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Obama's campaign planned to keep pressingits criticism of the ads as it seeks to blockRomney's prospects for a breakthrough in Ohio, astate every Republican has needed to win thepresidency.

The Republican ticket hasn't backed awayfrom the ad. Running mate Paul Ryan said in astatement: "American taxpayers are on track tolose $25 billion as a result of President Obama'shandling of the auto bailout, and GM and Chryslerare expanding their production overseas."

In fact, Chrysler is adding 1,100 jobs to itsplant in Toledo. It's also adding production facili-ties in China as demand for cars there grows.Because of trade rules, it's easier for companiesto build cars for the Chinese market in China. It'salso more efficient. Japanese automakers, forexample, have plants in the U.S. to meetAmerican demand.

Romney was campaigning Thursday inVirginia and Ryan was appearing at events inNevada and Colorado.

Before his Virginia events, Romney releaseda Web video highlighting a decades-old barbecuechain in Richmond that's shutting its doors. "WhenPresident Obama took office there was a lot ofhope that things were going to change. Well, hedidn't change anything," a woman connected tothe business says in the video.

The Obama campaign released a new TV adtouting former Secretary of State Colin Powell'srecent endorsement of Obama. It will run in 10states, including Minnesota.

The Romney campaign announced a new TVspot criticizing Obama for suggesting the creationof a secretary of business. "His solution to every-

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NEW YORK (AP) --Subways started rolling inmuch of New York City onThursday for the first timesince Superstorm Sandycrippled the nation'slargest transit system.Traffic crawled overbridges, where policeenforced mandatory car-p o o l i n g .

Ridership was lightin the morning, and thetrains couldn't take someNew Yorkers where theyneeded to go. There wereno trains in downtownManhattan and other hard-hit parts of the city, andpeople had to switch tobuses.

People were gratefulanyway. Ronnie Abraham was waiting at Penn Station for a trainto Harlem, a trip that takes 20 minutes by subway and 2 1/2hours on city buses that have been overwhelmed since resumingservice Tuesday.

"It's the lifeline of the city," Abraham said. "It can't getmuch better than this."

Other New Yorkers, without power for a third full day andgrowing dispirited, decided to flee the city. They worried aboutfood and water and, in some cases, their own safety.

"It's dirty, and it's getting a little crazy down there," saidMichael Tomeo, who boarded a bus to Philadelphia with his 4-year-old son. "It just feels like you wouldn't want to be out atnight. Everything's pitch dark. I'm tired of it, big time."

Rima Finzi-Strauss was taking a bus to Washington. Whenthe power went out Monday night in her apartment building onthe Lower East Side of Manhattan, it also disabled the electriclocks on the front door, she said.

"We had three guys sitting out in the lobby last night withcandlelight, and very threatening folks were passing by in thepitch black," she said. "And everyone's leaving. That makes itworse."

She said people were on the street buying "old, tiny littlevegetables" and climbing 20 floors into apartments where theywouldn't flush the toilet, and without heat. New York dipped toabout 40 degrees Wednesday night.

After reopening airports, theaters and the stock exchange,city officials hoped the subway would ease the gridlock that hadparalyzed the city, forcing cars and pedestrians to inch throughcrowded streets without working stoplights.

Television footage Thursday showed heavy traffic cominginto Manhattan as police turned away cars that carried fewerthan three people, a rule meant to ease congestion.

Flights took off and landed Thursday at LaGuardia Airport,the last of the three major New York-area airports to reopen

since the storm,which killed morethan 70 peopleacross theNortheast and leftmillions withoutp o w e r .

Across theregion, peoplestricken by thestorm pulledtogether, providingcomfort to thoseleft homeless andoffering hot show-ers and electricaloutlets for chargingcellphones to thosewithout power.

The spirit ofcan-do partnership

extended to politicians, who at least made the appearance of put-ting their differences aside to focus together on Sandy.

"We are here for you," President Barack Obama saidWednesday in Brigantine, N.J., touring a ravaged shore. "We arenot going to tolerate red tape. We are not going to toleratebureaucracy."

Obama joined Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who hadbeen one of the most vocal supporters of Republican presiden-tial hopeful Mitt Romney, to tour the ravaged coast. But the twomen spoke only of helping those harmed by the storm.

On Wednesday, masses of people walked shoulder-to-shoulder across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan for work,reversing the escape scenes from the Sept. 11 terror attack andthe blackout of 2003.

Downtown Manhattan, which includes the financial dis-trict, Sept. 11 memorial and other tourist sites, was still mostlyan urban landscape of shuttered bodegas and boarded-up restau-rants. People roamed in search of food, power and a hot show-er.

