The Naples Daily News du lieu suivant : Naples, Florida • 4

4AC Wednesday July 13 2005 NaplMBiUBKrae From Page One Islanders prepare for arrival of Tropical Storm Emily Tropical Storm Emily threatened to beaime a hurricane before hitting the Windward Islands on Wednesday raft 'said the National Humane Center in Miami devastation prompted him to stock up on food and plywood 1 have everything in place" Davis said "I have been planning from before foe hurricane season and rm ready come what Emily's storm force winds extended 50 miles from its center the hurricane center said It was expected to dump up to 6 inches of rain on the Windward Islands foe center said Associated Press writer Michael Bas-corrbe in St George's Grenada contributed to (his report On the Net: National Hurricane Center wwwnhcruxuLgov Kathleen Bonaparte a supermarket supervisor in foe capital of St said her store was nearly out of canned goods and batteries Grenada is still not recovered from last Hurricane Ivan which killed 39 people and left a wasteland of ruined buildings Some people still have no roofs and some children are still taught under tarps want to find myself in a situation like said Charmaine Thomas a 35-year-old mother of two waiting in line at Bonaparte's store "I wasn't prepared this time rm taking no chances" Barbadians also hurried to the stores Charles Davis a 45-year-old chef in Barbados said memories of Grenada's will be a relief for us all" said Attorney General Mia Mottley Emily was about 370 miles east-south-east of Barbados and about 450 miles east of Trinidad at 11 pun Tuesday packing maximum sustained winds of 60 mph the National Hurricane Center in Miami said The storm threatened to become a hurricane before hitting the Windward Islands on Wednesday night foe center said Hurricane warnings were issued for Barbados Grenada St Luda and St Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad's government issued both a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for foe island of Tobago The French government put its island of Martinique on ML SPOONER Associated Press BRIDGETOWN Barbados Islanders depleted stores of food water and emergency supplies Tuesday as a strengthening Tropical Stum Emily advanced on the eastern Caribbean threatening a direct hit on Barbados government designated shelters across the island while meteorologists made periodic radio broadcasts urging citizens to prepare for Emily to strike by Wednesday evening Barbados is foe eastern most Caribbean island and could be the first hit "We have to be prepared for the worst and anything that calls short of the worst tropical storm watch Emily trails Hurricane Dennis which destroyed crops and killed at least 22 people in Cuba and Haiti last week ten vridle idmTtirstodMm on food water batteries plywood and other supplies Dennis Continued from 1A StiU she and thousands of others are without power and it could be a couple days before many gas stations are reopened making for a hot and difficult few days But far Hart and hundreds of thousands of others things were looking up Tuesday as signs of normal life were everywhere and the indications that mere was a disaster here were fewer and fewer Power was starting to come on restaurants were opening and gas station lines were diminishing The comforts expected by people living in 21st century America were returning all but one Wal-Mart in Escambia County were open Tuesday along with most grocery stores Wim stores opening there was less need to hand out ice and water and so comfort stations were being shut down their queues already short At Gulf Breeze Middle School tiie line for ice and water was moving so fast that drivers were getting in and out in under 5 minutes really quick" said a relieved Deana Vess as she drove In and quickly out of foe relief line Vess who was without power six days after Ivan last year said she hoped it will be turned back on sooner fois time "The ldds get Vess said And it was being turned on more quickly with fir less infrastructure damage from Dennis which came ashore blowing winds up to 120 mph on a barrier island Just off Pensacola Sunday Gulf Power expected Wedncs-day to have electric service restored to 72 of the 242400 homes and businesses that lost power during Dennis Most of the 140400 customers still without power were in two westernmost counties Escambia and Santa Rosa Company spokesman John Hutchinson said it likely will have 95 percent of foe power back on within a week except on Santa Rosa Island where the storm made landfalL It took weeks for power to be restored after Ivan But stiU many in this area will be without electricity fin several days going to take some Hutchinson said just need to be patient" For many who lived through the aftermath of Ivan which caused far more widespread and severe destruction the wait wasn't too daunting "Mostly an Hart said 3 ONLINE Find Branded coverage inducing continuous updates on Tropical Stem Walton Beach to heh the victims of Hurricane Dennis They were expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon Bob Rohland administrator of the local Salvation Army says they are traveling with a canteen enable of feeding more than 1400 people a day The team of two will be there until the end of the week and another local team will relieve them he says During the 2004 hurricane season Salvation Army canteens firms around the United States fed more than 7 milium people in Florida and Georgia Deborah Horvath executive director of the American Red Cross Collier County chapter says three local Red Cross volunteers are standing by waiting far their travel orders to the Panhandle They could leave as early as today she says Teams from Lee County also were deployed to the Panhandle Two teams of emergency workers from the Southwest Florida Urban Search and Rescue task force deployed this weekend as part of disaster relief sent to the Panhandle after Dennis made landfall Sunday The group is made of specially trained workers from nre districts across Lee County including Bonita Springs Estero and San Carlos Park Nineteen workers including Bill Lees from the Fort Myers Beach Fire Department who serves as tiie task logistics manager headed into coastal areas hit by foe storm where other emergency winkers told him as much as 40 percent of the damage they would see was from Ivan not Dennis Camera crews that descended on the area to record tiie devastation were quick to catch on to the coincidence Lees said setting up shop outside a condominium development that was still under-going repairs "You could see the blue tarp that was tattered and tiie roof underneath" he added Staff Writers Dianna Smith and Anne Marie Apollo contributed to this report It is possible tiie consumer complaint is inaccurate or there were several price increases before foe state of emergency was declared and the consumer who complained considered them aU one price increase McElroy said Under Florida law Omni must be able to justify any price increase that went into effect after the state iff emergency was declared That means he must prove tiie price increase was not designed to increase his profits Bombings Continued from 1 A A town councilor told TTie Associated Press that at least three of foe presumed suicide bombers were British citizens of Pakistani One bomber was thought to be ShahTad Tanweer a 22-year-old cricket-loving sports science graduate and another was a teenager Press Association reported On its Web site The Times newspaper named Tanweer as well as Leeds residents Hasib Hussain 19 and Mohammed Sidi-que Khan the 30-year-old father of an eight-month old baby The newspaper said police were still trying to identify the fourth bomber Without citing sources foe Times said the mastermind behind the attacks as well as the bombmaker were still thought to be at large Police found a factory" during the Leeds raids foe newspaper said Press Association said foe men had driven a rental car to Luton 30 miles north of London and then boarded a commuter train to London's Cross station Police closed Luton's train station and carried out a controlled explosion on a parked car which the BBC reported had explosives Closed-circuit TV video showed all four men arrivingat Cross by 830 ajn on Thursday about 20 minutes before the -blasts began Peter Clarice head of the Metropolitan Police antiterrorist branch told a Scotland Yard news conference US intelligence agencies are checking foe names of the London bombers against their databases looking for any US connection President Bush told a group of chief executives at a private White House meeting Tuesday Tom Noonan head of Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems said the president described the bombings as suicide attacks during a meeting with members of the White National Infrastructure Advisory Council a group of CEOs who provide advice about keeping important networks secure Two militant Islamic groups have claimed responsibility for foe bombings which killed at least 52 people on three subway trains and on a bus Police had previously indicated there was no evidence of suicide bombings instead that timers were Although police stopped short of calling them suicide attacks Clarke said "strong forensic and Shuttle Continuedfrom 1A no problems Word of the mishap came just two hours after NASA declared Discovery ready to return the nation to space for foe first time since foe Columbia disaster Up until the window cover fell only concern was the weather Because of thunderstorms in the forecast the chances of acceptable weather at launch time were put at 60 percent Discovery and its crew of seven were set to blast off at 351 pm EDT The last few technical concerns had been resolved Tuesday afternoon at one final launch review by managers "It is utterly crucial for NASA for the nation for our space program to fly a safe NASA Administrator Michael Response Continuedfrom 1A empty No one wants to come here because they think ripping them Chami denies tiie price gouging allegations and says prices were raised 13 cents between Wednesday and Thursday of last week beouise his gas distributor in Tampa raised its prices by 17 A pedestrian pauses to view posters of missing persons outside King's Cross railway station in London on Tuesday after last deadly HBTOnM DonBnp ine famNes of those missing since the Dommngiwere enduring an agonizing wait Tuesday for word of foe rate of their loved ones Associated Press Several officials including Foreign Minister Jade Straw have said the attacks bore the "haU-mark" of al-Qaida and one of the questions investigators are presumably trying to answer is whether the four suspects had outside help in planning the attacks Pakistan's government has been a key ally in the war on terror hunting down hundreds of al-Qaida suspects and turning them over to the United States But as in most of foe Islamic world its citizens have been deeply opposed to British and American military action in Afghanistan and Iraq One of the suspects had been reported missing by his family at 10 pm Thursday and some of his property was found on the double-decker bus in which 13 died Clarke said this flight we will have a much much much better idea of whether or not our measures we have taken have been effective or not effective" Griffin said "Now our best engineers have put their best efforts on that and we devoutly hope that they have been The board that investigated the Columbia accident put some of tiie blame on the space agency safety culture which collapsed during the doomed flight Shuttle managers the fe strike and engineers did not speak up about their fears At Tuesday's meeting Griffin said there was full and frank discussion of the remaining technical concerns "I think we got everything that everybody knows about out on the he said there be something that we know about that can bite us? Yeah This is a very tough business a tough business But everything we know about has been the stations are being investigated because of citizen complaints The stations that were issued subpoenas are ones that are alleged by consumers to have raised prices between 26 and 45 cents a gallon during tiie state of i or businesses found to have engaged in price gouging face fines of up to $1400 per violation or up to $25400 a day Department of Agriculture spokesman Terry McElroy said foe Amoco station is being investigated because of a citizen com Relief Continued fivml A The chiefs both members of the Florida