Californians accustomed to complaining about the slightest change in the weather welcomed a robust weekend storm that soaked the northern half of the drought-stricken state Saturday even as rain and snow brought the threat of avalanches, flooding and rock slides.
The storm that moved in Friday had dropped more than 7 inches of rain on Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais, an average of 4 inches in Sonoma County and one to three inches in San Francisco, San Jose and other urban areas, National Weather Service hydrologist Mark Strudley said.
The downpour by itself will not solve the state’s drought worries, however, Strudley said.
— Associated Press
GEORGIA
Huge blaze contained but still burning
Fire officials said a huge fire at the Port of Savannah in Georgia is contained but could take a while to burn out.
Savannah Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Mark Keller said the fire, fueled by 5,600 tons of rubber, is contained, but there’s no telling how long it will take to burn out.He said firefighters were using industrial pumps to draw up river water and blast it through water cannons at the fire.
The fire was burning inside a warehouse covering 226,000 square feet at the port’s Ocean Terminal just west of downtown Savannah. All of the port’s workers were accounted for and unharmed.
— Associated Press
ARIZONA
Suit challenging Medicaid plan tossed
A lawsuit challenging Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan that was filed by fellow Republicans in the state legislature was dismissed in a ruling released Saturday, handing Brewer a major victory in her battle against conservative members of her own party.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper agreed with Brewer that the lawmakers challenging the law did not have the right to sue, saying that their argument — that a hospital assessment included in House Bill 2010 that passed in June required a supermajority vote of the Legislature under Arizona’s Constitution — was incorrect.
— Associated Press
Former mayor Daley leaves hospital: Former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley left a hospital Saturday after more than a week of tests to determine why he was feeling ill and disoriented during a business trip. Daley, 71, smiled and waved but did not stop to speak to the large crowd of reporters and videographers waiting outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago.Fewer seniors in poverty: Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “war on poverty,” the percentage of seniors nationwide living below the poverty line has plummeted from 27 percent to 9 percent, according to an Akron Beacon Journal analysis of census data. Today, there are 3.7 million seniors living in poverty, compared with 5.2 million in 1969, the Ohio newspaper said.
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