Tuesday,  October 30, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 105 • 33 of 41 •  Other Editions

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a rally in Keene and Republican nominee Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, to call off her bus tour through the Granite State.
• About 360,000 people in 30 Connecticut towns were urged to leave their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Christi McEldowney was among those who fled to a Fairfield shelter. She and other families brought tents for their children to play in.
• "There's something about this storm," she said. "I feel it deep inside."
• Despite dire warnings and evacuation orders that began Saturday, many stayed put.
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm's center, lost power -- criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out.
• Eugenia Buono, 77, and her neighbor, Elaine DiCandio, 76, were among several dozen people who took shelter at South Kingstown High School in Narragansett, R.I. They live on Harbor Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.
• "I'm not an idiot," said Buono, who survived hurricanes Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991. "People are very foolish if they don't leave."
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• Hays reported from New York and Breed reported from Raleigh, N.C.; AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington. Associated Press writers David Dishneau in Delaware City, Del., Katie Zezima in Atlantic City, Emery P. Dalesio in Elizabeth City, N.C., and Erika Niedowski in Cranston, R.I., also contributed.

10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press

• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:
• 1. SANDY SHORTS OUT MUCH OF NYC
• Across the Eastern U.S., millions are without power as a wall of water crashes ashore.

• 2. THE STORM'S SMALLEST EVACUEES
• Twenty babies from a neonatal intensive care unit are among 200 patients moved from a Manhattan hospital when a backup generator fails.

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