10A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, July 14, 2010
weather/nation/world Weather The Daily Courier Weather Today
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Around Our State Today
Statistics provided by Broad River Water Authority through 7 a.m. yesterday.
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0-2: Low, 3-5: Moderate, 6-7: High, 8-10: Very High, 11+: Extreme Exposure
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Precipitation 24 hrs through 7 a.m. yest. .0.04" Month to date . . . . . . . . .0.04" Year to date . . . . . . . . .25.72"
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Sun and Moon Sunrise today . . . . .6:23 Sunset tonight . . . . .8:43 Moonrise today . . . .9:41 Moonset today . . . .10:41
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High yesterday . . . . . . .29.95"
Relative Humidity High yesterday . . . . . . . . .94%
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Asheville . . . . . . .86/63 Cape Hatteras . . .87/76 Charlotte . . . . . . .92/71 Fayetteville . . . . .93/75 Greensboro . . . . .91/72 Greenville . . . . . .92/74 Hickory . . . . . . . . . .91/70 Jacksonville . . . .91/73 Kitty Hawk . . . . . .87/77 New Bern . . . . . .90/73 Raleigh . . . . . . . .92/73 Southern Pines . .92/74 Wilmington . . . . .90/76 Winston-Salem . .90/70
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Greensboro 91/72
Forest City 93/70 Charlotte 92/71
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Kinston 91/73 Wilmington 90/76
Today’s National Map
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Atlanta . . . . . . . . .93/72 Baltimore . . . . . . .92/75 Chicago . . . . . . . .91/78 Detroit . . . . . . . . .88/74 Indianapolis . . . .93/72 Los Angeles . . . .85/64 Miami . . . . . . . . . .89/81 New York . . . . . . .88/73 Philadelphia . . . .91/77 Sacramento . . . . .91/60 San Francisco . . .68/54 Seattle . . . . . . . . .75/59 Tampa . . . . . . . . .92/76 Washington, DC .92/74
Greenville 92/74
Raleigh 92/73
Fayetteville 93/75
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Across Our Nation
Elizabeth City 90/73
Durham 92/73
Winston-Salem 90/70 Asheville 86/63
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Associated Press
President Barack Obama makes remarks on financial reform legislation Tuesday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington.
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Nation Today Woman wounded in shooting is improving
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — University of New Mexico Hospital officials say a woman wounded in a domestic violence confrontation that left three people dead at an Albuquerque manufacturing plant is now in serious condition. A spokesman for University of New Mexico Hospital, Billy Sparks, says Adrienne Basciano’s condition was upgraded from critical. Three other workers were wounded during Monday’s rampage at Emcore Corp., which police say capped a bitter child custody dispute between 37-year-old Robert Reza and Basciano, his onetime girlfriend. Sparks says two of the wounded workers, a man and a woman, have been released. The other, a woman, was in satisfactory condition.
Iranian scientist now seeking to go home
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian scientist sought refuge in the Pakistani Embassy compound and asked to go home, an apparent defection gone wrong that could
embarrass the U.S. and its efforts to gather intelligence on Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. Iran — and at one point, scientist Shahram Amiri — claimed the CIA had kidnapped him; the U.S. said Tuesday that nothing of the sort happened. Amiri disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009, surfacing in videos but otherwise out of sight until the latest bizarre twist in the case. “Mr. Amiri has been in the United States of his own free will and he is free to go,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
Republican wins delay on Supreme Court vote WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed scheduled action Tuesday to send Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate for confirmation, setting a panel vote for next week. Republicans insisted on the delay, saying they needed more time to review Kagan’s written answers to questions they posed to her after her confirmation hearings, and to inquire still further into how she would behave as a justice.
