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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press GOP senator to retire, takes parting shots at Trump WASHINGTON — Can the traditional Republican Party sur- vive the presidency of Donald Trump? That existential question, which has nagged at Republicans since Trump’s stunning election one year ago, flared up anew Tuesday with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he is retiring from Congress. One of the GOP’s most consistent critics of the president, Flake was facing a tough primary challenge in next year’s election from at least one candidate with the backing of some Trump allies. “There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party,” said Flake, a conservative who has worked with Democrats on issues like immi- gration and the Obama administration’s detente with Cuba. The senator’s dour assessment of his future in the Republican Party gave voice to worries that have gripped the GOP heading into the midterm elections. Trump has shown little loyalty to some sitting senators, and has openly squabbled with Flake and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Some of the president’s ardent supporters — led by former White House senior adviser Steve Bannon — are actively courting GOP primary challengers who are more willing to buck the Republican establishment in Washington than line up behind its leaders. Andy Surabian, a senior adviser for the pro-Trump group Great America Alliance, said Flake’s retirement is part of a trend and “should serve as another warning shot to the failed Republi- can establishment that backed Flake and others like them that their time is up.” Source: Clinton camp helped fund Trump dossier research WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund political research into President Donald Trump that ultimately produced a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night. The revelation is likely to fuel complaints by Trump that the dossier, which the president has derided as “phony stuff,” is a polit- ically motivated collection of salacious claims. Yet the FBI has worked to corroborate the document, and in a sign of its ongoing relevance to investigators, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team — which is probing potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign — weeks ago questioned the former British spy, Christopher Steele, who helped compile the claims in the dossier. The dossier, which circulated in Washington last year and was turned over to the FBI for its review, contends that Russia was engaged in a longstanding effort to aid Trump and had amassed compromising information about him. Trump has repeatedly dis- missed the document as false and in recent days has questioned on Twitter whether Democrats or the FBI had helped fund it. Trump has also attacked the findings of the FBI, NSA and CIA that Russia waged a large-scale influence campaign to interfere in the election. The FBI and the CIA have said with high con- fidence that the effort was aimed at hurting Clinton’s candidacy and helping Trump. The NSA found the same with “moderate” confidence. The person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condi- tion of anonymity to discuss confidential client matters, said the arrangement was brokered by Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and his law firm of Perkins Coie. EPA chemical review would exclude millions of tons of toxins BILLINGS, Mont. — Spurred by the chemical industry, Pres- ident Donald Trump’s administration is retreating from a congres- sionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chem- icals in public use: millions of tons of asbestos, flame retardants and other toxins in homes, offices and industrial plants across the United States. Instead of following President Barack Obama’s proposal to look at chemicals already in widespread use that result in some of the most common exposures, the new administration wants to limit the review to products still being manufactured and entering the marketplace. For asbestos, that means gauging the risks from just a few hun- dred tons of the material imported annually while excluding almost all of the estimated 8.9 million tons of asbestos-containing prod- ucts that the U.S. Geological Survey said entered the marketplace between 1970 and 2016. Lawmakers say the review was intended to be the first step toward enacting new regulations needed to protect the public. But critics — including health workers, consumer advocates, members of Congress and environmental groups — contend ignoring prod- ucts already in use undermines that goal. The administration’s stance is the latest example of Trump sid- ing with industry. In this case, firefighters and construction workers say the move jeopardizes their health. Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Fats Domino has died at age 89 NEW ORLEANS — Fats Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89. Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Lou- isiana, coroner’s office, said Domino died of natural causes early Tuesday. In appearance, he was no matinee idol. