
Authorities have identified both people who died after being swept away by fierce waves churned up by Hurricane Bill on the East Coast.
Clio Axlerod, 7, of New York, died after a wave knocked her and six other people into the Atlantic at Maine's Acadia National Park on Sunday, Park Chief Stuart West said.
Of the other six who were swept from that park into the ocean, four made it back to shore on their own. Two -- Axlerod's father, Peter Axlerod, 55, and Simone Pelletier, 12, of Belfast, Maine -- were rescued by the Coast Guard, he said.
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CNN's Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report.
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