Suburban commuter trains started running for the first timeon Wednesday, and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor was to takecommuters from city to city on Friday for the first time since thestorm.

From West Virginia to the Jersey Shore, the storm's dam-age was still being felt, and seen.

In New Jersey, signs of the good life that had definedwealthy shorefront enclaves like Bayhead and Mantoloking layscattered and broken: $3,000 barbecue grills buried beneath thesand and hot tubs cracked and filled with seawater.

Nearly all the homes were seriously damaged, and manyhad disappeared.

"This," said Harry Typaldos, who owns the Grenville Inn inMantoloking, "I just can't comprehend."

A commuter waits as the first A train approaches the platform at PennStation as MTA resumed limited service Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in NewYork. The decision to reopen undamaged parts of the nation’s largesttransit system came as the region struggles to restore other basic serv-ices to recover from a storm.

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LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP)-- In its tear of destruction, themegastorm Sandy left parts of NewJersey's beloved shore in tatters,sweeping away beaches, homes,boardwalks and amusement parks.

The devastation left the state a blankcanvas to redevelop its prized vaca-tion towns. But environmentalists andshoreline planners urged the state tothink about how - and if - to redevel-op the shoreline as it faces an evengreater threat of extreme weather.

"The next 50 to 100 years are goingto be very different than what we'veseen in the past 50 years," said S.Jeffress Williams, a scientist emeritusat the U.S. Geological Survey'sWoods Hole Science Center inMassachusetts.

The sea level is rising fast, anddestructive storms are occurring more frequently,said Williams, who expects things to get evenworse.

He and other shoreline advocates say the stateshould consider how to protect coastal areas fromfurious storms when they rebuild it, such as relocat-ing homes and businesses farther from the shore,building more seawalls and keeping sand duneshigh.

How to rebuild after the disaster is becoming anissue even as New Jersey assesses its damage.

The state's death toll from Sandy climbed to atleast 14 while 1.7 million customers remained with-out electricity Thursday and earth-moving equip-ment made its way for the first time to hard-hit bar-rier island communities.

In some coastal towns, residents were getting theirfirst look at the damage, but they were beingbarred from checking out their property on barrierislands.

Most passenger trains were still suspended andlines were long at gas pumps across the state. Butthere were some steps toward normalcy: State gov-ernment offices and many schools reopenedThursday, and most New Jersey Transit bus routesresumed service.

The state's main focus was at the storied JerseyShore, where houses were thrown from their foun-dations and parks and beaches were in ruins.

In his evening briefing Wednesday, Gov. ChrisChristie reiterated that he wants to rebuild.

"I don't believe in a state like ours, where theJersey Shore is such a part of life, that you justpick up and walk away," he said.

But the governor said homeowners in hard-hitareas should decide for themselves whether theywant to rebuild or sell their property to the state forconservation. New Jersey has a program to buyflood-prone homes, but it's mostly been used forinland flood plains, not the shore.

The government, the Republican governor said,should not decide where rebuilding is and isn'tallowed. On Thursday, state Department ofEnvironmental Protection spokesman Larry Hajnasaid he expects building standards to be updated,as they have been after other major storms.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, dis-agreed with Christie, saying that rebuilding afterSandy should include new ways to prevent damagefrom future hurricanes and storms.

Shoreline advocates say there are three ways toprotect the shore from extreme weather: build morejetties and seawalls, keep beaches replenished andrelocate homes and businesses.

The physical solutions can help protect homes androads but also cut off access to the beaches orwater. New Jersey is known for having a lot of pro-tective barriers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's alsomoved more than 65 million cubic yards of sand forreplenishment projects in New Jersey. The stategovernment has done additional projects withoutfederal assistance.

Environmentalists say movingsand can cause harm to theareas it's moved from andmight not be a good match forits new location. The supply ofusable sand also is limited,they say."It's like a bad drug habit,"said Chad Nelsen, the envi-ronmental director of theSurfrider Foundation, a nation-al organization dedicated topreserving beaches andoceans. "Once you start, youcan't stop."

Still, it seems to work. Someresidents on Long BeachIsland on Wednesday creditedhigh dunes and wide beachesbuilt as part of replenishmentefforts there for keepingdestruction from being evenworse.

The northern barrier island that suffered the worstdamage from Sandy is the longest developedstretch of New Jersey's 127-mile coastline withoutthe help of federal replenishment projects.

The federal government pays for much of thebeach protection programs. Including state andlocal contributions, shore protection programs withfederal involvement from Manasquan to Cape Mayhave cost taxpayers $475 million since 1988. Thestate has a $25 million-per-year beach protectionfund, much of which goes toward the federal proj-ects, but some goes to other measures.

