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(27,315 posts) Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:56 PM Nov 2012

Obama Visits Storm-Ravaged Areas in New York

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/nyregion/obama-to-view-hurricane-sandy-recovery-in-new-york.html

President Obama flew over areas of Queens that were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy and stopped on Staten Island on Thursday to meet with emergency workers and families whose lives were upended by the devastating storm.

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The White House said the president would visit a federal disaster recovery center on Staten Island, where the enormous surge that accompanied the storm battered homes and exacted a particularly high death toll. Of the 43 deaths in New York City attributed to the storm, 23 occurred on Staten Island.

As the president’s helicopter landed at Miller Field, a former Army Air Corps installation in the New Dorp section of Staten Island that has become a center for relief efforts, some Staten Islanders who had endured the storm said they were at best indifferent about his visit.
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Mr. Cuomo had earlier announced that he would request $30 billion in federal aid for storm-related expenses, including everything from repairing bridges, tunnels and subway lines to paying emergency workers’ overtime costs. The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said aboard Air Force One on the way to New York that the administration had no specific response because it had not received details of the request.