WASHINGTON — The head of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will head off to Rhode Island on Friday to assess the devastating damage from the floods, the Associated Press reported.
The floods have been the worst the state has seen in 200 years.
“I hope that it will show Rhode Islanders, some of whom are feeling pretty beleaguered after a tough economy, a flood, a cleanup after the flood and then, bam, another one, that they are being heard in the highest levels of the Obama administration,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) told the AP.
