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Storm-crippled US Northeast struggling to recover Updated: 2012-11-03 15:02 NEW YORK - With death toll exceeding 90, more than 4.6 million homes and businesses without power, and as high as $50 billion in total damage, the Sandy-affected US Northeast is struggling to recover. Three days after Hurricane Sandy dissipating, the floodwater across the Hudson River are slowly receding and people in New York City are trying to get life back to normal, but neighboring state New Jersey is still stunned by infrastructure devastation and traffic annulment. Sections of Pacific Avenue remain closed due to damage caused by superstorm Sandy in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Nov 2, 2012. [Photo/Agencies] Commuter trains and subways are rolling again. Three major airports reopened limited service, and the New York Stock Exchange is welcoming traders again. And the countrys busiest train line - Amtraks Northeast Corridor - is to take commuters along the East Coast again since Friday, although hundreds of thousands people in the city are still without power, especially in downtown Manhattan. In New Jersey, however, many residents are left with nothing but Sandy-wrecked houses, scattered businesses, broken boardwalks, and widespread power failure. With power still out in many Sandy-affected areas, the Obama administration made an all-out effort to purchase 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and 10 million gallons of diesel fuel, which will be distributed to these areas, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Friday. FEMA said the fuel, together with 2 million gallons of emergency diesel loan from Northeast emergency heating oil reserves, will be sent to New York and New Jersey State. It is only the second time the US governments emergency Home Heating Oil Reserve has been tapped since it was established in 2000. Meanwhile, in a bid to ease the prevalent panic buying and boost supply, Department of Homeland Security Friday waived rules banning foreign vessels from car