Public Safety

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.

Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds and hurled a record-breaking 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore after washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk and putting the presidential campaign on hold.

San Diego Red Cross workers were deployed to the East Coast to assist those displaced by Hurricane Sandy.

Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast’s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet (3.35 metres) tall. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days.

Two people are dead after a Texas Department of Public Safety sharpshooter fired on a runaway smuggler driving a truck near the border.

The ACLU is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding photo restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Strong gusty winds are expected to blow through valley and mountain areas in San Diego County today, raising a risk of wildfire, according to the National Weather Service.

Shootings by the U.S. Border Patrol, justified or not, cause outrage in border communities and take years to resolve.

After ACLU lawsuit, Escondido agrees not to disperse protesters who stake out public sidewalks to record police conducting checkpoints.

Wildfires in 2003 and 2007 helped fuel an ongoing push to develop better and more sophisticated firefighting tools, but that drive has yet to squeeze out one fire detection method that has served firefighters for decades.