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NATION
East Oregonian
Jokers on
Capitol Hill
Vice President
Joe Biden, right,
shakes hands
with William Peter
Wyden, the son of
Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., back right,
during a mock
swearing in cere-
mony in the Old
Senate Chamber
on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Tues-
day, as the 115th
Congress begins.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Trump questions U.S. intelligence team
By STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
NEW YORK — His
inauguration less than three
weeks away, President-elect
Donald Trump on Tuesday
raised new doubts about
the nation’s intelligence
community, tweeting fresh
criticism at the same offi-
cials who will help inform
his most sensitive decisions
once he takes office.
Trump charged on
Twitter without evidence
that the timing of an
upcoming
intelligence
briefing on Russian inter-
ference in the 2016 election
had been delayed. “Perhaps
more time needed to build
a case. Very strange!” he
wrote, using quote marks
around the word “intelli-
gence.”
Trump’s jab, in line with
repeated criticism of his
nation’s intelligence leaders,
sparked confusion among
intelligence officials, who
said there was no delay in
the briefing schedule.
The fresh clash came as
Trump took further steps
to fill his Cabinet and key
White House positions, with
his attention shifting toward
the challenges of governing.
Earlier Tuesday, he
tapped as U.S. trade
representative a former
Reagan official who has
condemned Republicans’
commitment to free trade.
Trump indicated that Robert
Lighthizer, who is expected
to take a hard line against
China, would represent “the
United States as we fight for
good trade deals that put the
American worker first.”
The new administration’s
specific plans for crafting
new trade deals, spokesman
Sean Spicer said, “will
come in time.”
There were also ques-
tions about Trump’s plans
for repealing President
Barack Obama’s signature
health care law, a move that
could strip health insurance
from millions of Americans.
The issue was expected
to be the focus as Vice
President-elect Mike Pence
and secretary of state pick
Rex Tillerson meet with top
Republicans on Capitol Hill
on Wednesday.
Pence issued a direct
challenge to Washington
Republicans Tuesday: “The
president-elect has a very
clear message to Capitol
Hill. And that is, it’s time to
get to work.”
Trump signaled he
would not bless all of the
GOP’s priorities on Capitol
Hill, openly questioning
the timing of the House
Republican push to gut an
independent ethics board
just as the new Congress
gathered.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Quick decisions meant life or
death in Southeastern storms
By JAY REEVES
Associated Press
As an apparent tornado
bore down on them, seven
people in a mobile home in
southeast Alabama made a
life-or-death decision: Three
ran into one bathroom for
shelter and four ran in the
opposite direction to another
room seeking safety.
The three, including
Lawana Henrich, survived
without a scratch, according
to Coroner Robert Byrd.
But a big hardwood tree
that slammed into the
mobile home killed the four
others, including Henrich’s
daughter and sister, Byrd
said.
The tree toppled over
during a wave of severe
weather that brought heavy
rain and strong winds to the
Southeast, and it couldn’t
have hit in a worse spot
when it fell Monday night
near Rehobeth, Alabama.
“It was dead center,”
Byrd said. “You think,
‘What’s the chance of four
people being so close in one
area?’ But they were.”
Those four, a woman in
Georgia, and a man who
drowned in the Florida
Panhandle died as a line
of severe thunderstorms
moved across the South-
eastern United States from
Texas.
Teams of surveyors were
headed out Tuesday to assess
apparent tornado damage at
three sites in southeastern
Alabama and southwestern
Ryan Moore/WDAM-TV via AP
People examine a barn owned by the Miller family that
was destroyed during a storm south of Mount Olive,
Miss., Monday.
Georgia, said Mark Wool, a
meteorologist at the National
Weather Service in Talla-
hassee, Florida.
Wool said authorities
believe a tornado is respon-
sible for damage that left the
four people dead in Alabama,
but he said the weather
service won’t be able to say
for sure until experts visit the
site.
Byrd,
coroner
in
Houston County, Alabama,
said Michelle Lewis, 53,
died along with her niece,
27-year-old Amanda Blair.
Lewis was Henrich’s sister
and Blair was Henrich’s
daughter, Byrd said; both
victims lived in the trailer
where they died, he said.
Byrd said the storm also
killed two family friends,
Terina Brookshire, 51, of
Hartford, Alabama, and Carla
Lambart, 53, who was origi-
nally from Opp, Alabama.
Byrd said Henrich, her
husband and another man
survived without injuries.
Lawana Henrich saw a
weather alert on television
and heard the roar of a storm,
and then told the others to
seek shelter, he said.
“She said it was just a
matter of seconds when that
tree fell,” Byrd said.
In Florida, the Walton
County Sheriff’s Office said
the body of William Patrick
Corley, 70, was found
Monday afternoon following
flooding near the Shoal River
in Mossy Head. Authori-
ties said Corley’s car was
partially submerged and his
body was floating face-down
nearby.
The sheriff’s office said
Corley’s death was under
investigation, but no foul
play was suspected.
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