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EVENTS.MARINIJ.COM Local >> A3 Lifestyles >> B1 Sports >> C1 >> PAGE B8 SHOWERS High:53 Low:43 Friday, February 15, 2019 $1.50 FACEBOOK.COM/MARINIJFAN TWITTER.COM/MARINIJ marinij.com » WEATHER NO SHUTDOWN Congress Storm havoc in Marin; OKs deal on border home slides down hill security Trump to declare an emergency By Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey and Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON >> Congress lopsid- edly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful govern- ment shutdown, but a new con- frontation was ignited — this time over President Donald Trump’s plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to siphon billions from other federal coffers for his wall on the Mexi- can boundary. Money in the bill for border barriers, about $1.4 billion, is far below the $5.7 billion Trump in- sisted he needed to build a wall along the Mexican boundary and would finance just a quarter of the 200-plus miles he wanted. The White House said he’d sign the legislation but act on his own to get the rest, a move that prompted immediate condemna- tion from Democrats and threats of lawsuits from states and others who might lose federal money or said Trump was abusing his au- thority. The uproar over what Trump would do next cast an uncertain in Congress to address the grinding battle between the White House ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL BORDER >> PAGE 4 A home came to rest next to an out building on Crescent Avenue in Sausalito after a mudslide early Thursday. A woman had to be rescued. Intense rain causes flooding, CALIFORNIA road closures and outages Bullet train another home in its path. By Matthew Pera, Will Rescuers pulled the woman promises Houston and Gary Klien [email protected], whouston@ from the ruins, and her inju- marinij.com and gklien@marinij. ries were minor, said Southern failed to stay com Marin fire Chief Chris Tubbs. @MatthewRPera on Twitter The woman was apparently the only resident inside either Marin County residents and of the buildings that collapsed, on track emergency crews spent Thurs- Tubbs said. day grappling with the effects A fundraising web page was Newsom’s stand of a massive storm that caused established later in the day for puts dream in peril flooding, power outages, road the woman, identified as Su- JAMES CACCIATORE — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL closures and the collapse of an san Gordon. The page is at go- occupied duplex in Sausalito. fundme.com/help-susan-gor- A large cedar tree split in half with a part landing on a house and By Laura J. Nelson and Joe the other part blocking Plaza Hermosa in Novato on Thursday. Mozingo The Hurricane Gulch duplex don. Los Angeles Times slid off its foundation in the At least five cars were 400 block of Sausalito Boule- caught in the mudslide, which Rescuers pulled the woman from the It was billed as the most am- vard at about 3 a.m. Thursday, triggered the evacuation of bitious public works project since authorities said. Carried by a about 50 homes in the area ruins, and her injuries were minor. the transcontinental railroad mudslide, the duplex fell down Thursday morning while emer- — Southern Marin fire Chief Chris Tubbs opened up the West. a steep hillside and wiped out STORM >> PAGE 2 The high-speed rail network would transform California — cleaner air, less congested free- ways and airports, and more lim- SYSTEM CHANGES ited suburban sprawl with a whole new style of housing around rail stops. “Fresno could become a bed- Marin weighs new election process room community of the Silicon Valley,” the California High-Speed ‘Voting centers’ could replace traditional county polling places Rail Authority said a month be- fore voters approved Proposition tions Department issued a re- ing the bids now and expects 1A in November 2008. By Richard Halstead [email protected] quest for proposals in Novem- to make an award recommen- Yet bite after bite, huge cost @HalsteadRichard on Twitter ber seeking bids to replace its dation to the Marin County overruns, mismanagement, po- current equipment, which was Board of Supervisors in the litical concessions and delays ate Marin County is in the pro- purchased in 1999. spring. away at the sleek and soaring vi- cess of purchasing a new vot- “The current system has One of the specifications sion of a bullet train linking San ing system and evaluating worked really well for 20 years, in the request for proposal is Francisco to San Diego. A project whether to replace traditional but the hardware is