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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
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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
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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.
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