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Atlanta Braces for Another Storm Area streets deserted as state of emergency declared in Georgia
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HAL YEAGER (AP)
Atlanta dodged the first punch of a dangerous winter storm Tuesday, but forecasters warned of a potentially “catastrophic” second blow in the form of a thick layer of ice that threatened to bring hundreds of thousands of power outages and leave people in their cold, dark homes for days. The streets and highways in metro Atlanta were largely deserted as people in the South’s business hub heeded advice from officials to hunker down at home, especially after the epic snow jam two weeks ago that saw thousands of people stranded on icy, gridlocked roads for hours when 2 inches of snow fell.
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The number of flights that were canceled before dawn Tuesday into and out of the main airports in Atlanta, Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., according to tracking service FlightAware. (AP)
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A car crawls along a snow-covered roadway in Fort Payne, Ala., on Tuesday morning.
Eli Jacks, a meteorologist with National Weather Service, said forecasters use words like “catastrophic” sparingly. “Sometimes we want to tell them, ‘Hey, listen, this warning is different. This is really extremely
dangerous and it doesn’t happen very often,’ ” Jacks said. “I think three-quarters of an inch of ice anywhere would be catastrophic.” P re sident Ba r ac k Oba ma declared a state of emergency in Georgia, ordering federal agencies
to help the state and local response during the storm. “There is no doubt that this is one of Mother Nature’s worst kinds of storms that can be inflicted on the South, and that is ice. It is our biggest enemy,” Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said. Elsewhere, parts of northeast Mississippi could see up to 4 inches of snow. South Carolina, which hasn’t seen a major ice storm in nearly a decade, could get a quarter to three-quarters of an inch of ice and as much as 8 inches of snow in some areas. CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY (AP)
Clean Debt-Limit Bill Passes House With 28 Republican Votes Washington Unwilling to risk spooking the markets, and leading a fractured GOP majority, House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday stepped back from a confrontation with Democrats to let Congress vote on increas-
ing the government’s borrowing cap without trying to extract any concessions from the White House. The 221-201 vote, which passed with the support of 28 Republicans, would permit the Treasury to borrow normally for another 13 months and would diffuse the
“We’ll let his party give him the debtceiling increase that he wants.” — HOUSE SPE A K ER JOHN BOEHNER , PINNING THE VOTE TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING ON PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Holder: Restore Voting Rights to Ex-Inmates Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday urged states to restore voting rights to former prison inmates, an issue he said primarily affects African-Americans. Eleven states, including Virginia, continue to restrict voting rights after a person has served a prison sentence and is no longer on probation or parole, the attorney general said at a symposium on the criminal justice system. (AP) PITTSBURGH
Worker Missing After Gas Well Fire in SW Pa. One worker was injured and another went missing after a Tuesday morning explosion and fire at a natural gas well in southwestern Pennsylvania, near the West Virginia border. A Chevron spokesman said it happened about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. (AP) WASHINGTON
chance of a debt crisis well past the November elections. The move risks displeasure from the tea party but came after most Republicans in the House made clear they had no taste for another fight with President Barack Obama over the nation’s debt ceiling. (AP)
Yellen Say She Expects Continuity in Fed Policy Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sought Tuesday to reassure investors that she will embrace the approach to interestrate policy that her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, pursued before he stepped down last month, saying she expects “a great deal of continuity” with him. (AP)
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