Powerful Nor'easter causes flooding and leaves hundreds of thousands without power
CBSN
A powerful storm that slammed the Northeast Tuesday is expected to remain in the area as it slowly makes its way to sea.
Flooding and other damage have been reported from New Jersey to Cape Cod. Waves pounded the Massachusetts shore overnight. The Nor'easter's brought nearly 90 mph winds, whipping water over entire houses.
Crews cleared the roads of fallen trees south of Boston but not before some trees knocked down power lines, putting tens of thousands of residents in the dark.
Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday.
There were 56 wild, endangered Puerto Rican parrots living around El Yunque National Forest before Hurricane Maria in 2017. After the storm, there was only one survivor. Wood thrushes, found across the eastern U.S.; 60% of them are gone. Baltimore orioles, also an eastern bird; two-fifths have been lost. Western meadowlarks, prevalent in the central and western U.S.; three-fourths have disappeared.