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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 28, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
With a roar, flash
flood smashes into a
Maryland community
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — Roaring flash
floods struck a Maryland city Sunday that had
been wracked by similar devastation two years
ago, its main street turned into a raging river
that reached the first floor of some buildings and
swept away parked cars, authorities and wit-
nesses say.
News outlets showed photos and video of
sudden, violent floodwaters surging down Main
Street in Ellicott City, some 13 miles west of Bal-
timore. The community, set along the west bank
of Maryland’s Patapsco River, was also stricken
by deadly flash flooding in July 2016.
This time, witnesses say, the flash flood-
ing came with a roar of onrushing water after
hours of heavy rain had soaked the region around
Baltimore.
After the floodwaters receded, emergency
officials had no immediate reports of fatalities or
injuries. But by nightfall first responders and res-
cue officials were still going through the mud-
died, damaged downtown, conducting safety
checks and ensuring people evacuated.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who declared a
state of emergency for the flooded community,
traveled there late Sunday for a firsthand look at
the destruction.
Footage of Sunday’s flash flooding showed
the seething floodwaters engulfing cars and
pickup trucks. The Howard County Fire &
EMS agency tweeted that water was above the
first floor of some buildings at the height of the
disaster.
Some residents of Ellicott City told The Bal-
timore Sun the flooding appeared to be worse
than the 2016 flooding that killed two people and
destroyed local businesses.
Jessica Ur, a server at Pure Wine Cafe on the
city’s Main Street, told the paper she watched
as gushing waters swept three or four parked
cars down the street. She had been around the
last time the area flooded, but said this time it
appeared worse.
“It’s significantly higher than it was before,”
she told the newspaper, comparing the floodwa-
ters to those of 2016.
Subtropical Storm Alberto
maintains strength as it
approaches Gulf Coast
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Subtropical Storm
Alberto headed toward anticipated landfall
sometime today on the northern Gulf Coast,
where white sandy beaches emptied of their
usual Memorial Day crowds.
And just as the long holiday weekend marked
summer’s unofficial start in the U.S., Alberto
gave it the unofficial start of what forecasters
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
Jason Seaman speaks to the media.
Teacher who stopped attack
says he had to save students
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — An Indiana teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming
a student inside his classroom said today that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable
actions” to save his seventh-grade students.
Jason Seaman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanked the
Noblesville community for its support and stressed that he wanted the focus to be on the only
other person shot during the incident: a 13-year-old student who was seriously wounded.
“Her courage and strength at such a young age is nothing short of remarkable,” Seaman said
during a news conference at the school district’s administrative building. “We all should con-
tinue to keep her in our minds as she continues to recover.”
Seaman is credited with stopping the armed student who entered his Noblesville West Mid-
dle School on Friday morning. Witnesses said the 29-year-old former college football player
ran toward bullets as he tackled the student shooter. He was shot three times, according to his
brother.
“I want to make it clear that my actions on that day, in my mind, were the only acceptable
actions I could have done given the circumstances,” Seaman said. “I deeply care for my stu-
dents and their well-being. That is why I did what I did that day.”
Injured student Ella Whistler was hospitalized in critical but stable condition, and school
officials said Saturday that she was improving.
recently predicted would be an active hurricane
season.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said
at 11 a.m. EDT today that Alberto was maintain-
ing its strength as it approached the Florida Pan-
handle and was centered about 50 miles south
of Panama City, Florida. The storm had maxi-
mum sustained winds of 60 mph and was mov-
ing north at 8 mph.
Forecasters warned of life-threatening surf
conditions, the possibility of a few brief torna-
does in much of Florida and parts of Georgia,
South Carolina and Alabama. And, it said, heavy
rains are also expected in many areas.
Rough conditions were expected to roil the
seas off the eastern and northern Gulf Coast
region through Tuesday.
Lifeguards posted red flags along the white
sands of Pensacola Beach, where swimming and
wading were banned amid high surf and dan-
gerous conditions. Gusty showers began lash-
ing parts of Florida on Sunday, and authorities
warned of the possibility of flash flooding.
The hurricane center said a tropical storm
warning was in effect from the Suwannee River
in Florida to the Alabama-Florida state line.
US team in North Korea
raises expectations of a
Trump-Kim summit
A U.S. team was in North Korea to plan a
summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,
according to President Donald Trump, raising
expectations that the on-off-on meeting would
indeed take place.