Peter Kasabach, executive director of the planningadvocacy group New Jersey Future, says subsidiesthat encourage rebuilding as things were, includingfederal flood insurance, are problematic.

"We've built in places that we shouldn't have builtand now those places are becoming even morehazardous and more expensive to stay in," he said."As we grow and develop, we should make sure wedon't continue to invest in those places."

He suggested bans on building in some sensitivebeach areas, or requirements that homes be builtfarther from the ocean.

The Surfrider Foundation's Nelsen said he hopesthat New Jersey communities at least considerrebuilding in different places, which he said hasnever been done on a large scale in a U.S. ocean-front.

"We're about to spend some ungodly sum ofmoney to restore the coast," he said. "Let's makesure we spent it wisely."

, A doctor examines an x-ray while a Syrian elder sits on a hospital trolley sufferingpartial loss of memory after was shot in the head by a sniper in Aleppo, Syria.

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S O L D I E R S A S F I G H T I N G R A G E SBEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels killed 28 soldiersin attacks on military checkpoints in northernIdlib province on Thursday, just hours after awave of bombings hit Damascus and its out-skirts, activists said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said the rebels attacked threemilitary checkpoints near the town of Saraqeb,killing the troops. Five rebels also died in gunbattles following the attacks, according to theObservatory, which relies on reports fromactivists on the ground.

There was no official confirmation of thedeaths from the authorities.

The relentless fighting in Syria has killed morethan 36,000 people according to activists sinceMarch 2011, when the uprising againstPresident Bashar Assad's regime began. Itstarted as peaceful protests inspired by theArab Spring but quickly morphed into a bloodycivil war.

The rebels fighting to topple Assad often com-plain they are outgunned by the military, whichhas in recent days intensified airstrikes onopposition strongholds following the failure ofa U.N.-backed truce over a four-day holidayweekend that never took hold.

On Wednesday alone, activists said more than100 were killed nationwide in airstrikes,artillery shelling and fighting. Much of the vio-lence took place in rebellious suburbs of thecapital Damascus and in Aleppo, Syria'slargest city and a major front in the 19-monthconflict.

In Damascus, "terrorists detonated" threebombs in Al-Mazzeh district late Wednesdaynight, targeting a mosque, a sports club and ashop, state-run news agency SANA said. Oneperson was killed in the explosion near thedistrict's Al-Houda mosque, and two werewounded, the agency reported Thursday. Six

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Daylight 151,669 937 86,517 64,215

Dusk 6,115 44 3,305 2,766

Dawn 2,818 39 1,490 1,289

Dark 71,188 1,234 32,982 36,972

Unknown 3,671 7 553 3,111

Total 235,466 2,261 124,847 108,353

Dry 200,153 1,995 106,486 91,674

Wet 31,490 245 17,139 14.106

Slippery 975 7 542 426

Icy 61 1 27 33

Other 2,782 13 655 2,114

Total 235,461 2,261 124,847 108,353

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A crash on northbound Interstate 95 south ofNorthwest 79th Street in Miami-Dade is blocking tworegular lanes.

Crash, Boca Raton

The vehicle crashed into wall that leads into thedevelopment causing major structure damage. Thedemolished wall blocked traffic heading west forseveral hours. He says parts of the damaged vehi-cle were found at the scene like a headlight whichshows the vehicle appears to be a 2011 DodgeDurango.

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Man arrested on hit-and-run charges in fatal

motorcycle crash

October 31, 2012A Lake Mary doctor was arrested on hit-and-runcharges after he hit a motorcyclist in VolusiaCounty and then left the scene, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Dr. Kevin Wynnehit 50-year-old Sabra Vocaturo with his SUV inFebruary on State Road 415 and never stopped tohelp. Vocaturo was thrown from her bike intooncoming traffic.

Authorities said two drivers ran over Vocaturo.They stopped to help but told officers there wasnothing they could do.

Wynne was arrested at his Heathrow home onThursday by the Florida Highway Patrol.

His lawyer contacted FHP the day after the crash,telling them where to find Wynne's Infiniti SUV,which had a part missing.

Wynne is being held on $50,000 bail.

Florida Highway Patrol has released the name ofthe St. Augustine Beach man killed in the single-car crash near Interstate 95 in Volusia County thisafternoon.

Investigators say, Hallman, 41, was on BevilleRoad merging onto the I-95 entrance ramp atabout 3:45 p.m. when he lost control of his 2003Ford pickup truck. The truck flipped over severaltimes and Hallman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.

