61.   Fifty members of the Massachusetts National Guard went on active duty Thursday night to aid in evacuations in flooded areas.

62.   Food is being delivered by helicopter to people stranded in flooded areas, but more rain could worsen the situation, he said.

63.   Giant pumps are humming in an effort to remove water from flooded areas.

64.   Gov. Bob Wise was touring flooded areas when his helicopter was needed to aid rescue efforts.

65.   Government officials insist that so far, apart from a few outbreaks of infectious diseases, no epidemics have occurred in flooded areas.

66.   Government helicopters dropped food and medicines in flooded areas.

67.   Gov. Bob Wise toured flooded areas in the southern part of the state Sunday.

68.   Gov. Bob Wise toured flooded areas Sunday.

69.   Health authorities were trying to keep an outbreak of cholera from spreading out of control in the flooded lowland areas of the southern Gulf state of Tabasco.

70.   Health authorities, meanwhile, called for vigilance against outbreaks of disease in flooded areas.