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a hair- cut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with hits includ- ing “Blueberry Hill,” ‘’Ain’t That a Shame” — originally titled “Ain’t It A Shame”— and other standards of rock ‘n’ roll. Fats He was one of the first 10 honorees named to Domino the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Roll- ing Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement. His dynamic performance style and warm vocals drew crowds for five decades. One of his show-stopping stunts was playing the piano while standing, throwing his body against it with the beat of the music and bumping the grand piano across the stage. Domino became a global star but stayed true to his hometown, where his fate was initially unknown after Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. It turned out that he and his family were rescued by boat from his home, where he lost three pianos and dozens of gold and platinum records, along with other memorabilia. Bergdahl due back in court with Trump talk looming over case RALEIGH, N.C. — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returns to a military courtroom at Fort Bragg today for his sentencing hear- ing, where prosecutors plan to present evidence that fellow ser- vice members were seriously wounded in a fruitless search for him after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan. Prosecutors are expected to start calling witnesses to discuss these search missions and resulting wounds to multiple service members, which the judge ruled would not have happened had Bergdahl not endangered his comrades in 2009. They include an Army National Guard sergeant who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being shot in the head and a Navy SEAL whose career was ended by a leg wound. Bergdahl, 31, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner, faces up to life behind bars in the U.S. after pleading guilty to the rare charge of misbehavior before the enemy as well as desertion. President Donald Trump’s criticism looms over the case. The military judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, has yet to rule on a defense motion that Bergdahl can’t get a fair sentence with the Republican as commander in chief. W EDNESDAY E VENING (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) 6 PM Continued from Page 1A “It wasn’t just a physical fire,” Daniels said. “It’s men- tal fatigue. We all take it per- sonally. When you stand on the hillside and thousands of homes and buildings are gone, when you drive down the freeway and their com- mercial buildings are burned down on both sides — none of us wants to see somebody devastated like that.” Daniels was one of five members of the Seaside Fire Department contingent, in addition to Lt. Genesee Den- nis, Capt. Mike Smith and firefighters Alex Hernandez and Katie Bulletset. Gearhart’s crew consisted of Eddy, Tanner Rich, Mike LaLonde and Angels Garcia. Olney-Walluski Volun- teer Fire and Rescue Chief Ron Tyson led the county strike team, joined by volun- teers from Lewis and Clark, Knappa and Columbia River Fire in addition to those from Seaside and Gearhart. Firefighters step up The Oregon Fire Mar- shal received the request for assistance through the Emer- gency Management Assis- tance Compact, a national state-to-state mutual aid sys- tem, late at night on Oct. 10. Crews were mobilized and on their way down Inter- state 5 the next day, Daniels said, about a 15-hour trip. Clatsop County firefight- ers worked with the more than 4,200 firefighters in the Santa Rosa region, sleeping in tents outside the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. Oregon firefighters offered relief to local crews whose resources had been spread thin. Some local firefighters had been working shifts of three or four days straight, Daniels said. Crews cleared brush fires and put out hot spots in an effort to contain blazes driven by the wind, reaching speeds of 60 mph at times. “Until the wind dies down you are just trying to keep it SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Firefighters: ‘Everybody helps support everybody else’ Seaside Fire and Rescue Seaside’s Katie Bulletset on the scene of wildfires in Santa Rosa, California. at bay, or to redirect it so it does not take out more,” Daniels said. “They just had an awful wind.” Turning the tide It wasn’t until rain fell overnight, Thursday into Fri- day, that crews could begin cleaning up the last hot spots. “They were glad to see it,” Daniels said. “And boy, they got some rain.” With help from precip- itation, Oregon firefighters demobilized and returned after 11 days in California. Eddy and Daniels returned Saturday. As of Tuesday, the Tubbs fire in and around Santa Rosa was 94 percent contained, Cal Fire reported, but not before growing to more than 36,000 acres. The fire killed 22 peo- ple, destroyed 7,000 homes and buildings and damaged another 500. Five percent of homes were destroyed and damage reached more than $1 billion in Santa Rosa alone. This summer, Califor- nia sent resources to Ore- gon to fight blazes in the Chetco Bar Fire in Brook- ings and the Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia Gorge. They joined teams from as far away as Victoria, a state in Australia. “Everybody helps support everybody else,” Eddy said. “Firefighters are firefight- ers,” Daniels added. “We all do the same job.” Evening listings WEDNESDAY O CTOBER 25 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) Modern Family (N) Am.Housewife (N) Designated Survivor "Suckers" (N) KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel Jeopardy! (N) Wheel Fortune (N) The Goldbergs (N) Speechless (N) KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! 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