WeatherBELL.com meteorologist Joe Bastardi says he fears Dorian could become a major hurricane.
Hurricane Dorian is moving through the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rains to the Bahamas, Florida and the southeast U.S. by this coming weekend, the National Weather Service said, urging people in its potential path to start preparing.
Dorian is currently sustaining winds at about 80 miles per hour and is moving northwest at 13 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters have warned the Category 1 hurricane could grow in strength to a major Category 3 storm before potential Florida landfall.
The National Hurricane Center said Dorian was still moving away from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Wednesday night as of 8 p.m. ET, and hurricane warnings and watches for those areas were discontinued. The storm is still expected to strengthen into a powerful hurricane in the Atlantic over the next few days.
While not much damage has been seen in the Caribbean, an 80-year-old man in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, died Wednesday after falling from his roof while cleaning debris ahead of the storm, police said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for counties in Hurricane Dorian’s path.
“It’s important for Floridians on the East Coast to monitor this storm closely,” DeSantis said. “Every Florida resident should have seven days of supplies, including food, water and medicine, and should have a plan in case of disaster. I will continue to monitor Hurricane Dorian closely with emergency management officials. The state stands ready to support all counties along the coast as they prepare.”
President Trump approved an emergency declaration in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday night. The president had declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico on Tuesday ahead of the storm’s expected arrival.
“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,” the White House said.
“We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Dorian became a hurricane earlier Wednesday near St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where islanders said the storm packed an unexpected punch.
“As of early this morning [Wednesday], Dorian was only supposed to be a weak tropical storm. It’s now just finished passing us with max winds of more than 100 miles per hour. I’m checking on my boat right now. There definitely are sunken boats around. None of us expected this,” private charter boat owner Scott Schroeder told Fox News.
John Wyatt, another St. Thomas resident, echoed the sentiment.
“It’s been a long day and a lotta work. Several trees were downed,” he said.
A hotel worker near Point Pleasant Resort said he spent most of the night “mopping up everything.”
Video from a boat that was in the water at the time showed rough conditions.
The National Weather Service said Dorian is “threatening Florida and the risk is increasing.”
Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Airlines had issued travel waivers as of 5:45 p.m. ET.
Southwest issued alerts for airports in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and Allegiant is offering waivers for those flying through Sanford, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale. All major carriers in the Caribbean, including San Juan, have travel waivers in effect, except for Alaska Airlines.
LYON, France — Megan Rapinoe is not in the starting lineup for the United States’ semifinal match against England on Tuesday.
Christen Press has replaced Rapinoe for the 3 p.m. ET kickoff. Lindsey Horan is also starting in place of Sam Mewis.
The decision to put Rapinoe on the bench was not disciplinary, according to a U.S. Soccer spokesperson. No other reason was given for her absence, but Rapinoe did not go through warm-ups on the field before the game. She was in uniform and stood on the field as the U.S. team warmed up, but she did not participate physically.
Rapinoe has scored five goals in four matches during the Women’s World Cup, including a pair of goals in both knockout matches for the Americans so far. Her five goals are tied with teammate Alex Morgan, England’s Ellen White and Australia’s Sam Kerr for the tournament lead.
Rapinoe started and scored a goal when the U.S. and England drew 2-2 in the SheBelieves Cup in March. The U.S. struggled defensively in that game when England elected to start Rachel Daly at outside back and shift Lucy Bronze to midfield. Both are again in the England lineup Tuesday. Press, Rapinoe’s replacement, is a more natural defender from the forward position.
Rapinoe has drawn attention from the release of a months-old video of he saying, “I’m not going to the f—ing White House” should the United States win a second straight Women’s World Cup.
For England, Carly Telford has replaced Karen Bardsley as the starting goalkeeper.
“Minor injury in the game against Norway — she trained yesterday,” England coach Phil Neville told the BBC. “You need players that are 100 percent, and we trusted Carly. And we need everybody 100 percent fit on the field. It’s the toughest decision I’ve made since I came into the job.”
Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby also are not in the starting lineup, replaced by Beth Mead and Daly.
Information from ESPN’s Graham Hays, Tom Hamilton and the Associated Press was used in this report.
Limitan prestaciones sociales a madres comunitarias
Iniciando semana, la Corte Constitucional decidió limitar el pago de prestaciones sociales solo para 106 madres comunitarias que han prestado sus servicios al Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) y quienes reclamaron sus derechos ante el alto tribunal a través de una tutela(Lea el artículo completo). La revisión de esta tutela se dio luego de que el ICBF presentara un recurso de nulidad a la sentencia que había emitido la Sala de Revisión del alto tribunal en noviembre del año pasado en la que se le ordenó al Gobierno a pagar los salarios, prestaciones sociales y la pensión de 106 madres comunitarias que había trabajado con el Instituto desde 1988.
Miembros de red internacional de pornografía infantil capturados en Colombia
El martes fueron capturados cerca de 39 miembros de una red internacional de pornografía infantil en territorio nacional. El operativo estuvo liderado por autoridades españolas, en coordinación con la Interpol y Europol (Lea el artículo completo). La red de pornografía infantil de alcance internacional compartía contenido a través de la red social WhatsApp. De acuerdo con la Policía de España, los detenidos –tras una investigación que se extendió por al menos 18 países –habían ideado grupos de pedófilos, conformados por al menos 136 usuarios, que distribuyeron alrededor de 360.000 archivos de fotos y vídeos.
Corte defiende derecho a las manifestaciones
El alto tribunal tumbó las normas que regulaban cómo se debían organizar las manifestaciones y aglomeraciones públicas. Por motivos de forma y no de fondo, el alto tribunal aseguró que este capítulo VI del Código de Policía limitaba el derecho a la reunión y a la protesta, es decir, afectaba un derecho fundamental, por lo que debía tramitarse como una ley estatutaria y no ordinaria(Lea el artículo completo). La Corporación, le dio un plazo de dos años al Congreso para que regule el tema o sino queda sin vigencia definitiva.
Casa por cárcel contra ‘youtuber’ que sugirió atentar contra Santos
El Ministerio Público de Bolivia determinó el jueves la detención domiciliaria para Josué Martínez Loaiza, el hombre que, a través de un video difundido por redes sociales, lanzó amenazas en contra del presidente Juan Manuel Santos (Lea el artículo completo). El hombre podría ser imputado en Colombia por instigación al delito. De acuerdo con la medida, Martínez Loaiza deberá presentarse cada viernes ante el Ministerio Público de ese país, en donde también es investigado por la presunta comisión de los delitos de actos hostiles e instigación pública a delinquir.
Nace la Paz Fútbol Club
La fundación Fútbol y Paz Construyendo País y las Farc firmaron el viernes en Cali un acuerdo de colaboración o alianza para la creación del equipo de fútbol La Paz F.C. El objetivo es que el equipo pueda participar a corto plazo en la segunda división del fútbol profesional colombiano, constituir una categoría sub-20 para participar en una Supercopa Juvenil, organizada por la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF), y un plantel femenino que compita en la respectiva liga profesional (Lea el artículo completo). Los jugadores serán guerrilleros desmovilizados, víctimas del conflicto y miembros de las comunidades que sufrieron la guerra.
Captura del fiscal anticorrupción Rodrigo Aldana
Por los delitos de concierto para delinquir y cohecho, el viernes fue capturado el fiscal delegado ante el Tribunal Superior de Bogotá Rodrigo Aldana Larrazábal, quien habría favorecido a Otto Bula en un proceso de extinción de dominio. (Lea el artículo completo) Además, fue capturada una mujer cercana al fiscal Aldana, quien sería la titular de un apartamento que le entregó Bula a Aldana como pago por los beneficios que recibió durante el proceso de extinción de dominio. El inmueble era de la constructora Umbral, en la que Bula tenía negocios.
In this aerial photo taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Thursday, parts of the Sanibel Causeway are washed away along with sections of the bridge.
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Hurricane Ian destroyed several portions of the Sanibel Causeway, the series of bridges that connects mainland Florida to Sanibel Island — which is home to some 6,500 people and located just south of where the storm made landfall.
Officials have characterized the extent of the damage as beyond simple repairs.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed at a Thursday morning briefing that the Sanibel Causeway is one of at least two bridges (along with the bridge that connects to Pine Island) that are “impassable” and will “require structural rebuilds.”
He said on Friday that the three-mile causeway “had breaks in multiple parts of it.”
“It was not where the water and the pylons were, those held up very well,” he said at a Friday morning briefing. “It was where you had some on the sandbar, and that got washed out from underneath.”
Homes in Sanibel, Fla., were damaged by the hurricane. The island is home to about 6,500 people year-round.
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Lee County had ordered people on the island to evacuate before the storm hit, though not everyone did. Sanibel Mayor Holly Smith said Thursday that the occupants of about 200 homes had stayed behind, and that authorities had already confirmed two injuries and 12 deaths on Sanibel.
It appears that other residents are effectively stranded on the island, either because they declined evacuation offers by rescue crews or because they are unaccounted for.
DeSantis said that same day that an unspecified number of people had been safely brought off the island and that rescue efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard, local law enforcement and state teams were ongoing. The Coast Guard has shared photos of crews airlifting people from flooded parts of the island.
Officials are running barges in order to ferry supplies and heavier equipment to the island (whereas emergency responders had initially been traveling lighter and via air), DeSantis said on Friday.
Smith had requested barge service for short-term recovery, as well as “possibly for the long-term for island access due to the condition of the causeway.”
Smith is urging residents to provide authorities with the names and addresses of any loved ones who may have remained on the island, saying “our first priority is to get those who are stranded to safety” and account for missing people.
No electric customers on Sanibel Island had power as of an 11 a.m. ET Friday morning update from the Lee County Electric Cooperative.
Jarring images of the broken causeway circulated fast
The Sanibel Causeway bridge collapsed in places as Hurricane Ian passed through southwest Florida.
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At least three sections of the causeway were washed away by the storm surge, CNN affiliates WBBH and WPLG report, cutting the Sanibel and Captiva islands off from the rest of the state.
Damage to the causeway was first reported in the early hours of Thursday morning by local journalists, who shared photos of the bridge with pieces missing.
Among them were Tampa Bay Times reporter Zachary Sampson and photojournalist Douglas Clifford, who ventured out of their Fort Myers hotel room in the early hours of Thursday morning to check on the damage and publish eyewitness accounts on the Times’ website.
In a dispatch at 2 a.m. ET, they reported that the half-mile of road leading to the Sanibel Causeway was impassable.
Hurricane Ian brought high winds, storm surge and rain to the area on Wednesday.
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“The pavement is folded up like an accordion, ripped to ribbons by a powerful storm surge,” they wrote. “Nearby, a spiral staircase was deposited in the brush next to a white pickup. The storm flung a boat trailer and other debris, too.”
They describe seeing sheets of sand strewn across the pavement and watching around 1:30 a.m. as two cars tried unsuccessfully to access the island. One was full of young men who were trying to reach a friend, they added.
At 4:15 a.m., the journalists confirmed that a section of the causeway had been wiped out by the storm:
“An alarm bleats endlessly at the tollbooth for the Sanibel Causeway. Step just beyond it, and the road soon gives way. Where the bridge rises from the mainland toward the island, one of the first sections of the span has disappeared. Crumbled pavement lies near the water’s edge. The rest of the bridge stretches forward, unreachable.”
Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp has already signed a bill that would make performing an abortion illegal once a heartbeat is detected. That new law is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.
Two other states – Ohio and Mississippi – have passed similar legislation. The bills are expected to face litigation.
Here are similarities and differences between the Georgia law and the proposed Alabama law:
When can you get an abortion?
Current state law in both states outlaws abortion after 20 weeks unless the woman’s health is at risk. Georgia’s newly signed law would change the time period to six weeks of pregnancy, a time period in which many critics say many women aren’t yet aware of their pregnancy.
Alabama lawmakers in the House and Senate have sent a bill to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk that would ban nearly all abortions in the state at any stage of the pregnancy unless the mother’s physical or mental health is in jeopardy.
The law Kemp signed in May does include an exception in cases of rape and incest. As the law is written, it requires that the pregnancy is at 20 weeks or less and an official police report must be filed alleging the rape and/or incest.
If abortions are a crime, what is the penalty? Who is liable?
Currently, breaking abortion law in Georgia can be punished with imprisonment “for not less than one nor more than 10 years.” The newly signed bill gives no indication as to who would be charged with penalties and what, if any, those penalties would be.
Some have speculated that since the bill recognizes unborn children as “natural persons,” that women who choose abortion or miscarry or the medical professionals who help them, would face murder charges, but the term has been used routinely in the previous criminal code, which the measure does not repeal.
Alabama is currently weighing whether to punish a doctor who performs an abortion with a Class A felony – punishable by life or 10 to 99 years in prison. Attempting to perform an abortion would be a Class C felony, punishable by one to 10 years in prison. The woman seeking an abortion would not face charges under the bill.
“The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the courts in 1973 that said the baby in the womb is not a person,” Collins said. “This bill addresses that one issue. Is that baby in the womb a person? I believe our law says it is. I believe our people say it is. And I believe technology shows it is.”
Nate Chute is a producer with the USA Today Network. Follow him on Twitter: @nchute
Anti abortion ban bill protestors, dressed as handmaids, from left, Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, Kari Crowe, Allie Curlette and Margeaux Hartline, wait outside of the Alabama statehouse after HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, passed the senate in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday May 14, 2019. Mickey Welsh / Advertiser
Corporación de Noticias, S. A. está ubicada en la zona 1 capitalina. (Foto Prensa Libre: Carlos Hernández)
Durante la diligencia la fiscalía también secuestrará documentación relacionada a operaciones contables y financieras que permitan coadyuvar en las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo.
El Ministerio Público confirmó que la investigación se relaciona con empresas vinculadas a la exvicepresidenta Roxana Baldetti.
Este es el comunicado oficial respecto a los allanamientos:
En desarrollo allanamientos en inmuebles de empresas mercantiles vinculadas a un proceso de extinción de dominio. pic.twitter.com/ISYadWfvrB
Según declaraciones del colaborador eficaz del Ministerio Público Salvador González, alias Eco, la exvicepresidenta Roxana Baldetti, implicada en diversos casos de corrupción, obtuvo el dominio del 70 por ciento de las acciones de Coopración de Noticias, casa editorial de los diarios Siglo 21 y Al Día, pero con su ayuda logró controlar el 70 por ciento de la referida entidad.
La exfuncionaria también tenía relación con las empresas Marbella y Arrendamientos, Servicios y Proyectos, con las cuales adquirió las acciones de Corporación de Noticias. Ambas entidades eran dirigidas por supuestos testaferros.
La exfuncionaria dejó su participación derivado de una publicación que se hizo de ella en uno de los diarios, en la cual se hacía referencia a varias frases que había mencionado.
Ante ese problema González sugirió a la vicemandataria que los representantes legales podían ser abogados, pero que eso tenía un costo mayor, después de mucho tiempo Baldetti aceptó de mala gana y procedió con los trámites.
¿Quién es Eco?
Salvador Estuardo González Álvarez, alias Eco, era representante del diario Siglo 21 y también se le señala de ser el coordinador de La Línea.
Afirmó que conoció a Baldetti a través de su exsecretario privado Juan Carlos Monzón y que al principio manejó unas siete sociedades anónimas de la exvicemandataria, quien luego lo introdujo con el expresidente Otto Pérez Molina y así se involucró en el caso de defraudación aduanera conocido como La Línea.
Salvador González. (Foto Prensa Libre: HemerotecaPL)
New York City officials want to inoculate 1 million residents against Covid-19 in January, saying the federal government and drugmakers need to speed up the production and distribution of the vaccine.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday the city will use schools, pop-up clinics and “whatever it takes” to reach 1 million people within the month.
“We know New York City can vaccinate 1 million people in the month of January and really put this thing into high gear,” de Blasio told CNN. “Every single time we vaccinate someone, we are one step closer to making the coronavirus a thing of the past in terms of the horrible grip it has on society.”
It’s an ambitious goal considering the city has received just 390,425 vaccine doses and has been able to administer only about 78,000 shots, according to city data.
“This thing is not moving the way it needs to in the United States,” the mayor said. “New York City is going to show that we can jump-start this and vaccinate people at a record pace. And we want to see the whole country to be a part of this because we need to go faster to fight back the coronavirus if we want to recover.”
The U.S. government has fallen far short of its original goal of administering at least 20 million Covid vaccine shots before the end of the year — something federal officials have admitted is disappointing. The U.S. has distributed 12.4 million vaccine doses so far and inoculated just 2.8 million people with the first of the two-shot vaccine regimen from Pfizer or Moderna, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. officials say the data lags by 72 to 96 hours due to reporting delays at the state and local levels. Even so, it’s still a fraction of the Trump administration’s original target.
“We agree that that number is lower than what we had hoped for,” Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor to the administration’s vaccine program Operation Warp Speed, told reporters Wednesday. “We know that it should be better, and we’re working hard to make it better.”
De Blasio’s pronouncement comes as health officials in Colorado and California have detected a new strain of the coronavirus in a handful of cases in those states. The new variant, which de Blasio said hasn’t yet been found in New York City, was first identified in the U.K. and appears to be far more contagious.
It also comes as the city prepares for its annual New Year’s Eve festivities, albeit without the usual crowds. Just a few hundred people, instead of the usual thousands, will be in Times Square with masks on and by invitation only for the ball drop at midnight to kick of 2021. De Blasio said the one thing that unifies all Americans in this divided country this year is “we want to get the Hell rid of 2020.”
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En las noticias más leídas del día, Jeff Bezos se convirtió en el hombre más rico del mundo…pero sólo por unas horas, hasta que el dueño de Microsoft, Bill Gates, defendió a capa y espada la primera posición como la persona más acaudalada del planeta Tierra. El pago de pensiones y jubilaciones que realizó el ISSSTE en los primeros cinco meses del año, absorbió 69.5% de los ingresos que genera y subsidios y transferencias que recibe del gobierno federal. Las amenazas para el TLC ahora son de Canadá y no de Trump, como se pensaba.
1. Poco duró el gusto a Bezos…Gates sigue siendo el más acaudalado del mundo
Este jueves, Jeff Bezos, fundador de Amazon se convirtió en el hombre más rico del mundo cuando las acciones de su compañía de ventas por internet llegaron a su máximo histórico, pero este hecho le duró tan sólo unos minutos.
Mas tardo en difundirse la noticia, cuando Bill Gates, fundador de Microsoft, volvió a ocupar el lugar de hombre más acaudalado del mundo, cuando las acciones de Amazon cayeron casi 1% a 1,046 dólares por título.
De acuerdo con registros financieros, Bezos posee 80 millones de acciones de su empresa, equivalentes a 17% y cuyo valor llegó a unos 87,000 millones de dólares en su momento más alto.
2. Gasto en pensiones del ISSSTE absorbe 70% de sus ingresos
En los primeros cinco meses de este año, el pago de pensiones y jubilaciones que realizó el ISSSTE, absorbió el 69.5% de los ingresos que genera el organismo y los subsidios y transferencias que recibe del gobierno federal.
Según información de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, de enero a mayo, el ISSSTE generó ingresos propios por 30,438 millones de pesos; mientras que de subsidios y transferencias reportó 100,290 millones de pesos. Es decir, en total registró ingresos por 130,729 millones de pesos.
Gasto en pensiones del ISSSTE absorbe 70% de sus ingresos. Ver nota.
3. La amenaza real al TLCAN no es de Trump, es de Canadá
En su columna la Gran depresión, Enrique Campos Suárez, escribió sobre el TLCAN y cuál sería una verdadera amenaza para el tratado. Aclara que no es Estados Unidos sino Canadá quien puede determinar un punto de ruptura del acuerdo comercial con el establecimiento de ciertas líneas rojas que consideran intraspasables.
Campos dice que cuando el gobierno canadiense menciona que si no hay mecanismos de salvaguarda, como los que hoy se incluyen en el capítulo 19 del tratado vigente, se sale del pacto comercial, lo dice en serio.
Lo que dice el gobierno de Justin Trudeau es serio y es una razón suficiente para ser intransigente. No puede Donald Trump pretender asumirse como la autoridad absoluta en materia comercial, cuando debe haber equilibrio entre los tres.
La amenaza real al TLCAN no es de Trump, es de Canadá. Ver nota.
4. Península de BC, con el mayor incremento en actividad económica
Los estados que registraron los mayores incrementos en su actividad económica durante el primer trimestre del 2017 en relación con el trimestre anterior, fueron Baja California Sur y Baja California acuerdo con el Indicador Trimestral de la Actividad Económica Estatal (ITAEE) realizado por el Inegi. Los estados que registraron un menor crecimiento en su actividad económica en este trimestre fueron Campeche y Nayarit.
Entre enero y marzo de este año, Baja California Sur tuvo un crecimiento de 3.3% con respecto al trimestre anterior y Baja California aumentó en 3.2% su actividad económica en este periodo. Campeche, en el sureste mexicano, y Nayarit, en la región de Occidente, registraron la mayor disminución en su actividad económica de todo el país durante el primer trimestre del 2017, con -2.6 y -2.2% respectivamente.
Península de BC, con el mayor incremento en actividad económica. Ver nota.
Esta mañana al interior del Internado Nacional Barros Arana (INBA), un sujeto, que aparentemente sería un estudiante, habría sido el responsable de lanzar la bomba a Fuerzas Especiales de Carabineros, sin embargo, esta explotó en su cuerpo.
Por el momento no se conocen mayores antecedentes al respecto sobre la identidad del joven, y se ha hecho un barrido por diversos centros médicos y asistenciales, para saber quién es el responsable de este hecho.
Se presume que este sería un menor de edad y Carabineros está realizando una investigación para dar con su paradero.
Mientras tanto, otro joven de 15 años fue detenido y será imputado por porte de elemento incendiario, ya que estaba con una bomba molotov.
Este video supuestamente revela el vuelo de un pterodctilo sobre una ciudad de Estados Unidos.
Un video grabado por un aficionado podría ser la prueba de la reaparición de una especie extinta hace millones de años. Las imágenes propaladas en YouTubemuestran a un supuesto pterodáctilo sobrevolando el cielo de Ohio, en Estados Unidos.
La grabación muestra a una enorme ave surcado el cielo estadounidense, pero al acercar más la toma se logra apreciar que el ave guarda una gran similitud con un pterodáctilo, una especie de reptil volador que se extinguió hace millones de años.
El presunto animal fue grabado por solo unos segundos, lo suficiente como para que las imágenes se conviertan en viral en las redes sociales y se desaten todo tipo de especulaciones. Algunos internautas señalan que es una prueba fehaciente del regreso de este tipo de aves prehistóricas, mientras que otros sostienen que se trata de un simple montaje.
El extraño video ha sido difundido en YouTube el pasado 4 de setiembre y hasta la fecha ya ha logrado más de 24 mil reproducciones.
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President Donald Trump visits a Boeing facility in South Carolina, praises company for its aircraft innovations and being an example for keeping jobs in the U.S. (Feb. 17) AP
WASHINGTON –As lawmakers begin to scrutinize Boeing’s grounded 737 Max 8, they will be probing one of the nation’s most powerful corporate political players, backed with a multi-million-dollar lobbying budget and a direct line to the White House.
Chicago-based Boeing, the second-largest U.S. government contractor, suffered a setback this week when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) followed its counterparts around the world in grounding the 737 Max 8 after two catastrophic crashes raised new questions about the plane’s software.
Now Boeing faces a test of its influence as congressional investigators look into how the plane was approved, what caused the crashes and why the FAA delayed its grounding order. The Senate Commerce Committee is scheduling a hearing and key House Democrats have vowed “rigorous oversight.”
Boeing influence
Like other large U.S. employers, Boeing spends millions of dollars each year on lobbying the administration and making campaign contributions. The company spent $15 million lobbying in 2018, according to disclosure reports, more than household brands like Amazon and Facebook.
Boeing ranked 11th in a Center for Responsive Politics list of the nation’s top spenders on lobbying in 2018.
The company contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee,Federal Election Commission records show. Boeing’s employees, meanwhile, pumped about $5 million into campaigns and political committees in last year’s midterm election, according to a USA TODAY analysis of FEC data.
“This does not bode well for Americans who fly,” Walter Shaub, senior adviser to the Washington-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics wrote in a post on Twitter. “Boeing donates $1 million to Trump’s sketchy inaugural fund and the U.S. breaks with other nations that have grounded the Boeing 737.”
Trump and Muilenburg
Large companies regularly contribute money to political candidates and spend heavily on lobbying. But what sets Boeing apart from most others is the care CEO Dennis Muilenburg has taken to cultivate a relationship with Trump, who owns one of the company’s planes, a 757.
Shortly after the election, Muilenburg sought to smooth things over with the president during a visit to Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. A month later, and days before Trump became president, Muilenburg appeared at Trump Tower, praising Trump’s “engagement.”
When it came time for Trump to make his first trip out of Washington in early 2017 he went to a Boeing plant in South Carolina to tout U.S. economic growth. The company was later awarded a contract to build two Air Force One planes for $3.9 billion.
“We’ve got a whole wave of policy issues, topics we’re working on,” Muilenburg told analysts on a call last year, “but we have a voice at the table, which is encouraging.”
A member of Trump’s Cabinet, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, spent more three decades with Boeing as an executive before joining the administration in 2017.
Trump has continued to praise the company even as he announced the grounding.
“It’s a great, great company with a track record that is so phenomenal,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “And they want this solved; they want it solved quickly.”
Mixed record
Still, the company has had a mixed track record meeting its policy ambitions in Washington. Muilenburg personally spoke with Trump to lobby for the safety of the 737 Max 8. And the FAA initially stood by the plane as Britain, France and Germany joined a growing list of countries suspended its use in their airspace.
U.S. regulators relented Wednesday, citing new information from the crash site and satellite data that the agency said suggested similarities between the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday that killed 157 people and the crash in October of a Lion Air Flight off the coast of Indonesia that killed 189 passengers and crew.
“Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” Trump posted on Twitter days after the crash, a missive that preceded Muilenburg’s call to the White House. “I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better.”
Experts said Boeing has long been a major player in Washington’s influence game, but noted there was no evidence that effort had anything to do with the FAA’s delay in grounding the latest 737 model. The federal government spent $23 billion with Boeing in 2017, a U.S. General Services Administration report on federal contracting shows.
“They’re really good at capturing defense contracts,” said Richard Aboulafia, vice president for analysis at Teal Group and an aviation consultant. “But there’s absolutely no evidence that there’s anything untoward with the the FAA’s decision here.”
A Boeing spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Aviation oversight
Like many other agencies in the Trump administration, the Federal Aviation Administration isn’t working at full capacity. Daniel Elwell, a former Air Force lieutenant general and American Airlines pilot, has been serving as the agency’s acting administrator for more than year.
Trump floated the idea of nominating his personal pilot for the top FAA job last year, but backed down following resistance from lawmakers.
The National Transportation Safety Board, by contrast, is a five-member board that investigates crashes and makes non-binding recommendations on how to avoid future mishaps. Trump appointed two of its five members and elevated a third – originally a Bush appointee – to chairman. The board has one vacancy.
The NTSB is not investigating either the Ethiopian crash or the Lion Air crash. Foreign countries must request NTSB or similar European agencies to investigate.
Mike Slack, a pilot and lawyer who has represented passengers and family members in crash cases, said Trump had little choice but to ground the Max 8 and Max 9 planes. Allowing the aircraft to fly would have gambled jobs – and American lives – and raised even more questions for the administration and Boeing.
“Is this about protecting Boeing competitively against Airbus, its primary competitor? And why would Boeing’s CEO be calling the president of the United States?” said Slack, a former NASA engineer. “That’s not good form when the background story is already that the FAA is not acting.”
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Boeing has had a mixed record scoring policy wins in Washington.
The company fought hard to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, an independent agency that provides loans to foreign companies so they can buy high-priced U.S. goods such as aircraft. Congress reauthorized the bank in 2015, despite concern from many Republicans that it used taxpayer money to benefit huge companies like Boeing that didn’t need the help.
But while Congress reauthorized the bank, SenateRepublicans have declined to confirm all of the board’s members. That has left the bank unable to sign deals valued at more than $10 million, far less than the price of the 737 MAX 8 and other Boeing planes.
Boeing also benefited from a fight to give foreign carriers, including airlines based in Persian Gulf countries, better access to the U.S. market – an outcome that would help them sell more airplanes to their overseas customers. Domestic airlines mostly opposed the idea, arguing that state-owned air carriers brought unfair competition to U.S. skies.
Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Transportation allowed the Gulf carriers to serve the U.S., but required more public reporting of their finances.
Boeing lost another major fight last year. When Delta Airlines sought to import jets from Montreal-based manufacturer Bombardier, Boeing objected to the International Trade Commission. The company argued that the Bombardier planes were subsidized by the Canadian government and, because of that, represented unfair competition to their own planes.
The Commerce Department threatened to impose tariffs that would have quadrupled the cost of the Bombardier jets.
The Trade Commission found Bombardier planes should have cost about three times more than the ticket price because of those subsidies but also declined to rule that the planes would harm the U.S. industry, blocking the tariffs in a loss for Boeing.
Family members mourn for crash victim air hostess Sara Gebremichael, 38, at her house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia .The black box from the Boeing jet that crashed will be sent overseas for analysis but no country has been chosen yet, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said Wednesday, as much of the world grounded or barred the plane model and grieving families arrived at the disaster site. Samuel Habtab, AP
Officials from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) pray next to an offering of fruit, bread rolls, and a plastic container of Ethiopian Injera, a fermented sourdough flatbread, placed next to incense sticks, at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia March 12, 2019. Mulugeta Ayene, AP
The committee has subpoenaed records and testimony about activities related to the Jan. 6 insurrection from several former Trump advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon. Through an attorney, Trump has instructed those advisers not to comply, arguing that such records are protected by “executive and other privileges.”
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was preparing for his sermon during services Saturday morning, a series of ceremonies on the final day of Passover, when he walked into his synagogue’s banquet hall and heard the deafening bang.
Only moments before, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, his friend of two decades and a pioneering congregant at Chabad of Poway, had stopped the rabbi to ask what time Yizkor would begin, a seasonal prayer meant to celebrate and remember those who have died. She and her husband were there with their 22-year-old daughter. They wanted to honor Kaye’s mother.
So when he heard the bang, Goldstein thought Kaye may have fallen, or that perhaps a table had toppled. When he turned to look, though, he saw not Kaye, but a man wearing sunglasses and holding an assault rifle.
“I couldn’t see his eyes,” the rabbi recalled later. “I couldn’t see his soul.”
Soon there were more bangs moving in his direction, which Goldstein said he realized were gunshots. The rabbi raised his hands and bullets badly mangled his fingers. Shrapnel injured two others, both Israeli nationals, before the shooter’s gun “miraculously jammed,” the rabbi said. A 19-year-old man, identified by authorities as John Earnest, was chased from the synagogue and fled in a car, witnesses said. He was eventually arrested.
Goldstein, bleeding badly from his hands, herded a group of young children outside, including his 4-year-old granddaughter. He made his way back into the banquet hall, where he finally found Kaye.
She was lying on the ground, unconscious, he said. Beside her was her husband, a physician who had tried to save her but fainted. The couple’s daughter emerged, screaming.
“It was the most heart-wrenching sight I could have seen,” Goldstein said. “I was frozen in time.”
Ultimately, the rabbi and the Israeli nationals survived their wounds. Kaye did not.
“In my own interpretation, Lori took the bullet for all of us. She died to protect all of us,” Goldstein said at a news conference Sunday afternoon. “This is Lori. This is her legacy, and her legacy will continue. It could have been so much worse.”
Just weeks before, Kaye and her husband had flown to New York to celebrate the wedding of Goldstein’s daughter. And she had been there for the rabbi decades ago, too, when he wanted to build his house of worship and needed financial support. She helped him secure a loan.
In her honor, and to combat anti-Semitism, the rabbi called on everyone to attend synagogue next week. “We need to fill up those rooms, we need to show them that terrorism and evil will never prevail,” he said. “Let’s fill up the synagogue, let’s stand tall, lets dance together.”
Flowers and signs sit at a memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue on April 28 in Poway, Calif. (Denis Poroy/AP)
“You were always running to do a mitzvah (good deed) and generously gave tzedaka (charity) to everyone,” Jacobs wrote.
The third shooting victim, Almog Peretz, was visiting from Israel. He was attending the Chabad synagogue with his family, who moved to San Diego eight years ago from the town of Sderot, along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, to escape the onslaught of rocket fire there.
Peretz, who still lives in Israel, told the local TV station Channel 12 that dodging rocket fire has become instinctual — and that those instincts helped him flee the bullets Saturday morning.
“A person with a big rifle, like an M16, entered the synagogue and started shooting everywhere,” Peretz told Channel 12 from his hospital bed. “At first we thought the ceiling had collapsed, but then I turned around and saw he was aiming his weapon at me.”
There were children next to him, Peretz said, so he took his three nieces and another girl and rushed them to a building in the back of the campus. As he scooped up one of the girls, the gunman fired toward Peretz, he said, hitting him in the leg.
One of Peretz’s nieces, Noya Dahan, 9, was injured in the face and leg by shrapnel and was treated at a hospital, her father told CNN.
“We’re shocked, it’s a little bit scary,” Israel Dahan said. “We’re all over the place.”
The family moved to the United States nearly a decade ago to escape violence and worship in peace. Then, a few years ago, their home was spray-painted with swastikas, Dahan told CNN. Now, the shooting.
Dahan told CNN that his children asked him Saturday, “Why are we staying here?”
At the news conference Sunday afternoon, the rabbi stood before reporters with his hands wrapped in bright blue bandages. The index finger on his right hand was missing, a permanent reminder he’ll have of the shooting, he said. He thanked the mayor of Poway and the sheriff’s department, and he thanked President Trump, too, for a 15-minute phone call that he said made him feel supported.
Then the rabbi took the opportunity, before a captive audience, to deliver the sermon that gunfire cut short Saturday morning.
“The prophecy of Isaiah,” he said, “is that the world is going to see a better day.”
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