old, and that the new system provide meant to drive home California’s neighborhood polling places many spare parts are no longer the county the flexibility to ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL role as the high-tech vanguard of with fewer, more centrally lo- made,” said Registrar of Voters “change from a precinct-based Steven Bennett of Dominion Voting the nation was looking more and cated “voting centers.” Lynda Roberts. voting model to a more voter talks to people during a demonstration more like a pepped-up Amtrak The Marin County Elec- Roberts said she is review- VOTING >> PAGE 4 in San Rafael on Wednesday. TRAIN >> PAGE 2 WILDFIRE COSTS CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ONLINE State considers AG sued over D Dow Jones Find more of the story insurance to help police records 25,439.39 (-103.88) by going to our website California should get insur- A nonprofit organization that D S&P 500 Find additional photos, albums ance to help cover taxpayers’ advocates for free speech 2745.73 (-7.30) and links to our videos that costs in bad wildfire seasons. sued California’s attorney Nasdaq can enhance local stories. PAGE A6 general Thursday. PAGE A6 U 7426.95 (+6.58) MARINIJ.COM INDEX Obituaries ..... A10 Opinion ...........A11 Movies .............B5 TV ....................B6 Sports ..............C1 Classifieds ...... C7 Volume 157, issue 330 0 40901 29001 8 2 | A NEWS | MARINIJ.COM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019 TODAY IN HISTORY collapsed and took out a water main. Storm Wade Holland, the dis- 1564 FROM PAGE 1 trict administrator, said a Italian astronomer section of Woodhaven had Galileo Galilei was born gency crews evaluated the collapsed and took out wa- in Pisa. hillside. Several gas lines ter for six customers. were damaged, according “We were able to valve to Tubbs. out the affected section and 1933 “This will isolate it to a small section President-elect Franklin be ongo - of half a dozen customers,” D. Roosevelt escaped an ing for quite Holland said. assassination attempt some time,” He said the boil-water no- in Miami that mortally Tubbs said. tice will likely be in effect wounded Chicago Mayor “We don’t for a few days until the state Anton J. Cermak; gun- know yet can clear it. man Giuseppe Zangara the full con- In San Anselmo, a But- was executed more than Gordon dition of the terfield Road home had four weeks later. soil. … We a close call after a large assume it’s still unstable, tree was blown onto power which is why we’re trying to lines. Ross Valley Fire De- 1953 keep people out of the area. partment spokeswoman Tenley Albright, 17, be- This will take days before JoAnne Lewis said the tree came the first American the debris is all cleaned up JAMES CACCIATORE — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL tilted toward the house and woman to win the world and things go back to nor- forced traffic restrictions. figure skating champi- Part of Cactus Jungle’s nursery falls into the San Anselmo Creek in San Anselmo on The first call of the night mal.” Thursday during the storm. onship, which was held For Damir Stosic, who after 9 p.m. Wednesday was in Davos, Switzerland. lives in the neighborhood, at a cactus nursery on Sir the threat of damage from Francis Drake after a slide major storms is a fact of life. carried part of the nurs- 1961 “We were up all night ery fence along with some 73 people, including an because of the shaking and power lines down toward 18-member U.S. figure shivering. The winds were San Anselmo Creek, Lewis skating team en route really howling,” he said. said. to the World Champion- “They call this Hurricane Sir Francis Drake Bou- ships in Czechoslovakia, Gulch for a reason. … Ev- levard was also blocked at were killed in the crash erybody’s on alert.” Bank Street on Thursday of a Sabena Airlines The storm, which started morning after a tree fell on Boeing 707 in Belgium. Tuesday night and hit an in- a delivery truck. Lewis said tense peak early Thursday there was minor damage to morning, caused upheaval the truck. 1989 throughout the county. “We’re not out of the The Soviet Union an- In Mill Valley, a cypress woods yet,” she said. “We nounced that the last tree crashed through the still have some rain head- of its troops had left roof of the Laguna Road ing towards us. We’re just Afghanistan, after more residence of Michael and asking everyone to be aware than nine years of mili- Carolyn Clemmons. It nar- and be prepared.” tary intervention. rowly missed both but un- Rainfall totals included leashed a torrent of rain 6.99 inches in Kentfield into the home.