New Jersey nurse will be a guest of honor at State of the Union address

Meet Menchu DeLuna Sanchez, a nurse from Secaucus, New Jersey who will be sitting next the First Lady during the State of the Union address tonight. She was invited as a guest of the Obamas because of her heroic acts during Hurricane Sandy: Nurse from Secaucus will get hero's welcome at State of the Union.

When the storm knocked out power at the New York University Langone Medical Center, Sanchez organized the neonatal intensive care nurses and doctors to safely carry twenty critically ill babies down nine flights of stairs -- in the dark, with only the light of their cell phones -- to the care of other hospitals:

caaav leading post-hurricane relief for manhattan's chinatown

To all my people in New York City, I hope that you've remained safe and weather-proof amidst the chaos of Hurricane Sandy. But in the aftermath, I'm hearing that Chinatown residents have largely left out of any conversations about the city's restoration efforts.

So CAAAV has stepped up to provide translated information and donated goods for residents. Until electricity is restored, CAAAV will be open each day, 10:00am to 5:00pm starting today, collecting donations of flashlights, batteries, food (perishable and non-perishable) and bottled water.

Two important things to note about Chinatown:

hurricane sandy's biggest twitter troll unmasked

Asians behaving badly... hurricane Twitter troll edition! The anonymous Twitter user @comfortably smug, who is responsible for deliberately spreading some of the egregious misinformation about Hurricane Sandy, has been unmasked: The Man Behind @ComfortablySmug, Hurricane Sandy's Worst Twitter Villain.

Turns out, he's some dude named Shashank Tripathi, a hedge fund analyst and campaign manager for Christopher R. Wight, the Republican candidate for the New York's 12th Congressional District. And he apparently has nothing better to do but spread lies about a dire situation. He has since apologized -- anonymously: