Tuesday, September 14, 1999 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 5 Nation/World Florida braces for Floyd NASA's space center may take direct hit from coming storm Rachel Kesselman/KANSAN The Associated Press MIAMI — More than 1 million people were told to evacuate the Atlantic coast Monday and NASA all but abandoned Cape Canavaler as Hurricane Floyd — one of the most powerful storms ever to threaten the United States — charged toward Florida with potentially catastrophic 155 mph winds. Floyd was much larger than Hurricane Andrew, which smashed into South Florida in 1992, causing $25 billion in damage, killing 26 people and leaving 160,000 homeless. Forecasters said Floyd would brush past the Bahamas overnight and could hit land in the next couple of days between central Florida and South Carolina. They predicted it was capable of causing enormous damage. "It it's scary. It's very scary," said Giffen, Jeb Bush, who declared a state of emergency Monday night. "Andrew hit Miami in the middle of the night and it was haunting. This is as strong and ... three times bigger." The storm could be dangerous even if it does not come ashore. Floyd's hurricane-force winds — at least 74 mph — extended for 125 miles. Andrew's hurricane-force winds extended about 25 or 30 miles. with a hurricane warning in effect Monday from Florida City, south of Miami, to Brunswick, Ga., residents along 400 miles of coastline packed stores to stock up on canned food, bottled water, plywood and aluminum shutters. Navy ships left port to ride out the storm at sea. and aircraft were sent inland. Officials said 1 million people were injured to evacuate in Florida. South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges ordered 600 National Guard troops and 500 state police to the coast to help in case an evacuation is ordered. At Kennedy Space Center, which is just 9 feet above sea level, almost all of the 12,500 workers were leaving. A skeleton crew remained behind, but they, too, will evacuate if the wind is as fierce as predicted. That would be the first complete evacuation of the space center ever. were urged to evacuate in Florida Georgia was under a hurricane watch from Brunswick to Savannah, a 70-mile span, and forecasters said that likely would be extended into South Carolina overnight. Coastal residents in the Brunswick and Savannah areas were urged to evacuate. "This is probably the most serious threat we've had to the Georgia coast this century," said Gary McConnell, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. Three of NASA's space shuttles were in a hangar that was designed to withstand wind of only up to 105 mph. A fourth was in a building designed to stand winds of up to 125 Universal Studios and other tourist attractions in central Florida that were built in the last 30 years and have never been through a major hurricane prepared by lowering water levels in manmade lagoons and removing trash cans and anything else that could become projectiles. could come back. At 11 p.m. EDT, Floyd was 360 miles east-southeast of Miami. The hurricane was moving slightly north of due west near 14 mph with top winds of 155 mph — just below Category 5 strength. Category 4 The hurricane was moving west near 14 mph with top winds near 155 mph — just below Category 5 strength, the highest rating for hurricanes. mph. Four multimillion-dollar rockets were exposed on launch pads and could not be moved. Only two Category 5 hurricanes have hit the United States since records have been kept: the 1935 Labor Day storm that slammed the Florida Keys, killing 423 people, and Hurricane Camille, which roared ashore in Mississippi in 1969, killing 256. Andrew was a Category 4. Explosion rocks Russian capital; mayor blames Chechen bandits The Associated Press MOSCOW—The second major explosion in the Russian capital in four days demolished a large apartment building yesterday and killed at least 70 people. Officials said they were treating it as a terrorist attack. The explosion left scores of people missing. The government ordered increased security across Russia, and police appealed for help in finding a man they believed could be linked to yesterday's explosion and a blast last week that killed 93 people at another apartment building. pe in another apartment. The Emergency Situations Ministry said at least 70 people, including seven children, were killed in yesterday's blast, which leveled the eight-story building. Nine people were hospitalized, and 14 others were treated for slight injuries. were treated by President Boris Yeltsin ordered tight security at airports, nuclear power stations and other possible targets with special measures in Moscow. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov vowed to clear the capital of any threat. "The source of this terrorism we are naming as Chechen bandits," he said at the blast scene. About 300 rescue workers searched the rubble in a residential area of southern Moscow. The entire building crashed to the ground after the predawn explosion. Rescuers held out little hope of finding many survivors. The blast came four day after an explosion shattered another apartment building in Moscow. The explosions were four miles apart, and both buildings were among thousands of brick apartment houses that line the outskirts of Moscow About 150 people lived in the building hit yesterday, although there were no reports on how many were home at the time of the blast, police said. police said. Stunned residents, many in their nightclothes, stood on the street staring at the wreckage. Smoke enveloped the remains of the building, and firefighters extinguished flames in the rubble. names in this huge explosion shook me out of my bed, and there was a huge cloud of dust. I understood immediately it was a bomb. I know there were many old people and children living in the building," said Vladimir Kanshin, who lived in a neighboring building. Ex-con proud of racially motivated killing neighboring buildings. The blast sprayed the surrounding area with jagged glass and rubble for hundreds of yards. The Associated Press Police spokesman Vladimir Vershkov said the blast was being treated as a suspected bombing. BRYAN, Texas—A white ex-convict charged in the dragging death of a black man on a Texas road wrote while in prison that he was proud of the murder and considered himself a hero, a prosecutor said yesterday. day. "This man has written how he sees himself after this murder," Jasper County District Attorney Guy James Gray said as the trial for Lawrence Russell Brewer began. "He sees himself as a hero, a star, that he's really accomplished." John William King, 24, already has been convicted and sentenced to death in the June 1988 killing. Shawn Allen Berry, also 24, is awaiting trail. ly accomplished. Brewer, 32, is the second of three white men charged with killing James Byrd Jr., 49, by dragging him behind a pickup truck. Hispanic alternates, that during trial they would hear from witnesses who had seen the three suspects together in a pickup truck prior to the killing and that a beer bottle and cigarette butts tied Brewer to the crime scene. Brewer's attorney, Doug Barlow, entered an innocent plea after the capital murder indictment against him was read this morning. Barlow declined to make an opening statement to the jury. an opening statement to the jury. The trial was moved to Brazos County, more than 150 miles from Jasper, at Gray's request to deny a possible appeal based on the argument that jurors were biased by news coverage of the killing. "In this country it's not illegal to hate somebody," Gray said. "It is, however, illegal to use acts of racial violence to oppress blacks or further a cause." Allen Berry, also 24, is awaiting Gray told the jury, comprised of 12 whites and two Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30 pm in Room 109 Blake Hall. 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