Hallman died on scene. There was one other pas-senger in the truck at the time of the crash. RobertThornton, 43, was wearing a seat belt. He survivedthe crash and was taken to Halifax Medical Centerwith serious injuries.

Crash blocks 5 lanesnorthbound I-95

October 30, 2012

St. Augustine Beach mandies in crash near I-95 in

Volusia County

The northbound lanes of Interstate 95 were experi-encing heavy delays through Fort LauderdaleTuesday afternoon.A crash near Oakland Park Boulevard that wasreported shortly after 12:30 p.m. was intially block-ing five northbound travel lanes. The multi-vehiclecrash was reported shortly after 12:30 p.m.By 1:30 p.m. most of the travel lanes were reopen-ing but considerable delays remained in place.

October 30, 2012

Debris on I-95, OaklandPark

South Florida commuters are finding dry roads forthe peak of the morning rush on Monday.

Among the incidents and crashes being reportedthrough the region by the Florida Highway Patroland Florida Department of Transportation:8:19 a.m., hit-and-run crash on southbound I-95near the entrance ramp to Commercial Boulevard inOakland Park;Tire debris reported in the left land of I-95 afterCommercial Boulevard in Oakland Park;8:02 a.m., crash on the northbound State Road 7ramp to I-95 inFort Lauderdale;

November 1, 2012

truck crashes into passen-ger bus on I-75 0ne man

dead, one injured

One person was left in critical condition after acrash on Interstate 75 in Sumter County involving abus carrying 27 people and a truck.

The Florida Highway Patrol said it happenedaround 7:30 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-75near mile marker 333.

Troopers said the passenger bus was heading forMexico from Lake Wales when it slowed down forcongested traffic.

That’s when officials say the bus was hit frombehind by a truck.That truck went down an embankment, spunaround and hit some small trees before finally stop-ping, according to FHP.

A passenger in the truck was taken to OrlandoRegional Medical Center with critical injuries.The two other drivers and the 27 passengers onthe bus were not injured.

November 1, 2012

Southbound lanes ofInterstate 95 in West Palm

Interstate 95 in West PalmBeach blocked after crash

Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.

WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.

Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a resultRead more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-flori-da/Palm-Beach-County-News/Southbound-lanes-of-Interstate-95-in-West-Palm-Beach-blocked-after-crash/-/8815578/15117892/-/l9u09j/-/index.html#ixzz1y59jZZO8

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November 3, 2012

Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a result.

Man thrown from SUV,killed in Brevard crash

A Cocoa man was killed Saturday evening when hewas thrown from an SUV in a single-vehicle crash.

Dalton Cook, 26, was a passenger in a 2000Toyota SUV driven by 28-year-old James Walker,also of Cocoa.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Walkerwas driving south on Grissom Parkway at about 6p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve. He over-corrected, sending the vehicle into the northboundlane. The SUV overturned as Walker tried to returnto the southbound lane.

November 2, 2012

Investigators said a man was killed when a car ranoff the Florida's Turnpike in Pompano Beach andflipped into a ditch next to a landfill.

State troopers said an employee at Monarch HillLandfill discovered the grisly scene at about 8:30a.m. and called 911.

Man Killed In PompanoBeach Car Crash

November 3, 2012

when buying remote-controlled model aircraftover safety concerns,the official Global Timesnewspaper reportedT u e s d a y .

One toy store ownersaid authorities had toldhim to stop selling medi-um and large-sizedplanes.

"This kind of planecan't fly over long dis-tances and it can hardlycarry anything," saidChen Ziping, holding upa model about half ameter (half a yard) long."They just told me tostop selling it and I haveto follow the order."

The Global Timesquoted an unnamedpolice officer fromAoyuncun station inChaoyang district assaying that people want-ing to buy model planesduring the congressshould go to the vendor'slocal police station to

register. When the buyer receives approval from thestation's police chief, he can make the purchase, theofficer said.

Still, they won't be allowed to fly model planes inthe city, and balloons also are on the blacklist, thenewspaper said. It cited another officer fromChaoyang district Public Security Bureau as sayingthat pigeon owners must keep their birds in theircoops during the congress.

Chen Jieren had a run-in with the security rulesSunday after the handle of his knife broke while hewas cooking dinner. He took his ID card to the super-market, knowing that people must show identificationwhen buying knives during sensitive periods.

"Well, it didn't work this time," Chen said in atelephone interview. "I was told by the police that nomore knives can be sold, not even pencil sharpen-ers. And I don't think the shopkeeper was kidding,because several days ago I saw myself that policewere asking the sales assistants in the stationer's notto sell pencil sharpeners.

