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A handful of New York's top education officials visited Poughkeepsie High School, during a site tour made on Tuesday afternoon.

NY State Education Commissioner John King was joined by Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch, Regent Harry Phillips, and Chief of External Affairs Dennis Tompkins, to meet with local school administrators.

Together, they dropped in on faculty meetings, several classes, and the school computer lab, where they chatted with students, observing how recent grant money has been allocated.

Superintendent Laval Wilson led the tour.

Flash floods raced through Livingston Manor on Tuesday washing out bridges and roads.

The downtown area was under several inches of water with reports saying the community got some six inches of rain in a two hour period. The Cattail Creek overflowed its banks sending floodwaters into residential and business areas.

County Manager David Fanslau said county roads 149, 179, 96, 123, 19, 81 and 82 in the towns of Rockland, Callicoon and Neversink were closed Tuesday night, but were open and passable to school buses Wednesday morning.

In New England, a Republican Senator and Senate candidate are distance themselves from remarks made by GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney about how 47 percent of Americans depend on government and believe they are victims and entitled to benefits.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown said that's not the way he views the world. He also said too many people are being forced to seek assistance for lack of jobs. Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren said Romney's comments showed a "separate category of contempt" for half the people in Massachusetts and half the people in America.

WAMC's David Guistina gets the morning headlines from Judy Patrick, editor of the Daily Gazette.

When it comes to working overtime in baseball, nobody does it better than Baltimore. The Orioles won their 14th straight extra-inning game, outlasting Seattle 4-2 in 18 innings. The win vaults the Orioles into a tie with the rained-out New York Yankees for the American League East lead. The game took five hours, 14 minutes.

The Yankees/Toronto game was rained out. They'll play a day-night doubleheader today. The Red Sox rallied for a 7-5 victory that dealt another blow to the Rays' fading playoff hopes. Tampa Bay is six back in the AL East race.

WNYT's Paul Caiano delivers his morning forecast.