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Typhoon Vamco leaves at least 14 dead in Philipppines Tribune Content Agency M A NIL A, Philippines — Typhoon Vamco blew out of the Philippines on Friday, leaving behind at least 14 dead and 14 missing people after triggering the worst flooding in the capital Manila in years, officials said.
More than 1 million people were left with no electricity on the main island of Luzon, including the capital region of Metro Manila, while more than 400,000 were forced to flee their homes. The typhoon, called Ulysses locally, slammed into the country on
Crime logs Fairfield tuesday, Nov. 10 8:15 a.m. — Reckless driver, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:05 a.m. — Battery, 2000 block of TILDEN COURT 11:49 a.m. — Forgery, 2800 block of DOVER AVENUE 12:36 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 700 block of SAN MARCO STREET 1:48 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:49 p.m. — Residential burglary, 200 block of SANTA ANA COURT 3:17 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 3:37 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 3:49 p.m. — Grand theft, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:09 p.m. — Forgery, 1900 block of NEW JERSEY STREET 5:10 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of DELAWARE STREET 8:07 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 9:15 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 11:56 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD Wednesday, Nov. 11 1:36 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:12 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of MEADOWLARK DRIVE 12:23 p.m. — Vandalism, 3600 block of RITCHIE ROAD 1:34 p.m. — Reckless driver, TEXAS STREET 1:45 p.m. — Trespassing, 1700
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block of WEST TEXAS STREET 1:58 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:32 p.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:37 p.m. — Trespassing, 2400 block of SUNRISE DRIVE 3:40 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 3:52 p.m. — Reckless driver, NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:22 p.m. — Forgery, 2000 block of BLUEBIRD WAY 4:28 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 4:33 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE 4:42 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 4:53 p.m. — Trespassing, 1100 block of MISSOURI STREET 5:52 p.m. — Reckless driver, KENTUCKY STREET 6:17 p.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD 6:31 p.m. — Shots fired, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 6:31 p.m. — Shots fired, 2000 block of BRISTOL LANE 7:44 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:03 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, TRAVIS BOULEVARD
Suisun City tuesday, Nov. 10 1:27 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of GREYLAG COURT Wednesday, Nov. 11 1:38 a.m. — Fraud, 800 block of SUNSET AVENUE 9:51 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of BLUEJAY DRIVE
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4, having earned 40.65% of the unofficial vote compared to 30.25% for Delon Jackson and 28.64% for Kam Holzendorf. Dor iss Pa ndu r o maintains a commanding lead in a two-candidate field to represent the city’s new District 5, with 73.11% of the vote thus far compared to 26.07% for Jeremy Ferrell. This is a two-year seat, as opposed to the traditional four-year term.
Vacaville City Council Roy Stockton remains ahead in the four-candidate District 1 City Council race with 37.91% of the vote. Michael E. Silva (54.78%) leads in a two-candidate field for the city’s District 3 contest. Jason Roberts leads Sherie Mahlberg by 71 votes in the District 5 race, 50.27% to 49.29%. Jeanette Wylie (39.64%) leads appointed council member Raymond Beaty (37.25%) in the four-candi-
Incumbent Amy Sharp leads Bonnie Hamilton in a tight contest for the Area 2 seat on the Solano County Board of Education, 49.88% to 49.73% – a lead of 45 votes among the 30,720 ballots thus far counted. One incumbent and two challengers lead races for three seats on the Fairfield-Suisun School District governing board. Incumbent Bethany Smith leads Cliff Gordon for the Area 1 seat, 51.83% to 47.89%. Former trustee Helen Tilley leads incumbent Joan K. Gaut in a three-candidate field for the Area 2 seat, 47.08% to 42.33%. Ana Petero leads incumbent John P. Silva for the Area 6 seat, 56.34% to 43.27%. The next update is expected at the end of the day Friday. More details of Solano County’s vote can be found at www. solanocounty.com.