"I went back and got an old knife and tried tosharpen it. I guess I have to live with it until theCongress finishes," he added, glumly.

Wang Ye, an engineer from Beijing who lives inShanghai, was planning on returning to his home cityto run a marathon, but it was postponed with no wordon when it might be held. The date of a marathon inthe eastern city of Hangzhou, near Shanghai, wasalso changed.

"There is no official explanation, but we all knowthat it is due to the 18th Congress," he said. "(TheBeijing marathon) has been held regularly for thepast 31 years.

"I guess I will give up running competitions inChina and try to attend more abroad," said Wang. "Atleast they tell me the schedule one year before theevent."

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BEIJING (AP) -- Don't roll downthe taxi windows. Don't buy aremote-controlled plane without apolice chief's permission. And don'trelease your pigeons.

Beijing is tightening security asits all-important Communist Partycongress approaches, and some ofthe measures seem downrightbizarre. Kitchen knives and pencilsharpeners reportedly have beenpulled from store shelves, andthere's even a rumor that authoritiesare on the lookout for seditiousmessages on pingpong balls.

The congress, which beginsNov. 8, will name new leaders to runthe world's most populous countryand second-largest economy for thenext decade. Most of the securitymeasures have been phased in intime for Thursday's opening of ameeting of the Central Committee,the roughly 370-member body thatis finalizing preparations for the con-gress.

China always tightens securityfor high-profile events, like much ofthe rest of the world. London, forinstance, restricted air traffic duringthe Olympics.

But many of Beijing's rules seem extraordinary,perhaps in an effort to smooth a once-a-decade tran-sition that has already been bumpy.

Bo Xilai, once a candidate for the all-powerfulPolitburo's Standing Committee, suffered a spectac-ular fall from grace in which his wife was convicted ofmurder. One of President Hu Jintao's closest aideswas demoted, apparently after his son was killedalongside two partially dressed women in an acci-dent in his Ferrari. Meanwhile, protests over pollu-tion, land seizures and local corruption continueacross the country.

Human rights groups report that activists andpetitioners are being rounded up ahead of the con-gress. But the broader security measures may bestillustrate how China is trying to leave absolutely noroom for disruptions.

The government has blocked searches for thephrase "18th Party Congress" on websites includingChina's popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo. Internetposters manage to get around that by using charac-ters that sound like "party congress." One substitute:"Sparta."

Taxi drivers have been told to remove windowhandles, to avoid sensitive parts of the city and not toopen their windows or doors if they pass "importantvenues." Some taxi drivers, but not all, have beentold to ask passengers to sign a "traveling agree-ment" if they want to go near Tiananmen Square.

A man who answered the phone at Wan Quan Si

taxi company in the south of the capital said the ruleapplies to all taxi companies in Beijing. He declinedto give his name.

Beijing investment company worker Li Tianshusaid she didn't believe colleagues' claims that doorhandles had been removed until she got into a taxiherself the other day.

"There were no handles for three of the four win-dows," she said. "The driver told me that their com-pany asked them to do it to prevent passengersspreading leaflets. The driver complained that if theydon't take the handles away or the passengers throwleaflets out of the taxis, they will be fired."

Citizens have taken to Weibo to post photos ofdoors with handles crudely ripped off. Liu Shi, a clientmanager in a mass communication company, wrotethat the taxi driver had told him that power to elec-tronic window buttons would also be cut.

A memo circulating on Weibo warned taxi driversto be on guard against passengers who may want tocast balloons with slogans or throw "pingpong ballswith reactionary words." It was unclear who issuedthe memo and its authenticity could not be con-firmed.

A man who wouldn't give his name at Tong Haitaxi company in central Beijing said it had receivedorders "from higher authorities" to reinforce securitymeasures and a memo, but he wouldn't elaborate.

Police in the capital are asking that Chineseshow their ID cards and foreigners their passports

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A window handle on the door at the back seat is seen removed in a taxi in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1,2012. Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, andsome of the measures seem bizarre. Not only have taxi drivers removed the window handles from theirdoors, but their passengers must sign agreements promising to keep their windows and doors locked.Most of the security measures were implemented in time for Thursday's opening of a meeting of theCentral Committee

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the vice president of playing a role in150 bombings, assassinations andother attacks from 2005 to 2011. Thatwas a period when Iraq was mired inretaliatory sectarian violence that fol-lowed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion thatousted Saddam Hussein's Sunniregime.

The allegations sparked a politicalcrisis when they were announced theday after U.S. troops withdrew from thecountry last December.

