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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TuESDAY, FEbRuARY 26, 2019
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Amtrak train stuck in Oregon
for more than a day is moving
PORTLAND — Passengers stranded on an
Amtrak train for more than a day in a remote
and snowed-in part of Oregon said the train
was moving again today after it got stuck
when it hit a tree that fell on the tracks.
The Coast Starlight train left Seattle for Los
Angeles early Sunday. It hit the tree Sunday
evening southeast of Eugene. The 183 passen-
gers were kept on the train because the heavy
snow had knocked out power in the town of
Oakridge, the closest populated place.
Officials decided that the train was the saf-
est place for passengers to stay because it had
food, heat electricity and functioning toilets,
Naparstek said.
Amtrak Executive Vice President Scot
Naparstek apologized. “With more than a foot
of heavy snow and numerous trees blocking
the track, we made every decision in the best
interest of the safety of our customers during
the unfortunate sequence of events,” he said.
Storm slams western US,
raises flood fears for California
SAN FRANCISCO — A winter storm
slamming the western U.S. dumped rain today
in Northern California and raised the threat of
floods, while heavy mountain snowfall cre-
ated a risk of avalanches and whiteout condi-
tions on roads in the Sierra Nevada.
The National Weather Service issued flood
warnings and flash flood watches for the San
Francisco Bay Area and many parts of the
Sacramento area into Thursday morning.
The storm already has barreled through
other parts of the West, toppling trucks and
trees, triggering power outages and closing
roads and schools from Oregon to Montana.
Snow forced flight cancellations at the
Portland airport, and prompted a blizzard
warning for parts of Montana, where Butte
public schools canceled classes today for the
first time in at least 20 years.
Appeals court clears AT&T’s
$81B merger with Time Warner
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals
court has cleared AT&T’s takeover of Time
Warner, rejecting the Trump administration’s
claims that the $81 billion deal will harm con-
sumers and reduce competition in the pay TV
market.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals
in Washington approves one of the biggest
media marriages ever. It was already com-
pleted last spring soon after a federal trial
judge approved it, as phone and pay TV giant
AT&T absorbed Time Warner, the owner of
CNN, HBO, the Warner Bros. movie studio,
“Game of Thrones,” coveted sports program-
ming and other “must-see” shows.
Many observers had expected the deci-
sion favorable to AT&T from the three-judge
appeals court panel, which upheld the trial
judge’s June ruling. Opposing the merger
forced the Justice Department to argue against
standing legal doctrine that favors mergers
among companies that don’t compete directly
with each other, what’s known as a vertical
merger.
The U.S. antitrust lawsuit against Dal-
las-based AT&T, the biggest pay TV provider
in the U.S., marked the first time in decades
that the government has challenged that doc-
trine by suing to block a vertical merger.
Mother and daughter are
charged in deaths of 5 relatives
MORRISVILLE, Pa. — Police found a
Pennsylvania woman and her adult daughter
in an apartment with the bodies of five rela-
tives they had killed, including three children,
authorities said today.
Shana S. Decree, 45, and Dominique
Decree, 19, were charged with five counts of
homicide and one count each of conspiracy.
Shana Decree told police that “everyone
at the apartment ... wanted to die” and talked
about suicide, according to court documents.
Decree claimed one of the victims, Jamilla
Campbell, 42, killed two other victims before
she herself was slain.
The bodies were found Monday in an apart-
ment in suburban Philadelphia after Bucks
County child welfare officials showed up
unannounced and got no response when they
knocked on the door. A maintenance worker
opened the door and found Shana Decree and
Dominique Decree in a “disoriented” state.
Senators grill pharmaceutical
CEOs about high drug prices
WASHINGTON — Senators grilled
CEOs of seven major drug companies today
over high prescription drug prices that are a
drain on Medicare and Medicaid and a bur-
den to millions of Americans. The extraordi-
nary public accounting was a sign that Con-
gress and the White House are moving toward
legislation this year to curb costs.
Finance Committee Chairman Charles
Grassley, R-Iowa, pointedly reminded the
executives that it is a crime to provide false
testimony to Congress. Some of the compa-
nies initially had sought a private meeting to
explain their pricing policies, but lawmakers
refused and insisted the CEOs appear in pub-
lic or risk subpoenas.
Ranking Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon
said in his prepared statement, “You pharma
executives are here because the way you do
business is unacceptable and unsustainable.
Ten companies accounted for half of all prof-
its in the health care sector last fall. Nine of
those ten were drug manufacturers.”
In statements submitted to the committee,
the CEOs said drug development is a risky
and costly undertaking and that prices reflect
investment in research and development.
India strikes inside Pakistan
after deadly Kashmir attack
BALAKOT, Pakistan — A predawn air-
strike inside Pakistan that India said targeted a
terrorist training camp and killed a “very large
number” of militants ratcheted up tensions
today between the two nuclear-armed rivals
at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Islamabad said there were no casualties in
the strike near the town of Balakot, close to
the border with Pakistan’s sector of Kashmir,
where residents said loud explosions woke
them up, rattling their homes.
The airstrike was the latest escalation since
a deadly suicide bombing in India’s section of
Kashmir earlier this month killed more than 40
Indian soldiers. Pakistan has denied involve-
ment in the attack but vowed to respond to any
Indian military operation against it.
Kashmir is split between the two countries
but claimed by each in its entirety. The Paki-
stan-based militant group Jaish-e-Moham-
mad claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The bomber was a resident of the Indian-con-
trolled sector of Kashmir.
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