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  • Click play to watch the report from Action News
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  • Jersey Central Power & Light's introduced Action News to its newest weapon in the war to keep the lights on.
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  • The Philadelphia Housing Authority says balloons were to blame for knocking out power to hundreds in South Philadelphia.
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  • High winds and rain brought down a tree and some power lines in Bear, Delaware, cutting power to some residents in the area.
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  • A powerful line of storms caused damage in our region and across the country this week.
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  • Authorities say a transformer fire in Northeast Philadelphia has left hundreds of people without power.
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  • United Airlines
  • A computer outage at United Airlines delayed thousands of travelers on Thursday and embarrassed the airline at a time when it's trying to win back customers after glitches earlier this year.
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  • Sandy Aftermath
  • New Jersey's utilities have restored electricity to nearly all their customers who lost service during Sandy and the nor'easter.
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  • PECO says a downed wire caused the loss of service to 2,220 customers in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania.
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  • By late Thursday night, some residents of West Arnwell have seen their power restored.
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new jersey, hunterdon county, power outage, nor'easter, hurricane sandy, hurricanes and tropical storms, local/state, vernon odom
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  • Moments after Action News arrived in Bucks County, the power came back on in one Yardley neighborhood.
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  • Click play to watch Walter Perez's report from Action News at 5:30 p.m.
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  • Roughly 1.1 million homes and businesses in New Jersey remain without electricity in the wake of Sandy.
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  • Efforts to get commuter trains running in New Jersey have suffered a setback.
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  • School District of Philadelphia
  • Action News has learned that four Philadelphia Public Schools are having power problems Wednesday morning.
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  • Thousands of utility customers in New Jersey are without power as severe thunderstorms move through the region.
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  • Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday suggested legislation that would require the state's regulated utilities to do more to get the lights back on after storm-related power outages or face steep fines.
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  • Peco substation fire
  • Crews responded to the report of a fire a Peco substation Wednesday afternoon in Cheltenham Township, Pa.
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pennsylvania, fire, power outage, montgomery county, local/state
  • Crews were finally able to restore power to residents living in the Park Towne Apartments in Spring Garden.
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  • India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout.
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  • Thousands of utility customers in central New Jersey remained without power Sunday night after a series of severe storms moved through the region.
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  • More storms swept throughout parts of New Jersey and knocked out power to thousands of new utility customers.
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  • Nearly 750 homes and businesses remain without electricity after thunderstorms rumbled across New Jersey.
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  • Utility finds foes to renewable energy line plan
  • Ten cows have been killed on a western Pennsylvania farm by a downed power line that also cut service to about 1,600 customers.
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  • Power is slowly returning to residents in Ocean and Monmouth counties after a line of strong, fast-moving storms blew through central and southern New Jersey, knocking out electricity to nearly 70,000.
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  • A line of strong, fast-moving storms blew through central and southern New Jersey, knocking out power to nearly 70,000 in Ocean and Monmouth counties.
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  • Water distribution in Atlantic Co., NJ
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  • More than 200 New Jersey residents are out of their homes due to power loss at their apartment building.
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  • Utility crews in southern New Jersey continue to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses.
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  • Utility crews in southern New Jersey continue to restore power to homes and businesses that lost electricity during severe thunderstorms that struck the region last weekend.
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  • In the aftermath of storms that knocked out power to millions, sweltering residents and elected officials are demanding to know why it's taking so long to restring power lines and why they're not more resilient in the first place.
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  • As holiday travelers head to the Jersey Shore, they'll see more than casino billboards along the roads.
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  • Officials say a candle is to blame for the blaze that destroyed a home in Atlantic County, New Jersey early Tuesday.
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  • Utility crews struggled to catch up with a backlog of millions of people without electricity for a fourth hot day Tuesday as frustration grew and authorities feared the toll of 22 storm deaths could rise because of stifling conditions and generator fumes.
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  • Nearly 86,000 residents in NJ were still without power on Monday, and some may not be restored until Friday.
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  • A worker uses a chainsaw to clear a tree that fell onto the 14th fairway at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., Saturday, June 30, 2012, after a strong storm blew through overnight. The AT&T National golf tournament was postponed to allow workers to clear the course. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News at 5:30 p.m.
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  • Click play to watch live team coverage from Action News at noon
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  • Damage from summer storms
  • Summer thunderstorms ripped through parts of the area this weekend, causing falling trees and other severe damage.
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new jersey, severe weather, atlantic county, cumberland county, power outage, heat wave, local/state
  • Dozens of seniors spent part of early Thursday morning in an emergency shelter, because their building lost electricity yesterday.
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  • The lights are back on and the air conditioners are humming again for most of the people who lost power during last night's storms, but some people are still waiting.
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power outage, PECO, local/state, kenneth moton
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  • Officials say a snake slithered into an Oklahoma City electric substation and knocked out power to about 10,000 customers overnight.
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