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NATION/WORLD Thursday, October 6, 2016 East Oregonian Page 7A Nearly 2M urged to evacuate as Matthew edges toward U.S. Associated Press AP Photo/John Locher Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally Wednesday in Las Vegas. After testy VP debate, Trump rebuffs claim he ‘loves’ Putin HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday on Hillary Clinton’s accusation that he’s cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the charge put Trump’s running mate on the defensive during the vice presidential debate. Trump offered effusive praise for Mike Pence’s performance — but also claimed credit for it — even as both campaigns acknowledged that the sole vice presidential debate was unlikely to alter the race’s trajectory. The celebrity busi- nessman said his relation- ship with Russia’s leader would be determined by how Moscow responds to strong U.S. leadership under a Trump administration. “They say Donald Trump loves Putin. I don’t love, I don’t hate. We’ll see how it works,” Trump told a rally outside Las Vegas. Clinton on Wednesday shrugged that off, saying Trump has “this weird fascination with dictators.” “My opponent seems not to know the difference between an ally and adver- sary,” Clinton said at an evening fund raiser in Wash- ington. “There seems to be some misunderstanding about what it means to have a dictatorship and provide leadership.” The billionaire candidate sought to take away an argu- ment that Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, have ramped up in the inal weeks of the campaign as they work to portray Trump as dangerous for American interests overseas. While U.S.-Russia relations nose- dive over failed diplomacy in Syria, Trump has compli- mented Putin, calling him a strong leader and even encouraging him to track down Clinton’s missing e-mails, though Trump later said he was being sarcastic. “You guys love Russia,” Kaine said in Tuesday’s debate. “You both have said Vladimir Putin is a better leader than the president.” In a forceful rebuke, Pence described Putin as a “small and bullying leader,” but blamed Clinton and President Barack Obama for a “weak and feckless” foreign policy that had awakened Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine and meddling in the Middle East. The U.S. and Russia back opposing sides in Syria’s civil war but both are ighting the Islamic State group there. The U.S. cut off talks with Russia about Syria this week after the latest cease-ire collapsed, blaming Russia for failing to fulill its commitments under the deal. “I can say this: If we get along and Russia went out with us and knocked the hell out of ISIS, that’s OK with me folks,” Trump said, using an acronym for the extremist group. Since last week’s debate, Trump has faced a barrage of questions over a leaked tax return showing he lost more than $900 million in 1995. In turn, he’s sought to reframe his life story as a comeback tale he hopes to recreate on behalf of a faltering nation. “America needs a turn- around. American needs a comeback. America needs a change. And that’s why I’m running,” Trump said. MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade. Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 mph as it passed through the Bahamas, and it was expected to be very near Florida’s Atlantic coast by Thursday evening. At least 16 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm, with heavy damage reported in Haiti. The storm was forecast to scrape much of the Florida coast and any slight deviation could mean landfall or it heading farther out to sea. Either way, it was going to be close enough to wreak havoc along the lower part of the East Coast, and many people weren’t taking any chances. In Melbourne Beach, near the Kennedy Space Center, Carlos and April Medina moved their paddle board and kayak inside the garage and took pictures off the walls of their home about 500 feet from the coast. They moved the pool furniture inside, turned off the water, disconnected all electrical appliances and emptied their refrigerator. They then hopped in a truck illed with legal documents, jewelry and a decorative carved shell that had once belonged to April Medina’s great-grandfather and headed west to Orlando, where they planned to ride out the storm with their daughter’s family. “The way we see it, if it maintains its current path, we get tropical storm- strength winds. If it makes a little shift to the left, it could be a Category 2 or 3 and I don’t want to be anywhere near it,” Carlos Medina said. “We are just being a little safe, a little bit more cautious.” About 20 miles away in the town of Cape Canaveral, John Long said Hurricane Matthew is just hype as his neighbors in his RV park packed up and evacuated inland. Even though his 32-foot RV is just feet from the Banana River and a half mile from the beach, he had no plans to leave. Long, who owns a bike shop and has lived along the Space Coast for 30 years, said he has a generator and enough food and water for himself and his cats to last a week. “There’s always tremendous buildup and then it’s no stronger than an after- noon thunderstorm,” he said. “I’m not anticipating that much damage.” In Fort Lauderdale, about 200 miles south, six employees at a seven-bed- room Mediterranean-style mansion packed up for an evacuation fearing any storm surge could lood the property. The homeowners planned to move to another home they own in Palm Beach that’s further from the water. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery A boy stands inside a church after it was damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Saint-Louis, Haiti, Wednesday. Two Lamborghinis and a Ferrari had been placed inside the garage, but employee Mae White wasn’t sure what they would do with a Rolls Royce, Mustang and other cars still parked in the driveway. “This storm surge. It’s scary,” White said. “You’re on the water, you’ve got to go.” The last Category 3 storm or higher to hit the United States was Wilma in October 2005. It made landfall with 120 mph winds in southwest Florida, killing ive people as it pushed through the Everglades and into the Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach area. It caused an estimated $21 billion in damage and left thousands of residents without power for more than a week. It concluded a two-year span when a record eight hurricanes hit the state. As of 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Matthew was centered about 400 miles southeast of West Palm Beach and moving northwest, according to the National Hurricane Center . Hurri- cane-force winds extended 45 miles from the center. “When a hurricane is forecast to take a track roughly parallel to a