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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Hotel worker warned of shooter before Las Vegas massacre ever-growing list of accusations against the movie mogul from women alleging decades of systematic sexual harassment and assault. The accusers have come from everywhere — actresses you’ve heard of, actresses you haven’t, models, assistants, employees, a reporter and young women who found themselves in the orbit of the powerful executive. But, as the story often goes, no one expected it to go this high. Speaking to The New York Times, in the paper’s second round of Weinstein exposés, Paltrow describes a now familiar-sounding scene of her at age 22 being asked to meet Weinstein, who had just cast her as the title character in the adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma.” She was summoned to Weinstein’s hotel room, where he proceeded to touch her and suggest a massage in the bedroom. Jolie also remembered Weinstein making advances in a hotel room early in her career. She never worked with him again. A maintenance worker said today he told hotel dispatchers to call police and report a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside Mandalay Bay before the shooter began firing from his high-rise suite into a crowd at a nearby musical performance. The revised timeline has renewed questions about whether bet- ter communication might have allowed police to respond more quickly and take out the gunman before he committed the deadli- est mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Worker Stephen Schuck told NBC News that he was check- ing out a report of a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor of Manda- lay Bay when he heard gunshots and a hotel security guard, who had been shot in the leg, peeked out from an alcove and told him to take cover. “As soon as I started to go to a door to my left the rounds started coming down the hallway,” Schuck said. “I could feel them pass right behind my head. “It was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on,” he said. “As soon as the shooting stopped we made our way down the hallway and took cover again and then the shoot- ing started again.” Police said Monday they believe gunman Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard through the door of his suite six min- utes before he unleashed a barrage of bullets into the crowd of concert-goers, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more. The injured guard used his radio and possibly a hallway phone to also call hotel dispatchers for help. That account differs dramatically fro the one police gave last week when they said Paddock fired through the door of his room and injured the unarmed guard after shooting into the crowd. The company that owns Mandalay Bay has questioned the new timeline. SAN FRANCISCO — A carelessly discarded cigarette, a downed power line, a car’s backfire or a chainsaw’s pull. Just about anything could have started any one of the wildfires now tearing through Northern California, authorities said. “Every spark is going to ignite a fire,” said Ken Pimlott, the state’s top firefighter. He said the risk remains “extreme for new starts.” Pimlott said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the causes, but no determination has been made at any of the 17 sites of major wildfires blazing in Northern California. Pimlott, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protec- tion director, said “98 percent” of all wildfires are started by peo- ple and it’s unlikely lightning is to blame for any of the fires that exploded overnight Sunday, killing at least 17 people so far. California’s most dangerous wildfire season comes in autumn, when summer heat and insects have left brush dead and dried out, and winds are especially hot, dry and strong. Women’s health docs say Trump ignores birth control science Trump to pitch tax plan as boon for truckers WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s new birth control rule is raising questions among some women’s health experts, who say it overlooks known benefits of contraception while selectively citing data that raise doubts about effectiveness and safety. “This rule is listing things that are not scientifically validated, and in some cases things that are wrong, to try to justify a decision that is not in the best interests of women and society,” said Dr. Hal Lawrence, CEO of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which represents women’s health specialists. Two recently issued rules — one addressing religious objec- tions and the other, moral objections — allow more employers to opt out of covering birth control as a free preventive benefit for women under the Obama health care law. Although the reg- ulations ultimately concern matters of conscience and religious teaching, they also dive into medical research and scholarly stud- ies on birth control. It’s on the science that the Trump administration is being chal- lenged. Doctors and researchers say the administration ignored studies that didn’t support its conclusions and stretched others. In a statement, Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley responded to critics, saying: “The rules are focused on guaranteeing religious freedom and con- science protections for those Americans who have a religious or moral objection to providing certain services based on their sin- cerely held beliefs.” WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will pitch his tax plan as a boon for truckers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today — the latest stop on a cross-country tour aimed at selling his tax reform