WEARY CAROLINAS HURRICANE DRUBS CHURNING NORTH, · 2019-09-06 · fortunate yet again, Mr. Scaff...
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VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,442 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 U(D54G1D)y+%!]!\!#!; CHARLESTON, S.C. — After its deadly rampage across the Baha- mas and brush of Florida, Hurri- cane Dorian pounded the Car- olinas on Thursday as its center closed in on Cape Fear, N.C., sow- ing fear and worry from the ele- gant streets of downtown Charles- ton to the jigsaw puzzle that is North Carolina’s barrier islands. Though thousands of residents had evacuated the region at the urging of government officials, many others stayed behind, where they endured tornadoes, power failures, flooding and tree- toppling winds. In low-lying Charleston, the water was knee- high in some streets, though by late afternoon, Shannon F. Scaff, the director of emergency man- agement, said that the city of 136,000 had largely avoided major catastrophe. “We got hit more than we have in other storms, but anybody fa- miliar with Charleston would probably agree that we got very fortunate yet again,” Mr. Scaff said. Farther north, where the Cate- gory 2 hurricane’s bands were just starting to be felt, there was lin- gering concern over winds that reached 105 miles per hour, as well as a kind of war-weariness for a region still rebuilding from last year’s Hurricane Florence. In the South Carolina coastal fishing village of McClellanville, the oysterman and bartender Pete Kornack was taking Dorian seriously as it churned closer to him Thursday morning. But this time, he decided to stay put. “I’m not running anymore,” said Mr. Kornack, 52, whose mother-in-law is in her 80s and does not travel as well as she used to. It was tiresome, he said, to live constantly in the cross hairs. He had lived through so many storms he mixed up their names, saying, “It’s like someone points a cannon at you and says, ‘We might pull the trigger, we might push the button.’ It’s a bad feeling. It’s just trauma.” In the Bahamas, where some neighborhoods were reduced to rubble, the trauma was even more acute, with 30 deaths confirmed and authorities fearing many more. The death count “could be staggering,” Duane Sands, the minister of health, said on Thurs- day. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida declared Dorian a “close call” on Thursday, and the storm became a Carolina problem. Hurricanes are the great, grim, incessant force of the coast of the Carolinas, a recurring source of heartbreak and death that have influenced the course of the re- gion’s history. From 1851 until last year, 382 “tropical cyclone events” affected North Carolina alone, ei- ther making landfall or signifi- cantly affecting the state without CHURNING NORTH, HURRICANE DRUBS WEARY CAROLINAS TORNADOES AND FLOODS Worry but Some Relief in a Region Accustomed to Storm Trauma By RICHARD FAUSSET and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Continued on Page A14 LONDON — They have the same shock of blindingly blond and slightly disheveled hair. They grew up in the same hypercom- petitive, overachieving family that held dinner table debates where cleverness was the coin of the realm. They were on opposite sides of the 2016 Brexit referen- dum but patched things up after- ward, as the right sort of people do. In short, the brothers Johnson, Boris and Jo, always had each oth- er’s back. Until Thursday, anyway, when Jo Johnson announced his resignation, both from his seat in the British Parliament and from the Conservative government that his brother leads. His resignation, coming near the end of a disastrous week for his brother, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, seemed timed to inflict maximum pain. It felt Shakespearean, even Freudian, but in the end it may have been a simple act of con- science. “In recent weeks I’ve been torn between family loyalty and the na- tional interest,” Jo Johnson, 47, wrote in a Twitter post. “It’s an un- resolvable tension & time for oth- ers to take on my roles as MP & Minister.” The resignation punctuated what has been, by some meas- ures, one of the most miserable Et Tu, Jo? A Painful Twist as Johnson’s Brother Quits Parliament By STEPHEN CASTLE Continued on Page A8 NASSAU, the Bahamas — The roof had blown clean off. Outside, the ocean surged, swallowing the land. Brent Lowe knew he had to escape — and take his 24-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy and can’t walk, with him. But Mr. Lowe had another prob- lem. He’s blind. So he put his grown son on his