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From Page One individual or small student group intervention after teachers’ duty day, and athletic and marching band are allowed to do conditioning. In addition, students could return to small student group assessments, and student picture days could return with physical distancing. Avlonitis noted in her presentation that the district has created online tutorials for parents and students covering topics like Aeries Portal, digital resources and Google
Trump From Page One official, speaking on condition of anonymity. By all accounts, Trump continued to cling – at least publicly – to the increasingly remote chance that he could somehow overturn the election results in court, or somehow find yet-discovered evidence that he lost only due to voting fraud, and not because President-elect Joe Biden won a convincing victory. One campaign official who spoke with Trump described him as “pugnacious,” saying he expressed confidence about his so-far unsuccessful legal strategy and the more robust but largely performative combativeness he’s displayed on Twitter. But the official also described Trump as more sanguine in private conversations about having to accept “the tainted results” of the election, and focused largely on what to do next. “He’s being urged to stay in the game and to consider running in 2024 and he’s not going to rule that out,” the person said. “That’s as close to him accepting reality as you’re going to get for the time being.” In his tweets, Trump propagated baseless claims of election fraud and complained that North Carolina was taking too long to declare him winner of its 15 electoral votes. Biden already has 290 electoral votes, 20 more than needed to win the White House, so North Carolina will not change the outcome. Lashing out at a longtime ally, he attacked Fox News more than a dozen times, still furious that it was the first to correctly project Biden winning Arizona. He mocked the network’s ratings as “dropping lower than Biden’s GPA,” and endorsed suggestions that conservative viewers migrate to more sycophantic, fringe media outlets. He also basked in the adulation of support-
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Vamco caused massive flooding in Metro Manila, prompting authorities to suspend government work and commercial establishments to shut down. Officials likened the deluge to the disaster brought by tropical storm Ketsana, which dumped a month’s worth of rain in a
day in the capital in September 2009, killing more than 740 people. The death toll and number of missing were reported by the national disaster risk reduction management office, but no further details were immediately available. The military and police
reported higher death tolls, but Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano said local disaster officials need to confirm that the fatalities were caused by the typhoon. Vamco was the 21st tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, and the fifth since October.
classroom. The information is provided in English and Spanish. She said people should expect to see more instructional videos uploaded over the next few months. The schools are working to provide student learning support with in-home visits, tutoring instructions, W-iFi access on-site, virtual wellness centers as well as other types of support. The emotional and social support issues students face is being addressed with individual counselor meetings, along with positive notes and phone calls, social and emotional learning
instructions, good news referrals, virtual clubs and activities along with virtual library time. A discussion on what is needed for a final decision on reopening is expected to be introduced at the Dec. 17 meeting with a final vote in January. In other business Thursday, the governing board voted to sell the former Falls School for $550,000. The property includes 9.99 acres, owned by the Fairfield-Suisun School District in the unincorporated portion of Solano County. The property was originally purchased by the
Falls School District in 1955 and subsequently transferred to the Fairfield-Suisun district during the 1968 unification of small school districts to create the cur rent Fa ir fieldSuisun district. The facility was operated as a very small elementary school until the 1997/1998 school year. After its closure, it has housed a number of different small programs including the district’s Independent Study Program, was leased to the Spectrum Center (a special education site), and saw infrequent uses by the community.
