Top of the Hour: Slow Recovery for Northeast After Irene, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

President Obama’s advisers will visit Vermont, Virginia, and North Carolina to tour areas severely damaged by Hurricane Irene. Forty people have been found dead across 11 states, and more than five million homes and business are still without power.

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