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Tornado warnings were issued in downtown Chicago yesterday because of the severe storm that forced baseball fans out of the stands at Wrigley Field. Club’s fan Jerry Goldman was among those who found themselves looking for a safe place to wait out the storm. "I was determining where is the safest place at Wrigley filed, if there was a tornado（龙卷风; 旋风） or is a tornado. Er, I would find myself hurdle with about 30 people, everybody hold each other with their lives down this rumple over here." Hundreds of flights had to be canceled at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The storm caused widespread power outages in two counties but no reported injures.
Presidential hopeful John McCain has taken aim at rival Barack Obama’s energy policy. Yesterday McCain toured a labeling plan to the Philadelphia suburbs. From member station WHYY Susan Philips has more.
John McCain attacked Barack Obama’s opposition to offshore drilling and nuclear energy. "We need to off shore drill for oil and natural gas, we need to drill here and we need to drill now. And anybody who says that we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing this existing energy resources either doesn’t have the experience to understand the challenge we face or isn’t giving the American people some straight talk." McCain made a brief unpublicized stop at a factory owned by a republican donor, he says it's companies like these that are suffering from high energy costs. McCain also challenged Obama to stop campaigning, in return to congress to come up with a bipartisan（两党的，代表两党的） solution to the energy crisis. For NPR News, I’m Susan Philips in Philadelphia.
Speaking in Lansing, Michigan, Barack Obama said his energy plan includes a possibility of limited new offshore drilling, taping the strategic petroleum reserve, both ideas which he once opposed. Obama also wants long-term work on hybrid cars and renewable energy resources.
A new report by the UN’s world food programs says hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayan country of Nepal are facing food shortages. Strikes, high fuel prices and severe weather have hampered efforts to get food to those most in need. The BBC’s Charles Haviland has this report from western Nepal.
Here and in much of western Nepal, many people are destitute, food prices at the nearest market, the morning’s walk-away have jumped up. The price of rice by up to 50% in a year, that of cooking oil by 30% in six months. The WFP and the government are feeding many, but some places are several days walk from the nearest road, while vehicles are hampered by a severe fuel shortage nationwide. Many families can only coat by eating less, selling their meager possessions or sending their man folk to India to find work. The BBC’s Charles Haviland in Nepal.
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The family of the man suspected in the 2001 anthrax killings is bracing for some unpleasant revelations, according to one source who’s been briefed on the investigations. NPR’s Laura Sullivan has more.
Doctor Bruce Ivins was having trouble. A therapist took out a restraining order against him, saying he threatened to kill her and his colleagues. His security clearance has been revoked just weeks before he committed suicide. But one source says the case against him will make him seem even more troubled, Ivins had split from some family members and he kept a post office box under an assumed name, though the source says it had nothing to do with the anthrax investigation. Some of Ivins’ friends and colleagues say they could never believe a friendly bookish man who loved to juggle could be responsible for the deaths of five people. But FBI officials have built a case, basing it largely on circumstantial evidence that Ivins had access to the anthrax, spent hours alone in the lab at suspect times, and had the ability to use it. Laura Sullivan, NPR News, Washington.
A military jury at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resumes testimony today in the trial of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama Ben Laden. The penal met for about 45 minutes yesterday. Prosecutors claimed that Hamdan helped Ben Laden execute the 9/11 attacks as well as other terrorist plots. The defense insisted there client was just a member of Ben Laden’s motor pool, but played no role in planning attacks. Hamdan who’s already been held as an enemy combatant could face up to life in prison if convicted of conspiracy（阴谋，密谋） and supporting terrorism.
I’m Shay Stevens, NPR News from Washington.
