Arkansas governor adds counties to disaster list

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(AP) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson joined U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Sennator John Boozman and Representatives Rick Crawford and French
Hill in a helicopter tour of flooded northeast Arkansas to view what Crawford
called a terrible situation.Storms that began April 26 led to what Hutchinson said Sunday were nine deaths
and an estimated $21 million in damage, not including damage to agriculture.Perdue said at a news conference after Sunday’s aerial tour that county and
state officials will provide damage estimates to both the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and to the agriculture department and he promised to expedite
as quickly as possible any requests for federal assistance.

Hutchinson has declared 36 counties and the cities of Little Rock and North
Little Rock as disaster areas because of the storms.

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