Hurricane Irene News
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The New York Mets will try to play a doubleheader today against the Colorado Rockies after snow postponed yesterday’s game at Coors Field in Denver.
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Hurricane Irene, a Category 1 storm with 85-mile-an-hour winds, flooded streets and damaged buildings in North Carolina as it began to move up the East Coast toward landfall in New York.
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Hurricane Irene will cost taxpayers about $1.5 billion in federal disaster relief, the White House said, creating new budget headaches for Congress and adding to the deficit for fiscal year 2012, which begins Oct. 1.
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President Barack Obama, on his first tour of areas hit by Hurricane Irene, told residents of northern New Jersey that the federal government would provide “all the resources” necessary to help them recover.
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Katherine Gluck blurts out to the judge, “I’m guilty.”
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Hurricane Irene has weakened and is now a Category One storm, with maximum sustained winds at 90 miles (150 kilometers) per hour, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Irene’s maximum winds strengthened to 100 miles per hour making it a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., the maker of Scotts lawn products, said full-year preliminary earnings were less than expected after Hurricane Irene reduced demand.
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Hurricane Irene, a weaker but still powerful storm with Category 1 winds of 85 miles (137 kilometers) an hour, made landfall today near Cape Lookout, North Carolina as it moved up the U.S. East Coast, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory shortly before 8 a.m. Eastern time.
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Hurricane Irene bore down on the U.S. with Category 1-force winds of 90 miles (150 kilometers) an hour, threatening a storm surge as warnings were posted from North Carolina to southern New England, including New York City.
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