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They watched helplessly as propane tanks and firearms ammunition exploded through- out the 13-acre site while Kaiser medical staff, firefighters and law enforcement officials evacuated the adjacent hospital. Not long after the 2017 fire sub- sided, Judy Coffey, Kaiser’s head of operations in Santa Rosa, took Kaiser’s top executive, Bernard Tyson, to that same spot to see the destruction — three-quarters of the 160 mobile homes incin- erated. And two Journey’s End residents had died. “He was devastated when he saw it,” Coffey said of Tyson, who used to work in Santa Rosa several years ago. Before the devastating Tubbs fire, Journey’s End and Kaiser’s main Santa Rosa campus were neighbors, divided by a fence, ev- ergreen trees and a creek. Now, those who control both sites are hoping to forge closer ties. Earlier this month, Kaiser said Theresa Udall pauses Thursday in her home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park in Santa Rosa. Udall is now living in a granny unit next to a Bennett Valley Road home her daughter is renting. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Friday that it was suspending one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties with Russia, following five years of heated conversa- tions over accusations by the United States that Moscow is vio- lating the Reagan-era agreement. The decision has the potential to incite a new arms race — not only with Russia, but also with China, which was never a signatory to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, widely known as the INF. It also comes as the United States has begun building its first long-range nuclear weapons since 1991, a move that other nations are citing to justify their own nu- clear modernization efforts. Taken together, the two moves appear to signal the end of more than a half-century of traditional nuclear arms control, in which the key agreements were negoti- ated in Washington and Moscow. It is unclear whether President Donald Trump plans to replace the INF or to renew another ma- jor treaty, called New START, which drove American and Rus- sian nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels in nearly 60 years. That accord expires in 2021, just weeks after the next presidential inauguration. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the decision to suspend the accord, declaring that “countries must be held ac- countable when they break the rules.” “We can no longer be restrict- ed by the treaty while Rus- sia shamelessly violates it,” Pompeo said, adding that the United States would terminate the accord in six months unless Russia destroyed its growing ar- senal of intermediate-range mis- siles and launchers. Trump said later that “I hope we’re able to get everybody in a big, beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much bet- ter.” He did not define what he meant by “everybody.” Decision could fuel new, expensive arms race with Moscow and China By DAVID E. SANGER AND WILLIAM J. BROAD NEW YORK TIMES TURN TO TREATY » PAGE A2 By MARTIN ESPINOZA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT TURN TO HOME » PAGE A10 JOURNEY’S END » APARTMENT PROJECT SANTA ROSA High 56, Low 47 THE WEATHER, C8 Advice B7 Business B8 Classified D5 Comics B6 Crossword B7 Editorial A8 Lotto A2 Movies D2 Nation-World B1 Obituaries B3 State news A6 Sonoma Home D1 ©2019 The Press Democrat FUGITIVE CHIROPRACTOR: SR man who disappeared nearly on eve of conviction makes first appearance in court on Friday. / A3 INSIDE 2 held in man’s fatal beating Santa Rosa police suspect a 50-year-old homeless man was beaten to death in a littered auto repair shop parking lot Thurs- day night by two men who ac- cused him of stealing a bicycle, Police Lt. John Cregan said. The man’s death launched the city’s first homicide investiga- tion of the year, sending officers to a crime scene nestled between a busy portion of Piner Road near Highway 101 and a creek trail frequented by residents, homeless people and nearby workers. One suspect, William Ar- mister Amons, 62, of San Francisco, was arrested mo- ments after po- lice responded to the attack, reported by a woman who called 911 at about 9:40 p.m. at the El Brinquito restaurant and said a man was being “beaten with a stick” behind a nearby business, according to authorities. Amons was riding a bicycle near a 7-Eleven about a half- mile west of the crime scene when he was found by police. He had injuries that suggest- ed he was in a recent fight, au- thorities said. He also matched the description provided by the woman who called police, a de- partment press release said. Witness interviews led offi- cers to search for a second sus- pect in the case, identified as Police: Suspects in jail aſter argument over bike leads to city’s 1st homocide By NASHELLY CHAVEZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT TURN TO HOMICIDE » PAGE A7 SANTA ROSA William Amons McConnell cautions Trump about border wall WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo- nnell cautioned President Don- ald Trump privately this week about the consequences of de- claring a national emergency to build his border wall, telling him the move could trigger po- litical blowback and divide the GOP, accord- ing to two Republicans with knowledge of the exchange. McConnell, R-Kentucky, told Trump that Con- gress might end up pass- ing a resolution disap- proving the emergency declaration, the people said — which would force the president to contem- plate issuing his first veto ever, in face of op- position from his own party. McConnell delivered the message during a face-to-face meeting with the president Tues- day at the White House, according to the Repub- licans, who requested anonym- ity to describe the encounter. The two men met alone, and conversed with no aides pres- ent. Their meeting was not pub- licly announced. The majority leader’s com- ments to the president came amid rising GOP concerns over the fallout if Trump were to de- clare a national emergency that By SEAN SULLIVAN AND ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON POST TURN TO MCCONNELL » PAGE A2 Mitch McConnell
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2019 • SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA • PRESSDEMOCRAT.COM
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US halts Russia nuclear treaty
PHOTOS BY KENT PORTER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Volker Strifler of Burbank Housing walks past a mobile home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park adjacent to Kaiser Permanente on Jan. 28. The home was partially burned by the intense heat of the Tubbs fire.