Al-Hashemi has denied the charges, which he says arepolitically motivated.

An aide to al-Hashemi said the vice president is currentlyin Saudi Arabia, where he was taking part in the annual hajj pil-grimage. The aide downplayed the latest conviction, calling itpart of "an ongoing farce." He spoke on condition of anonymi-ty because he concerned he might also face charges.

Al-Hashemi and Qahtan were convicted and sentenced todeath by hanging in an earlier case on Sept. 9. In that ruling,the men were found guilty of organizing the murders of a Shiitesecurity official and a lawyer who had refused to help the vicepresident's allies in terror cases.

A wave of bombings and shootings erupted across Iraqjust hours after al-Hashemi's last sentence was announced,killing at least 92 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

There was no immediate word of violence followingThursday's court decision.

A ruling had been expected to come as early as Sunday inyet another case against al-Hashemi involving an alleged carbombing attempt. Thursday's decision was not connected tothat trial, al-Ezzi said.

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thing is to add another bureaucrat," the ad says,then touts Romney's experience as a business-man as evidence that he would do abetter job of improving the economy. The ad does-n't mention that Obama floated the idea of thenew post as a way to consolidate nine agenciesdealing with business concerns and eliminatebureaucracy.

Obama's return to the campaign begins inGreen Bay, Wis., where he'll make up an eventthat was canceled earlier in the week because ofthe storm. He also planned rallies in Las Vegasand in Boulder, Colo., a heavily Democratic area.Aides said Obama planned to mention the stormvictims in his remarks.

Biden had two events scheduled in Iowa.

More than 19 million people have alreadyvoted in the presidential election, either by mail orin person. No votes will be counted until Nov. 6,but some key states are releasing the party affili-ation of those who have voted.

Democrats have an edge in votes cast inFlorida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iraqicourt on Thursday unexpectedly con-victed the country's fugitive Sunnivice president on charges of instigat-ing bodyguards to assassinate asenior government official and sen-tenced him to death.

The verdict was the seconddeath sentence for Tariq al-Hashemiin less than two months, and is likelyto stoke further resentment amongIraq's minority Sunni Muslimsagainst the Shiite-led government.

The sentence is unlikely to be carried out any time soonbecause al-Hashemi has exiled himself in neighboring Turkey.He fled Iraq in December 2011 after the government accusedhim of playing a role in numerous attacks.

The criminal court in Baghdad also sentenced al-Hashemi's son-in-law, Ahmed Qahtan, to death on the samecharges, said Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar. He said the two men were convicted ofencouraging bodyguards to kill an official by sticking a bomb tohis car.

Al-Hashemi's top lawyer said he was surprised to hearabout the ruling because the vice president's legal team hadnot been made aware of this case. The attorney, MuayadObeid al-Ezzi, immediately questioned the legality of the deci-sion.

"None of al-Hashemi's lawyers attended this trial, whichwas done quickly. What happened today is another negativesign that the judiciary system in this country is not fair," he said."Nobody contacted us regarding this trial, and this proves againthat the cases against al-Hashemi are politically motivated."

Al-Hashemi is a longtime opponent of Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim. The government has accused

Most of the state's mass transit systems remained shutdown, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters bravingclogged highways and quarter-mile lines at gas stations.

Atlantic City's casinos remained closed. Christie postponedHalloween until Monday, saying trick-or-treating wasn't safe intowns with flooded and darkened streets, fallen trees anddowned power lines.

Farther north in Hoboken, just across the Hudson Riverfrom Manhattan, nearly 20,000 people remained stranded intheir homes, amid accusations that officials have been slow todeliver food and water.

One man blew up an air mattress and floated to City Hall,demanding to know why supplies hadn't gotten out. At least one-fourth of the city's residents were flooded, and 90 percent werewithout power.

The outages forced many gas stations across the state toclose, resulting in long lines of people looking to fuel cars andbackup generators. Darryl Jameson of Toms River waited morethan hour to get fuel.

"The messed-up part is these people who are blocking theroadway as they try to cut in line," he said. "No one likes wait-ing, man, but it's something you have to do."

On New York's Long Island, bulldozers scooped sand offstreets and tow trucks hauled away destroyed cars while peopletried to find a way to their homes to restart their lives.

Richard and Joanne Kalb used a rowboat to reach theirhome in Mastic Beach, filled with 3 feet of water. Richard Kalbposted a sign on a telephone pole, asking drivers to slow down:"Slow please no wake."

