ZSW [C M Y K]A1 Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 MCCONNELL: TRUMP’S CAPITOL MOB ‘WAS FED LIES’ WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY 36° 26° January 20, 2021 Brief thaw, then some ¬ subzero nights. B6 Rush for vaccine crashes website Online registration was second. The site closed to new swamped, but 5,000 made registrants at 2 p.m. in order to Some of state’s youngest serve people stuck in a wait- appointments this week. ing queue, but in the end con- nected more than 5,000 people students back in school By JEREMY OLSON with vaccine appointments this [email protected] Thursday through Saturday. B y MARA KLECKER, ANTHONY used for at-home learning. Another 4,000 people were LONETREE and PETER WARREN “It’s like our fourth first day M innesotans 65 and older on a wait list for this week’s Star Tribune staff writers of school,” Cantu said, refer- clogged phone lines and appointments. ring to the school’s switches crashed a state website Tues- State IT C ommissioner Principal Roberto Cantu between distance, hybrid and day as they sought to make Tarek Tomes blamed a pri- donned his plastic face shield now full in-person learning so appointments for a new, lim- vate vendor’s web page that and greeted students by name far this school year. ited supply of COVID-19 vac- handled the registrations as they jumped off the bus at Tuesday marked the first cine at nine test sites. and promised a better expe- Poplar Bridge Elementary phase of bringing many of Online registration rience when people sign up School in Bloomington on Minnesota’s elementary stu- launched at noon but was dis- next Tuesday for next week’s Tuesday morning. Each stu- dents back into school build- rupted within an hour as the appointments. “We are going DAVID JOLES • [email protected] dent carried a backpack stuffed ings. In addition to Bloom- website was overwhelmed to do everything we can to A student w as all set for the first day of in-school learning full of the items — tablets, art ington, districts including with a peak of 10,000 hits per See VACCINE on A5 Ø Tuesday at Sonnesyn Elementary School in New Hope. supplies and books — they had See SCHOOLS on A5 Ø ‘To heal, we must remember’ Over 100 Trump pardons expected 11th-hour clemency for former adviser Bannon. By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE • Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump granted clem- ency to his former chief strate- gist, Steve Bannon, as part of a flurry of last-minute clemency action that appeared to be still in flux in the last hours of his presidency, White House offi- cials said. Trump trumpeted his administration’s accomplish- ments and wished his succes- sor luck in a farewell video as he spent his final full day in office in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside. Trump is expected to offer pardons and commutations to more than 100 people in the hours before he leaves office at noon Wednesday, according to two people briefed on the LIGHTS FOR THE COVID FALLEN plans. The list is expected to A somber pre-inauguratioN ceremony Tuesday night honored pandemic victims. From l eft, Doug Emhoff, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Jill include names unfamiliar to Biden and President-elect Joe Biden stood at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. More than 400,000 Americans have Now died. Story, A5 the American public — regular people who have spent years languishing in prison — as Story by BILL BARROW and AAMER MADHANI • Photo by ALEX BRANDON • Associated Press well as politically connected friends and allies like those WILMINGTON, DEL. – Hours from inauguration, President-elect Joe … and remember all who we lost,” Biden said. he’s pardoned in the past. Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Wash- The sober moment on the eve of Biden’s inauguration — typically a Bannon has been charged ington Tuesday evening to mark instead the national tragedy of the coro- celebratory time in Washington when the nation marks the democratic with duping thousands of navirus pandemic with a moment of collective grief for Americans lost. tradition of a peaceful transfer of power — was a measure of the enor- investors who believed their His arrival coincided with the awful news that the U.S. death toll had mity of loss for the nation. money would be used to ful- surpassed 400,000 in the worst public health crisis in more than a cen- During his brief remarks, Biden faced the larger-than life statue of fill Trump’s chief campaign tury — a crisis Biden will now be charged with controlling. Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War president who served as more than See PARDONS on A7 Ø “To heal, we must remember,” the incoming president told the nation 600,000 Americans died. As he turned to walk away at the conclu- at a sunset ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. Four hundred lights rep- sion of the vigil, he faced the black granite wall listing the 58,000-plus Former Trump resenting the pandemic’s victims were illuminated behind him around Americans who perished in Vietnam. adviser Steve the monument’s Reflecting Pool. Biden was joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who spoke Bannon, “Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights into the darkness of the collective anguish of the See BIDEN on A6 Ø charged with fraud, received Sen. Amy Klobuchar to speak during ceremonies. A6 • National Guard members removed from security detail over extremist ties. A7 a pardon. N ORTH SIDE HOT SPOT MAY TEST NEW SAFETY PLAN By LIBOR JANY “ murder s tation.” about reimagining public defund police that grew after Locals say something has made worse by the COVID- [email protected] The Winner Gas station safety, this rough stretch of the George Floyd’s death — voted to be done about the violence 19 pandemic that has exacted very nearly lived up to its North Side may provide a tell- to divert nearly $8 million and drug trade at Broadway a steep toll on Black and Latino Situated in the heart of north dark nickname again when a ing first test of a new strategy from the Minneapolis Police and Lyndale, which many communities. Minneapolis’ commercial dis- 19-year-old w as shot there last that prioritizes mental health Department’s budget to fund feel would not be tolerated Community outreach spe- trict, the corner of W. Broad- month. He was one of at least care and drug treatment to its vision of crime preven- in more affluent parts of the cialist Maleta “Queen” Kim- way and N. Lyndale Avenue is 21 people to have been struck address the cycles of trauma tion by investing in teams of city. That it’s allowed to go on, mons said she doesn’t support home to a grocery store, a Wal- by gunfire around the inter- that can lead to violence. trained, unarmed profession- some say, is part of a pattern getting rid of police altogether greens, and a gas station that section since last June. Last month the City Council als w ho could be sent to cer- of neglect and disinvestment — “I’m just anti-bad cops” — locals have taken to calling the Now, as Minneapolis sets — spurred by the movement to tain 911 calls, instead of officers. that stretches back decades, See CORNER on A10 Ø THE CORONAVIRUS’ TOLL TOP NEWS BUSINESS SPORTS 95,559,647 24,126,194 448,268 Owatonna man jailed: Office vacancies soar: An eye for talent: Garden- cases worldwide cases in the U.S. cases in Minn. Illegal weapon sale followed Pandemic, New projects hire’s managing skills land 2,040,107 399,053 5,945 threats to kill police. B1 affected local market. D1 him with Saints. C1 deaths worldwide deaths in the U.S. deaths in Minn. Court blocks Clean Air MyPillow products Much-needed win: Numbers as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday • Sources: Johns Hopkins University (worldwide), rollback: Rule eased regu- pulled: CEO doubles down Gophers women rally to New York Times (U.S.), Minnesota Department of Health (Minnesota) lation of power plants. A2 on election claims. D1 defeat Nebraska 76-71. C3 HAVE YOU HEARD More of what matters to Minnesota. All day. Every day. STAR TRIBUNE Minneapolis, St. Paul MN SAT drops essay, subject matter tests: The changes come as ONLINE: startribune.com • TIPS: 612-673-4414 • COMMENTS: 612-673-4000 Volume XXXIX • No. 291 fewer colleges require SAT and ACT for admission. A2 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Call 612-673-4343 or go to startribune.com/subscribe Jan. 20, 2021 ZSW [C M Y K]D1 Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 Tomatoes grown indoors Stocks bounce back from Star Tribune visuals: Top 3 in the world shipped to market. D4 last week’s losses. D4 Awarded by the Society for News Design (2020) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2021 STARTRIBUNE.COM/BUSINESS • SECTION D BUSINESS Lindell shrugs as big retailers flee $1M U.S. Bancorp MyPillow CEO says he stands “I’m fighting for America,” Lindell to try to remain in power, including by his election-fraud claims and said in an interview. “We hope the invoking martial law. Supreme Court opens up and says A left-leaning activist group, that the business will return. something.” Sleeping Giants, in recent days grant funds Kohl’s, Wayfair, H-E-B and Bed ridiculed Lindell on social media By KRISTEN LEIGH PAINTER Bath & Beyond ended their distrib- and pressed retailers to stop selling [email protected] utor relationship with the Chaska- MyPillow merchandise.