Photo taken on Oct. 29, 2012 shows broken advertisement board in the Atlantic City, New Jersey, the United States. Hurricane Sandy is on Monday churning its way towards the U.S. East Coast, poised to make landfall near Atlantic City on Jersey Shore in the evening. The city itself is like a ghost town, with casinos shuttered, tourists fled and many parts of the town inundated in knee-high water. [Xinhua]