shoulders, then stepped off his porch, he said. The swirling cur- rent outside came up to his chin. “It was scary, so scary,” said Mr. Lowe, 49. Clutching neighbors, he said he felt his way to the closest home still standing. It was five minutes — an eternity — away. Stories of unlikely survival have slowly emerged in the days since Hurricane Dorian hit the Ba- hamas, pummeling the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for days before moving toward the Atlantic Seaboard. While the damage has been vis- ible from above, the full human toll is still far from certain, with 30 deaths confirmed so far and the authorities warning that the real number may be much higher. The death count “could be stag- gering,” Dr. Duane Sands, the minister of health, said on Thurs- day. Some neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, almost entirely flattened by the storm. In others, 95 percent of homes have been damaged or destroyed. Thousands of people are now homeless, taking refuge in gym- nasiums or churches, and the au- thorities are bracing for an influx of bodies as the extent of the de- struction becomes clear. “We are embalming bodies so that we have more capacity as new bodies are brought in,” Dr. Sands said. “We need to get cool- ers into Abaco and Grand Baha- ma, because we believe that we may not have the capacity to store the bodies.” Sandra Cooke, a resident of Nassau, the capital, said her sis- ter-in-law had been trapped under a collapsed roof in the Abaco Is- lands. At first, her brother couldn’t find his wife — then the family dog detected her in the rubble. When there was a break in the storm, Blind and Wading, Son in Tow, to Relative Safety By RACHEL KNOWLES Recovering items in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian pounded the area for days before moving toward the U.S. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Continued on Page A5 Harrowing Stories of Survival Seep Out of Ravaged Bahamas WASHINGTON — President Trump’s decision to renew talks with China in the coming weeks sent financial markets soaring on Thursday, as investors seized on the development as a sign that both sides could still find a way out of an economically damaging trade war. The rally sent the S&P 500 up more than 1 percent, underscoring just how much financial markets are subsisting on hopes and fears about the trade war. Shares fell through most of August, as Mr. Trump escalated his fight with China and imposed more tariffs, only to snap back on Thursday af- ter news of the talks. But expectations for progress remain low, and many in the United States and China see the best outcome as a continued stale- mate that would prevent a col- lapse in relations before the 2020 election. Both Mr. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China are under pressure from domestic au- diences to stand tough, and the talks will happen after Mr. Trump’s next round of punishing tariffs take effect on Oct. 1. “Continuing to talk soothes markets a little bit,” said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the China division at the International Monetary Fund. “But the political cost to making major concessions is, I think, too high for either side.” The skepticism stems in part from what is emerging as a famil- iar pattern for Mr. Trump, for whom China is both a source of leverage and a potential vulnera- bility heading into an election year. The president has so far im- posed tariffs on more than $350 billion worth of Chinese goods and routinely shifts from blasting China and threatening additional punishment to trying to calm the waters in the face of jittery mar- kets and negative economic news. Over two weeks, Mr. Trump has called Mr. Xi an enemy of Amer- ica, ordered companies to stop do- ing business in China and sug- gested the United States was in no rush to reach a trade deal. On Sun- day, he moved ahead with his threat to eventually tax every golf club, shoe and computer China sends into the United States, plac- ing tariffs on another $112 billion of Chinese goods. Stock investors have zeroed in on the threat the trade war poses to the economy, buying and selling in tandem with Mr. Trump’s trade whims. Thursday’s rally was the fifth positive performance for the market in the past six sessions. It Continued on Page A6 Investors Take Solace in News Of China Talks Stocks Soar, but Hopes Dim for Trade Deal By ANA SWANSON and MATT PHILLIPS WASHINGTON — For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennes- see border, have borne the brunt of the country’s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Spe- cial Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. This