Storms Kill 4, Leave Thousands Powerless

Four people were dead and nearly 300,000 others in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were without power when a tornado and severe thunderstorms hit, authorities said. The storms uprooted trees and downed power lines in Pennsylvania and upstate New York, then hit New York City and New Jersey. Nine New York counties and several central New Jersey municipalities were under a state of emergency. Two people were killed at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse when a storm sent a tree into a tent and a roof blew into a trailer where a man was sleeping. A 19-year-old woman was killed in the Bronx by a falling tree branch, and a boater died in a wind-related accident off Long Island.