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1 dead, 8 missing as
Marine vehicle sinks
One Marine is dead and seven
Marines and a sailor are missing
after a mishap Thursday night in
which an armored vehicle
designed to float took on water
off the coast of Southern
California and sunk in several
hundred feet of water,
authorities said Friday.
There were 15 Marines and a
Navy sailor in the vehicle
Thursday evening when it
started taking on water as it
traveled from the shores of San
Clemente Island to a Navy ship,
said Lt. Cameron H. Edinburgh,
a Marine Corps spokesman for
Camp Pendleton.
Of those who survived, two
Marines are in critical condition
and five have returned to their
unit at sea, officials said.
Military ships, small boats
and helicopters were searching
choppy seas Friday for the
missing amid moderate to strong
winds. The Navy-owned island is
about 70 miles from San Diego.
All of the Marines on the
vehicle, which resembles a
seafaring tank, were assigned to
the 15th Marine Expeditionary
Unit and were involved in a
routine military exercise, the
Marine Corps said.
Gen. David Berger, the
commandant of the Marine
Corps, announced that the Corps
will suspend all waterborne
operations in the vehicle
involved, a 26-ton amphibious
assault vehicle. They are
designed to carry up to 24 people
in assaults from ships to shore.
Thursday’s accident marks the
third time in less than a decade
that Camp Pendleton Marines
have been injured or died in
amphibious assault vehicles
during training exercises.
— Dan Lamothe
and Associated Press
MICHIGANJudge frees teen held
over schoolworkThe Michigan Court of
Appeals on Friday ordered the
release of a 15-year-old suburban
Detroit girl from a juvenile
facility where a county judge had
sent her for failing do her
schoolwork and because the
teenager was a threat to her
mother.
The court’s emergency order
called for the immediate release
of the girl into her mother’s
custody pending appeal or
further order by the appeals
court.
ProPublica reported that the
girl had been in Oakland
County’s Children’s Village since
mid-May for violating probation
in a case involving allegations of
assault and theft.
The girl is being called
“Grace” to protect her identity.
She was placed on probation inApril and, among other
requirements, was to complete
her schoolwork.
Grace, who has ADHD and
receives special-education
services, struggled with the
transition to online learning and
fell behind.
Oakland County Circuit Court
Judge Mary Ellen Brennan
initially cited a “failure to submit
to any schoolwork and getting
up for school” as a reason for her
decision to place the teen in
Children’s Village.
But Brennan said at a July 20
hearing in Pontiac that the girl
was placed in the juvenile
facility because she was a threat
to her mother.
Grace’s mother, who was
identified by ProPublica as
“Charisse,” testified at a hearing
in May that the teen was
handling her schoolwork more
responsibly and that her
daughter was behaving,
according to the publication.
— Associated PressDIGESTFRANK WIESE/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Firefighters work to douse hot spots after a devastating fire at the
Ashwood Apartments in North Coventry Township, Pa. The three-
alarm blaze, which began about 7 p.m. on Thursday, displaced about
100 residents of the complex. At least seven people, including three
firefighters, were injured, according to local news reports.Politics & the Nation
nobody else has been to their
house.
“My mom has underlying
health issues, so the whole point
of our bubble is to keep other
people away,” Cruz said. “It’s just
a fear of asking anybody to help
because we’ve been so careful. I
hope this isn’t a storm where
we’ll need the shutters.”
The hurricane could make a
second landfall in North Caroli-
na on Monday or Tuesday. Gov.
Roy Cooper (D) issued a state of
emergency for the storm. There
is a mandatory evacuation order
for Ocracoke Island starting at
6 a.m. Saturday. People needing
shelter will be screened for coro-
navirus symptoms and given per-
sonal protective equipment in-
cluding masks, Cooper said.
“With the right protection and
sheltering, we can keep people
safe from the storm while at the
same time trying to avoid mak-
ing the pandemic worse,” Cooper
wrote on Twitter. “A hurricane
during a pandemic is double
trouble. But the state has been
carefully preparing for this sce-
nario.”
There have been more than
122,000 confirmed coronaviruscases in North Carolina, which
set a state record for coronavi-
rus-related deaths in a single day
Wednesday.
In Florida, Palm Beach County
opened six emergency evacua-
tion shelters for people who live
in mobile homes or in substan-
dard housing. DeSantis said that
the state is prepared to open
shelters with coronavirus pre-
cautions and that the state had
created a reserve of personal
protective equipment for hurri-
cane season. DeSantis said it
includes 20 million masks,
22 million gloves and 20,
thermometers.
In Palm Beach County, shel-
ters will have new rules: Masksare mandatory, social distancing
will be enforced, health-care
workers will be on site, as will
more police officers, and corona-
virus-positive evacuees will be
separated, said Palm Beach
County Commissioner Dave
Kerner.
Kerner said people would be
screened before they enter the
shelters, which are at schools,
and will be handed a mask if they
don’t have one.
