Hurricane Sandy Attracts Global Attention
A man looks out from a flooded building in the Rockaways section of New York, October 30, 2012. Hurricane Sandy battered the U.S. East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and left hundreds of thousands without power. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES – Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
Hurricane Sandy has knocked the US election out of the headlines overseas.
Marco Werman, on assignment in London looking at how much the rest of the world is focused on the US election, says people only want to talk about Sandy.
He says they want to know how he got out of the country, how his family is faring, and whether the election will be postponed.
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