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Show WORLD NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 DIXIE SUN - 3 Recovery from Jeannes destruction begins in Florida TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICE Floridians blinked into the bright sun Monday and for the fourth tome in six weeks, trudged toward recovery, dragging broken tree limbs and ripped shingles to the curb. Three million people statewide still had no electricity, and hundreds of thousands face the prospect of waiting weeks to get it back because of Hurricane Jeanne's weekend rampage. Progress Energy made an unusual emergency decision to fly in repair crews. Crews will travel on commercial and corporate planes and their equipment trucks will be brought in on flatbed trailers or leased. Utility workers across the state are themselves running out of steam "It's an endurance test for us and our customers Hopefully, there wont be another leg to this," said Grant Heston, a spokesman for Orlando Utilities Commission. The state death toll remained at six on Monday, but as search and recovery efforts get into full swing it - Weather-whippe- d could easily climb, officials said The hurricane made landfall late Saturday at Hutchinson Island on Florida's East Coast and slowly cut a northwesterly swath up near Tampa Bay. Insured losses from Hurricane Jeanne could range from $6 billion to $8 billion, according to an estimate released Monday by Eqecat modeler. Inc., a hurricane-los- s After further deluging the St Johns River and its tributaries in Volusia and Seminole counties, Hurricane Jeanne was downgraded to a flooded tropical storm as it spun north into Georgia on Monday. It was expected to further weaken into a tropical depression as it moves into the Carolinas Tuesday. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lisa weakened Monday as it inched north in the open Atlantic, no threat to the United States. Jeanne hit Florida as a winds Category 3 with tearing up beaches, homes and hotels, as well as military and NASA facilities. Some buildings that suffered heavy roof and flood damage at Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral might not be salvageable, said Brig. Gen. Patrick Owen, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space 120-mp- Wing. The Kennedy Space Center, which suffered the worst damage in its history from Hurricane Frances, will open Tbesday even though its massive Vehicle Assembly Building, incurred additional water damage and lost about 30 more tiles, said KSC director Jim Kennedy. It lost 800 during Frances "I'm just sitting here realizing how much difference a few miles can be," Kennedy said. Jeanne also left large footr prints far inland. In Lakeland, washout opened a over an old phosphate pit It swallowed up portions of a Beef O'Bradys and a sushi bar, washed down with a swimming pool supply business. Airport and theme parks returned to business after closing up for the third time in six weeks. Orange County Chairman Rich Crotty sought to assure tourists and convention-goer- s that the killer weather is not part of the regularly scheduled program. This is a weather aberration, it's not the norm," he said Aid stations with water and ice that opened in Fort Pierce on Monday morning were immediately besieged by thou sands of storm victims. St. Lucie County handed out thousands of tarps before running s of that out countys 210, 000 residents remained without power. A number of the bridges linking to barrier islands in Martin, St Lucie and Indian River counties remained closed Authorities said island roads are impassable in many Three-quarter- spots. Many, including the state's famous State Road A1 A, are covered in sand and debris. conMany oceanfront high-ris- e dos lost most of their windows in the storm The damage is devastating," said St Lucie County Administrator Doug Anderson. Out on St Lucie Countys barrier islands, residents were still reeling from Jeanne's destruction on Monday. The wind blew apart the roof of Steven S tinner's home on South Hutchinson Island Ftain soaked everything inside. "Everything's destroyed" Shriner said Workers struggled to clear paths for emergency vehicles while residents waited for aid "We need water and ice desperately," said Shriner's neighbor, retiree Jean Redicker. That characterization may be a harder sell to the staggering residents of Florida's southeast coast, where Jeanne's eye blasted ashore eerily near to where Hurricane Frances hit on SepL 5. As people returned to their homes in southern Brevard County, some began to realize that the damage was worse than theyd feared Hurricane Jeanne hit nearly every home in Barefoot Bay, a large manufactured home community near the border of Indian River County. It blew out roofs, smashed carports, and wrapped aluminum siding around trees like bad modem art Scattered debris littered the yard in front of Pat Wolfe's manufactured home. A neighbor, Jean Murphy, walked over with eyes down as if in a trance. "Did you lose something?" Wolfe asked "Yeah, everything," Murphy This map of Florida shows population, by county, with tha paths of ths four r " ' hurricanes that have hit the State this year. " " I c 1 f i 1 1 responded ink and additional security redesigned $50 bill featuring features debuts Tuesday. On the new bill, Ulysses S. Grant is freed from the oval frame to which he's been confined since 1913. A multi-colore- d New $50 bill with color features to debut Tuesday TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICE - President Ulysses Grant gets a multicolor makeover on the new $50 bill, which the Treasury Department introduced in the nation's capital yesterday. On the new bill bearing the 18th president's image, Grant is freed from the oval frame to which he's been confined since 1913, appearing instead before a stylized red, white and blue American-flabackdrop. There's a small, metallic biue star near Grant's left shoulder, and on the reverse side the image of the U S. Capitol is flanked by clouds of small yellow g "50"s. The more intricate design is intended to make counterfeiters' job more difficult, said Dawn Haley, a spokeswoman for the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing "It's an ongoing effort to stay ahead of those would-bcounterfeiters," she said. "Every seven to 10 years, we re going to be introduce ing new currency." Although digital counterfeiting accounted for only percent of the counterfeit notes detected in the United States in 1995, improvements in printing technology have pushed that figure to 40 percent in recent years. Within the United States, the $20 bill is the most frequently coun1 terfeited denomination. Overseas, the $100 bill is the forgers' favorite, followed by the $50. Still, only in every 1 25,000 $50 bills in circula- tion is thought to be coun i - S. p ' r terfeit, according to the Treasury Department. The new $50 bill includes the subtle security features that appeared on its predecessor, which was introduced in 1997. A watermark reproduces Grant's portrait when the bill is held up to the light, and a plastic security thread marked with the bill's denomination is woven into the paper The "50" in the lower right corner of the bill appears to change color, from copper to green, when the bill is tilted Many of the 50's new bells and whistles are similar to those of the new $20 bill, issued last October, which features a blue image of an eagle behind the portrait of President Andrew Jackson. A new $100 bill is forthcoming, and the Treasury and-peac- is considering redesigning the $10 bill. The $1, $2 und $5 bills will remain the same, because they aren't counterfeited often enough to justify the effort. This is the sixth redesign of the $50 bill since Grant first appeared on the $50 gold certificate in 1913. The 1997 version introduced a larger, off center portrait of Grant, an enlarged image of the Capitol on the reverse and a boldface "50" in the lower right corner of the reverse, all of which also appear on the new bill. A plant in Fort Worth, Texas, began printing the new bills in April. Treasury officials will spend the first ones yesterday morning at a flag store in Washington's Union Station. ... , t j - .' ( .3 |