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Also the cars that were damaged by floodwaters. then even more people lost electricity. approximately 14,000 utility customers have no electricity. that supp from 9,400 as staten islanders have been trying to recover. theyve been cleaning up inside and outside of their homes if they even can be at their home. evacuation centers were made up and buses available. sanitation crews have been very busy, working around the clock picking up piles of debris. weve seen them out here plowing the snow off ...

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They will survive and do just fine. we just think it shouldnt have taxpayer funding. >> greta: the republicans will now use this effectively to defund any money that the federal taxpayers money if write a member of the tea party movement i would be madder than hell that my money was going to an organization that thought i was a white gun-toting racist, horrible insults. the people in the tea party movement, i imagine they are really jazzed up about in. >> you will never convince conservative rep...

Divided homeland and the cost of a war that never truly ended. its okay says this 83-year-old woman, on the damage to her community and the pain of evacuating. the soldiers need to do that, right? the ferry now back. the islanders on the mainland and the family awaits. take care, she says. take care. when she is drills begin, south koreas ministry of defense says they are fully expecting some sort of response from north korea, but what exactly that response is on, at this point they simply dont ...

She will stay behind, she says. for her and the several dozen others still here, these bunkers are where the military says she can find cover. she wonders why it has to be this way. if we carry out the drills, she says, north korea has said it will retaliate even more strongly. going ahead with the drills knowing this is pretty much picking a fight with them. as the ferry streams to the korean peninsula, these elderly neighbors reflect on their divided homeland and the cost of a war that never t...

Then the president will head off to province, rhode island nearby to raise money for the democratic party. the president has been out on the campaign trail recently going to places he did extremely well two years ago trying to reenergize his base. he is coming here to rhode island, well talk to local supporters, but last night the white house revealed that the president was not planning on giving an endorsement in the governors race, and so when the democratic candidate for governor here in rhod...

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>> as far as president obamas endorsement he can taken his endorsement and really shove it as far as im concerned. the reality here is that rhode islanders are hurting. >> reporter: he complained president obama didnt visit the state after floods earlier in the year, accused him of treating the state as an atm. todays fund-raiser is the presidents only fund-raiser until the weekend. theres been a lot of focus on the house and senate and how they will fair after the midterms, but its the governme...