Fire Chiefs Association were deployed to the dty of Milton in Santa Rosa County before the storm ravaged tiie area cm Sunday afternoon After arriving shortly after midnight on Sunday morning Peterson and Moyer worked almost entirely through the night to study foe vulnerabilities and see to it that local emergency management workers were well-equipped with tools and resources in the aftermath of the storm There was some anxiety (at tiie emergency operations center) at the start of Sunday morning when we were asked how many of us had been there through (Hurricane) Ivan" Peterson said "About three-quarters to one-half of them turn been there for Ivan so I think some anxiety was generated by But as Dennis quickly unraveled shortly after making landfall in the county workers breathed a sigh of relief that their memories of massive destruction would not be relived this time around Peterson said "Almost as soon as it hit lancLwe got reports that people were out doing assessments and that the sun was out" he recalled "We thought it was just the eye (of die storm) but once it nit land tiie back half of the storm Less than 24 hours later on Monday afternoon Peterson and Moyer packed their tilings and headed back to Collier Comity "It was a surprise I think to everybody how quickly we could get to the state we were in busy but not overwhelming" Peterson said "We don't want to overstay our welcome Members of the K-9 team at the North Naples Fire Department left fin Tallahassee before die storm so they could be nearby if they were needed The team was never called into the area and was sent home shortly after Hurricane Dennis struck North Naples spokesman Jerry Sanford said The Salvation Army in Collier County sent two workers to Fort plaint that they increased prices between 26 and 45 cents Presently all tiie state has is foot complaint and tiw investigation will verify whether the allegations are trueMcElroy said When informed that Chami claims to have only raised Us prices by 13 cents McElroy said that may prove to be true "We have no reason to dispute what he McElroy said "According to a consumer complaint the pices were raised much higher than that Well find out soon if that is true or other evidence" suggests one of foe suspects was killed in a subway bombing and property belonging to the three others was found at the location of the other blasts "The investigation quite early led us to have concerns about the movements and activities of four men three of whom came from the West Yorkshire area We are trying to establish their movements in the nut-up to last attacks and specifically to establish if they all died in foe Clarke said The West Yorkshire region includes Leeds and the homes of the three suspects from the dly were among foe six that were searched Tuesday Acting on six warrants British soldiers blasted their way into an unoccupied modest Leeds row house Streets were cordoned off Griffin said after the meeting "We have done everything that we know to The families of the seven astronauts killed during Columbia's catastrophic re-entry praised foe accident investigators a NASA oversight group and the space agency itself for defining and reducing the dangers Like those who lost loved ones in the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire and the Challenger launch explosion the Columbia families said they grieve deeply know the exploration of space must go on" hope we have learned and will continue to learn from each of these accidents so that we will be as safe as we can be In this high-risk endeavor" they said in a statement "Godspeed Discovery" Discovery will be setting off on tiie 114th space shuttle flight in 24 years with a redesigned external fuel tank and nearly 50 other improvements made the wake of the Columbia tragedy A chunk of foam insulation the cents The price increased from $249 to $22 He claims the prices were raised only 13 cents because he knew people were going to be upset about the price increase with Hurricane Dennis heading toward Florida He sold $15400 worth of gas Friday and only made a $95 profit Chami said Tm sure people perceived us as greedy" Chami said "But we had no control over Chami said he still hasn't seen tiie subpoena that the Depart and about 500 people were evacuated Hours earlier police searched five homes elsewhere in the city Later Tuesday police said a security alert was issued at Britain's House of Commons but say why No evacuation had been ordered Mohammed Iqbal a town councilor trim represents foe SHp that all of foe homes raided In Leeds belong to "British citizens of Pakistani origin" Three at the homes were in foe neighborhood he represents Sbal said in a bhone call with office in Islamabad foe Pakistani capital He said he had just met with police about the investigation "This is not good for Iqbal said "We have businesses here There will be a size of a carry-on suitcase fell off Columbia's fuel tank at liftoff and slammed into a reinforced carbon panel on foe wing creating a hole that brought the spacecraft crashing down in pieces during its return to Earth on Feb 12003 Almost every day since then engineers have struggled to keep foam ice and other debris from popping off tiie tank They will not know whether they succeeded until Discovery flies During the 12-day flight astronauts will test various techniques for patching cracks hnd holes in foe thermal shielding The crew members will also try out a new 50-foot boom designed to give them a three-dimensional laser view of tiie wings and nose cap and help them find anydamage caused by liftoff debris That is on top of all the pictures of the spacecraft that will be taken by more than 100 cameras positioned around the launching site and aboard two planes and the shuttle itself ment of Agriculture said it sent him He tried to call foe department Tuesday and was told someone would get back to him Once Gov Jeb Bush declares a state iff emergency as he did last Thursday for the entire state businesses are not allowed to raise their prices by an excessive amount until tiie state iff emergency ends Price gouging can occur for rent gas water and generators The Amoco station is me of 11 gas stations around Florida that were subpoenaed Monday AU of.