proposal. Trump will speak in front of an audience of roughly 1,000 peo- ple, including lots of truckers, against a backdrop of big rigs at a local air plane hangar, according to the White House. Trump is pitching a plan that would dramatically cut corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 20 percent, reduce the number of personal income tax brackets and boost the standard deduction. At his latest stop, Trump will argue that his tax reform frame- work will benefit truckers by lowering their tax rates, boosting manufacturing, and making it easier for families to pass their trucking businesses onto their children, the White House says. “When your trucks are moving, America is growing. That is why my administration is taking historic steps to remove the barriers that slow you down,” he’s expected to say, according to excerpts provided by the White House. “America first means put- ting American truckers first.” Trump has left it up to Congress to fill in many specifics of his plan, which leaves out details such as which income levels his new tax brackets would apply to. Paltrow and Jolie accounts may have sealed Weinstein’s fate LOS ANGELES — They waited years to speak, but two of Hollywood’s most powerful women might have helped seal the fate of Harvey Weinstein. Both Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie added their first-per- son accounts of uncomfortable experiences with Weinstein to the THE DAILY ASTORIAN W EDNESDAY E VENING A (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) A cigarette, a car backfire: Small sparks can make big fires Puerto Ricans leave for US mainland as storm woes linger MIAMI — Lourdes Rodriguez fled Puerto Rico after Hur- ricane Maria filled her home in the northern town of Vega Baja with mud, ruining mattresses and other belongings. She thought it would be a short stay with her daughter in Florida, but three weeks later there’s still no power or water back home. “We’re going to be here indefinitely,” the 59-year-old retiree said in an interview at the daughter’s home in Tampa. “It’s been crazy, totally unexpected, like nothing I’ve experienced before.” In San Juan, Efrain Diaz Figueroa, 70, sat listening to a bat- tery-powered radio amid the wreckage of his home, its walls col- lapsed into the yard and clothes and mattresses soaking in the rain. A sister was coming to take him to family in Boston: “I’ll live bet- ter there,” Figueroa said. Tens of thousands of islanders left for the U.S. mainland to escape the immediate aftermath of the storm. With conditions back home still grim — about 85 percent of residents still lack electricity and 40 percent are without running water, and neither is expected to be fully restored for months — many find themselves scrambling to build new lives away from the island. Particularly in states with large Puerto Rican populations, such as New York, Illinois, Florida and Connecticut, people are bunk- ing with relatives while trying to find longer-term housing, jobs and schools for their kids. Spanish Cabinet meets on Catalonia; prime minister to address parliament MADRID — The Spanish Cabinet met in Madrid today to work out its response to an announcement from the head of the wealthy Catalonia region that he was proceeding with a declara- tion of independence, further fueling Spain’s worst political cri- sis in decades. Prime minister Mariano Rajoy, who is due to address the national parliament later in the day, chaired the closed-doors meeting at the government’s headquarters in the Moncloa Palace, on the outskirts of Madrid. Rajoy was to make a midday televised statement following the meeting. Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont said late Tues- day that he would proceed with the secession, but would suspend it for a few weeks to facilitate negotiations. But the government has given little indication it is willing to talk. In a highly anticipated speech, Puigdemont said the landslide victory in a disputed Oct. 1 referendum gave his government in the regional capital, Barcelona, the grounds to implement its long- held desire to break century-old ties with Spain. But he proposed that the regional parliament suspend the effects of the declaration to commence a dialogue and help reduce tension. Video of fatal attack on Kim Jong Nam shown at women’s trial SHAH ALAM, Malaysia — Security video footage showing the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader being attacked at a Malaysian airport and the two suspects hurrying away after- ward were presented at their murder trial today. Kim Jong Nam was seen arriving at the departure hall at the budget terminal of the Kuala Lumpur international airport the morning of Feb. 13 and moving to a check-in area. A woman iden- tified in court as Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Huong approaches Kim and clasps both hands on his face from behind before fleeing. The second suspect, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, can’t be seen attacking Kim, but police officer Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz testified that he identified her as a person seen in the video running away in a different direction. Wan Azirul told the court that Huong’s manner was “aggres- sive” and she didn’t apologize to Kim, like she did to another per- son she approached at the airport two days earlier. A video of that encounter, which was described as a practice session for smear- ing Kim’s face with VX nerve agent, was also shown to the court. Both women are seen hurrying to separate restrooms, holding their hands away from their bodies as if to avoid contact. 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