Hopes to raise mobile home park from ashes
Kaiser donates $1.6M toward affordable housing on destroyed property
Nearly 16 months ago a handful of people stood atop the three-story park-
ing garage at Kaiser Permanen-te’s Santa Rosa hospital, awe-struck as they witnessed flames from the Tubbs fire destroy their trailers at Journey’s End mobile home park.
They watched helplessly as propane tanks and firearms ammunition exploded through-out the 13-acre site while Kaiser medical staff, firefighters and law enforcement officials evacuated the adjacent hospital.
Not long after the 2017 fire sub-sided, Judy Coffey, Kaiser’s head
of operations in Santa Rosa, took Kaiser’s top executive, Bernard Tyson, to that same spot to see the destruction — three-quarters of the 160 mobile homes incin-erated. And two Journey’s End residents had died.
“He was devastated when he saw it,” Coffey said of Tyson, who used to work in Santa Rosa several years ago.
Before the devastating Tubbs fire, Journey’s End and Kaiser’s main Santa Rosa campus were neighbors, divided by a fence, ev-ergreen trees and a creek. Now, those who control both sites are hoping to forge closer ties.
Earlier this month, Kaiser said Theresa Udall pauses Thursday in her home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park in Santa Rosa. Udall is now living in a granny unit next to a Bennett Valley Road home her daughter is renting.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Friday that it was suspending one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties with Russia, following
five years of heated conversa-tions over accusations by the United States that Moscow is vio-lating the Reagan-era agreement.
The decision has the potential to incite a new arms race — not only with Russia, but also with China, which was never a signatory to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, widely known as the INF.
It also comes as the United States has begun building its first long-range nuclear weapons since
1991, a move that other nations are citing to justify their own nu-clear modernization efforts.
Taken together, the two moves appear to signal the end of more than a half-century of traditional nuclear arms control, in which the key agreements were negoti-ated in Washington and Moscow.
It is unclear whether President Donald Trump plans to replace the INF or to renew another ma-jor treaty, called New START, which drove American and Rus-
sian nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels in nearly 60 years. That accord expires in 2021, just weeks after the next presidential inauguration.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the decision to suspend the accord, declaring that “countries must be held ac-countable when they break the rules.”
“We can no longer be restrict-ed by the treaty while Rus-sia shamelessly violates it,”
Pompeo said, adding that the United States would terminate the accord in six months unless Russia destroyed its growing ar-senal of intermediate-range mis-siles and launchers.
Trump said later that “I hope we’re able to get everybody in a big, beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much bet-ter.” He did not define what he meant by “everybody.”
Decision could fuel new, expensive arms race with Moscow and ChinaBy DAVID E. SANGER AND WILLIAM J. BROADNEW YORK TIMES
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2 held in man’s fatal beating
Santa Rosa police suspect a 50-year-old homeless man was beaten to death in a littered auto repair shop parking lot Thurs-day night by two men who ac-cused him of stealing a bicycle, Police Lt. John Cregan said.
The man’s death launched the city’s first homicide investiga-tion of the year, sending officers to a crime scene nestled between a busy portion of Piner Road near Highway 101 and a creek trail frequented by residents, homeless people and nearby workers.
One suspect, William Ar-mister Amons, 62, of San Francisco, was arrested mo-ments after po-lice responded to the attack, reported by a woman who called 911 at about 9:40 p.m. at the El Brinquito restaurant and said a man was being “beaten with a stick” behind a nearby business, according to authorities.
Amons was riding a bicycle near a 7-Eleven about a half-mile west of the crime scene when he was found by police. He had injuries that suggest-ed he was in a recent fight, au-thorities said. He also matched the description provided by the woman who called police, a de-partment press release said.
Witness interviews led offi-cers to search for a second sus-pect in the case, identified as
Police: Suspects in jail after argument over bike leads to city’s 1st homocideBy NASHELLY CHAVEZTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT
TURN TO HOMICIDE » PAGE A7
SANTA ROSA
William Amons
McConnell cautions Trump about border wall
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo-nnell cautioned President Don-ald Trump privately this week about the consequences of de-claring a national emergency to build his border wall, telling him the move could trigger po-
litical blowback and divide the GOP, accord-ing to two Republicans with knowledge of the exchange.
McConnell, R-Kentucky, told Trump that Con-gress might end up pass-ing a resolution disap-proving the emergency declaration, the people said — which would force the
president to contem-plate issuing his first veto ever, in face of op-position from his own party.
McConnell delivered the message during a face-to-face meeting with the president Tues-day at the White House, according to the Repub-
licans, who requested anonym-
ity to describe the encounter. The two men met alone, and conversed with no aides pres-ent. Their meeting was not pub-licly announced.
The majority leader’s com-ments to the president came amid rising GOP concerns over the fallout if Trump were to de-clare a national emergency that
By SEAN SULLIVAN AND ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON POST
TURN TO MCCONNELL » PAGE A2
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