You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

200,000 Ordered to Evacuate in Pennsylvania

HeadlineJun 29, 2006

In Pennsylvania, up to 200,000 people near the city of Wilkes-Barre have been ordered to evacuate. Officials feared the city’s levee system might fail. The mid-Atlantic states have been hit with record rainfall. Earlier this week Washington D.C. suffered the worst two days of rain in its history. The storm has affected residents from Virginia to Vermont. At least 12 people have already died.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top