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Rescuers raced Saturday through the wreckage from a giant tornado that killed at least eight people and left little standing in this southwest Kansas town beyond the local pub.Forecasters issued a fresh tornado warning Saturday evening in the region, where Friday s weather was blamed for nine deaths, a figure authorities feared could rise.The massive twister mdash; as much as a mile wide mdash; wiped out entire neighborhoods and spared almost nothing in its p stanley us ath. In the town s busi stanley water bottle ness district, all but a few buildings were destroyed, CBS News correspondent Drew Levinson. There s a couple of structures that aren t as heavily damaged as others, but it was wide enough to completely get the entire city of Greensburg, says Maj. Gen. Todd Bunting of the Kansas National Guard. Absolutely catastrophic damage. City Administrator Steve Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble. Among the only structures that survived was the Bar H Taver stanley deutschland n, the town s only bar. It was briefly converted into a morgue.Survivors of the storm picked over the remnants of their homes and possessions, still dazed by the twister s strength and scope. We could see everything flying around. It sounded like diesel engines, jet engines. It was just horrible, one survivor told CBS News.Jackie Robertson and her family spent Saturday afternoo Rvdp Facebook now requires your Social Security number to buy political ads
SAGAMIHARA, Japan AP 鈥?At least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack Tuesday at a facility for the handicapped in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan.Police said they responded to a call at about 2:30 a.m. from an employee saying something horrible was happening at the facility in the city of Sagamihara, 50 kilometers 30 miles west of Tokyo.A man turned himself in at a police station about two hours later, police in Sagamihara said. He left the knife in his car when he entered the station. He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and trespassing.Officials in Kanagawa prefecture, which borders Tokyo, iden airmax plus tified the suspect as Satoshi Uematsu, and said he had worked at the facility until February. Japanese media reports said he was 26 years old.He entered the building about 2:10 a.m. by breaking a glass window on the first floor of a residential building at the facility, Shinya Sakuma, head of prefectural health and welfare division, said at a news conference.Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa expressed his salomon wanderschuhe condolences to the victims.The Sagamihara City fire department says that 19 people were confirmed dead in the attack. The fire department said doctors at the scen adidas samba uomo e confirmed the deaths.The death toll could make this the worst mass killing in Japan in the post-World War II era.A woman who lives across from the facility told Japanese broadcaster NHK that she saw police cars enter the facility around 3:30
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Cheered by hundreds of people, the body of Coretta Scott King was carried through the streets by horse-drawn carriage Saturday to Georgia s state Capitol, where she became the first woman and first black person to lie in honor.King s four children, Gov. Sonny Perdue and his wife Mary, and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin escorted the casket inside to the Rotunda as a bagpipe played Amazing Grace. Coretta Scott King was a gracious and courageous woman, an inspiration to millions and one of the most influential civil rights leaders of our time, Perdue said. She was absolutely an anchor and support for her husband. It was a striking contrast to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, when then-Gov. Lester Maddox, an outspoken segregationist, was outraged at the idea of state flags, then dominated by the Confederate Cross, flying at half-staff in tribute to a black man. He ignored King s death, refusing to authorize a public tribute. stanley becher Coretta Scott King died Monday at an alternative medical clinic in Mexico at the age of 78. Immed stanley cups iately after, the state flag she helped to change, no longer bearing the Confederate battle emblem, was stanley mug ordered lowered by Perdue. For most of Monday, King s casket will lie in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband preached in the years before his death. Her funeral will be held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where the Kings youngest child, Bernice, is a minister.Few details hav Jjmw Nationwide shingles vaccine shortage results from high demand
SAN FRANCISCO AP 鈥?Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are air force one investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks nationwide.The Contra Costa County Sheriff s Department arrested one white suspect and is searching for two others thought to be involved in the Nov. 12 killing of a 28-year-old musician.Investigators say Will Sims was robbed, beaten and shot to death in the wee hours outside a bar near his hometown of Richmond. Investigators say Sims worked as a retail clerk, had no gang ties and a clean criminal record.Authorities arrested 31-year-old Daniel Porter-Kelly and charged him with robbery and murder with a hate crime enhancement. Authorities are searching for 32-year-old Ray Simons and 31 uggs barn -year-old Daniel Ortega and didn t elaborate on the hate crime allegations or the details of the homicide.Porter-Kelly remains jailed without bail.Porter-Kelly s attorney Colin Cooper says his client denies involvement in the killing and that prosecutors have not yet provided any evidence or details supporting the hate crime accusation.Contra Costa County homicide prosecutor Derek Butts declined to d yeezy slide iscuss details of the case or the evidence supporting the hate crime allegation, noting that investigators were still searching for two murder suspects.The Southern Poverty Law Center says it has documented 701 reports of hateful incidents of harassment around the country since the presidential el
