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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF A report issued Wednesday by Myanmar’s Information Min- istry said that 45 improvised explosive devices were detonated and seven villages, one security post and two neighborhoods in the township of Maungdaw burned down on Sunday and Monday. Associated Press Shivering tot found clinging to drowned mom amid flooding BEAUMONT, Texas — Authorities found a shivering toddler clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas after the woman tried to carry her child to safety from Harvey’s floods. Capt. Brad Penisson of the fire-rescue department in Beau- mont said the woman’s vehicle got stuck Tuesday afternoon in the flooded parking lot of an office park just off Interstate 10. Squalls from Harvey were pounding Beaumont with up to 2 inches of rain an hour at the time with 38 mph gusts, according to the National Weather Service. Penisson said a witness saw the woman take her 18-month- old daughter and try to walk to safety when the swift current of a flooded drainage canal next to the parking lot swept them both away. The child was holding onto the floating woman when a police and fire-rescue team in a boat caught up to them a half-mile down- stream, he said. Rescuers pulled them into the boat just before they would have gone under a railroad trestle where the water was so high that the boat could not have followed. First responders lifted the child from her mother’s body and tried to revive the woman, but she never regained consciousness. Penisson said the child was in stable condition at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital. The identities of the mother and child were being withheld until the father, who was out of town, can be notified. Forecast brings hope as new shelters open, death toll rises HOUSTON — The latest weather forecast delivered hope to Houston after five days of torrential rain submerged the nation’s fourth-largest city: Less than an inch of rain and perhaps even sunshine. But the dangers remain far from over Wednesday. With at least 18 dead and 13,000 people rescued in the Houston area and sur- rounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas, others were still trying to escape from their inundated homes. Weakened levees were in danger of failing and a less-ferocious but still potent Har- vey returned to shore, making landfall in southwestern Louisiana. The situation was dire early Wednesday in Port Arthur, Texas, near the Louisiana border, where homes were starting to fill with rising floodwaters and residents were unsure of how to evacu- ate the city. Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said county resources could not get to Port Arthur because of the flooding. Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman said that the “city is under- water right now but we are coming!” He also urged residents to get to higher ground and to avoid becoming trapped in attics. Authorities expected the human toll to continue to mount, both in deaths and in the tens of thousands of people made homeless by the catastrophic storm that is now the heaviest tropical downpour in U.S. history. In all, more than 17,000 people have sought refuge in Texas shelters, and that number seemed certain to increase, the American Red Cross said. Western Louisiana in crosshairs as Harvey moves back to land LAKE CHARLES, La. — Western Louisiana residents braced for more wind and water early Wednesday as Tropical Storm Har- vey made its second landfall after dumping record rainfall on Texas. The storm came ashore just west of Cameron, Louisiana, bring- ing maximum sustained winds near 45 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Harvey had lingered over Texas for days before meandering back into the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters say another 5 to 10 inches of rain could fall in west- ern Louisiana. “We are starting to get down to the end of the tunnel of all this rain,” Meteorologist Roger Erickson said. Erickson warns that some coastal rivers won’t be able to drain Trump reassures those in Harvey’s path that he will help AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Members of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries help rescue Mike Henry, right, and his partner Rosemarie Carpenter during flooding Wednesday from Tropical Storm Harvey in Orange, Texas. effectively because Harvey’s winds are pushing in storm surge, aggravating flooding in areas already drenched by more than 20 inches of rain. Gusts up to 50 mph are predicted for coastal areas and up to 40 mph in Lake Charles and along the Interstate 10 corridor. North Korea leader urges more missile launches targeting Pacific SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons launches targeting the Pacific Ocean to advance his country’s ability to contain Guam, state media said Wednesday, a day after Pyongyang for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan. Tuesday’s aggressive missile launch — likely the longest ever from North Korea — over a close U.S. ally sends a clear mes- sage of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct annual mili- tary drills. The Korean Central News Agency said the launch was a “muscle-flexing” countermeasure to the Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint exercises that conclude Thursday. Pyongyang views the drills as invasion rehearsals and often conducts weapons tests and esca- lates its rhetoric when they are held. The KCNA report said the missile was an intermediate-range Hwasong-12, which the North first successfully tested in May and threatened to fire into waters near Guam earlier this month. Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over the launch that he called a “meaningful prelude” to containing Guam and said North Korea would continue to watch the U.S. demeanor before it decides future actions, KCNA said. The U.S. territory is home to key U.S. military bases that North Korea finds threatening. Kim also said it’s “necessary to positively push forward the work for putting the strategic force on a modern basis by conduct- ing more ballistic rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a tar- get in the future.” 18,000 Rohingya flee violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — At least 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh in less than a week, with hundreds stranded in no man’s land at the countries’ border, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. Sanjukta Sahany, a spokeswoman for the organization in Cox’s Bazar, on the Bangladesh border with Myanmar, released the latest figures as human rights groups and advocates for the Rohingya say the Myanmar army was retaliating for attacks last week by Rohingya militants by burning down villages and shoot- ing civilians. The Myanmar government blames Rohingya insurgents for the violence, including the arson. Government figures put the death toll since last week at a minimum of 103, including 12 members of security forces, 77 persons described as insurgents and 14 civilians. Rohingya advocates fear hundreds of civilians may have been killed in army raids. 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In recent years both Qatar and the other energy-rich nations arrayed against it have made inroads in the Horn of Africa by establishing military bases, managing ports and showering friendly nations with foreign aid. As the rivalry heats up, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain seeking to isolate Qatar, East African nations stand to gain or lose from an increasingly fierce competi- tion for influence. And with Saudi Arabia and its allies mired in a war just across the Red Sea in Yemen, the area has never had more strategic value. “I think we’re seeing a game of geopolitical chess being played out,” said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a research fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Private companies drive ‘new space race’ at NASA center CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time since the retire- ment of the space shuttle in 2011, NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. Critical milestones are on the horizon for Boeing and SpaceX, the space agency’s commercial crew partners: Flight tests of their spacecraft, including crewed missions, are planned for 2018. That’s launched something of a “new space race” at the Ken- nedy Space Center, officials said. “We have invested a lot as a center, as a nation into Kennedy Space Center to ready us for that next 50 years of spaceflight and beyond,” said Tom Engler, the center’s director of planning and development. “You see the dividends of that now, these commer- cial companies buying into what we’re doing.” The public-private partnership is transforming Kennedy Space Center into a multiuser spaceport. NASA is developing the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft for missions to deep space, including to Mars, leaving private companies to send peo- ple to low Earth orbit. LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — President Donald Trump answered Harvey’s wrath by offering in-person assurances to those in the storm zone that his administration will work tirelessly to help the region recover from the massive flooding and storm-inflicted destruction. “We are going to get you back and operating immediately,” Trump told an impromptu crowd that gathered outside a Corpus Christi fire station about 30 miles from where the storm made land- fall Friday. The president kept his distance from the epicenter of the dam- age in Houston to avoid disrupting recovery operations. But he plans to return to the region Saturday to survey the damage and meet with some of the storm’s victims, said Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump will change his focus Wednesday with a trip to Spring- field, Missouri to kick off his lobbying effort for a tax overhaul. He will offer some broad goals, but few specifics, During his Texas trip, Trump was eager to get the federal disas- ter response right, but he missed clear opportunities to strike a sym- pathetic note for multitudes who are suffering. The president did not mention those who died in the storm or those forced from their homes by its floodwaters. And he basked in the attention of cheer- ing supporters outside the fire station where officials briefed him on the recovery. Evening listings WEDNESDAY A UGUST 30 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 (N) Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune The Goldbergs Speechless Modern Family Amer. Housewife Modern Family The Goldbergs KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! 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