Slow-moving nor’easter kills eight, leaves swaths of East Coast in the dark
March 4, 2018 by admin
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans were without power and at least eight were dead Saturday after a Nor’easter thrashed the East Coast with heavy winds, rain and snow on Friday.
More than a dozen utility companies reported that hundreds of thousands of their customers were affected by the powerful storm.
Approximately 328,000 people were still without power in Massachusetts, according to the state’s Emergency Management Agency, after initial reports of 450,000 without electricity. New Jersey power companies said more than 164,000 customers were affected by outages, and Pennsylvania companies PECO, PPL and West Penn Power had more than 384,000 customers experience outages as of 5 p.m. Virginia power companies Dominion Energy and Novec Power said nearly 160,000 were affected by the storm.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said approximately 270,000 New Yorkers were without power on Saturday.
“We are deploying the National Guard and senior officials to ramp up recovery efforts and ensure the thousands of New Yorkers impacted by this storm are getting the help they need,” Cuomo said.”Some travel restrictions and advisories remain in effect, and I urge drivers to stay off the roads so that the National Guard, first responders and utility workers can assist those that need help.”
The heavy winds and downed trees also led to the deaths of eight people in Virginia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, authorities said.
Early Friday morning, a tree fell onto a Virginia home and killed 6-year-old Anthony Hamilton while he was sleeping, Chesterfield County Police reported. Later in the day, Putnam County Sheriff Robert L. Langley Jr. in New York said that an unidentified 11-year-old boy died when a tree fell onto his home and trapped him underneath. His mother, who was at home with the child, was hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Newport Police in Rhode Island reported a man in his 70s died when he was struck by a wind-felled tree and Baltimore Public Safety said a 77-year-old woman was killed by a large tree branch that dropped from a tree above her. James City County Police in Virginia also said an oak tree, blown over by wind, fell and killed Shawn Gregory Walker, 44, while he was in his truck.
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Later on Friday, a 57-year-old Pennsylvania man was killed after a tree fell on his vehicle, according to Upper Merion Township Police Department. Jonathan Rodriguez Melendez, a 25-year-old man in Stamford, Connecticut, was also killed after a tree struck his vehicle, according to Connecticut State Police.
On Saturday, Plympton Police Department confirmed 36-year-old Ryan MacDonald, of Plympton, Massachusetts, was killed at approximately 5:15 p.m. ET on Friday after a tree fell on his vehicle.
Though the powerful winds and rain from Georgia to New England caused heavy flooding and flight cancellations Friday, the National Weather Service reported improving conditions “across the Northeast and northern Mid-Atlantic states” for the weekend.
Nevertheless, travelers still faced more than 1,400 cancelled flights and nearly 2,400 delays on Saturday, according to FlightAware.com.
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Amtrak, which had temporarily suspended service between Washington and Boston, resumed modified service in the Northeast corridor by Saturday morning and said they are scheduled to be fully operational on Sunday.
In New York City, 750 trees were reportedly downed by the wind, according to Eric Phillips, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary. The high winds and rainfall made power failures a difficult issue.
“Those two things create an environment of power outages — downed power lines and trees blocking roadways,” said Steve Bellone, county executive of Suffolk County in New York.
While strong winds whipped through the Northeast region on Friday, the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police reported that four barges attached to the Tappan Zee Bridge project came loose in the Hudson, although it was unclear if it was directly related to the storm.
Two of the vessel ran aground on the New Jersey side of the river, one sank near the Yonkers Sewer Treatment Plant and a number of commercial tugboats, the U.S. Coast Guard and the New York City Fire Department worked to secure the fourth barge, Parkway Police reported.
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Man reportedly shoots himself to death near White House, Secret Service says
March 4, 2018 by admin
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WASHINGTON — The Secret Service said Saturday afternoon that it was responding to reports of a man who “allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound” along the White House’s north lawn fence.
The security agency said that medical personnel had been called to respond to the male victim, but he was declared dead at the scene.
“The subject approached the vicinity of the North White House fence line and removed a concealed handgun and fired several rounds, none of which appear at this time to have been directed towards the White House,” the Secret Service said in a statement.
The agency said they had identified the shooter but were withholding his name until they could notify next of kin. The Metropolitan Police Department will lead an investigation into the shooting with the support of the Secret Service.
The agency alerted the public to the incident following reports of a lock down at the White House. They added that there were no other reported injuries relating to the incident.
As they responded to reports of a gunshot near the north lawn, the Secret Service told those in the White House to shelter in place. As they investigated the incident, agents could be seen sprinting across the north lawn and the executive driveway with their guns drawn.
The shelter in place order was lifted after approximately 45 minutes.
As a precaution, the Secret Service shutdown all roads along the White House perimeter. Traffic around the White House was impacted by the order, the agency said.
President Donald Trump was at Mar-a-Lago in Florida and not in residence at the time of the incident. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president had been briefed on the situation.
Trump is expected to return to Washington D.C. this afternoon to attend the Gridiron Club dinner, an annual gathering with members of the press and D.C. politicos.
Stacey Klein reported from Washington. Phil McCausland reported from New York.