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Friday, September 13, 2013

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	Massive fire devastates Seaside Park boardwalk Fire crews responded in bulk to contain a raging 8-alarm fire that tore through a slew of businesses along the boardwalk in Seaside Park. The blaze started at around 2:30 p.m. at Kohr's Ice Cream along the boardwalk. The flames later spread to more than 30 other buildings, part of Funtown Pier and at least one nearby condo complex. More than 400 firefighters responded to the fire at its peak.

	Wild weather wreaks havoc on U.S. Last night's wild weather in the Hudson Valley didn't cause anything like what they are dealing with in other parts of the country. Streets in Boulder, CO look like raging rivers with floodwaters swallowing up cars and cutting off some towns in the Rocky Mountain foothills.

	More than 1,700 Hudson Valley homes still with power More than 1,700 homes and businesses in the Hudson Valley are still without power this morning thanks to Mother Nature's violent blast of thunderstorms. The hardest hit area was Rockland County, where just over 630 customers are waking up with no electricity this morning.

	Yonkers hot dog truck told to move The owner of a hot dog truck operated on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers for more than 30 years is now being told to move. Nicholas Filippi has run The Great American Weenie Truck near the Bed, Bath and Beyond store for 32 years. This week, the Office of Consumer Protection told him he had to go because the store wants him moved.

	Kerry: Syria peace prospects ride on weapons talks U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday the prospects for resuming the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day.