In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo a woman pushes a shopping cart away from the entrance of a Walmart store in North Kingstown, R.I.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reporting a 9 percent increase Thursday Nov. 15, 2012 in third-quarter net income as the world's largest retailer continues to woo back shoppers by reemphasizing that it has the lowest prices. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo a woman pushes a shopping cart away from the entrance of a Walmart store in North Kingstown, R.I.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reporting a 9 percent increase Thursday Nov. 15, 2012 in third-quarter net income as the world's largest retailer continues to woo back shoppers by reemphasizing that it has the lowest prices. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Stock indexes are inching higher in early trading Thursday after U.S. retail giants Wal-Mart and Target turned in mixed earnings reports. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Stock indexes are inching higher in early trading Thursday after U.S. retail giants Wal-Mart and Target turned in mixed earnings reports.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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FILE - This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of his biography "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." The affair between retired Army Gen. David Patraeus and author Paula Broadwell is but an extreme example of the love/hate history between biographers and their subjects. (AP Photo/ISAF, file)
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World War II combat veteran Ben Kauffman, age 86, carries an American flag as he listens to a speaker during a Veterans Day ceremony in the small town of Loveland, Colo., Sunday Nov. 11, 2012. Kauffman, who fought in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 with the U.S. Army's 17th Infantry Regiment, also served in Korea. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Volunteer Ashling Coleman and her husband Jerry Coleman of New York throw out the last load of debris for the day from the home of John and Ann Garvey, background left, which was damaged in the Rockaway Park neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, from Superstorm Sandy. The Colemans, bringing other family members with them, came to the neighborhood today just to see if they could find anyone who needed help. They found the Garvey's home, offered their assistance, and were gladly welcomed in. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, right, listens to a presentation by the Department of Children's Services during budget hearings on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. Haslam has asked state departments to develop plans for a 5 percent spending cut. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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FILE - In this Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam talks with reporters following budget hearings in Nashville, Tenn. Haslam says Tennessee could design its own health insurance exchange required under Democratic President Barack Obama's health care law, but resistance in the GOP-controlled General Assembly may cause the state to hand that power off to the federal government. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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A container ship moves into the harbor in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, passing a boat taking sediment samples of the harbor floor. The samples are required for a study of a $300 million deepening of the harbor shipping channel so it can handle larger container ships. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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A boat moves into position in the harbor in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, so it can take sediment samples of the harbor floor. The samples are required for a study of a $300 million deepening of the harbor shipping channel so it can handle larger container ships. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
DOT releases $2B for storm-damaged transit systems
NEWARK, N.J. (
AP) — The federal Department of Transportation is releasing $2 billion in emergency aid for transit systems affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The funds released Monday are the first installment of a $10.9 billion appropriation for transit systems signed by President Obama last week. It's for repairing, rebuilding and protecting facilities and infrastructure damaged when Sandy hit on Oct. 29.
NJ Transit suffered about $400 million in damages. An agency spokesman says $100 million of that was damage to rail cars and locomotives that will likely be covered by insurance.
NJ Transit is still compiling damage figures and working with the Federal Emergency Management Administration on its aid request.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has said its PATH rail system sustained about $300 million in damages.
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