warwick mall: Rhode Island is Underwater - Flood of 2010 - Photos - 04/04/10 11:12 PM
Rhode Island is Underwater - Flood of 2010
WARWICK, R.I. - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took a helicopter tour over still-flooded Rhode Island on Friday, witnessing waterlogged shopping malls and homes with people's possessions laid out to dry in their yards, as residents and officials in the already economically troubled state pleaded for her to secure more federal aid.

Napolitano called the flooding “significant" and pledged the federal government's help in the months to come. State officials, including U.S. Reps. Jim Langevin and Patrick Kennedy, pressed for more than what's already been promised.
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