week, the families discov- ered that they would not get the new middle school they were ex- pecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall. The Pentagon’s decision to di- vert $62.6 million from the con- struction of Fort Campbell’s mid- dle school means that 552 stu- dents in sixth, seventh and eighth grades will continue to cram themselves in, 30 to a classroom in some cases, at the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teach- ers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and home- work assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms Aging School Loses Funding To Border Wall By HELENE COOPER Continued on Page A12 The first stop on the pope’s African visit was Mozambique, where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fast. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Pope Gets Glimpse of Future Honda workers are building a $50,000 Acura sports sedan that comes only in Valencia red. Wheels. PAGE B6 BUSINESS B1-7 A Red Army in Ohio We take a look at some young photogra- phers who are trying to give a broader view of black lives. Above, “Untitled (Twins II)” by Tyler Mitchell. PAGE C11 WEEKEND ARTS C1-20 A More Diverse Outlook An Education Department investigation determined the school failed to report and address claims of sexual abuse by a former team doctor. PAGE A13 Michigan St. Fined $4.5 Million As always, the city is teeming with rats. In Brooklyn, they’re trying a new way to get rid of them. PAGE A18 NEW YORK A17-19 Declaring War on Rats. Again. President Trump gave the Lakers star Jerry West a Medal of Freedom, hon- oring a long-retired standout from a league whose current stars have re- fused to visit his White House. PAGE B9 Trump Honors N.B.A. Great David Brooks PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 A jury acquitted one man and could not reach a decision on a second man’s role in a deadly warehouse blaze. PAGE A13 NATIONAL A11-16 Acquittal in Ghost Ship Trial Joichi Ito gave himself some ad- vice in 2008: “Reminder to self,” he wrote on Twitter. “Don’t invest with or take money from creeps,” although he used an earthier term. Then, over the next decade, he accepted about $1.7 million from Jeffrey Epstein. That money from Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in jail last month while fac- ing federal sex-trafficking charges, was split between Mr. Ito’s own investment funds and the prestigious center he leads at M.I.T., the Media Lab. His apology last month prompted two academ- ics to announce plans to leave and led to calls for Mr. Ito to step down from the lab, an institution that is proudly indifferent to scholarly credentials and seeks a future marrying technology and social conscience. On Wednesday, at a meeting billed in an email as the start of “a process of dialogue and recovery” that two attendees said had begun with a group breathing exercise, the rift was unexpectedly pulled open just as it appeared to be clos- ing. Roughly 200 people gathered to address the lingering anger at Mr. Ito — a tech evangelist whose net- working skills landed him in the White House to discuss artificial intelligence with President Barack Obama and prompted the psychedelic proselytizer Timothy Leary to call him his godson. Mr. Ito, who has helped the lab raise at least $50 million, revealed that he had taken $525,000 from Mr. Ep- Epstein Donations Create Schism At M.I.T.’s Prestigious Media Lab This article is by Tiffany Hsu, Marc Tracy and Erin Griffith. Continued on Page A16 In a tight labor market, companies are recruiting stay-at-home parents, retir- ees and people with disabilities. 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CHARLESTON, S.C. — After itsdeadly rampage across the Baha-mas and brush of Florida, Hurri-cane Dorian pounded the Car-olinas on Thursday as its centerclosed in on Cape Fear, N.C., sow-ing fear and worry from the ele-gant streets of downtown Charles-ton to the jigsaw puzzle that isNorth Carolina’s barrier islands.
Though thousands of residentshad evacuated the region at theurging of government officials,many others stayed behind,where they endured tornadoes,power failures, flooding and tree-toppling winds. In low-lyingCharleston, the water was knee-high in some streets, though bylate afternoon, Shannon F. Scaff,the director of emergency man-agement, said that the city of136,000 had largely avoided majorcatastrophe.
“We got hit more than we havein other storms, but anybody fa-miliar with Charleston wouldprobably agree that we got veryfortunate yet again,” Mr. Scaffsaid.
