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State of Emergencies Declared Ahead of Hurricane Irene

HeadlineAug 26, 2011

Governors in North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have declared a state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Irene. As of 5 a.m. this morning, the hurricane was 420 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. Bloomberg News reports more than 65 million people live in the projected path of the storm. Meanwhile, more than a dozen nuclear reactors along the East Coast are being prepared for potential loss of power and damage from high winds and storm surges due to the hurricane.

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