New York schools to reopen as temperatures plunge

Nearly all New York schools were set to reopen Monday in another sign of things getting back to normal in the wake of superstorm Sandy, but authorities faced a new challenge posed by frigid weather.Tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the storm had to cope with plunging temperatures, which raised the specter of people freezing to death.New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated that 30,000-40,000 homes in the city alone had been left unusable by the October 29 storm as the cold intensifies.