Farther north, where the Cate-gory 2 hurricane’s bands were juststarting to be felt, there was lin-gering concern over winds thatreached 105 miles per hour, as wellas a kind of war-weariness for aregion still rebuilding from lastyear’s Hurricane Florence.
In the South Carolina coastalfishing village of McClellanville,the oysterman and bartenderPete Kornack was taking Dorianseriously as it churned closer tohim Thursday morning. But thistime, he decided to stay put.
“I’m not running anymore,”said Mr. Kornack, 52, whosemother-in-law is in her 80s anddoes not travel as well as she usedto. It was tiresome, he said, to liveconstantly in the cross hairs. Hehad lived through so many stormshe mixed up their names, saying,“It’s like someone points a cannonat you and says, ‘We might pull thetrigger, we might push the button.’It’s a bad feeling. It’s just trauma.”
In the Bahamas, where someneighborhoods were reduced torubble, the trauma was even moreacute, with 30 deaths confirmedand authorities fearing manymore. The death count “could bestaggering,” Duane Sands, theminister of health, said on Thurs-day.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Floridadeclared Dorian a “close call” onThursday, and the storm became aCarolina problem.
Hurricanes are the great, grim,incessant force of the coast of theCarolinas, a recurring source ofheartbreak and death that haveinfluenced the course of the re-gion’s history. From 1851 until lastyear, 382 “tropical cyclone events”affected North Carolina alone, ei-ther making landfall or signifi-cantly affecting the state without
CHURNING NORTH, HURRICANE DRUBS WEARY CAROLINAS
TORNADOES AND FLOODS
Worry but Some Relief ina Region Accustomed
to Storm Trauma
By RICHARD FAUSSET and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
Continued on Page A14
LONDON — They have thesame shock of blindingly blondand slightly disheveled hair. Theygrew up in the same hypercom-petitive, overachieving familythat held dinner table debateswhere cleverness was the coin ofthe realm. They were on opposite
sides of the 2016 Brexit referen-dum but patched things up after-ward, as the right sort of peopledo.
In short, the brothers Johnson,Boris and Jo, always had each oth-er’s back. Until Thursday, anyway,when Jo Johnson announced hisresignation, both from his seat inthe British Parliament and fromthe Conservative government
that his brother leads.His resignation, coming near
the end of a disastrous week forhis brother, Prime Minister BorisJohnson, seemed timed to inflictmaximum pain.
It felt Shakespearean, evenFreudian, but in the end it mayhave been a simple act of con-science.
“In recent weeks I’ve been torn
between family loyalty and the na-tional interest,” Jo Johnson, 47,wrote in a Twitter post. “It’s an un-resolvable tension & time for oth-ers to take on my roles as MP &Minister.”
The resignation punctuatedwhat has been, by some meas-ures, one of the most miserable
Et Tu, Jo? A Painful Twist as Johnson’s Brother Quits ParliamentBy STEPHEN CASTLE
Continued on Page A8
NASSAU, the Bahamas — Theroof had blown clean off. Outside,the ocean surged, swallowing theland. Brent Lowe knew he had toescape — and take his 24-year-oldson, who has cerebral palsy andcan’t walk, with him.
But Mr. Lowe had another prob-lem. He’s blind.
So he put his grown son on hisshoulders, then stepped off hisporch, he said. The swirling cur-rent outside came up to his chin.
“It was scary, so scary,” said Mr.Lowe, 49.
Clutching neighbors, he said hefelt his way to the closest homestill standing. It was five minutes— an eternity — away.
Stories of unlikely survivalhave slowly emerged in the dayssince Hurricane Dorian hit the Ba-hamas, pummeling the islands of
Grand Bahama and Abaco fordays before moving toward theAtlantic Seaboard.
While the damage has been vis-ible from above, the full humantoll is still far from certain, with 30deaths confirmed so far and theauthorities warning that the realnumber may be much higher.
The death count “could be stag-gering,” Dr. Duane Sands, theminister of health, said on Thurs-day.
