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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF the second hottest year and four teams calling it third, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization termed 2017 a tie for second with 2015. “This is human-caused climate change in action,” said Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina of the University of California San Diego, who wasn’t part of any of the measuring teams. “Climate is not weather, (which) can go up and down from year to year. What counts is the lon- ger-term change, which is clearly upwards.” Associated Press Winter weather deaths climb to 15 as South cleans up snow DURHAM, N.C. — The deep freeze that killed at least 15 people and shut down much of the South began to relent today as crews worked to clear roads blanketed by a slow-mov- ing storm that left ice and snow in places that usually enjoy mild winters. The snow stopped by early morning after the storm blew off shore, but North Carolina offi- cials urged drivers to stay home while crews took their first crack at roads coated just hours earlier by the storm. Other parts of the South continued to struggle, including Louisiana, where interstate highways remained closed in the capital city Baton Rouge. Even low hills in unplowed residential neighborhoods proved too much for drivers in northern Durham County, where the storm dumped up to 12 inches of snow on Wednesday. A dark-colored sedan sat abandoned in the mid- dle of the road in one neighborhood. A few peo- ple shoveled driveways but most stayed bun- dled inside. Two thousand state trucks were out plow- ing and salting in North Carolina a day after the storm dumped as much as an inch per hour from the mountains to the coast. Some stretches of interstate highway were still covered in icy spots or only partially plowed. In Atlanta, temperatures remained below freezing until midday. Metro Atlanta’s com- muter rail system was operating on a limited schedule as the city continued to recover from the approximately 1 inch of snow and ice that brought the area to a standstill. Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Inter- national Airport, the world’s busiest, were hop- ing to reduce lines to get through security that stretched through the airport on Wednesday. Flight delays were exacerbated because some screeners couldn’t make it to work, leaving the Transportation Security Administration with a single checkpoint in the domestic terminal. Some TSA employees slept at the airport over- night to avoid a repeat. Today, airlines canceled another 200 flights at the Atlanta airport, and dozens of other flights at Charlotte Douglas International. Trump adds confusion via Twitter to government shutdown concern WASHINGTON — Injecting confusion into already perilous shutdown negotiations, Pres- ident Donald Trump undercut his own admin- istration’s stance by tweeting today that a chil- dren’s health insurance program should not be part of a short-term budget agreement. The president’s tweet came as Republi- cans and Democrats were scrambling to avert the shutdown, which could come at midnight Friday. The administration had previously expressed support for GOP-drafted legislation that includes money for the popular children’s program for six years, a tactic aimed at winning some Democratic support for the bill. The House was to vote later today. After Trump tweeted, aides from both parties expressed bafflement at exactly what he meant and why he took his position. It was the latest instance that has raised doubts in Washington about the president’s unpredictable approach to legislation, policy and political decisions. Just Wednesday, the White House budget office sent Congress a letter expressing sup- port for the overall bill and expressly wrote, “The Administration supports the bill’s multi- year funding extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).” Federal financing for the program that serves nearly 9 million children expired in October Haitians face hurdles after protected status renewal delays AP Photo/Jens Meyer A powerful storm in Europe grounded flights, halted trains, ripped roofs off build- ings and flipped over trucks. Powerful gale lashes Europe, 6 dead amid traffic chaos THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A powerful storm pummeled Europe with high winds and snow today, killing at least six people in three countries, grounding flights, halting trains, rip- ping roofs off buildings and flipping over trucks. The Dutch national weather service recorded wind gusts of up to 87 mph in the southern port of Hook of Holland as the storm passed over. Amsterdam’s Schiphol briefly halted flights for an hour in the morning, and airline KLM already had scrapped more than 200 flights before the storm. Trains were halted across the nation and in Germany. Falling trees killed two 62-year-old men in the Netherlands, a woman south of the Bel- gian capital of Brussels, a 59-year-old man at a camping site in the German town of Emmer- ich and a firefighter in the German town of Bad Salzungen. In Lippstadt, in western Germany, a driver died when he lost control of his van in strong winds and drove into oncoming traf- fic, police said. Police spokeswoman Jose Albers told Dutch national broadcaster NOS that authorities also were investigating whether the powerful gusts were to blame for the death of a 66-year- old man who fell through a plexiglass roof in the central town of Vuren. Social media in the Netherlands was flooded with images of people being blown from their bicycles, cargo containers falling off a ship and damage to buildings, including a roof that peeled off an apartment block in the city of Rotterdam. Water