Five-foot snow drifts piled up in West Virginia, where theformer Hurricane Sandy merged with two winter weather sys-tems as it went inland. Snow collapsed parts of an apartmentcomplex, a grocery store, a hardwood plant and three homes.

The sixth person killed in the state was a candidate for thestate House, John Rose Sr., who was struck by a falling treelimb. His name will remain on the ballot on Election Day.

A few more inches might fall in West Virginia, but meteo-rologists said the remnants of the storm are in the AppalachianMountains and will be gone by the end of the week.

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people, including a child, were injured in thetwo other explosions, according to the report.

The government refers to rebels fighting totopple Assad as terrorists and accuses themand opposition supporters of being part of aforeign plot to destroy Syria.

Also according to SANA, authorities raised thedeath toll from another bombing Wednesdayevening in a Damascus suburb that houses aShiite Muslim shrine to 12, after one more vic-tim died of wounds.

Many Syrians, particularly those in Damascuswhere fighting and demonstrations have beenrelatively light, fear that Islamic extremists thathave fought alongside rebel units may be tar-geting the capital more frequently to help driveAssad out of power.

Eyewitnesses of Wednesday's blast said theassailants picked random spots to detonateexplosives and stoke panic among residents.

"There was a very loud bang and then I sawthe kiosk, which sold watches, engulfed inflames," said Abu Rami, a 44-year-old civil ser-vant and resident of Al-Mazzeh area. AbuRami, who only gave his nickname for fear ofreprisals, said security forces arrived in thearea minutes after the explosion and sealed itoff.

Another resident in the area where the explo-sions occurred said security must have beencompromised as the district is patrolled bytroops.

"I find it strange that three explosions occurredin a residential area that is completely underthe control of Syrian security forces," said theshop owner, who only gave his first name,

Wael. "There are security checkpoints at theentrances and exits to al-Mazzeh, it's verystrange."

Elsewhere in the country, 116 people werekilled on Wednesday, according to RamiAbdul-Rahman, the head of the Observatory.Of those, 41 people were killed in Aleppo and35 died in heavy fighting in the suburbs ofDamascus, he said.

Last week, more than 500 people were killedin fighting during what was supposed to be afour-day truce timed to coincide with a majorMuslim holiday. The failure to at least tem-porarily halt fighting has left the internationalcommunity at a loss about how to stop thewar.

On Thursday, China called for a phased-incease-fire and negotiations on a gradual politi-cal transition to end the bloodshed.

The four-point proposal issued by the ForeignMinistry stopped short of calling for Assad'souster and omitted mention of any measuresto compel compliance. Alongside Russia,China has steadfastly blocked any outsideintervention that could force Assad frompower.

The proposal called on the international com-munity to support the work of the U.N.-ArabLeague envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, whopushed for the failed cease-fire.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Climate sci-entist Michael Oppenheimer stood alongthe Hudson River and watched his researchcome to life as Hurricane Sandy blewthrough New York.

Just eight months earlier, the PrincetonUniversity professor reported that whatused to be once-in-a-century devastatingfloods in New York City would soon hap-pen every three to 20 years. He blamedglobal warming for pushing up sea levelsand changing hurricane patterns.

New York "is now highly vulnerable toextreme hurricane-surge flooding," hewrote.

For more than a dozen years,Oppenheimer and other climate scientistshave been warning about the risk for bigstorms and serious flooding in New York. A2000 federal report about global warming'seffect on the United States warned specifically of thatpossibility.

Still, they say it's unfair to blame climate changefor Sandy and the destruction it left behind. They cau-tioned that they cannot yet conclusively link a singlestorm to global warming, and any connection is not asclear and simple as environmental activists might con-tend.

"The ingredients of this storm seem a little bit

cooked by climate change, but the overall storm is dif-ficult to attribute to global warming," Canada'sUniversity of Victoria climate scientist AndrewWeaver said.

Some individual parts of Sandy and its wrath seemto be influenced by climate change, several climate sci-entists said.

First, there's sea level rise. Water levels aroundNew York are a nearly a foot higher than they were 100

years ago, said Penn State University cli-mate scientist Michael Mann.

Add to that the temperature of theAtlantic Ocean, which is about 2 degreeswarmer on average than a century ago,said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientistat Texas Tech University. Warm waterfuels hurricanes.

And Sandy zipped north along awarmer-than-normal Gulf Stream thattravels from the Caribbean to Ireland, saidJeff Masters, meteorology director for theprivate service Weather Underground.

Meteorologists are also noticing morehurricanes late in the season and even afterthe season. A 2008 study said the Atlantic

hurricane season seems to be starting earlierand lasting longer but found no explicit linkto global warming. Normally there are 11named Atlantic storms. The past two years

have seen 19 and 18 named storms. This year, with onemonth to go, there are 19.

