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With the Capitol in the background, a jogger passes a fallen large oak tree on the National Mall near the Smithsonian in Washington, Tuesday, that was felled as Hurricane Sandy passed through Washington. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP Photo

More photos and videos: Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast
Published: 10/30/2012 10:47 AM
Last Modified: 11/2/2012 11:39 AM

Note: The following are photos and videos from late Monday and Tuesday. For more recent photos and videos from late Tuesday and Wednesday, click here.

Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain, the Associated Press reports.

Here are more photos and videos of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, via the Associated Press. More photos are below the videos.

--Althea Peterson

Tanker Ship Teetering Off NYC Coast:

New York City Awakens to Storm Damage:

Sandy Dumps Heavy Snow on Mountain Regions:

Shaken NJ Residents Escape Sandy Flooding:

FDNY: 25 Rescued From Fire by Boat:

Mammoth Storm Sandy Plunges NYC Into Darkness:

NJ Gov. Christie Blames Mayor for Stranded People:

Miss yesterday's photos and videos? You can view that entry here.

PS: If you are interested in donating to help Sandy victims, our own Action Line reporter Phil Mulkin has mailing addresses, phone numbers, websites and more of trustworthy charities helping the cause. You can read more on ways to help here. Also, he talks about ways to avoid Sandy charity scams here.

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. SETH WENIG/AP Photo

A vehicle travels a freshly plowed road Tuesday, after superstorm Sandy moved through Elkins, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. VICKI SMITH/AP Photo

A street sign is partially buried in sand Tuesday morning, in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and across Beach Avenue. MEL EVANS

A rainbow forms over Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP Photo

Elaine Belviso, 72, is rescued from her flooded home by Suffolk County police after being trapped there overnight by superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, in Babylon, N.Y. Sandy arrived along the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 7.5 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing a number of deaths. JASON DeCROW/AP Photo

A fire burns at least two dozen homes in a flooded neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens on Tuesday. A fire department spokesman says more than 190 firefighters are at the blaze in the Breezy Point section. Fire officials say the blaze was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through earlier. STEPHANIE KEITH/AP Photo

This photo taken Tuesday, shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. KARLY DOMB SADOF/AP Photo

This image from video provided by Dani Hart shows what appears to be a transformer exploding in lower Manhattan as seen from a building rooftop from the Navy Yard in Brooklyn during Sandy?s arrival in New York City. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. DANI HART/AP Photo

Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP Photo

Boats lie piled up as people work to secure a fuel dock in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, in West Babylon, N.Y. The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold. JASON DeCROW/AP Photo

Consolidated Edision trucks are submerged on 14th Street near the ConEd power plant, Monday in New York. Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP Photo

The Empire State Building and Midtown Manhattan are dark in this view from Jersey City, N.J., Tuesday, the morning after a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. CHARLES SYKES/AP Photo

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Bugtussle (4 months ago)

Often I've thought NYC is very vulnerable to a massive flood/tidal wave or weather calamity. Any place near an ocean makes me apprehensive! Remember the terrible sunami several years ago in SE Asia that killed somewhere around 250,00 people? Glad the death toll back East wasn't that horrible.

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