One death was reported in Puerto Rico. Police said a man in his 50s was swept away Friday by a swoll

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) Hurricane Sandy spun away from the Bahamas late Friday after causing 43 deaths across the Caribbean, churning northward toward the U.S. East Coast, airline tickets southwest where it threatens to join with winter weather fronts to create a super storm.
The Category 1 hurricane toppled light posts, flooded roads and tore off tree branches airline tickets southwest as it spun through Cat Island and Eleuthera in the scattered Bahamas archipelago, with authorities reporting one man killed, the British CEO of an investment bank.
Joseph Edgard Celestin, a spokesman for Haiti's civil protection office, said some people died trying to cross rivers swollen by rains from Sandy's outer reaches. While the storm's center missed the country as it passed by Wednesday, Haiti's ramshackle housing and denuded hillsides make it especially vulnerable airline tickets southwest to flooding.
Officials at a morgue in the western town of Grand Goave said a mudslide crashed airline tickets southwest through a wooden home Thursday, killing 40-year-old airline tickets southwest Jacqueline Tatille and her four children, ranging in ages from 5 to 17.
Officials reported flooding across airline tickets southwest Haiti, where 370,000 people are still living in flimsy shelters as a result of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Nearly 17,800 people had to move to 131 temporary shelters, the Civil Protection Office said.
Sandy was a Category 2 hurricane when it wreaked havoc in Cuba on Thursday, killing 11 people in eastern Santiago and Guantanamo provinces as its howling winds and rain destroyed thousands of houses and ripped off roofs. Authorities said it was Cuba's deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage.
Cuban authorities said the island's airline tickets southwest 11 dead included a 4-month-old boy who was crushed when his home collapsed and an 84-year-old man in Santiago province. Near the city of Guantanamo, two men were killed by falling trees, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported.
Sandy also killed a man in Jamaica on Wednesday when a boulder airline tickets southwest crashed through his house, and police in the Bahamas said a 66-year-old man died after falling from his roof in upscale Lyford Cay late Thursday while trying to repair a window shutter. Officials at Deltec Bank Trust identified him as Timothy Fraser-Smith, who became CEO in 2000.
One death was reported in Puerto Rico. Police said a man in his 50s was swept away Friday by a swollen river in the southern town of Juana Diaz, where rain from Sandy's outer bands has been steadily falling.
Late Friday, Sandy was about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 395 miles (635 kilometers) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. It was just above the threshold for being a hurricane, with maximum airline tickets southwest sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), and was moving airline tickets southwest north at 7 mph (11 kph).
With the storm projected to hit the U.S. Atlantic Coast early Tuesday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned airline tickets southwest it could merge with two other systems to become a hybrid, monster airline tickets southwest storm.
Government officials in the Bahamas said the storm seemed to have inflicted the greatest damage on Cat Island, which took a direct hit, and Exuma, where there were reports of downed trees, power lines and damage to homes.
I hope that's it for the year, said Veronica Marshall, a 73-year-old hotel owner in Great Exuma. I thought we would be going into the night, but around 3 o'clock it all died down. I was very happy about that.
On Long Island, farmers airline tickets southwest lost most of their crops and several airline tickets southwest roofs were torn off, legislator Loretta Butler-Turner said. The island was without power and many residents did not have access to fresh water, she said.