STORM

U.S. stocks are setting up for another turbulent week that will begin with a focus, oddly enough, on the weather.

The world writes Friday that New Yorkers are in a state of panic and emergency. The city is facing the threat of Hurricane Irene, and it is serious. But New York on Friday was only a picture of calm and resolve as Irene made a track toward America's largest city.

Hurricane Irene is pummeling its way up the U.S. East Coast and is expected to hit North Carolina early Saturday, then continue all the way up to New York City and even Canada.

Scenes from before the storm strikes

For the first time, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation of 300,000 residents of the cities costal areas as Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast.

For the first time, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation of 300,000 residents of the city's costal areas as Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast.

U.S. airlines have cut at least 1,000 flights and are moving airplanes out of the anticipated path of Hurricane Irene, while airports are taking steps to minimize damage from the storm.

Category 2 Hurricane Irene is taking direct aim at New York City, prompting mandatory evacuations and halting ground and air transportation in several major cities. Mayor Bloomberg announced mandatory evacuation of Zone A residents.

Watches and warnings have been issued up the East Coast from South Carolina to Maine as states prepare for the impending storm that is Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene is bearing down a path toward assault on the U.S. East Coast Friday. Irene is nearing North Carolina and forcing evacuations and planned closings of public transportation in New York as the I-95 corridor prepares and gets ready to hunker down for the massive storm.

The eastern United States ramped up its alert on Friday ahead of Hurricane Irene and New York City ordered evacuations of vulnerable residents as the broad, menacing storm closed in on the Atlantic coast.

Major petroleum pipelines in the United States began partial shutdowns Friday, the result of terminals supplied by those pipelines closing ahead of Hurricane Irene's arrival.

Amazon, hurricane Web sites have various books on the subject.

All transportation will run normally on Friday and through Saturday morning in order to allow people who live in areas threatened by the storm surge to evacuate as easily as possible. After that, the system will begin to shut down at noon on Saturday.

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SEPTA spokesman Richard Maloney said this will mark the first time in the agency’s history that it will completely shutdown.

Hurricane Irene is tracking toward a potential direct hit on New York, America's largest city. The damage from such a storm could be major. Here's why.

For the first time ever, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents of low-lying and coastal areas, in fear of the worst that Hurricane Irene's upcoming wrath can bring to the city that never stops nor sleeps.

Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled as airlines scramble to come up with a plan ahead of Hurricane Irene's expected hit along the East Coast.

As the East Coast prepares for Hurricane Irene to strike this weekend, NASA satellites have captured Hurricane Irene's track since it began as a tropical storm far out in the Atlantic Ocean.