Senate has votes to pass financial overhaul bill WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday secured the 60 votes he needs in the Senate to pass a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations, all but ensuring that he soon will sign into law one of the top initiatives of his presidency. With the votes in hand to overcome Republican delaying tactics, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday took steps to end debate on the bill Thursday, setting the stage for final passage perhaps later in the day. The House already has passed the bill. “This reform is good for families, it is good for businesses, it’s good for the entire economy,” Obama said as he prodded the Senate to act quickly. Passage would represent a signature achievement for the president just four months after he signed massive health care legislation into law. The final vote comes amid lingering public resentment of Wall Street, but the legislation’s symbolic and political impact is likely to be diminished by anxiety across the country over jobs and the economy. Reid as much as acknowledged that political reality Tuesday, blaming “greed on Wall Street” for the country’s economic troubles. “It triggered the recession,” he said. “It’s what suffocated the job market and robbed trillions of dollars of people’s savings — trillions.” Support for the bill jelled Tuesday after conservative Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska announced he would vote for the bill after raising concerns the previous day. Obama noted that the bill is getting backing from Republican Sens. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine. Snowe and Brown announced their support on Monday. “Three Republican senators have put politics and partisanship aside to support this reform, and I’m grateful for their decision,” Obama said as he announced his nomination of Jacob Lew to be the new director of the White House budget office. The 2,300-page bill aims to address regulatory weaknesses blamed for the 2008 financial crisis that fueled the worst recession since the 1930s. It gives regulators broad authority to rein in banks, limit risk-taking by
financial firms and supervise previously unregulated trading. It also makes it easier to liquidate large, financially interconnected institutions, and it creates a new consumer protection bureau to guard against lending abuses. While Democrats are ready to cast the GOP as an ally of Wall Street, Republicans have portrayed the bill as government overreach that would make lending more expensive, increase costs for consumers and hurt U.S. businesses. Republicans repeatedly and fruitlessly tried to expand the bill to include changes to government-controlled mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “The vast majority of our members felt that it was not a step in the right direction, that it perpetuated too-big-to-fail, that it was supported by Goldman Sachs and opposed by our community banks,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said. The House approved the bill last month, with just three Republicans voting in favor. But opposition to the bill from Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., created new uncertainty for the bill in the Senate. After Collins, Snowe and Brown decided to break with their party and support the bill, passage seemed assured. Then Nelson, who voted for a Senate version of the bill, surprised Democratic leaders Monday by voicing his concerns. A day later, Nelson was back on board after receiving assurances that financing of the consumer protection bureau would not be open-ended and that the head of the bureau would be accountable to Congress. That means the three Republican supporters, 55 Democrats, and two independents now add up to the precise number of votes needed to beat back potentially fatal procedural votes. “It is in America’s best interests that risks to our financial system are identified and addressed before they threaten our nation’s financial stability again,” Nelson said in a statement. “This bill will restore accountability and confidence in our financial system.”
BP begins effort to shut off the Gulf oil geyser
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a potentially pivotal moment in the Gulf crisis, BP was preparing Tuesday to begin closing valves in a slow and methodical process that could finally choke off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea after three gloomy months and up to 180 million gallons spilled. A new, tighter-fitting cap was lowered over the blownout well Monday night,
designed to be a temporary fix until the well is plugged underground. The next phase was to shut the openings in the 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves gradually, one at a time, while watching pressure gauges to see if the cap would hold or any new leaks erupted. The operation could last anywhere from six to 48 hours. BP first targeted a
midday Tuesday start but later said that was overly optimistic and pushed expectations back. BP and the government’s point man on the crisis — the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters — stressed there were no guarantees, and they urged patience from Gulf residents. “They ought to be inter-
ested and concerned, but if they hold their breath, they’ll run out of oxygen,” retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said. If the cap works, it will enable BP to stop the oil from gushing into the sea, either by holding all the oil inside the well machinery like a stopper or, if the pressure is too great, channeling some though pipes to as many as four collection
ships. Along the Gulf Coast, where the spill has heavily damaged the region’s vital tourism and fishing industries, people anxiously awaited the outcome of the painstakingly slow work. “I can’t say that I’m optimistic — It’s been, what, 84 days now? — but I’m hopeful,” said Nancy LaNasa, 56, who runs a yoga center in Pensacola.
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