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Aug. 15: Moving On, Drying Out

Kennedy International sees a single-day record amount of rainfall Sunday: 7.71 inches. What will today bring?

1. Bring it on. The city's largest airport sees a single-day rainfall record shatter after a series of storms dumps a deluge of water—flooding streets, some homes and into the city's subway system.

2. The MTA reports that most flooding-related trouble has been cleared from city subways; however, there may be lingering delays this morning. 

3. A reader of the New York Times' Local blog sent this photo of an electrical fire on Hanson Place that disrupted service to 200-plus Con Edison customers Sunday morning. 

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4. Film critic and historian Elliott Stein discusses the 1946 noir classic "," and how Laraine Day helped establish the tradition of femme fatales in cinema.

5. See , author of the modern classic "Push" (the basis for the award-winning movie "Precious"), at the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch where she will read from her new novel, "In The Kid."

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