Weather forecasters have warned that Hurricane Sandy will affect a large area of the US east coast, as New York city is set to suspend its transport services.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the city's subway, bus and train services will be suspended from 7pm this evening.
However, forecasters said it was too early to pinpoint where the storm, which has the potential to be the biggest to hit the mainland, would make landfall.
Government officials in several states in Sandy's path are facing tough decisions on emergency plans, including mandatory evacuations in vulnerable coastal areas.
Residents have scrambled to buy supplies before the storm arrives on Monday night.
On its current projected track, Sandy is most likely to make US landfall between Delaware and the New York/New Jersey area, forecasters said.
However, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said it could not yet predict the precise point.
"It is still too soon to focus on the exact track ... both because of forecast uncertainty and because the impacts are going to cover such a large area," the NHC said.
While Sandy's winds are not overwhelming for a hurricane, its width is what has made it exceptional.
Hurricane force winds extend 165km from its centre, while its lesser tropical storm-force winds reach across 1,125km.
Sandy could have a brutal impact on major cities in the target zone, including Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC and Philadelphia.
The storm could cause the worst flooding Connecticut has seen in more than 70 years, said the state's governor, Dannel P Malloy.
Sandy was located about 420km south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with top sustained winds of 120km/h early this morning.
Forecasters said Sandy is a rare, hybrid "super storm" created by an Arctic jet stream wrapping itself around a tropical storm, possibly causing up to 30cm of rain in some areas, as well as heavy snowfall inland.
Sandy killed at least 66 people as it made its way through the Caribbean, including 51 in Haiti, mostly from flash flooding and mudslides.
The White House said US President Barack Obama took part in a call with US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate to discuss preparations for Sandy.
The approaching storm forced a change of plans for both presidential candidates ahead of the election on Tuesday 6 November.
Mr Obama has cancelled a campaign appearance in Virginia tomorrow and another stop in Colorado on Tuesday, and will instead monitor the storm from Washington.
Republican challenger Mitt Romney cancelled a trip to Virginia set for today, when the state is expected to begin feeling Sandy's impact, and will go instead to Ohio.
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