After years of disagreement, climate scientists andhurricane experts have concluded that as the climatewarms, there will be fewer total hurricanes. But thosestorms that do develop will be stronger and wetter.

Sandy took an unprecedented sharp left turn intoNew Jersey. Usually storms keep heading north andturn east harmlessly out to sea. But a strong ridge ofhigh pressure centered over Greenland blocked Sandyfrom going north or east, according to the NationalHurricane Center.

Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, an expertin how a warming Arctic affects extreme weather pat-terns, said recent warming in the Arctic may haveplayed a role in enlarging or prolonging that high pres-sure area. But she cautioned it's not clear whether thewarming really had that influence on Sandy.

While components of Sandy seem connected toglobal warming, "mostly it's natural, I'd say it's 80, 90percent natural," said Gerald North, a climate professorat Texas A&M University. "These things do happen,like the drought. It's a natural thing."

On Tuesday, both New York Mayor MichaelBloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said they could-n't help but notice that extreme events like Sandy arecausing them more and more trouble.

"What is clear is that the storms that we've experi-enced in the last year or so, around this country andaround the world, are much more severe than before,"Bloomberg said. "Whether that's global warming orwhat, I don't know. But we'll have to address thoseissues."

Cuomo called the changes "a new reality."

"Anyone who says that there's not a dramaticchange in weather patterns I think is denying reality,"Cuomo said. "I told the president the other day: `Wehave a 100-year flood every two years now.'"

For his published research, Oppenheimer looked atNew York City's record flood of 1821. Sandy floodedeven higher. This week's damage was augmented bythe past century's sea level rise, which was higher thanthe world average because of unusual coastal geogra-phy and ocean currents. Oppenheimer walked from hisManhattan home to the river Monday evening to watchthe storm.

"We sort of knew it could happen, but you knowthat's different from actually standing there and watch-ing it happen," Oppenheimer said from a cell phone."You don't really imagine what this looks like until yousee it."

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Applications for U.S. unem-ployment benefits dropped 9,000 to a seasonallyadjusted 363,000 last week, a level consistent withmodest hiring.

The report comes just before Friday's October jobsdata, the last broad snapshot of the economybefore the presidential election Tuesday. The still-weak job market has been a top issue for voters.

The Labor Department said Thursday that the four-week average of applications for unemploymentaid, a less volatile gauge, declined to 367,250. Theaverage has been around that level for threemonths.

A department spokesman said Superstorm Sandyhad no direct effect on the number of applicants.The report covered the week ending Oct. 27,before the storm reached shore.

But the devastation and economic disruptions thatthe storm caused this week will likely increaseapplications for unemployment aid in comingweeks. Workers who have been temporarily laid offbecause of the storm are expected to seek bene-fits.

In some states, though, applications might declineif unemployment offices are closed or laid-off work-ers are unable to request benefits.

Weekly applications have fluctuated between360,000 and 390,000 since January. During thattime, employers have added an average of about150,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate hasdeclined from 8.3 percent in January to 7.8 percentin September.

But few expect unemployment to drop sharply inthe months ahead, given the still-modest pace ofhiring."We continue to see employment growth making lit-

tle progress," Bricklin Dwyer, an economist at BNPParibas, said in a note to clients.

The total number of people seeking unemploymentbenefits rose to just over 5 million in the week thatended Oct. 13, the latest period for which figuresare available. That's up slightly from 4.9 million inthe previous week.

The economy picked up slightly this summer aftera sluggish spring. Growth rose to a 2 percent annu-al rate in the July-September quarter, up from 1.3percent in the April-June quarter. Consumers andthe federal government spent more, and the hous-ing market contributed to growth for the sixthstraight quarter.

Still, the economy is growing too slowly to rapidlybring relief to roughly 12 million out-of-workAmericans. With the unemployment rate still high,steady growth of more than 3 percent is generallyneeded to create a sufficient number of jobs.

When the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent inSeptember, it was the first time the rate had fallenbelow 8 percent since January 2009, PresidentBarack Obama's first month in office.

The rate fell in September because a governmentsurvey of households found a huge increase in thenumber of people who had jobs. Still, a jump inpart-time employment accounted for most of thegain.

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows superstormSandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania.The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lowerelevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations inthe mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for morethan a dozen counties was in effect until Wednesday afternoonRead more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/spacex-dragon-ship-splashes-down-on-earth-bearing-astronauts-blood-urine-1.1013941#ixzz2AeiuwOwg