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TUESDAY
MAY 10, 2016
Today is the 131st day of 2016
and the 52nd day of spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In
1837, after months of economic downturn, several New York
banks refused to convert paper currency to gold or silver,
setting off the Panic of 1837.
In 1869, a golden spike was
driven in Promontory, Utah,
in ceremonies marking the
symbolic completion of the
U.S. transcontinental railroad.
In 1940, Winston Churchill
was appointed prime minister
of
Great
Britain.
In 2013, the spire of
One World Trade Center
was completed, making it
the tallest skyscraper in
the Western Hemisphere.
TODAY’S
BIRTHDAYS:
John Wilkes Booth (18381865), actor/assassin; Fred
Astaire (1899-1987), singer/dancer/actor; David O.
Selznick (1902-1965), film
producer; T. Berry Brazelton
(1918- ), pediatrician/author;
Pat Summerall (1930-2013),
football player/broadcaster;
Donovan (1946- ), singersongwriter; Bono (1960- ),
singer-songwriter;
Linda
Evangelista, (1965- ), supermodel; Kenan Thompson (1978- ), actor; Odette
Annable (1985- ), actress.
TODAY’S FACT: When
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s government fell
in 1940, King George VI
himself
summoned
Winston Churchill to Buckingham Palace and asked
him to form a government.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1970,
Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins scored the game-winning
goal in sudden-death overtime
to give Boston the Stanley Cup
title over the St. Louis Blues.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “The
idea that anything is possible,
that’s one of the reasons why
I’m a fan of America. It’s like
‘Hey, look there’s the moon
up there, let’s take a walk
on it, bring back a piece of
it.’ That’s the kind of America that I’m a fan of.” -- Bono
TODAY’S
NUMBER:
140,000 -- miles of freight
railroad track currently in operation in the United States.
TODAY’S
MOON:
Between new moon (May 6) and
first quarter moon (May 13).
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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
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Stabbing at German train
station kills 1, injures 3
GRAFING, Germany (AP)
— A German man yelled out
“infidel, you must die” and
“Allahu akbar” as he stabbed
four people at a Bavarian train
station Tuesday, witnesses
said. But authorities say they’ve
found no links to any Islamic
extremist network and that he
appears to be psychologically
disturbed.
One victim died in a hospital
and three others were being
treated for their wounds.
The 27-year-old was taken
into custody near the scene at
the Grafing Bahnhof just before
5 a.m. and had a 10-centimeter
(4-inch) survival knife tucked
into his belt, authorities said.
The suspect, whose name
wasn’t released in line with
German privacy laws, had
admitted to the crime, said Ken
Heidenreich, spokesman for the
Munich prosecutor’s office in
charge of the case.
But Heidenreich said that
there were questions about
whether the man can be held
criminally responsible and that
they were evaluating whether
he should be taken to a mental
institution.
Senior police official Lothar
Koehler said the suspect told
them he had been taking drugs,
and that around the time of
the attack he took his shoes off
because “he felt bugs on his feet
that had caused blisters and
were generating intense heat.”
Koehler added it wasn’t immediately clear whether the
suspect was under the influence of drugs at the time of the
attack, and they have found no
record of any previous narcotics cases against him.
The attack comes at a sensitive time in Germany after the
influx of around 1.1 million
migrants last year and growing concerns about how the
country will deal with them,
particularly in Bavaria, their
usual state of entry.
Senior police official Guenther Gietl said a woman
reported hearing the words
“infidel, you must die” as the
attack began, and that the
suspect himself had admitted
yelling “Allahu akbar,” Arabic
for “God is great.”
Koehler said the suspect
made a “rather confused impression” during questioning,
however, and criminal police
official Petra Sandles said there
was no evidence that he was a
part of any Islamic extremist
network.
Authorities said the suspect
lived near the central city of
Giessen, in the state of Hesse,
and it wasn’t clear why he had
traveled to Grafing, around 30
kilometers (nearly 20 miles)
east of Munich.
Police spokesman Irwin
Heumann said the 56-year-old
victim who died — his age was
initially given by authorities as
50 — was attacked aboard the
train.
He said it wasn’t yet clear
where the three wounded victims were assaulted.
The other victims were men
aged 43, 55 and 58. Their
names weren’t released.
Heidenreich said one of the
survivors had “serious injuries,” but that he had no details
on whether they were thought
to be life-threatening.
At the scene, police forensic
experts marked more than 40
bloody footprints — some of
them barefoot — on the train
platform with chalk numbers
and collected evidence, including a cellphone.
Grafing has about 13,500
inhabitants. The rail station
where the stabbing happened
is some way from the town
center. It is served by a Munich
commuter line and faster trains
on the Munich-Salzburg main
line.
Mayor Angelika Obermayr
described Grafing as “an absolutely peaceful little Bavarian
town.”
