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officials, including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder acted for too long like the water crisis did not exist. water was tainted with lead for at least 18 months, starting in spring 2014. While under the control of state-appointed financial managers, the city tapped the Flint River as its water source while a new pipeline was being built. But the river water treated to reduce corrosion, allowing lead from old pipes to leach into the drinking water.

The movie follows the story of women who sought justice. took a lot of people to make a lot of noise to get the word to the right Latifah said. is scheduled to air in the fall on the Lifetime channel. Cher was originally scheduled to play the role, but pulled out because of a family issue. Hawn, Russell together forever Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were honored with neighboring stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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All rights reserved. Once-thriving Cairo, has just 2,600 residents left. By SARA BURNETT Associated Press A government plan to tear down a crumbling public housing complex in the southern Illinois town of Cairo has sent roughly 200 families searching for new homes and sparked fears that the once-thriving river city could be coming to an end. Sitting at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, Cairo was once a shipping hub, home to 15,000 people at its peak in the 1940s. But racial strife, flooding and economic woes have left the town with just 2,600 residents, a vacant downtown and abandoned buildings.

If the residents of the buildings slated for demolition are not able to find new homes in Cairo and end up leaving, the population would be cut by 15 percent and the school district would lose nearly 40 percent of its student body. be a ghost said Paul Lambert, 66, a retired security guard who was born in Cairo, left and returned in 1974. After 39 years in the same housing authority apartment, Lambert is now among the residents being relocated due to what the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has called living If forced to leave, Lambert says join family in Tennessee. Built in 1942, the Elmwood and McBride apartments are infested with rodents and bugs and have heating and plumbing that work properly, HUD says.

Some residents say afraid to let children play outside because of crime. The federal agency took over the property and other housing authority operations in February 2016, amid allegations that the former head of the Alexander County Housing Authority had used federal funds for meals, trips and benefits while the buildings deteriorated. HUD announced last month that it would close the buildings and relocate the residents, saying the cost to repair the complexes estimated at more than $41 million is too much. Residents will get a voucher to use toward housing and help finding a new place to live, with the first relocations starting this month. But few properties are available in Cairo or in the rural areas around it.

HUD and the city are working with land- lords to try to get properties to meet agency standards, but the process is slow. Developers are unlikely to team up with HUD on housing in an area where more than half of children live in poverty. most private developers a long-term said HUD spokesman Jereon Brown now that would be tough to do The town was visited by the Lewis and Clark Expedition and was referenced in Mark Adventures of Huckleberry It started seeing people leave in large numbers after race riots in the 1960s. Major employers closed over the following decades. Students wrote to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, asking him to help save their homes.

Carson told them that there were few options for the local housing authority and that the decision came only after much Shrinking river town fears it may soon face extinction RICHARD SITLER Southern Illinoisan via Associated Press Kevin McAllister demanded answers from HUD during a meeting on housing options in Cairo, last month. Development leads to health threat, travel woes. By GERRY MULLANY New York Times HONG KONG Dust storms enveloped northern China for a second day on Friday, reducing visibility in cities like Beijing and threatening the health of millions of people. Such storms have become an increasingly common phenomenon for the region, as deserts expand by gobbling up roughly 1,300 square miles a year. A half-century ago, such storms happened every seven or eight years; now they are an annual event.

The storms typically happen in the spring as strong winds send soil and sand from the Gobi Desert over China and the Korean Peninsula. This dust storms led to the cancellation of scores of flights and caused pollution in northern China to soar. air-quality index hit a dangerous level of 623 on Thursday; the U.S. government rates readings above 200 as and 301 to 500 as Experts tie the problem to the rapid urbanization of northern China, deforestation and climate change. The government has spent billions of dollars to plant forests to stop the creeping desertification, but some experts have questioned whether it has been effective enough in doing so.

The state news media in China said that children and the elderly should stay indoors during the storms. On Thursday and Friday, the storms were at their worst in the morning, with cities like Beijing clearing later in the day. Sand and dust storms take place when hot air over the desert destabilizes the lower atmosphere, whipping up strong winds that send huge amounts of sand hundreds or even thousands of miles. The storms have been linked not only to respiratory illnesses but also to lethal epidemics because of the spread of potentially harmful bacteria, viruses and fungal spores. The dust storms typically hit China after the region is afflicted by high wintertime smog, which is caused by coal- burning power plants, factories and vehicle emissions.

Strong gusty winds developed in Beijing on Friday in the wake of a cold front that pushed through during the early morning hours. A gust of 60 mph was recorded in the morning, was followed by winds between 35 and 46 mph. With more dust streaming from Mongolia into northeastern China, the winds could push more dust over Beijing over the weekend. The cold front ushered in noticeably cooler air, finally giving the city a break from the recent unseasonable warmth. Beijing experienced its hottest April day ever a week ago, when temperatures soared above 92 degrees.

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