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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
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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. Wan
Azirul testified that their hands were in normal positions after they
left the restrooms. He said there were restrooms on the floor where
the attack took place, but the women had gone to restrooms one
floor down.
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