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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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Qatar crisis shakes East Africa,
a home to Gulf militaries
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Though far-removed from
the Gulf, East Africa has been shaken by the Arab diplomatic cri-
sis gripping Qatar.
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.
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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.
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