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Reaching 366,000 daily readers A A I NEWSPAPER immt KEVS 247 AT KCaCLULUADVERT1SER.COM HOME FINAL 75 cents on O'ahu 1 .00 on Neighbor Islands jfi rr I 4MDAY lb OCTOBER 25, 2008 awiiMss MM fj'3 Jin WOLf PACK -rr-rT "Tin VMs "IIsf vm'tv. -i 6:05 P.M. TODAY, PPV Warriors vs. Nevada UH plays host to Wolf Pack at Aloha Stadium; preview and analysis SPORTS D1, D4 tr --r r-3 I It iser "If IKGMB NEWS I J- Wetter winter in store for Isles Extra rain come January welcome in drought-hit majority of the state BY DAVID WAITE Advertiser Staff Writer There's good news for drought-stricken areas across the state: The National Weather Service expects greater-than-normal rainfall beginning in January. But don't hold your breath: National forecasters also forecast a wet winter a year ago, but that didn't come true for most of the state.

Abnormally dry conditions have persisted all year. Kevin Kodama, senior hydrol-ogist with the National Weather Service, said yesterday that more than three-fourths of the state has experienced mild to extreme drought this year. One factor was that La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean changed in early 2008 to "ENSO neutral" in summer 2008, he said. La Nina and its opposite, El Nino, are temperature fluctuations in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean that affect weather around SEE RAINFALL, A5 Two gases damaging to climate still on rise 1L if On Nov. 4, voters will decide the fate of a rail-transit system on O'ahu.

Tomorrow, see the results of an AdvertiserKGMB9 poll on how voters view the rail-transit issue. z' V' 6 J.JL V1 i ikv. Mm ALEX BRANDON I Associated Press Barack Obama took a brief stroll in his old Makiki neighborhood yesterday during his visit to his grandmother, who still lives there. 1 9 Fun that'll shock you Check what's on the haunted-house radar ISLAND LIFE i i I r'-t 1 Thrrriri THE ADVERTISER'S ELC5S Candidate heads to Nevada to resume campaign after visiting ill grandmother BY DAN NAKASO AND SUZANNE ROIG Advertiser Staff Writers Barack Obama spent part of the past two days with the beloved grandmother he calls "Toot" in what could turn out to be their last moments together. Just before 3:30 p.m.

yesterday, Obama said his goodbyes to the woman who helped raise him, Madelyn Payne Dunham, and his motorcade left the two-bedroom Bcrctania Street apartment where he grew up. Obama's private jet lifted off from Honolulu International Airport just after 5 p.m., en route to Nevada for the start of his final push for the White House. On Monday, Obama's campaign announced his decision to cancel campaign appearances to visit Dunham, his maternal grandmother, who turns 86 tomorrow. Obama, the Honolulu-born Democratic senator from Illinois, made the long flight home following a Thursday rally in Indianapolis. He did not want to relive his experience in 1995, when he arrived too late to say goodbye to his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died of cancer at the age of 53, said U.S.

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D- SEE OBAMA, A2 JAE C. HONG Associated Press charter jet at Honolulu airport and left Obama boarded his campaign 5rw5 for Nevada a little after 5 p.m. yesterday Obama walked BY SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology are on the rise, too.

And that's got scientists concerned about accelerated global warming. The gases are methane and nitrogen trifluoride. Both pale in comparison to the global warming effects of carbon dioxide, produced by the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels. In the past couple of years, however, these other two gases have been on the rise, according to two new studies. The increase is not accounted for in predictions for future global warming and comes as a nasty SEE GASES, A5 only a tew I blocks yester- I day before getting a van ride for the few blocks back.

I For play MORE ON CAMPAIGN McCain warns of Democratic "total control" A3 Attack tale turns out to be hoax A7 ALEX BRANDON I Associated Press See video From putts to Pressel, Jay Higa comments on all things about golf in the Islands. Check out his blog at H0N0LULUADVERTISER.COM DLGCS TO CALL 533 KEVS coverage of I Obarna's departure at H0N0LULUADVERTISER.COM I 6 sections, 44 pages 6 families in Kahana Valley face eviction over lack of state leases JF1-12 E2 A6 A3 B2 JC9-VT E3-4 Classifieds Comics Crosswords Editorials Movie ads Nation and World Obituaries Stocks TV listings Weather State orders Kahana families i COPYRIGHT. 2006 cultural aspect of the park is being questioned and some who once were told they could have a lease are being pushed out. Residents said poor planning by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources and flawed laws are at fault. Sunny Greer, a Kahana Valley resident who is not being evicted, said failure to comply with Western law and rules is forcing people out and creating a dividc- SEE KAHANA, A2 Residents say flawed laws hurting those with ancestral ties BY ELOISE AGUIAR Advertiser Windward Writer KAHANA p- After living in Kahana Valley for generations, families that once fought the state for the right to stay there and won now face eviction on Monday.

The Ahupua'a 'O Kahana State Park is a cultural Will 'II! if'; to leave. Watch a video report at HONOLULUADVEflTISER living park where families provide 25 hours a month of cultural activities for visitors and do other work in exchange for a kasc to live there. But after 30 years, the living BRUCE ASATO The Honolulu Advertiser Ervin Kahala is among 30 people facing eviction Monday from Kahana Valley by the state. Final notice was posted Wednesday. A GANNETT NEWSPAPER J.

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