“Something like this is absolutely new and shakes people
deeply — otherwise, they only
know this kind of thing from
television,” she said. “That it
could happen here is absolutely
stupefying.”
Alberta officials say city
saved from worst of fire
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Alberta’s
premier has declared Canada’s oil sands city has
been largely saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so most of the 88,000
evacuees can return to their homes.
At least two neighborhoods in Fort McMurray
became scenes of utter devastation with incinerated homes leveled by a wildfire that the city’s
fire chief called a “beast ... a fire like I’ve never
seen in my life.”
But the wider picture was more optimistic
as officials said 85 percent to 90 percent of the
city remains intact, including the downtown
district.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said about
2,400 homes and buildings were destroyed,
but firefighters managed to save 25,000 others,
including the hospital, municipal buildings and
every functioning school.
“This city was surrounded by an ocean of fire
only a few days ago but Fort McMurray and the
surrounding communities have been saved and
they will be rebuilt,” Notley said.
She said the fire continues to grow outside the
city and now is about 790 square miles (2,020
square kilometers) in size.
Notley said there will be a meeting Tuesday
with the energy industry to discuss the state
of their facilities and the impact on operations. The fire has forced as much as a third of
Canada’s oil output offline and was expected to
impact an economy already hurt by the fall in
oil prices.
“We’re just beginning to become aware of the
economic impacts,” Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau said.
The bulk of the city’s evacuees moved south
after a mandatory evacuation order, but 25,000
went north and were housed in camps normally
used for oil sands workers until they also could
be evacuated south.
Most are staying with family and friends or
returned to homes elsewhere in Canada, including many who have homes on Canada’s Atlantic
coast where there are fewer jobs.
Lac La Biche, Alberta, normally a sleepy
town of 2,500 about 175 kilometers (109 miles)
south of Fort McMurray, was helping more than
4,000 evacuees, providing a place to sleep, food,
donated clothes and even shelter for pets.
Alberta Health Services Dr. Chris Sikora
said a stomach virus broke out among 40 to 50
evacuees at the Northlands evacuation center
in Edmonton where 600 people are staying
and where up to 6,000 meals a day are being
prepared for evacuees staying at hotels or with
family and friends.
Alberta’s oil sands have the third-largest
reserves of oil in the world behind Saudi Arabia
and Venezuela. Its workers largely live in Fort
McMurray, a former frontier outpost-turnedcity whose residents come from all over Canada.
Officials said the oil mines north were not damaged and aren’t threatened
Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated the
wildfire has reduced Canada’s oil sands production by a million barrels per day, but said in a
note the lack of damage to the oil mines could
allow for a fast ramp up in production. They
noted, however, that the complete evacuation of
personnel and of the city could point to a more
gradual recovery.
Treasury Secretary urges time
is now to help Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As Congress
debates how to help Puerto Rico with its $70
billion debt, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is
trying to prod lawmakers into action with stories
of crumbling infrastructure on the island and a
lack of basic services.
On a one-day trip to the U.S. territory Monday,
Lew toured a San Juan elementary school struggling with insects and limited electricity and a
hospital unable to provide some basic services to
infants. He walked through a once-vibrant shopping district now covered in graffiti and drove
past shuttered stores and restaurants.
“It can only get worse,” Lew told reporters as
he toured Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School
in San Juan with Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla.
With the strong support of Speaker Paul Ryan,
House Republicans are expected to announce
new legislation this week to create a control
board to help manage the island’s financial obligations and oversee some debt restructuring. It
would be the third draft of the House bill, which
has come under fire from some conservatives
who worry it would set a precedent for financially ailing states.
At a brief news conference after a private tour
of San Juan’s Centro Medico hospital, Lew said
Puerto Rico’s problems were a human crisis as
well as financial. He said infants who needed
dialysis were unable to get it while children could
only get cancer medicine if it were paid for in
advance with cash.
Lew said he didn’t think there was a member
of Congress who would find those conditions
acceptable for the 3.5 million U.S. citizens on the
island.
“What I have gotten to see first-hand is, there
is a growing crisis in Puerto Rico,” Lew said.
In a kindergarten classroom, a teacher showed
Lew and Garcia evidence of termites in the walls.
The school has problems with electricity, and
teachers said they were unable to use laptops,
televisions and fans at the same time because
they cause the power to go out.
In a fourth-grade classroom open to the
outside, a fan was broken on a hot day. A science
teacher told Lew that she doesn’t have a lab for
the children to do experiments.
“You all keep doing your work and we’ll keep
doing our work to help you,” Lew told the children.
Garcia said that Puerto Rico is not asking for a
bailout and has not been offered one.
“If Congress does not act then we will need
a bailout, and it will be very expensive to U.S.
taxpayers,” he said.The territory missed a nearly
$370 million bond payment May 1. The default
was the largest in a series of missed payments
since last year, and Garcia has warned there will
be more.