Some neighborhoods have beenreduced to rubble, almost entirelyflattened by the storm. In others,95 percent of homes have been
damaged or destroyed.Thousands of people are now
homeless, taking refuge in gym-nasiums or churches, and the au-thorities are bracing for an influxof bodies as the extent of the de-struction becomes clear.
“We are embalming bodies sothat we have more capacity asnew bodies are brought in,” Dr.Sands said. “We need to get cool-ers into Abaco and Grand Baha-ma, because we believe that wemay not have the capacity to storethe bodies.”
Sandra Cooke, a resident ofNassau, the capital, said her sis-ter-in-law had been trapped undera collapsed roof in the Abaco Is-lands.
At first, her brother couldn’tfind his wife — then the family dogdetected her in the rubble. Whenthere was a break in the storm,
Blind and Wading, Son in Tow, to Relative SafetyBy RACHEL KNOWLES
Recovering items in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian pounded the area for days before moving toward the U.S.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Continued on Page A5
Harrowing Stories ofSurvival Seep Out of
Ravaged Bahamas
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s decision to renew talkswith China in the coming weekssent financial markets soaring onThursday, as investors seized onthe development as a sign thatboth sides could still find a wayout of an economically damagingtrade war.
The rally sent the S&P 500 upmore than 1 percent, underscoringjust how much financial marketsare subsisting on hopes and fearsabout the trade war. Shares fellthrough most of August, as Mr.Trump escalated his fight withChina and imposed more tariffs,only to snap back on Thursday af-ter news of the talks.
But expectations for progressremain low, and many in theUnited States and China see thebest outcome as a continued stale-mate that would prevent a col-lapse in relations before the 2020election. Both Mr. Trump andPresident Xi Jinping of China areunder pressure from domestic au-diences to stand tough, and thetalks will happen after Mr.Trump’s next round of punishingtariffs take effect on Oct. 1.
“Continuing to talk soothesmarkets a little bit,” said EswarPrasad, the former head of theChina division at the InternationalMonetary Fund. “But the politicalcost to making major concessionsis, I think, too high for either side.”
The skepticism stems in partfrom what is emerging as a famil-iar pattern for Mr. Trump, forwhom China is both a source ofleverage and a potential vulnera-bility heading into an electionyear. The president has so far im-posed tariffs on more than $350billion worth of Chinese goods androutinely shifts from blastingChina and threatening additionalpunishment to trying to calm thewaters in the face of jittery mar-kets and negative economic news.
Over two weeks, Mr. Trump hascalled Mr. Xi an enemy of Amer-ica, ordered companies to stop do-ing business in China and sug-gested the United States was in norush to reach a trade deal. On Sun-day, he moved ahead with histhreat to eventually tax every golfclub, shoe and computer Chinasends into the United States, plac-ing tariffs on another $112 billionof Chinese goods.
Stock investors have zeroed inon the threat the trade war posesto the economy, buying and sellingin tandem with Mr. Trump’s tradewhims. Thursday’s rally was thefifth positive performance for themarket in the past six sessions. It
Continued on Page A6
Investors TakeSolace in News Of China Talks
Stocks Soar, but HopesDim for Trade Deal
By ANA SWANSONand MATT PHILLIPS
WASHINGTON — For almosttwo decades, families at FortCampbell, the sprawling Armybase along the Kentucky-Tennes-see border, have borne the bruntof the country’s war efforts as asteady clip of troops with the 101stAirborne Division and from Spe-cial Operations units deployed toAfghanistan and Iraq.
This week, the families discov-ered that they would not get thenew middle school they were ex-pecting so that President Trumpcould build his border wall. Theschool is on the list of 127 projects,touching nearly every facet ofAmerican military life, that will besuspended to shift $3.6 billion tothe wall.
