WASHINGTON — The U.S. East Coast braced on Sunday for the fury of hurricane Sandy as the monster storm churned ominously toward the most populous region of the country, threatening massive flooding, mighty winds and widespread power outages for 60 million Americans.
“This is certainly the biggest thing I’ve covered in my career,” Jim Cantore, a metereologist at The Weather Channel who covered 2005’s devastating hurricane Katrina, told viewers hours before the storm was set to make landfall.
