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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Power grids in the eastern U.S. struggled to rebuild today, even as new storms did new damage overnight. The death toll reached 22 killed in six states since Friday, and for many thousands of others, there was only stifling heat and no air conditioning.
For a third day, utility crews logged long hours to restore power to some two million customers. And for a third day, many endured long hours of misery, after losing power in violent storms that struck Friday. It started around west Chicago, Illinois, with straight-line winds reaching 90 miles an hour.
From there, the storms blasted across Indiana and Ohio, leaving more than 50,000 people still in the dark today around Fort Wayne. The Mid-Atlantic may have been the hardest hit. And crews were called in from as far as Florida and Oklahoma with more machinery and manpower.
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