coastline, as Matthew is forecast to do from Florida through South Carolina, it becomes very dificult to specify impacts at any one location,” said National Hurricane Center forecaster Lixion Avila. Florida can expect as much as 10 inches of rain in some isolated areas. In South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley reversed the lanes of Interstate 26 so that all lanes of trafic were headed west and out of Charleston. It was the irst time the lanes had been reversed. Plans to reverse the lanes were put in place after hours-long trafic jams during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The governor planned to call for more evacuations on Thursday, which would bring the total to about 500,000 people in the state. Florida urged or ordered about 1.5 million to leave the coast, said Jackie Schutz, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Scott. Georgia had around BRIEFLY NSA contractor accused of taking classiied information WASHINGTON (AP) — A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classiied information and stored the material in his house and car, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested by the FBI in August after authorities say he admitted to having taken government secrets. A defense attorney said Martin did not intend to betray his country. The arrest was not made public until Wednesday, when the Justice Department released a 5-page criminal complaint that accused Martin of having been in possession of top-secret information. Among the classiied documents found with Martin, according to the FBI, were six that contain sensitive intelligence — meaning they were produced through sensitive government sources or methods that are critical to national security — and date back to 2014. All the documents were clearly marked as classiied information, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint does not specify what documents Martin was alleged to have taken. The arrest was made around the same time that U.S. oficials acknowledged an investigation into a cyber leak of purported hacking tools used by the NSA. The tool kit consists of malicious software intended to tamper with irewalls, the electronic defenses protecting computer networks. Those documents were leaked by a group calling itself the “Shadow Brokers.” The arrest could turn into another embarrassment for the U.S. intelligence community. It would be the second case of an intelligence worker illegally removing secret data from the NSA in recent years. The agency monitors and collects sensitive information and data, mostly from overseas. At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama takes the situation “quite seriously. And it is a good reminder for all of us with security clearances about how important it is for us to protect sensitive national security information.” Plane evacuated after Samsung smartphone starts smoking LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An overheating, smoking Samsung smartphone forced the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines jet that was preparing to take off Wednesday from the Louisville airport. The incident raised fresh trouble for Samsung, which saw its new Galaxy Note 7 device recalled last month because of overheating batteries. Samsung, Southwest and federal aviation-safety oficials declined to say what model of Samsung phone was involved, saying they were still investigating. But an Indiana woman, Sarah Green, told The Courier-Journal of Louisville that it was her husband’s Galaxy Note 7 that made popping noises and started to smoke after he powered it down while the plane sat at the gate. Green told the newspaper that her husband, Brian, received the Galaxy Note 7 about two weeks ago as a replacement for his recalled phone. He called her from someone else’s phone to tell her what happened. Texas man who killed neighbor couple has been executed HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An East Texas man who pleaded guilty to killing a neighbor couple during a shooting rampage 13 years ago and said he wanted to be put to death for the crime was executed Wednesday evening. Barney Fuller Jr., 58, had asked that all his appeals be dropped to expedite his death sentence. Fuller never made eye contact in the death chamber with witnesses, who included the two children of the slain couple. Asked by Warden James Jones if he had any inal statement, Fuller responded: “I don’t have anything to say. You can proceed on, Warden Jones.” Fuller took a deep breath as Texas Department of Criminal Justice oficials injected a lethal dose of pentobarbital into each arm, then blurted out: “Hey, you ixin’ to put me to sleep.” He took a couple of breaths, then began snoring. Within 30 seconds, all movement stopped. Fuller became the seventh convicted killer executed this year in Texas and the irst in six months in the nation’s most active capital punishment state. 50,000 people told to go. At Folly Beach, South Carolina, southwest of Charleston, Gaby Trom- peter loaded her car at her beachfront home preparing to evacuate to Augusta, Georgia. Trompeter, a 50-year-old goldsmith who designs and makes jewelry, remembers Hurricane Hugo when she stayed in Savannah, Georgia, in 1989. A year ago when what has been described as a 1,000-year lood inun- dated South Carolina there was so much water on the road near her house she couldn’t get out for three days. “If it brings a lot of rain, more than the storm last year, why would I want to stay?” she said. President Barack Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s headquarters Wednesday to be briefed on preparations. FEMA has deployed personnel to emergency operation centers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. It’s also positioning commodities and other supplies at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and in Albany, Georgia. On the Georgia coast, 92-year-old Lou Arcangeli saw two of his adult children come to his home on Tybee Island to help prepare and evacuate if necessary. “It’s serious,” said Arcangeli, who has lived in the Savannah area since 1979, when Hurricane David became the last hurricane to make landfall on Georgia’s 100-mile coast. “I’m going to keep an eye on it and not wait until the last minute. As far as I’m concerned, what’s going to happen is going to happen.” Farmers in Matthew’s path scrambled to protect their crops. In South Carolina, Jeremy Cannon was harvesting his soybeans a week early after waiting too long before last year’s record rainstorm. He watched his soybeans and cotton crops slowly drown as 20 inches of rain fell, costing him $800,000. “I don’t want to lose a single soybean if I don’t have to,” Cannon said. 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