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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF al-Assad, said he treated 16 of the 29 cases brought to his hos- pital on Monday night, most of whom were women and chil- dren. One elderly man needed critical care but most of the casualties were suffering from breathing dificulties, red eyes and wheezing, al-Assad said. Associated Press With jab at Ryan, Trump ignites new tensions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — As Republican loyalists continue to lee, Don- ald Trump ignited new party tensions Tuesday by refus- ing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or a pair of senators seeking re-election, a remark- able display of party division just three months before Elec- tion Day. The Republican presiden- tial nominee told The Wash- ington Post he’s “just not quite there yet,” when asked about an endorsement of Ryan, who faces a primary election next week. In doing so, he echoed the House speaker’s comments of almost three months earlier, when the Wisconsin congressman was initially reluctant to embrace Trump as his party’s standard bearer. Trump’s statement comes amid intense fallout over his criticism of the family of the late Capt. Humayun Khan, a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq in 2004. Indeed, just two weeks after a Republican National Convention that tried to focus on party unity, the Trump-driven rifts inside the GOP appear to be intensifying. On Tuesday, retiring New York Rep. Richard Hanna became the irst Republican member of Congress to say he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November instead of Trump. “He is unit to serve our party and cannot lead this coun- try,” Hanna wrote in a column published in The Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse, New York. “He is unrepentant in all things.” Trump is ‘unit,’ Obama says WASHINGTON — In a searing denouncement, Presi- dent Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He chal- lenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough.’” While Obama has long been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involve- ment in the presidential race. Obama questioned whether KCRA3-TV via AP Authorities investigate the scene of a charter bus crash on northbound Highway 99 between Atwater and Living- ston, Calif., Tuesday. The bus veered off the central Cali- fornia freeway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, authorities said. James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A female Aedes aegypti mosquito is in the process of ac- quiring a blood meal from a human host. The Aedes ae- gypti mosquito is behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. Trump would “observe basic decency” as president, argued he lacks elementary knowledge about domestic and interna- tional affairs and condemned his disparagement of an American Muslim couple whose son was killed while serving the U.S. Army in Iraq. A chorus of Republicans has disavowed Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan and the Republican nominee’s calls to temporarily ban Muslims from coming to the U.S. But Obama argued that isn’t enough. “If you are repeatedly hav- ing to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unac- ceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” Obama asked during a White House news conference. “What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?” No prominent Republican law- maker responded to Obama’s challenge. Instead, it was Trump stun- ningly withholding his sup- port from top GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. In an affront to his party’s top elected oficial, Trump told The Washington Post he wasn’t “quite there yet” on an endorse- ment for Ryan in his primary next week. Syrian leaders, rebels trade gas attack charges BEIRUT — Syrian reb- els accused government forces of launching toxic gas attacks on civilians in a town south- west of Aleppo on Tuesday. The government rejected the claim and accused the rebels of using chemical weapons themselves. Rebel sources provided video of people receiving treat- ment who they say were among the victims of a gas attack, but the images were not conclu- sive and neither of the gas attack claims by the rebels or the gov- ernment could be independently veriied. The accusations on both sides came amid heightened ighting around the contested northern city that killed at least 20 people, activists and govern- ment media reported. Rescuers and doctors in reb- el-held Saraqib, a town in the northwestern Idlib province, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Aleppo, reported dozens of cases of severe breath- ing dificulties, saying the symp- toms pointed to a chlorine gas attack. A neurologist, Dr. Ibrahim W EDNESDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM ATWATER, Calif. — Leon- ardo Sanchez was sleeping peace- fully on a bus carrying him to Oregon to pick blueberries when he was suddenly thrown face-irst into the back of the seat in front of him, awakening him to a horriic scene of chaos and death. The bus carrying Sanchez and about 30 others on a pre- dawn journey through Cali- fornia’s agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley had somehow plowed head-on into a highway pole that nearly sliced it in half. Five people died and at least 18 were hurt. “There was lots of scream- ing and crying,” Sanchez told The Associated Press hours after Tuesday’s crash. He said only about eight people, including himself, escaped the bus largely unscathed. “The rest of them, the police and ambulances arrived to get them out. And the dead,” he added solemnly in Spanish. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said rescuers pulled “bags of body parts” from the bus along with survivors, add- ing that some people suffered severed limbs. Other victims were thrown from the vehicle and landed in a ditch. Zika-spreading mosquito puts up tough ight MIAMI — The mosqui- toes spreading Zika in Miami are proving harder to eradicate than expected, the nation’s top disease-ighter said Tuesday as authorities sprayed clouds of insecticide in the ground- zero neighborhood, emptied kiddie pools and handed out cans of insect repellent to the homeless. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the mos- quito-control efforts in the bus- tling urban neighborhood aren’t achieving the hoped-for results, suggesting the pests are resis- tant to the insecticides or are still inding standing water in which to breed. The Daily Astorian/File Photo The former Port of Astoria offices on Gateway Avenue were in the red building to the right on the waterfront. Port: Old ofices sit on top of a former fuel leak Continued from Page 1A At a July meeting, for- mer Commissioner Floyd Holcom said Port staff orig- inally moved out of the old ofices and into Pier 1 amid air quality concerns. Within a week after Holcom’s com- ments, the Port moved its public meetings to Pier 1 pending the results of air quality tests. The old ofices sit on top of a former fuel leak. The Port is in negotiations with oil company insurers and the state Department of Environmental Quality over the cleanup. After Hol- com’s caution, staff found a state investigation con- ducted between 2004 and 2007 that identiied benzene in the soil gases beneath the building. Benzene, a common chemical found in oil, gas and cigarette smoke, is a carcinogen. In the short term, it can cause drows- iness, dizziness, rapid or irregular heartbeat, head- aches and tremors, accord- ing to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After more than a year of exposure, benzene LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Crash survivor tossed awake to horriic scene can harm bone marrow and cause anemia and excessive bleeding, along with cancer. Bill Beadie, an industrial hygienist with Maul Fos- ter, said the company will take samples from the air and from below the build- ing’s concrete slab, trying to determine where ben- zene could come from and whether the levels are of concern. Port Commissioner Bill Hunsinger initially ques- tioned whether the Port should go with Maul Fos- ter Alongi’s bid or seek out other bids for the project. Other Port commissioners and Executive Director Jim Knight said there are advan- tages to using Maul Foster, which has been consulting on the cleanup of fuel leaks and stormwater treatment upgrades. The commis- sion’s vote to amend Maul Foster’s lease to include the study was unanimous. “It would seem we’re under a moral imperative to work on this quickly,” said Port Commission Chairman Robert Mushen, a retired eye doctor with a bachelor’s in chemistry from Stanford University. Evening listings WEDNESDAY A UGUST 3 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock Performances by the top stars of country music. (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock Performances by the top stars of country music. (N) KOMO 4 News (:35) Jimmy Kimmel NBC Nightly News KING 5 News KING 5 News Evening America-Talent "Live Results 2" (N) The Night Shift (N) The Night Shift "Trust Issues" (N) KING 5 News (:35) Tonight Show KOIN 6 News at 6 CBS Evening News Extra Ent. 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