<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d6130ffd-ecb7-4989-86ae-1ac70ee0eb8c/46CD1B28-CF0E-452A-B101-8D4D5A98FB5B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7266007.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7266007.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7266007.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> Millions hit by Florida power cut </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Police officer directs traffic in Miami" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44453000/jpg/_44453706_police_ap_203b.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">Traffic lights were briefly knocked out by the power cut</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>More than three million people in southern Florida were left without power as power stations across the state shut down.</B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">People were stranded in lifts, while several hospitals and Miami airport had to use back-up power, said officials. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Hundreds of thousands of homes were without electricity and traffic ground to a halt in many places. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">A nuclear reactor was among the plants to shut down, but Florida Power & Light Company said there was no danger. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Power was restored to most parts of the state several hours later. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">State officials said the problem at the reactor south of Miami may have been caused by a loss of power from a regional sub-station. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">There were no signs of a link to terrorism, officials in Washington said.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46CD1B28-CF0E-452A-B101-8D4D5A98FB5B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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