The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 2, 2012 Sandy Death Toll Hits 98 in U.S. --------------------------------- The death toll of Superstorm Sandy along the Eastern Seaboard has jumped to 98 as more bodies are recovered by the day. Forty people have been killed in New York City, half of them on Staten Island, which was overcome with devastating flooding. .