Flooding cripples Miami area as storms inundate homes
Up to 18 inches of rain paralyzed the Miami area, closing schools and businesses and stranding thousands in waist high water. A man died attempting to patch a roof in Miami Beach as a tornado damaged a Hialeah fire station and about 30,000 homes and businesses lost power.
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Miami
Miami Beach
Claire Raymonvil
Fort Lauderdale
Magdalena Martinez
Opalocka
Hialeah
Bill Swank
Florida Power and Light
Notable events tied to dates from Oct 5 1830s to 1989
Chronology notes key moments: Chester Arthur born in Fairfield on Oct 5 1830. Dalton Gang thwarted in Coffeyville in 1892. Roosevelt quo warranting quarantine in 1937. Brandeis dies at 84 in 1941. Truman first TV White House speech in 1947. Warren sworn in as chief justice in 1953. Beatles Love Me Do 1962. Cross kidnapped in 1970. Hasenfus captured in 1986. Bakker conviction in 1989.
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Chester Arthur
Fairfield
Dalton Gang
Coffeyville
Kaw
Franklin Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Louis D. Brandeis
Washington
Truman
White House
Earl Warren
United States
Fred Vinson
United Kingdom
James Richard Cross
Canada
Quebec
Eugene Hasenfus
Nicaragua
Charlotte
N.C
PTL
Jim Bakker
Radiation may be speeding up wheat mutations near Chernobyl
A study by Ukrainian, British and Swiss scientists found wheat grown within two miles of the Chernobyl plant mutating faster than normal due to lingering radiation. While not signaling immediate danger, researchers warn DNA stability could be affected as global radiation exposure rises.
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Earth
Chernobyl
Chernobyl Power Plant
Senate approves act to fund cancer treatment for uninsured women
The Breast and Cervical Treatment Act would let states offer Medicaid reimbursement for treatment of breast and cervical cancer for uninsured women tied to a CDC screening program. It moves to the House with an estimated five year cost near 250 million dollars and broad support from lawmakers and the White House.
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Senate
Washington
House
Clinton
Centers For Disease Control
CDC
Shuttle Discovery set for 100th launch to ISS
Meteorologist John Weems puts launch weather odds at 60 percent as NASA hopes rain clears for Discovery's 9 38 p m EDT lift. Seven astronauts will attach steel framework and a docking port to the international space station in a complex construction flight.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
NASA
John Weems
Weems
Discovery
International Space Station
Shuttle
Ron Dittemore
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John Hays
Oregon State University
Olga Kovalchuk
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Basel
Switzerland
Nature
Ukraine
Britain
Sen
Lincoln Chafee
R R.L
N.lr
N.la
Walker
P Photo
Kennedy Space Center
Fla
Tanger
ACS
A.C.S
Outlet Center
Williamsburg
Eau
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