authorities in the low-lying nation closed an inflatable storm barrier east of Amster- dam to prevent flooding as the storm pushed up water levels. and several states are close to exhausting their money, and Congress has passed several short- term patches to keep their programs afloat. Governors to Trump, Congress: Do more to solve opioid crisis CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Governors of both parties are calling on Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration to provide more money and improve coordination to deal with America’s deadly opioid crisis. The National Governors Association released a list of recommendations today. It comes less than three months after Trump declared a public health emergency to deal with the epidemic of addictions and deaths associated with opioids, a group of drugs that includes prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl. Those drugs have fueled an overdose crisis that claims the lives of roughly 90 Americans every day. The governors praised Trump’s declara- tion while calling for more action, includ- ing research into non-drug pain treatment methods. A spokesman for the White House office overseeing drug policy says the administra- tion is committed to working with states and addressing their recommendations. 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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Kingdom’s mete- orological office today announced that 2017 was the third hottest year on record. At the same time, NASA and researchers from a nonprofit in Berkeley, California, called it the second. The agencies slightly differ because of how much they count an overheating Arctic, where there are gaps in the data. The global average temperature in 2017 was 58.51 degrees, which is 1.51 degrees above the 20th century average and just behind 2016 and 2015, NOAA said. Other agencies’ figures were close but not quite the same. Earlier, European forecasters called 2017 the second hottest year, while the Japanese Meteo- rological Agency called it the third hottest. Two other scientific groups that use satellite, not ground, measurements split on 2017 being sec- ond or third hottest. With four teams calling it Russia probes come up against claims of executive privilege WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s White House is relying on a sweeping interpretation of executive privilege that is ran- kling members of Congress on both sides of the aisle as current and former advisers parade to Capitol Hill for questioning about possible con- nections with Russia. The White House’s contention: Pretty much everything is off limits until the president says it’s not. The argument was laid bare this week during former White House chief strategist Steve Ban- non’s interview with the House Intelligence Committee. As lawmakers in the closed-door session probed Bannon’s time working for Trump, his attorney got on the phone with the White House counsel’s office, relaying ques- tions and asking what Bannon could tell Con- gress, according to a White House official and a second person familiar with the interview. The answer was a broad one. Bannon couldn’t discuss anything to do with his work on the presidential transition or later in the White House itself. The development brought to the forefront questions about White House efforts to con- trol what current and former aides may or may not tell Congress about their time in Trump’s inner circle, and whether Republicans who hold majorities on Capitol Hill will force the issue. It was also the broadest example yet of the White House using executive privilege to limit a wit- ness’ testimony without making a formal invo- cation of that presidential power. SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Even without El Nino last year, Earth keeps on warming BOSTON — Thousands of Haitian immi- grants living in the U.S. legally will face employ- ment and travel hurdles because President Don- ald Trump’s administration delayed the process of re-registering those with temporary protected status, Haitian community leaders and immi- grant activists say. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will release details today about the next steps for the 60,000 Haitians with the special status, an agency spokeswoman told The Associated Press. But the information comes too late to help the thousands of Haitians who hold immigration documents that show their legal and work sta- tus expiring Monday, said immigrants and advo- cates, some of whom wondered — in light of the president’s recent remarks about Haiti — if the bureaucratic slowdown was deliberate. “They told me that if I don’t bring the work papers, they will send me home because it is the law. You have to have work papers. I am under pressure,” said Edelyne Jean, a 35-year-old nurs- ing assistant in Coral Springs, Florida, who sup- ports four younger siblings still in Haiti. “They say that if I don’t bring anything new by Jan. 22 or the 23rd at the most, I am jobless.” Haitian workers like Jean will be left at the mercy of employers, who could simply choose to let them go or hire someone else rather than wait for a process that could take months, says Rev. Dieufort Fleurissaint, chairman of Haitian Amer- icans United, a Boston-based community group. Evening listings THURSDAY J ANUARY 18 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 Jeopardy! ON) Wheel Fortune ON) Grey's A. "Four Seasons in One Day" ON) Scandal "Robin" ON) KATU News at 6 ON) Away With Murder "He's Dead" ON) KATU News ON) O:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News ON) Wheel Fortune ON) Jeopardy! ON) Grey's A. 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