At least 8.2 million people across the eastern half of the U.S. are without power. Airlines have canceled more than 15,000 flights, stranding travelers around the world. Most flights in and out of Palm Springs International have not been impacted. Today's flight board showed one delayed flight arriving from Phoenix, but it is not confirmed whether the delay is connected to the storm.

New York's bridges are starting to reopen, reconnecting a city that was otherwise nearly isolated. But there's no word on when the subways can start running again. Transit officials say several of the train tubes beneath the East River remain flooded.

One subway station in lower Manhattan still has water up to the ceiling. Meanwhile, officials at Consolidated Edison say it could take a week before power is restored to all New Yorkers.

Sandy has wrecked boardwalks up and down the New Jersey coast. Several were almost completely destroyed. Others were partly damaged.

At Seaside Heights, a pier is wrecked and a roller coaster is partially submerged in the ocean. Several northernmost blocks of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, which was the first in the nation, also were destroyed.

Governor Chris Christie says the devastation along the shore is "some of the worst we've ever seen."

President Barack Obama is canceling a third straight day of campaigning because of the superstorm that battered the East Coast. The White House says the president will not attend events scheduled tomorrow in swing state Ohio. He will remain in Washington to monitor the storm and the federal response. Obama had already canceled events yesterday and today to be at the White House during the storm.

Mitt Romney is collecting relief supplies in Ohio in an attempt to strike the right tone in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. The Republican presidential candidate initially canceled all events for today.