Rescuers raced Saturday through the wreckage from a giant tornado that killed at least eight people and left little standing in this southwest Kansas town beyond the local pub.Forecasters issued a fresh tornado warning Saturday evening in the region, where Friday s weather was blamed for nine deaths, a figure authorities feared could rise.The massive twister mdash; as much as a mile wide mdash; wiped out entire neighborhoods and spared almost nothing in its p stanley us ath. In the town s busi stanley water bottle ness district, all but a few buildings were destroyed, CBS News correspondent Drew Levinson. There s a couple of structures that aren t as heavily damaged as others, but it was wide enough to completely get the entire city of Greensburg, says Maj. Gen. Todd Bunting of the Kansas National Guard. Absolutely catastrophic damage. City Administrator Steve Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble. Among the only structures that survived was the Bar H Taver stanley deutschland n, the town s only bar. It was briefly converted into a morgue.Survivors of the storm picked over the remnants of their homes and possessions, still dazed by the twister s strength and scope. We could see everything flying around. It sounded like diesel engines, jet engines. It was just horrible, one survivor told CBS News.Jackie Robertson and her family spent Saturday afternoo Rvdp Facebook now requires your Social Security number to buy political ads
SAGAMIHARA, Japan AP 鈥?At least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack Tuesday at a facility for the handicapped in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan.Police said they responded to a call at about 2:30 a.m. from an employee saying something horrible was happening at the facility in the city of Sagamihara, 50 kilometers 30 miles west of Tokyo.A man turned himself in at a police station about two hours later, police in Sagamihara said. He left the knife in his car when he entered the station. He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and trespassing.Officials in Kanagawa prefecture, which borders Tokyo, iden airmax plus tified the suspect as Satoshi Uematsu, and said he had worked at the facility until February. Japanese media reports said he was 26 years old.He entered the building about 2:10 a.m. by breaking a glass window on the first floor of a residential building at the facility, Shinya Sakuma, head of prefectural health and welfare division, said at a news conference.Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa expressed his salomon wanderschuhe condolences to the victims.The Sagamihara City fire department says that 19 people were confirmed dead in the attack. The fire department said doctors at the scen adidas samba uomo e confirmed the deaths.The death toll could make this the worst mass killing in Japan in the post-World War II era.A woman who lives across from the facility told Japanese broadcaster NHK that she saw police cars enter the facility around 3:30
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Cheered by hundreds of people, the body of Coretta Scott King was carried through the streets by horse-drawn carriage Saturday to Georgia s state Capitol, where she became the first woman and first black person to lie in honor.King s four children, Gov. Sonny Perdue and his wife Mary, and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin escorted the casket inside to the Rotunda as a bagpipe played Amazing Grace. Coretta Scott King was a gracious and courageous woman, an inspiration to millions and one of the most influential civil rights leaders of our time, Perdue said. She was absolutely an anchor and support for her husband. It was a striking contrast to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, when then-Gov. Lester Maddox, an outspoken segregationist, was outraged at the idea of state flags, then dominated by the Confederate Cross, flying at half-staff in tribute to a black man. He ignored King s death, refusing to authorize a public tribute. stanley becher Coretta Scott King died Monday at an alternative medical clinic in Mexico at the age of 78. Immed stanley cups iately after, the state flag she helped to change, no longer bearing the Confederate battle emblem, was stanley mug ordered lowered by Perdue. For most of Monday, King s casket will lie in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband preached in the years before his death. Her funeral will be held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where the Kings youngest child, Bernice, is a minister.Few details hav Jjmw Nationwide shingles vaccine shortage results from high demand
SAN FRANCISCO AP 鈥?Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are air force one investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks nationwide.The Contra Costa County Sheriff s Department arrested one white suspect and is searching for two others thought to be involved in the Nov. 12 killing of a 28-year-old musician.Investigators say Will Sims was robbed, beaten and shot to death in the wee hours outside a bar near his hometown of Richmond. Investigators say Sims worked as a retail clerk, had no gang ties and a clean criminal record.Authorities arrested 31-year-old Daniel Porter-Kelly and charged him with robbery and murder with a hate crime enhancement. Authorities are searching for 32-year-old Ray Simons and 31 uggs barn -year-old Daniel Ortega and didn t elaborate on the hate crime allegations or the details of the homicide.Porter-Kelly remains jailed without bail.Porter-Kelly s attorney Colin Cooper says his client denies involvement in the killing and that prosecutors have not yet provided any evidence or details supporting the hate crime accusation.Contra Costa County homicide prosecutor Derek Butts declined to d yeezy slide iscuss details of the case or the evidence supporting the hate crime allegation, noting that investigators were still searching for two murder suspects.The Southern Poverty Law Center says it has documented 701 reports of hateful incidents of harassment around the country since the presidential el
