The storm, of course, comes on the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States, leaving hundreds dead, and thousands without power or property.
My journey took me to BBC Television Centre in west London where I was wheeled out as the latest talking head analysing the impact of Hurricane Sandy as it battered the east coast of the United States.
While most of the nation is preparing for a weekend full of Halloween festivities, the East Coast of the United States is scrambling to prepare for what may be one of the worst Hurricanes in a decade.
It also serves to highlight the urgency of expanding the number of these systems in the world's oceans, especially off of the east coast of the United States, to counter potential ballistic missile threats from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea.
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As Hurricane Sandy moves away from the Bahamas and toward the East Coast of the United States, forecasters with the National Weather Center are tracking the path of the storm, while FEMA offices from Atlanta to Boston are readying for a potential impact.
Since the massive blackout that wracked the east coast of the United States and large parts of Canada back in 2003, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation about the development of a "smart grid" that will provide a safe, reliable, efficient and resilient energy infrastructure.
If you live close to the water on the East Coast of the United States, you might want to take a step or two back.
On Monday, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast of the United States, flooding entire towns in New York and New Jersey, triggering large scale power outages and killing at least 17 people.
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In 2004 petitioner worked on the east coast of the United States from Maine through Virginia, and in 2005 he worked on the east coast from New Hampshire through Florida.
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First off, AppleInsider is reporting that some supa' secret shipments are about to make their way via air-freight from the Far East to the United States around the 5th of September.
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Most financial deals these days between the Middle East and the United States involve the purchase of American assets, but on Wednesday, Dubai reversed the flow by cashing out of a New York skyscraper.
And the Middle East quartet -- comprised of the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union -- conferred on a conference call about the situation.
In these presentations, which were supposed to be about health, the source said that Hasan justified suicide bombings and spoke about the persecution of Muslims in the Middle East, in the United States and in the U.S. military.
At 12:32 in the morning on Sunday, April 27 1986, anyone east of the Mississippi river in the United States who was watching HBO was in the middle of the 1985 film The Falcon and The Snowman when the signal suddenly dropped out.
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Those 13 British colonies on a sliver of the East Coast were the forerunners of what would become the 50 United States.
Repeated calls by the Quartet of Middle East negotiators (from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the UN) for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks have been ignored.
This analysis, entitled Post-Mortem on the Helsinki Summit: Soviet 'Cooperation' Like This We Can't Afford, discloses that, beneath a patina of highly publicized superpower solidarity, Soviet interests and policies concerning the Middle East continue to diverge significantly from those of the United States.
"To us and our people, it's extremely significant, " said Shane Cordes, CEO of Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, which provides controllers to towers in about 23 states in the East, Northeast, Great Lakes and central regions of the United States.
And because of the many ties that bind America and Israel, and because of the rising sense of direct clash between the United States and the Middle East, I decided that understanding Arabs was also an important part of my being American.
She will also travel to the Middle East to deliver a speech on the role of the United States in regional security at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain.
Should we instead, as Times commentator David Aaronovitch whimsically proposed recently, apply to become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th states of what might be known as the United States of America and the East Atlantic?
Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the assumption that he would be the president who got the United States out of the wars in the greater Middle East that had cause so much dissent during the Bush presidency.
It is also a huge boon to the domestic steel industry, because it means that we need a lot of steel, now, in the United States, to the east of the Rockies.
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Federal investigators believe the attacks were carried out by hijackers from the Middle East, many of whom had been living and operating within the United States for months, or years.
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All of which leads us to contemplate the future of wind in the United States, particularly on the east coast.
"I don't want there to be any mistake in anyone's mind, whether they be in Europe or Africa, the Middle East or the United States, that what we are seeing is the result of a cold, calculated strategy, " said Clinton.
The message sent to Arabic viewers was that the United States intends to convert all of the Middle East to democracy, one nation at a time.
Until the European Union and the United States recognise the existence of the Kurds in the Middle East and until the Kurdish problem is solved, peace, stability and democracy will not progress in the region.
Russia is a member of the quartet of Middle East mediators, along with the United States, United Nations, and European Union.
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