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  • Vehicles sit in a traffic jam on the northbound Garden State Parkway Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, near Ocean View, N.J. Ahead of Hurricane Irene, mandatory evacuations were under way Friday affecting nearly one million residents and visitors in Cape May County, coastal Atlantic County and Long Beach Island NJ. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

    2 million ordered to leave as Irene takes aim

    Whipping up trouble before ever reaching land, Hurricane Irene zeroed in Friday for a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered the nation's biggest subway system shut down for the first time because of a natural disaster.


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