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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama 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 presidents 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.
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Obama Visits Storm-Ravaged Areas in New York (Original Post)
Mass
Nov 2012
OP
Secret Service, DHS, and more are swarming the Sandy relief hub on Staten Island.
Fire Walk With Me
Nov 2012
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monmouth3
(3,871 posts)1. Look at Bloomberg, so smug...n/t
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)2. He didn't strike me as smug but rather having a very defensive posture.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)3. Secret Service, DHS, and more are swarming the Sandy relief hub on Staten Island.
There's a pic going around facebook of them using a dog to sniff through things.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151224059017770&set=a.10151205196162770.476169.518642769&type=1&theater