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Congressional aides: Obama asks $60.4B Sandy aid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama asked Congress Friday for $60.4 billion in federal aid for New York, New Jersey and other states hit by Superstorm Sandy in late October. It's a disaster whose cost is rivaled only by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist

Phone cos. to relay 911 texts by May 2014

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission says the nation's four largest wireless carriers have agreed to relay text messages to text-enabled 911 call centers by May 2014. The four carriers - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile - cover 90 percent of the population. However,

Correction: Cancer Clinic Probe-Mississippi story

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - In a story Dec. 7 about the sentencing of a doctor and two others in a cancer clinic fraud case in Mississippi, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a quote to U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III. The quote was from Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Gilbert, who said

Hundreds of fishermen missing in Philippine storm

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By BULLIT MARQUEZAssociated Press NEW BATAAN, Philippines (AP) - The number of people missing after a typhoon devastated the Philippines jumped to nearly 900 after families and fishing companies reported losing contact with more than 300 fishermen at sea, officials said. The fishermen from

APNewsBreak: Dhaka factory lost fire clearance

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By JULHAS ALAMAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The factory where 112 garment workers died in a fire should have been shut down months ago. The fire department refused to renew the certification it needed to operate, a top fire official told The Associated Press. And its owner told

Christie pitches Obama for more storm recovery aid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By ANDREW MIGAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie reunited with President Barack Obama on Thursday for the first time since the pair teamed up in response to Superstorm Sandy. Christie made an unannounced visit to the White House, where he met with

CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By KELLY P. KISSELAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it

Obama, Christie meet at the White House

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has met with New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie at the White House. Christie is in Washington Thursday to talk about aid to help his state recover from Superstorm Sandy. Obama is expected to ask Congress for about $50 billion in additional emergency

Mayor: NYC working on storm, climate prep

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The city will work on upgrading building codes and evacuation-zone maps, hardening power and transportation networks and making sure hospitals are better prepared for extreme weather after Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said

US Reps. expect deeper look at NJ derailment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press CLARKSBORO, N.J. (AP) - Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to freight railroad owners to do the work themselves. After a derailment that released thousands of gallons of a