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Nearly 46,000 still without power in Southeast Missouri

February 2, 2009 By

Nearly 46,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity in Southeast Missouri. That means about two thirds of the homes and businesses that lost power during last Monday’s ice storm are back online.

Storm damage in SE Missouri Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Susie Stonner says 38 shelters are serving about 1,500 people. Stonner says most of them are coming in for warmth and food and water but are not spending the night.

Stonner says getting everyone powered up is a time-consuming process since many of the downed lines run long distances through rural areas and about 6,000 poles snapped under the weight of the ice.

Since the outage caused several water-treatment plants to shut down, there is a boil-water order in effect throughout several of the areas … Stonner says this is a safety precautionary measure since when the plants go down, there is always a chance that bacteria could contaminate the water lines.

Six highway fatalities as a result of the storm have been confirmed … there may be more deaths caused by the severe weather pending confirmation by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

A new situation report is expected to be out after noon today. To visit the most current report, visit the SEMA Web page here.

 

Susie Stonner, State Emergency Management Agency, gives a situation update

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Washington University Selected As Site Of Presidential Debate

November 7, 2003 By

Washington University in St. Louis again has been chosen to host a presidential debate. This is the fourth consecutive time Washington University has been chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The debate in 2004 will be held October 8th in the university’s athletic complex. It will be the second of three presidential debates schedule for next year. Chancellor Mark Wrighton says Washington made its mark in hosting such debates in 1992, when – on short notice – the school put together a debate between President George Bush and his two challengers – Bill Clinton and Ross Perot – in their first televised encounter. The university also was chosen to host the 1996 debate between President Clinton and Republican Bob Dole, but Clinton declined the invitation.

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Bond Urges Support for President’s Iraq Plan

September 30, 2003 By

Missouri’s senior senator says there’s an urgent need to win the peace in Iraq. As Republicans and Democrats in Washington DC debate more money for the war in Iraq, Senator Bond chides some Democrats for not backing the $87 billion supplemental appropriation for the war by using the words of President Clinton, who in 1998, said Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction must be stopped and stopped now. Opponents say the Bush Administration does not have an adequate game plan for how the money would be used. But Bond counters it was a lack of doing anything to the terrorists all through the 1990s that put America in the position it is in today. Bond says great strides to win the war on terror were made in Afghanistan and Iraq, but now a new direction to win the peace needs to be taken. Bond says while terrorists in Iraq are shooting at US military members there, they are taking aim at US opinion, hoping Americans will weaken and cut and run. He says if we do that, they win.

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Bush Asked To Renominate White To Federal Bench

January 11, 2003 By

President Bush is being called on to renominate Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White to the federal bench. The request comes in a letter from St. Louis Congressmen Richard Gephardt and Lacy Clay. They would like to see the President appoint White to a vacancy on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when a vacancy comes up – and one is expected in April. White had been nominated for a federal judgeship in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, but he was rejected by the Senate at the urging of then-Senator and now Attorney General John Ashcroft, who criticized White’s opinions in death penalty cases.

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Ashcroft takes the hot seat

February 12, 2001 By

Former Missouri senator John Ashcroft held his first news conference today as the U.S. Attorney General. Ashcroft discussed his goals for the office, and asserted they were not a reaction to the criticisms against him, but were a reflection of the country’s present needs. Reporters also threw Ashcroft questions on his first hot potato, the Congressional request to grant immunity to Denise Rich in the probe into Bill Clinton’s pardon of her ex-husband, fugitive financier Marc Rich. Ashcroft says he tends to support Congress’ need for information, but has made no decision on the matter.

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