UPDATE: Hurricane death toll nears 50

The death toll in the U.S. from Hurricane Sandy's carnage has risen to nearly 50. (The hurricane already killed 69 people in the Caribbean before showing up here.) Rescue crews across the Jersey Shore are performing what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie described as "urban search and rescue" for people who didn't evacuated before the storm made landfall yesterday evening.  

Here's some raw footage of the coastline shot today by a National Guard helicopter: