Weather Update From National Weather Service Forecast
The National Weather Service calls for rain across parts of Washington State and showers from Texas to South Carolina plus West Virginia Virginia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Tennessee Ohio Pennsylvania and Maryland. Today features variable cloudiness with a 40 percent shower or thunderstorm chance and highs in the low to mid 80s. Tonight remains mostly cloudy with a 50 percent shower or thunderstorm chance and lows in the mid to upper 60s. Wednesday brings 50 percent showers with highs 75 to 80. Tomorrow stays mostly cloudy with a 50 percent shower chance and highs 75 to 80. The next two days look fair with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.
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Storms cause flooding and outages across Appalachia and Oklahoma
Thunderstorms swept the central Appalachians with one death and widespread damage. In West Virginia minor flooding closed some Jackson County homes and halted classes for two hours. Oklahoma saw evacuations in Avant and Skiatook as Bird Creek rose, while Barnsdall highways partly closed. Kentucky reported 60 mph winds, 3 inches of rain, and a mobile home fire from a fallen tree, with thousands losing power in Jefferson County.
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Kidnapped American professor seized in Beirut ambush
A car carrying American University of Beirut dean Thomas Sutherland was ambushed by gunmen who fired on the vehicle, dragged him away, and abducted him. The incident raises Westerners missing in Lebanon to 12, with Sutherland, a Scot born dean from Fort Collins, Colorado, identified as the eighth U.S. kidnapping since March 1984.
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Walesa accuses police of provocation in court
Lech Walesa testified for 50 minutes in Gdansk defending three Solidarity colleagues, saying they are innocent of inciting unrest and accusing authorities of altering evidence. He led protests outside the courthouse, warning of growing lawlessness and police provocation while defending defendants Michnik Lis and Frasyniuk.
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Communists Loss on Italy Living Cost Referendum Shifts Craxi
In Rome voters rejected a Communist backed referendum for automatic pay raises tied to living costs by 54.3 to 45.7 percent. Interior Ministry final returns show 18.39 million to 15.45 million after a Sunday and Monday ballot. Prime Minister Bettino Craxi avoids a blow to his inflation program.
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