According to a forecast by the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Sandy - the strongest storm to attack the United States in the last 100 years, is beginning to land in major cities along the East Coast of the United States. Super Hurricane Sandy is predicted to be devastating, causing heavy rain, flooding on an area stretching about 1,200km along the East Coast of the United States and putting more than 50 million people in the country at risk.
Seawater has begun to fill the construction site on the WTC twin towers destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Super typhoon Sandy with the highest tides makes the water level rise very quickly. In the photo: Seawater spills into a parking lot in the Financial District of New York City.
Firefighters are rescuing people from a collapsed 4-storey apartment building in Manhattan district because the wind is too strong.
Although the storm has not officially landed, many buildings have been blown away.
The two boys are running along Fosster Boulevard in the opposite direction of the strong wind and even the high waves are covering the street.
People are concentrated in refugee sites established by the government at schools. In the photo: A point of escape at Cape Henlopen high school.
The entire population of many areas in New York City and Long Island were ordered to evacuate urgently. By this morning, the sea level had risen by up to 3m in some low-lying areas of New York.
Highway 30 - one of the three main roads leading into Atlantic City has been submerged in the sea overflowing from Absecon Bay.
Roxanne Richardson, 23 and Jordan Dawson, 19, hugged each other while firefighters fired rescue flares and isolated the area of an ancient tree collapsing across the road.
Obama's campaign banner was located near the water edge in front of a house in Norfolk while heavy rain continued.
Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment still stand strong to guard outside the anonymous Memorial Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. When asked to leave their positions, these soldiers refused and claimed they would be there regardless of what happened.
The waves covered the roofs of houses on the Winthrop highway in Massachusetts.
A dog is looking out the window of the car while its owner is trying to take photos of the violent waves at the coast of Scituate, Massachuset.
A rescue mission military vehicle is moving on a flooded road in the Ocean City.
New Jersey National Air Force forces are being mobilized to support emergency shelters across the state before Hurricane Sandy landed.
