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NATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Flood victims heard ‘roar,’ and ‘it was on top of them’
east of Phoenix, authorities
identified the victims, who
ranged in age from 3 to 57.
Among them were three gen-
erations of a family. Five of the
dead were children.
The victims had been loung-
ing Saturday in the WaterWheel
swimming hole, where the river
narrows and rocks create pools
and a series of small waterfalls.
The narrowing of the canyon
squeezed the flow of water and
helped give it deadly force.
The river roared to life after a
thunderstorm had dumped up
to 11/2 inches of rain in an hour,
prompting a flash flood warning
from the National Weather Ser-
vice.
About 40 volunteer workers
and four search dogs looked for
the missing man.
About five miles up the
mountain, where a June wildfire
scorched 11 square miles of the
Tonto National Forest, Scott
Muller first spotted the water
rumbling down the nearly dry
East Verde River.
He was spending the day
with a dozen other members of
AZ Krawlers, a volunteer group
of Jeep owners that was check-
ing roads and trails for danger-
ous erosion and missing signs.
He began making a video
with his phone and comfortably
scampered to the bank before
water clogged with debris
whooshed past.
“We had no idea how fast and
big it was going to be,” Muller
said.
By Anita Snow
and Alina Hartounian
Associated Press
TONTO NATIONAL FOR-
EST, Ariz. — The flash flood that
killed nine people in an Arizona
canyon began its deadly descent
as an impressive but avoidable
surge of churning water, black
with cinders from a recent wild-
fire and choked with tumbling
tree trunks and limbs.
By the time it reached a rocky
swimming hole several miles
downstream, it wras a roaring
torrent 6 feet high, and an ex-
tended family seeking refuge
from the summer heat had no
warning — and no chance to es-
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2 miles away.
Five other people were res-
cued, some of them clinging des-
perately to trees, and were treat-
ed for hypothermia and re-
leased.
But there is little or no cell-
phone service in the remote ar-
ea, and without a weather radio,
the swimmers would have been
unaware.
“They had no warning. They
heard a roar, and it was on top of
them,” said Fire Chief Ron Sat-
telmaier of the Water Wheel
Fire and Medical District.
Angie Wang/AP
A Navajo County rescuer searches the riverbank under the bridge where one body was recov-
ered in Tonto National Forest, Ariz., on Monday.
In a wildfire area, the
scorched land repels water,
making flooding worse.
Muller and the others got in
their vehicles and rushed down
the mountain on an unpaved
fire control road to get another
look. Emerging onto a paved
road, they drove up the moun-
tain to a bridge.
There, Muller said, they saw7 the river wrould soon become a
a couple with two young chil- monster,
dren playing in the placid river
and told them to get out because said, it did.
As rescuers searched Mon-
day for a 27-year-old man still
missing about 100 miles north-
Several minutes later, he
Spicer: Trump Jr. talked
adoptions with Russians
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
estimated cost and scope of in-
surance coverage under the lat-
est GOP bill.
ment of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, saying they “are trying to
come to terms with tins tragedy
and to understand why this has
happened.”
Washington, D.C.
Senate again delays
vote on GOP health bill
formation, rather than to discuss
adoption or the Magnitsky Act, a
2012 law imposing U.S. sanctions
against certain Russian officials.
The meeting wras attended by
Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort and Trump son-in-law
Jared Kushner, who served as a
top campaign adviser.
Before the meeting, Trump Jr.
forwarded email correspondence
about its planning to Manafort
and Kushner with file subject
line, “Re: Russia — Clinton — pri-
vate and confidential.”
In the emails, a British publi-
cist and friend of the younger
Trump said the Russian govern-
ment wanted to provide incrim-
inating information about Hillary
Clinton to help file Tmmp cam-
paign.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Questions rise in fatal
police shooting
Relatives and neighbors of an
Australian woman who was fa-
tally shot by Minneapolis police
over the weekend demanded
answers Monday about her
death, with one calling the
shooting of the teacher and
bride-to-be “an execution.”
Details about what led to the
shooting remained unclear, with
authorities saying only that offi-
cers w7ere responding to a 911 call
about a possible assault when
she was killed.
The woman’s family mem-
bers released a statement Mon-
day through Australia’s Depart-
lic statements about the meeting
shortly after it was revealed by
The New York Times in which he
said he agreed to the meeting in
hopes of receiving information to
discredit Clinton and that he wras
told in the meeting the Russians
had politically embarrassing evi-
dence on her.
President Donald Trump also
said on Twitter hours before Spic-
er spoke that Trump Jr. took the
meeting expecting “info on an op-
ponent.”
“Most politicians would have
gone to a meeting like the one
Don j r attended in order to get in-
fo on an opponent,” Tmmp said
on Twitter. “That’s politics!”
Other facts also indicate that
the meeting was arranged on
premise of providing political in-
By Toluse Olorunnipa
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
House press secretary Sean Spic-
er asserted that a meeting be-
tween President Donald Trump’s
eldest son and several Russians
last year was about adoption pol-
icy for Russian children, despite
emails
The Senate delayed a highly
anticipated vote this coming
w7eek to repeal and replace the
nation’s health care law after
Sen. John McCain’s announced
absence due to surgery.
The delay comes as an enor-
mous setback as time dwindles
to pass the signature legislation
after years of promises.
The decision by Senate Ma-
jority Leader Mitch McConnell
late Saturday came not long af-
ter McCain’s office disclosed that
he had undergone surgery to re-
move a blood clot from above his
left eye.
The Congressional Budget
Office also indicated on Sunday
it no longer expected to release
its analysis on Monday on the
Manchester, N.H.
Veterans hospital
officials removed
White
Veterans Affairs Secretary
David Shulkin has removed tw7o
top officials at New Hampshire’s
only veterans hospital and or-
dered a review of the facility
starting Monday.
The Boston Globe reported
that 11 physicians and medical
employees alleged the Manches-
ter VA Medical Center w7as en-
Donald Trump Jr. released
showing that he expected to ob-
tain damaging information on
Hillaiy Clinton supplied by the
Kremlin.
“There w7as nothing, as far as
w7e know7, that would lead anyone
to believe that there was anything
except for a discussion about
adoption, the Magnitsky Act,”
Spicer told reporters on Monday.
Donald Trump Jr. issued pub-
dangering patients.
They described a fly-infested
operating room and unsanitized
surgical instruments.
— The Associated Press
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