“The increased law enforce-
ment presence is because we
wanted to make sure that all the
rules are abided by, including
masks and social distancing,”
Kerner said.
The novel coronavirus is be-BY LORI ROZSAwest palm beach, fla. —
Residents along Florida’s east
coast on Friday prepared to deal
with dueling disasters — a hurri-
cane that threatened to side-
swipe the coast even as the novel
coronavirus continues to spread
in the state.
Hurricane warnings were
posted for Boca Raton north
through Brevard County on Fri-
day afternoon for Hurricane Isa-
ias, as the Category 1 storm
lashed the central Bahamas with
heavy wind and rain.
The warnings were posted as
the state reported 257 coronavi-
rus deaths Friday, setting a re-
cord for the fourth straight day.
The state also reported 9,
new coronavirus cases, bringing
Florida’s total to 470,386. Florida
is second only to California in the
number of coronavirus cases in
the United States.
The National Hurricane Cen-
ter in Miami shifted the cone of
Hurricane Isaias slightly closer
to the Florida coast Friday after-
noon. The storm had sustained
winds of 75 mph but was no
longer expected to strengthen
into a Category 2 hurricane.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who
declared a state of emergency
because of the pandemic on
March 9, declared another Friday
because of Hurricane Isaias, cov-
ering all of Florida’s Atlantic
coast counties, from Miami-
Dade in the south to Nassau in
the north.
“While current projections
have the eye of Isaias remaining
at sea, the situation remains
fluid and can change quickly,”
DeSantis said at a morning news
conference from the state’s
Emergency Operations Center.
Later in the day, DeSantis
traveled to Tampa to meet Presi-
dent Trump, who attended a
roundtable on the coronavirus
and storm preparedness.
The looming storm prompted
the state to suspend drive-
through and walk-up coronavi-
rus testing at dozens of sites
along Florida’s east coast, includ-
ing in Miami-Dade, Broward and
Palm Beach counties — which
have the majority of the state’s
coronavirus cases. The sites shut
down Thursday and won’t re-
open until Wednesday.
The threat of a hurricane dur-
ing a pandemic has put many
Floridians on edge. Ines Cruz has
been quarantining with her 84-
year-old mother and 9-year-old
daughter since the pandemic be-
gan and can hardly bring herself
to watch the news about the
hurricane.
lieved to spread most effectively
in close, indoor spaces with lots
of people and poor ventilation.
Evacuation shelters can often fit
that description.
The number of cases reported
each day in Florida has stayed
below 10,000 over the past week,
following weeks of growth to a
record 15,300 on July 12.
Kerner said Palm Beach Coun-
ty’s positivity rate has also been
dropping. He hopes the closure
of so many test sites ahead of the
hurricane doesn’t reverse the
trend. The county mandated that
people wear masks in public
places in June.
“I hope this storm doesn’t
present a bump in the road in
terms of our community re-
sponse,” Kerner said. “We’re
starting to see the effects of
robust mask-wearing and social
distancing, so I’ll be reminding
my constituents to remain vigi-
lant and cognizant that this is
going on in a pandemic, and we
don’t want to retreat from the
progress we’ve made.”
He said facing two emergen-
cies at once was a first for the
county.
“It’s certainly unprecedented,”
Kerner said. “It’s the first time
any of us in the [Emergency
Operations Center] are aware of
that we’ve had two separate
standing states of emergency for
two separate issues. But we’re
laser-focused on both. We’ll work
hard to take whatever is thrown
at us.”
Shanda Roberts, who lives in
Miami-Dade County, is from the
Bahamas, where many family
members still live. They were hit
hard by Hurricane Dorian last
year. This hurricane season, she
said, she can hardly keep up with
the news.
“I haven’t even paid much
attention to this storm. I’m too
busy trying to keep from getting
covid,” Roberts said. “I told my
husband the other day that may-
be we ought to get some stuff so
we’ll be prepared if the storm
hits, but honestly, I’m too busy
worrying about other things. It’s
just a bit much at this point.”
[email protected]Florida faces 2 emergencies: Hurricane and a pandemic
DANIEL A. VARELA/MIAMI HERALD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A coronavirus testing center at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., was closed because of the threat of Hurricane Isaias.
Testing was suspended at dozens of sites along Florida’s east coast until Wednesday. Find a video at wapo.st/EastCoastHurricane.“It’s just another thing to add
to the torture,” said Cruz, a
teacher in Palm Beach County.
“It’s another worry on top of
what we already had.”
She said her mother has been
cooking extra food in case the
electricity goes out, and she and
her daughter have been bringing
outdoor lawn furniture inside.
Cruz said they can’t put up the
hurricane shutters by them-
selves, but she’s reluctant to ask
for help because the three of
them have kept their family bub-
ble intact since March — and“It’s just another thing
to add to the torture.
It’s another worry
on top of what we
already had.”
Ines Cruz, a teacher
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