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PALM 4 PALM BEACH South Florida it VULL 1 i i it palm beach Edition Saturday August 9, 2003 get the Latest breaking news Sun-Sentinel com 50t 11 Fickmg tub the uieces Governor declares tornado a maior disaster Boynton kids gain regional title shot Little League World Series awaits winner. 7 5 I fw a-, IlittL Li 1 I i- byTedHutton STAFF WRITER gulfport East Boynton is going nationwide. The gang of 11- and 12-year-old Little League players will be introduced to the country today on ESPN at 6 p.m. when they play Georgia in the Southeast Region championship. That game will determine who goes to Williams-port, to vie for the World Series.

"Unbelievable," said Jordan Broad as he fielded call after call on his cell phone. Broad's son, Michael, will be pitching for East Boynton today. "I got friends from all over the country having parties to watch Mike pitch," Broad said. "It's going to be a special day for everyone." After getting rained out Thursday night, East Boynton had to sit through another rain delay Friday, but showed no ill effects in shutting down North Carolina 5-0 in the semifinal to reach the championship and a spot on national TV. Friday's game, which started at noon, finally ended about 6:45 in the evening.

Parents grabbed cell phones after quick hugs with the players to spread the news and arrange for friends and relatives to tape the ESPN broadcast for them. "My wife gave her brother a kidney a few years ago, so we told him he could repay the favor by videotaping the game for us," Ed Mullen said. "I have about 10 people videotaping it for me," Laurie BOYNTON CONTINUES ON 13A INSIDE Boynton Beach Little Leaguers take it all in stride. 1C Boynton Beach rallies behind its team.3B Little League Southeast Region NOTEBOOK. 11C DEVASTATION: John Mettendorff, 82, looks through the rubble of his mobile home Friday morning after it was destroyed by a tornado that struck A Garden Walk mobile home park, where he lives, on Thursday night He was not home at the time of the tornado.

Staff photoMark Randall How landspouts form The tornadoes that form in Florida during the summer are generally spun from the swirling winds of hurricanes. But the tornado that struck Palm Beach County on Thursday was a different type of storm called a lapdspout, which is more common in Florida during the winter. Relief workers to first crisis of storm season. Airflow begins to circulate 1 1 'r Outflow 1 Shearing winds '4 INSIDE OFF GUARD Thursday's sudden twister surprised forecasters. 8A VOICES Survivors talk about their experience during thestorm.7A PICTURES Photo coverage of the tornado's destruction.

But the mood, like the weather, shifted again a little after noon. The skies blackened, the winds kicked up and it began to pour. "Get inside, everyone. You better go," screamed Lynne Hubbard, president of the Monroe Heights neighborhood association in Riviera Beach, to a group of residents clearing their yards. Out helping residents get in touch with emergency workers, she ran into a friend's home to protect herself.

Thursday's disaster was a tornado not a hurricane but it was Florida's first emergency of the storm season, and recovery efforts went into high gear on TORNADO CONTINUES ON 6k An outflow, or mass of dense cool The shearing winds spin off a air created by rain or a cold front, circulating disturbance from the is struck by shearing winds. edge of the outflow. By Diane Lade, Tal abbady and Leon Fooksman STAFF WRITERS Frances Cargill and her family were piling waterlogged sofas, beds, ruined family photos and other belongings outside their Riviera Beach home, where Cargill has lived for more than three decades. Part of the roof had been torn off the night before when Cargill, her four children and her niece had been huddled, terrified, in a hallway. But it was a bright Friday morning now and the streets of the north Palm Beach County neighborhoods hit hardest by a tornado the night before were filled with cleanup crews, making it hard to drive through streets already clogged with debris and downed trees.

