Firefighters bow to winds as California wildfires rage
Unrelenting Santa Ana winds drive Southern California fires across 600 square miles. Evacuations top 500000, with 1360 homes destroyed and at least one death reported earlier though later clarified. Schwarzenegger calls it a perfect fire storm as crews struggle to save structures.
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San Diego
California
Santa Ana
Kirk Humphries
Los Angeles
Rancho Santa Fe
Lake Arrowhead
Jim Gelrud
Vista
Calif
U.S. Forest Service
Santa Clarita
Luis Monteagudo
Discovery launches to build space station with seven aboard
NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral with a seven member crew on a high risk, multi month mission to assemble the international space station. The crew will install living compartments relocate a giant girder extend solar wings and test tile repair gear across five spacewalks. Peggy Whitson and Pamela Melroy lead as first female station and shuttle commanders.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Shuttle Discovery
NASA
Mike Leinbach
Discovery
International Space Station
Iowa
Peggy Whitson
Whitson
Clay Anderson
Anderson
Earth
House approves suicide prevention bill for veterans
Congress clears a death by own action prevention bill 417 to 0 to help veterans with mental health risk. It requires VA staff training and risk screening, counseling referrals, and a prevention counselor at each VA facility, named after Army reservist Jowan Joshua Oming. Senate obstacle from Sen. Coburn cited privacy and gun rights concerns.
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Washington
Congress
Bush
Iraq
Afghanistan
Bob Fisner
Dcalif
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
VA Inspector General
Veterans Health Administration
VHA
Leonard Boswell
Iowa
Boswell
Jowan Joshua Oming
Gundy Center
House
Senate
Tom Coburn
R-Okla
Coburn
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger
Monteagudo
Science
Dents
Space Operations
Bill Gerstenmaier
Air Force
Pamela Melroy
Kennedy Space Center
Wolfe Eye Clinic
Iowan’s
2Nd Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Todd W. Gothard
Wolfeeyeclinic.com
Clinique
Allure
Linic
Ionus Extra
Lindale Mall
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