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Businesses and services in the north-eastern US are starting to reopen on Wednesday after two days of closure forced by storm Sandy.
Flights have resumed to airports in New York. Some federal offices, schools and the stock exchange are due to reopen.
But many homes still have no power and the New York subway remains shut. More than 40 people are dead.
President Barack Obama, who has suspended his election campaign, is due to visit affected areas in New Jersey.
The cost of clearing up after the storm has been estimated at $30-40bn (£18-24bn).
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said: "We have not seen damage like this in a generation."
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Having removed himself from the election campaign to concentrate on the storm, President Obama will now see at first hand just how destructive Hurricane Sandy has been. He'll travel to Atlantic City where the Republican governor, Chris Christie - normally a fierce critic - will show him scenes of widespread destruction along the Jersey Shore. They'll meet some of those who have lost homes, as well as the emergency teams who have been working around the clock since the weekend.
Across several states, tens of thousands of people spent a second night in school gymnasiums, community centres and hotel rooms, with or without electricity. In a converted detention centre in Teterboro, across the Hudson River from upper Manhattan, I found evacuees receiving food and a bed for the night, but anxious about their flooded homes. In the nearby communities of Little Ferry and Moonachie, the streets were dark, deserted and, in some places, still under water.
People have begun returning to the homes they abandoned on the orders of local authorities.
"It's heartbreaking after being here 37 years. You see your home demolished like this, it's tough," Barry Prezioso of Point Pleasant, a beachfront community in New Jersey, told the Associated Press.
"But nobody got hurt and the upstairs is still liveable, so we can still live upstairs and clean this out. I'm sure there's people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky."
The storm is still causing severe disruption after moving inland from the coast. It is forecast to weaken as it turns north into Canada, but to continue dumping heavy snow and rainfall.
At least 22 people were killed in New York City alone.
Flights started arriving at JFK and Newark Liberty airports on Wednesday morning. Services will be limited, and delays are expected after the cancellation of more than 18,000 flights across the affected area. LaGuardia airport remains closed.
The New York Stock Exchange says it will also re-open after two days' closure, as will the Nasdaq exchange. The last time the stock exchange shut down for two days because of the weather was in 1888.
New York's subway system sustained the worst damage in its 108-year history, said Joseph Lhota, head of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
Subway tunnels were flooded and electrical equipment will have to be cleaned before the network can re-open.
Impact on US, in figures
- 40+ people killed
- 8 million left without power
- 139 mph - highest gust of wind - Mt Washington, New Hampshire
- 12.55 in (31.88cm) rainfall, Easton, Maryland
- 13.88 feet (4.23m) storm surge, Lower Manhattan
- 7,000 reports of trees down in NY City
- 29 hospitals lost power in New Jersey
Sources: New York Times, AP
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there was "no timeline" for when the subway would restart, but he hoped buses could begin running again on Wednesday.
Trams and ferries were resuming services, but most of New York's bridges remain closed.
Across the north-east, at least eight million homes and businesses are without power because of the storm, says the US Department of Energy.
Hospital blackoutSandy brought a record storm surge of almost 14ft (4.2m) to central Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10ft during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.
Maryland appeared to have the worst of the rain and snow - with falls of 12.5in (32cm) and 28in respectively.
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President Obama was due to tour disaster areas in New Jersey on Wednesday with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Mr Christie, a Republican and staunch supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, went out of his way to praise the Democratic president for his handling of the storm.
"I spoke to the president three times yesterday," Mr Christie told CNN. "He's been incredibly supportive and helpful to our state and not once did he bring up the election... If he's not bringing it up, I'm certainly not going to bring it up."
Mr Romney resumed low-key campaigning on Tuesday, converting a rally into a storm relief event in the swing state of Ohio.
In all, storm Sandy has claimed well over 100 lives, after killing nearly 70 people as it hit the Caribbean.
Impoverished Haiti is facing severe food shortages after 70% of crops were destroyed by the storm, officials said.
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