Both the State Department and South Korea’s
Foreign Ministry said the American and North
Korean officials have been engaged in talks at
the Korean village of Panmunjom, which strad-
dles the border inside the Demilitarized Zone, or
DMZ. One can cross the border simply by step-
ping across a painted line, but moving beyond
several footsteps into the North at Panmunjom
would be rare for U.S. officials.
Trump withdrew from a planned June 12
Singapore summit with Kim last Thursday, but
quickly announced it could still happen. His
tweet Sunday afternoon, which offered praise for
the longtime U.S. adversary, was the latest signal
that his concerns about the North’s stance toward
the summit had been allayed.
“Our United States team has arrived in North
Korea to make arrangements for the Summit
between Kim Jong Un and myself,” he tweeted
Sunday. “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant
potential and will be a great economic and finan-
cial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with
me on this. It will happen!”
South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave
details about his surprise meeting Saturday with
Kim in Panmunjom, saying Kim had committed
to sitting down with Trump and to a “complete
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
tapped veteran American diplomat Sung Kim,
the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, to han-
dle pre-summit negotiations. On a separate but
complementary track was the CIA team Pompeo
set up last year when he headed the spy agency.
And on a third track was a White House logis-
tical group sent to Singapore on Sunday to pre-
pare in case the summit takes place. It was led
by Joe Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff
for operations.
Freed after 2 years,
man jailed in Venezuela
returns to US
WASHINGTON — Joshua Holt, who trav-
eled to Venezuela from Utah in 2016 to marry
a Spanish-speaking Mormon woman but soon
found himself jailed and later branded the CIA’s
top spy in Latin America, was set free by the
anti-American Maduro government on Saturday,
saying he was “overwhelmed with gratitude.”
Holt and his wife, Thamara Caleno, arrived
Saturday evening at Washington Dulles Interna-
tional Airport for a tearful reunion with his par-
ents, Laurie and Jason Holt. A few hours later
President Donald Trump welcomed them to the
White House.
“Those two years, they were a very, very, very
difficult two years,” said an emotional Holt, sit-
ting next to Trump in the Oval Office. “Not really
the great vacation that I was looking for ... I’m
just so grateful for what you guys have done.”
To Holt, Trump said: “You’ve gone through a
lot. More than most people could endure.”
The Utah man’s mother, Laurie Holt, thanked
Trump and the lawmakers for her son’s safe
return, adding: “I also want to say thank you to
President Maduro for releasing Josh and letting
him to come home.”
Legion: Cause for the drop is hard to identify
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“We’re not in dire straits.
We’re just coming to a point
where we can’t continue like
this,” Pavlovskis said.
Fewer people attending
fundraising events is begin-
ning to impact the Legion’s
ability to pay for community
events like the Memorial Day
wreath ceremony and Fourth
of July parade, he said.
With less money com-
ing in and newly-instituted
city requirements to buy lia-
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bility insurance cutting into
reserves, for the first time the
Legion will have to require
parade participants to pay a $5
fee to enter. The organization
may need to find other reve-
nue sources if the parade is to
continue.
“It’s a national trend,” Pav-
lovskis said. “We do a lot of
community service, but every
time we dig out money from
the reserves, the less we can
do to help veterans.”
The cause for the drop is
hard to identify. Pavlovskis
said in general it is always
harder to get younger people
interested in community ser-
vice when they are busy with
jobs and families.
Some larger, cultural
changes about how the mil-
itary is perceived in general
could be partially to blame,
Phillips said. Locally, with an
active Coast Guard popula-
tion, there are probably more
options for younger veterans
in town to congregate else-
where, Phillips said.
“The average age is 70
when you walk into the
Legion,” he laughed. “They
probably still do a lot of their
partying elsewhere.”
But there is reason to be
hopeful. With the 100-year
anniversary of the American
Legion approaching, Phillips
hopes the message of helping
veterans will again be at the
forefront of people’s minds.
“We just have to keep
maintaining the spirit of the
post,” he said. “Because as
long as you have that, you’ll
be okay.”
The Compleat Photographer
A historical photo shows the Clatsop Voiture 547s driving
the Forty & Eight train during an Astoria Regatta parade
in the late 1950s.
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