Obama, US officials urge people to heed evacuation notices

By REUTERS AND JPOST.COM STAFF 
08/27/2011 11:09 

370,000 evacuate as airlines, bus systems, subways, rail services prepare to halt; Hurricane Irene expected to make landfall along North Carolina coast Saturday morning.

President Barack Obama said the impact of the unusually large storm could be "extremely dangerous and costly" for a nation that still recalls the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"All indications point to this being a historic hurricane," Obama said.

US federal and state leaders, from Obama downward, urged the millions of Americans in the hurricane's path to prepare and to heed evacuation orders if they received them. Read the rest on : The Jerusalem Post

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