It’s the Trending Now Top 5 Countdown for October 30, 2012, where we gather the hottest and most outrageous MUST-SEE YouTube videos hitting the web today and send them all straight to your screen. It’s like watching the best of YouTube — only faster!

There are obviously a ton of videos being share around Hurricane Sandy, from Jimmy Fallon’s hilariously awkward opening monologue in front of an empty audience to a frightening major explosion at Con Ed in NYC causing a huge part of the city to lose electricity, we have you covered right here on What’s Trending.

#5: The Halloween Date

#4: David Letterman: Denzel Washington Braves Hurricane Sandy

#3: Dancing in Hurricane Sandy (Atlantic City, NJ)

#2: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Hurricane Sandy Cold Open + Monologue

#1: Sandy ConEd Explosion

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