ers, thanking actor Scott Baio for tweeting a photo of a craft store’s display of candles, arranged with labels that spelled out: “Trump is Still Your President.” Top Democrats on Capitol Hill echoed that message in a way, noting that Trump holds office until Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20. They urged Trump to focus on the pandemic and implored Republican lawmakers who have abetted the president’s magical thinking about a late reversal in the courts to accept the results of the election. “Stop deliberately and recklessly sowing doubt about our democratic process and start focusing on Covid,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D- N.Y., said at a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif. “Every day . . . hundreds of thousands are getting sick, thousands are dying. We don’t have time for these kinds of games.” Focused mostly on saving face with his supporters and preserving his political power base, Trump has worked the phone for much of the week, calling Republican governors, state election officials, Republican National Committee staffers, allies and friends. He has been less interested in policy items that might be accomplished in the final 69 days of his term, according to two administration officials. His only public action since the election, beyond a brief wreath laying ceremony Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery in honor of Veterans’ Day on Wednesday, was firing former Defense Secretary Mark Esper in a tweet on Monday. T r u mp’s t we et Wednesday endorsing RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel indicated he wants to remain de facto head of the party, perhaps in an effort to keep the field of 2024 aspirants clear while he mulls his options. But he is also actively considering a move into media to kneecap Fox News, according to two people in close contact
with the president. According to Eric Bolling, a former Fox News host who is in frequent touch with Trump, the president and his supporters are livid about the network’s early call of Arizona for Biden and its decision Monday to cut away from a news conference where White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was making unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. “That anger may serve him well whichever direction he may go, going forward,” Bolling said. He said Trump could still ink a deal with Fox, attempt to purchase a smaller cable channel or launch his own subscription-based digital channel. Entering the media space, Bolling said, doesn’t foreclose Trump’s ability to run for president in 2024. “Trump wants to win another four years, no doubt in my mind. I know because I’ve spoken to him about it,” Bolling said. But he acknowledged stoking rumors about another presidential campaign could simply be a way for Trump to increase his market value. “There’s literally no downside to keeping a run for the White house in 2024 open,” he said. “It greatly strengthens his marketability for any deal he cuts with a network or with an audience he will need for a Trump TV venture of his own.” In the short term, however, Trump must come to grips with enabling the inevitable transition of power. While some staffers are pushing the president to keep fighting, others believe that Trump will have an easier time backing down from his defiant posture as contestable states finalize their volte tallies in coming days and weeks and get taken off the table. Arizona could be first, followed by Georgia and Pennsylvania. Biden leads convincingly in all three. “By this weekend some of the avenues may have closed down and could be an opportunity for the White House to pivot,” said one White House official who requested anonym-
ity to avoid contradicting Trump in public. Trump’s efforts to undermine trust in the presidential election, without any convincing evidence, marks a sharp break from historical precedent in a democracy that depends on the losing side accepting election results. “It’s a democratic norm that helps ensure the stability of the system,” said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College. “If that mutual understanding comes apart, it tears at the fabric of the democratic system itself.” A Economist/YouGov poll released this week said 78% of Republicans believed there was enough fraud to influence the outcome of the election. Only 7% of Democrats believed the same. Asked if they believe the country will “never know the real outcome of this election,” 26% of Republicans said definitely true and 44% said probably true. Some Republican officeholders suggested they may not go along with Trump’s reality-denying obstruction much longer. At least four Republican senators, without explicitly acknowledging Biden’s electoral victory, have stated that the president-elect should have access to classified intelligence, which can’t occur until the General Services Administration authorizes the official transition. Other conservative allies also have begun publicly nudging the president toward a more graceful exit. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, a newspaper owned by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, ran an editorial Thursday saying that it’s “simply false” that fraud cost Trump the election. “It’s an insult to reason and logic to argue that isolated irregularities constitute proof of a grand national conspiracy,” the paper said, adding that “ Mr. Trump lost this election because he ultimately didn’t attract enough votes and failed to win a handful of swing states that broke his way in 2016.”
are eased as counties move from purple to red, red to orange and orange to yellow. The ever-important seven-day testing rate also is soaring across Solano County, climbing from 10.1% to 10.3%, with a target threshold of 8%. The latest update also shows that hospitalizations continue to climb, now at 35. The Tuesday report had them at 31. Active cases
also increased, adding 101 cases since Tuesday, with a total of 681. The number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 held at 79, the county reported. Vallejo added 54 cases to its county-high total, now at 2,773, while Fairfield added 50 cases over the two days to take its count past 2,700 to 2,713. Vacaville also bridged a milestone, exceeding 1,600 cases with 49 addi-
tions for a tally of 1,639. Three new cases took Suisun City’s total to 604; Dixon (549) added two cases; Benicia (224) added five; and there were three new cases reported in Rio Vista (67). There were no new cases added to the 27 reported in the unincorporated area. The total number of completed tests increased by 1,205 since Tuesday, bringing the county total to 113,488.
