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Irene charges into New England, NYC escapes worst Irene charged into New England on Sunday as it weakened to a tropical storm after racing across a shuttered New York City and leaving behind a stunned U.S. East coast where at least 16 people died. Flooding poses biggest threat in Irene's wake Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved up the coast on Sunday, but stretches of the East Coast that had already been hit were now on alert for major flooding in coming days as rivers swelled from the storm's runoff. Video: NY Harbor spills into streets Water surges across the boardwalk and into the streets at the southern most tip of Manhattan. Today's Amy Robach reports. (TODAY) Market has its own storm to weather this week Stocks are setting up for another turbulent week that will begin with a focus, oddly enough, on the weather. Hikers' lawyer appeals Iran spying sentences The lawyer for two Americans convicted of spying in Iran said on Sunday he had lodged an appeal against their eight-year sentences and still hoped they might be pardoned. Libyan rebels won't deport Lockerbie bomber The Libyan rebels' interim government says it will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Militants assail NATO base in Afghanistan A suicide bomber and three gunmen assaulted a NATO base in southern Afghanistan on Sunday but failed to breach its defenses, officials said. 6 years later, Lower 9th Ward still bleak In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now. 3 Syrian opposition figures banned from travel Syrian authorities pursuing a crackdown against President Bashar Assad's critics banned three prominent opposition figures from leaving the country Sunday, and security forces killed two people in northern Syria, activists said. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml

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