The Pentagon’s decision to di-vert $62.6 million from the con-struction of Fort Campbell’s mid-dle school means that 552 stu-dents in sixth, seventh and eighthgrades will continue to cramthemselves in, 30 to a classroom insome cases, at the base’s agingMahaffey Middle School. Teach-ers at Mahaffey will continue touse mobile carts to store theirbooks, lesson plans and home-work assignments because thereis not enough classroom space.Students stuffed into makeshiftclassrooms-within-classrooms
Aging SchoolLoses FundingTo Border Wall
By HELENE COOPER
Continued on Page A12
The first stop on the pope’s African visitwas Mozambique, where the RomanCatholic Church is growing fast. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Pope Gets Glimpse of FutureHonda workers are building a $50,000Acura sports sedan that comes only inValencia red. Wheels. PAGE B6
BUSINESS B1-7
A Red Army in OhioWe take a look at some young photogra-phers who are trying to give a broaderview of black lives. Above, “Untitled(Twins II)” by Tyler Mitchell. PAGE C11
WEEKEND ARTS C1-20
A More Diverse OutlookAn Education Department investigationdetermined the school failed to reportand address claims of sexual abuse by aformer team doctor. PAGE A13
Michigan St. Fined $4.5 Million
As always, the city is teeming with rats.In Brooklyn, they’re trying a new wayto get rid of them. PAGE A18
NEW YORK A17-19
Declaring War on Rats. Again.
President Trump gave the Lakers starJerry West a Medal of Freedom, hon-oring a long-retired standout from aleague whose current stars have re-fused to visit his White House. PAGE B9
Trump Honors N.B.A. Great
David Brooks PAGE A23
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
A jury acquitted one man and could notreach a decision on a second man’s rolein a deadly warehouse blaze. PAGE A13
NATIONAL A11-16
Acquittal in Ghost Ship Trial
Joichi Ito gave himself some ad-vice in 2008: “Reminder to self,”he wrote on Twitter. “Don’t investwith or take money from creeps,”although he used an earthierterm.
Then, over the next decade, heaccepted about $1.7 million fromJeffrey Epstein.
That money from Mr. Epstein,the disgraced financier who killedhimself in jail last month while fac-ing federal sex-traffickingcharges, was split between Mr.Ito’s own investment funds andthe prestigious center he leads atM.I.T., the Media Lab. His apologylast month prompted two academ-ics to announce plans to leave andled to calls for Mr. Ito to step downfrom the lab, an institution that is
proudly indifferent to scholarlycredentials and seeks a futuremarrying technology and socialconscience.
On Wednesday, at a meetingbilled in an email as the start of “aprocess of dialogue and recovery”that two attendees said had begunwith a group breathing exercise,the rift was unexpectedly pulledopen just as it appeared to be clos-ing.
Roughly 200 people gathered toaddress the lingering anger at Mr.Ito — a tech evangelist whose net-working skills landed him in theWhite House to discuss artificialintelligence with PresidentBarack Obama and prompted thepsychedelic proselytizer TimothyLeary to call him his godson. Mr.Ito, who has helped the lab raise atleast $50 million, revealed that hehad taken $525,000 from Mr. Ep-
Epstein Donations Create SchismAt M.I.T.’s Prestigious Media Lab
This article is by Tiffany Hsu,Marc Tracy and Erin Griffith.
Continued on Page A16
In a tight labor market, companies arerecruiting stay-at-home parents, retir-ees and people with disabilities. PAGE B1
Everybody Into the PoolAfter rioters in Johannesburg targetedAfrican immigrants, South Africa hasbeen hit with boycotts. PAGE A10
Backlash Against South Africa
The congratulatory (or consoling)moment at the end of a match has, formany tennis players, evolved from acool, formal handshake into an elabo-rate show of affection. PAGE B8
SPORTSFRIDAY B8-11
The New Handshake Is a Hug
CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
At the U.S. Open, Serena Williams closed in on a record-tying 24th major singles title. Page B8.One Win From History
Late EditionToday, mostly cloudy, a bit of after-noon rain, breezy, high 70. Tonight,cloudy, evening rain, breezy, low 60.Tomorrow, partly to mostly sunny,high 78. Weather map, Page B12.
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