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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2008
》 NATURAL DISASTERS
Tornadoes ravage South as freezing rain takes over Mid-West
PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treated winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding.
A tornado damaged or destroyed about 200 homes and businesses in Prattville, Ala., outside Montgomery, where Mayor Jim Byard said crews searched for people trapped in the wreckage.
No fatalities were immediately reported, but two people were critically injured, said Fire Department official Dallis Johnson. Twenty-seven people had minor injuries, officials said.
"It's very possible we may have more injuries," he said, saying that some trapped people had been rescued.
A 35-bed mobile hospital unit was set up outside a Kmart to treat victims with minor to moderate injuries so that hospitals could take those with serious injuries, Dr. Steve Allen said.
Topped utility poles and storm debris littered the area, northwest
of Montgomery about 5 miles off Interstate 65. Shelters opened at churches, and school buses shuttled storm victims out of the stricken area to the city center.
David Shuppe,
18, assistant
manager at Palm
Beach Tan, said he
and a co-worker
barely made it into
a laundry room
before the roof fell
in and the wind
tossed shopping
carts aloft.
Sonya Daniel.
"Soon as we
Numerous crashes were reported, and authorities urged people to stay off roads. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for
"Soon as we turned the corner, the roof collapsed everywhere except the laundry room."
turned the corner, the roof collapsed everywhere except the laundry room." Shoupe said, standing beside his white Lexus, with a front windshield cracked by debris and the other windows shattered.
About 9,000 homes and businesses lost power in Prattville after storms swept across the South, damaging homes elsewhere in Alabama and in the Florida Panhandle.
DAVID SHOUPE
Palm Beach Tan manager
A tornado destroyed four homes in Escambia County, Fla. About 60 other homes, businesses and storage buildings were damaged to varying degrees, said county spokeswoman
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama postponed or canceled campaign stops ahead of Tuesday's primary.
much of Iowa and Wisconsin, as well as flood warnings in parts of the two states.
The conditions forced shopp ing malls, libraries and churches to close.
Heavy snow and slush closed Kansas City International Airport for almost six hours, the longest closure in its 35-year history, authorities said. Dozens of flights were canceled.
The severe weather in the South comes on the heels of a tornado outbreak this month that killed more than 50 people in several states, including Alabama.
McCain needs Romney's delegates
WASHINGTON — Not so fast,
Sen. McCain.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
POLITICS
John McCain's campaign issued a statement last week claiming the Arizona senator had surpassed the number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination for president, after Mitt Romney endorsed him.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President hopeful, John McCain, R-Ariz., tries to hear a reporter's question Monday as he talks in flight from Houston to Appleton, Ws. At right is his wife Cindy McCain.
John McCain sure looks like he has the nomination all but wrapped up. But he isn't 'here yet, and here's why:
It will take 1,191 delegates to secure the Republican nomination at the national convention this summer.
McCain has 908 delegates, including those won in primaries and caucuses as well as endorsements from party leaders who automatically attend the convention. Romney has 253, according to The Associated Press tally.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has 245 delegates, placing him behind a candidate who isn't even in the race anymore. Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 14.
Together, that's 1,161 delegates, which could make it tempting for some to put McCain over the top Tuesday evening if he fares well in primaries in Washington state and Wisconsin. A total of 56 delegates will be at stake.
in general, Romney has little authority over his delegates after he releases them. The vast majority haven't been named. Once they are, most will be free agents at the convention, free to support whomever they choose.
GOP rules, however, say McCain still has work to do.
lobbying Romney's former supporters. At GOP conventions during the weekend in Louisiana and Michigan, McCain picked up at least 55 delegates.
Huckabee has said he won't quit until somebody reaches 1,191 delegates. And a few more Huckabee victories in upcoming primaries could prove embarrassing for McCain.
Afterward, a McCain aide declined to say whether last week's statement was a formal declaration of victory in the race for the nomination.
The rules vary state to state. But
McCain's campaign is aggressively
Musharraf's approval falls
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf appealed for national unity Monday as early unofficial returns showed the opposition doing well in parliamentary elections aimed at bolstering democracy and calming political strife.
PAKISTAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
But after fear and apathy kept millions of voters at home, there were worries no clear winner would emerge, resulting in a government too fragmented to rally the nation against Islamic extremists.
Private television stations reported strong showings by the two main opposition parties in early unofficial tallies, a trend conceded by the party of President Pervez Musharraf. Final official results were not expected before Wednesday.
Balloting proceeded without major attacks, although the opposition party of assassinated ex-prime minister Benzir Bhutto claimed that
Officials confirmed 24 deaths in election-related violence over the previous 24 hours, mostly in the country's biggest province of Punjab, the key electoral battleground.
Musharraf's approval ratings have plummeted since his declaration of emergency rule in November and his purge of the judiciary to safeguard his re-election by the previous parliament a few weeks earlier.
Going into the election, two public opinion surveys predicted Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party would finish first, followed by the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q was in third.
Musharraf was not on the ballot, but the election was widely seen as a referendum on his eight-year rule including his alliance with the United States in the war against terrorist groups that many Pakistanis oppose.
An overwhelming victory by the opposition could leave Musharraf politically weakened at a time when the United States is pressing him to take more robust action against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters based in Pakistan's restive northwestern region along the Afghan border.
15 of its members had been killed and hundreds injured in scattered violence "deliberately engineered to deter voters"
have lost," party spokesperson Tarari Azeem said. "This is the trend."
TV reports said two of the president's close political allies — the chairman of the ruling party and the outgoing railways minister — both lost seats in Punjab, which has been a stronghold of the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-O party.
"As far as we are concerned, we will be willing to sit on opposition benches if final results prove that we
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