"What can you do? That's nature. It's just a freak accident," said Cargill. a3 Rising vortex creates tornado Pressure inside the vortex drops, pulling the winds into a rising, swirling tornado. Rainfall can form pools of cold air at its base, strengthening the funnel. SOURCES: Sun-Sentinel staff research; KRT Staff graphkDanM Niblock Schools not meeting hew U.S.

cuidelin es Newest citizen-sailors proudly become Americans 'V'' "nfc in. tut 1 and congratulations, signed an executive order in July 2002 that hastened the citizenship application process for those who served during the war on terrorism. Some, like Osorio, were due for citizenship under the normal process and were proud to take part in the flagship ceremony on Friday. "It's been a challenge to us to become like everybody else, to be- CITIZENS CONTINUES ON 2A Immigrants who serve our military earned their right through sacrifice. By William e.

Gibson WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Norfolk, va. From out of the shadows of a furtive boyhood in South Florida, Colombian immigrant Paulo Osorio fulfilled his dream of American citizenship on Friday aboard the mighty aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Osorio remembers hiding from immigration authorities while growing up in Coral Springs, always fearful they would send his family back to Colombia. On Friday, proudly dressed in a white Navy uniform along with 221 fellow sailors, he received his citizenship papers, fulsome praise and a hearty handshake from the nation's top immigration official. These 222 new citizens from 5 1 countries earned their rights the hard way, passing the naturalization requirements while serving their adopted country, many of them off the shores of the war-torn regions of the Near East.

Their citizenship ceremony on Friday in the hangar bay of the Roosevelt was the largest for immigrants in the armed forces since the terrorist attacks of 200 1 President Bush, who delivered a videotaped message of welcome Paulo Osorio recalls that, while growing up in Coral Springs, he feared being returned to Colombia. County's results contrast grades given by state. BY SCOTT TRAVIS EPUCATION WRITER Palm Beach County's' schools boasted stellar results under Florida's grading system but using federal guidelines, almost every school has failed to adequately educate at least some of its students. Only 2 1 out of more than 150 schools measured in the county met the stringent "adequate yearly progress" requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The results, released Friday, are in stark contrast to Florida's A-Plus grading system, where 98 schools received grades of either A or and only 12 schools got unsatisfactory grades of or F.

The results were similar statewide. Of about 3,000 schools in Florida, just over 400 met the federal requirements. If any group of students fails to make progress, the school does not meet federal guidelines. Groups include blacks, EDUCATION CONTINUES ON 13A Weather Dolphins lose 20-19 to Bucs Brian Griese started slowly in the Dolphins' first exhibition game. The Buccaneers held on to win.

SPORTS, 1C TODAY TONIGHT SUNDAY sarmtiD mostit scattered STORMS C10UDY STORMS 83-92 77-80 89-93 Five teachers quitatFAU Five teachers at Alexander D. Henderson University School have quit over philosophical differences, leaving the lab school at Florida Atlantic University scrambling to fill the faculty before school begins Wednesday. LOCAL, IB Daily Digest Graham begins Iowa 'vacation' Bob Graham has begun a nine-day trek through small towns in Iowa, which holds the nation's first presidential nominating contest in January. NATIONAL, 3A Rescued whales ready for release A pod of 28 pilot whales was stranded in the Keys. Five survivors are set to be released.

LIFESTYLE, ID Marlins win in Milwaukee Juan Encarnacion's two-run homer helps the Marlins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3. SPORTS, 1C State opens Tenet inquiry Tenet Healthcare Corp. has been subpoenaed in an investigation by state officials into possible Medicaid fraud. BUSINESS, 18B Nablus violence mars cease-fire Israeli troops raiding a bomb lab on the West Bank killed three Palestinians. 9A i WEATHER REPORT ON THE BACK PACE OF LOCAL Index iotthv iusinisj in NATIONAL WWTS It OPINION 1M SPORTS SCORES IK mTfRNATMMUlM 1VUSTINCS 40 HEMISPHERE 204 COMICS 100 FLORIDA NEWS It ANTHONY MAN II 01 ITU ARIES 171 DAVtHYDt i.