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SPORTS I B1 LOCAL I A3 AFC WINS 3RD MIDDLE SCHOOLERS STRAIGHT PRO INTRODUCED BOWL TO LEESBURG CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY Monday, January 28, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial 75¢ LOCAL I A3 NOW AND THEN: Aide: Trump OK with THE START OF THE LEESBURG second shutdown LIBRARY Mulvaney insists that President Donald It’s unclear if the Demo- chief of staff Mick Mulvaney that president Trump is prepared to shut- crats will budge. Trump said. “He doesn’t want to doesn’t want another ter the government again seemed girded for battle, shut the government down, stoppage, but he’s without a border wall deal sending out a series of online let’s make that very clear. willing to do what it from Congress. messages that foreshad- He doesn’t want to declare takes for border wall The president’s standoff owed the upcoming fight a national emergency.” with Democrats on Capi- with lawmakers. “BUILD But Mulvaney said that By Deb Riechmann tol Hill is far from over and A WALL & CRIME WILL at “the end of the day, the The Associated Press the clock is ticking — the FALL!” he tweeted. president’s commitment is spending bill Trump signed Is Trump prepared to shut to defend the nation and he WASHINGTON — Two on Friday funds the govern- down the government again will do it with or without days after the record-long ment agencies that had been in three weeks? Congress.” Costly shutdown ended, the White shut down for 35 days only “Yeah, I think he actually House made clear Sunday until Feb. 15. is,” acting White House See TRUMP, A5 savings Trump rollbacks for fossil fuel industries cause some concerns over health, safety A NEW BEGINNING By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — As the Trump administration rolls back environmental and safety rules for the energy sector, govern- ment projections show billions of dollars in savings reaped by com- panies will come at a steep cost: more premature deaths and ill- nesses from air pollution, a jump in climate-warming emissions and more severe derailments of trains carrying explosive fuels. The Associated Press analyzed 11 major rules targeted for repeal or relaxation under Trump, using the administration’s own estimates to tally how its actions would boost businesses and harm society. The AP identified up to $11.6 billion See CONCERNS, A6 Holocaust survivor recalls Auschwitz Breaking ground for the new American Legion Post 55 hall in Clermont. In the pink helmet is Eileen Scates, president of the post’s American Legion Auxiliary. To her right is post Commander Gary Breese. [PHOTOS BY LINDA CHARLTON / CORRESPONDENT] By Aron Heller The Associated Press American Legion breaks and the Auxiliary, plus key JERUSALEM — As the world ground to replace hall figures from the community commemorates the anniversary ravaged by fi re and from the city, manned of the liberation of Auschwitz on the ceremonial shovels. Some International Holocaust Remem- By Linda Charlton members of the post simply brance Day Sunday, Correspondent walked to the site from the death camp survivor post's temporary hall in Cipora Feivlovich CLERMONT — On Friday, downtown Clermont. marks her own per- members of American Legion South Lake Chamber of sonal milestone as Post 55 and guests formally Commerce President David she turns 92. broke ground on their new Colby was the lone speaker. Feivlovich has Legion hall in Clermont. Colby presented Legion Feivlovich spent her most The brief ceremonial toss- officers with a plaque of recent birthdays ing of dirt took place four appreciation, commemo- recounting to audiences in Israel years and one week after the rating the groundbreaking, The “Coming Soon” sign has been up for quite a while and Germany her harrowing Post's old hall was gutted by at the site of the burned out American Legion hall in fire. Officials from the Legion See HALL, A5 Clermont. 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B6 A2 Monday, January 28, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF OKLAHOMA CITY Search for Brazil dam survivors renews Apartment complex fi re kills woman, 3 kids By Marcelo Silva De Sousa Neither the company nor and Peter Prengaman authorities had reported why Authorities say a fire at an The Associated Press the dam failed, but Attorney Oklahoma City apartment General Raquel Dodge prom- complex killed a woman and BRUMADINHO, Brazil ised to investigate it, saying three children. — Brazilian rescue crews “someone is definitely at Firefighters say the blaze returned to mud-covered flats fault.” Dodge noted there are broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday to resume the search 600 mines in the state of Minas Sunday at an apartment com- for hundreds of people missing Gerais alone that are classified plex on the city’s northwest in the wake of a dam collapse as being at risk of rupture. side. Battalion Chief Benny after the operation was sus- Another dam adminis- Fulkerson says a man jumped pended for several hours over tered by Vale and Australian off a balcony to escape the fears that a second dam was at mining company BHP Billiton flames but still suffered sec- risk of breach. collapsed in 2015 in the city of ond-degree burns and injuries The Civil Defense office in Mariana in the same state of from the jump. Minais Gerais state raised the Minas Gerais, resulting in 19 The man told firefighters confirmed death toll to 58, with deaths and forcing hundreds that his girlfriend and three up to 300 people still missing A rescue worker holds rope as he searches for victims Sunday from their homes. Consid- children, a girl and two boys, following the avalanche of iron after a dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil. [ANDRE PENNER/THE ered the worst environmental were still in the apartment. The ore waste from a mine Friday. ASSOCIATED PRESS] disaster in Brazilian history, woman and two of the children Earlier Sunday, authori- it left 250,000 people with- were pronounced dead at the ties stopped the search and complaints when interviewed neighborhood. out drinking water and killed scene and firefighters found the evacuated several neighbor- by The Associated Press. An “If we had gone down the thousands of fish. An esti- third child’s body in the rubble hoods in the southeastern email to Vale asking for com- other direction, we would have mated 60 million cubic meters several hours later. city of Brumadinho that were ment was not immediately died,” Pedrosa said. of waste flooded nearby rivers within range of the second B6 answered. “I cannot get that noise out and eventually flowed into the SEBRING, FLA. dam owned by the Brazilian “I’m angry. There is no way of my head,” she said. “It’s a Atlantic Ocean. Florida city to honor 5 bank mining company Vale. An I can stay calm,” Sonia Fatima trauma ... I’ll never forget.” Sueli de Oliveira Costa, who shooting victims in vigil estimated 24,000 people da Silva said as she tried to get In addition to the dead, 23 hadn’t heard from her husband were told to get to higher information about her son, people were hospitalized, since Friday, had harsh words Residents in a small Florida ground, but by the after- who had worked at Vale for 20 according to the Minas Gerais for the mining company. city are gathering to honor the noon civil engineers said the years. “My hope is that they be fire department. There had “Vale destroyed Mariana five women killed in a Sun- second dam was no longer at honest. I want news, even if it’s been some signs of hope ear- and now they’ve destroyed Trust branch mass shooting. risk. bad.” lier Saturday when authorities Brumadinho,” she said. Florida Gov. Ron “Get out searching!” a Da Silva said she last spoke found 43 more people alive. The Folia de S.Paulo news- DeSantis will attend the woman yelled at firefighters to her son before he went to For many, hope was paper reported Saturday that candlelight vigil Sunday in near a refugee set up in the work Friday, when around evaporating. the dam’s mining complex was Sebring. center of Brumadinho. “They midday a dam holding “I don’t think he is alive,” issued an expedited license Four SunTrust employees could be out there in the bush.” back mine waste collapsed, said Joao Bosco, speaking of to expand in December due and a customer were killed in Areas of water-soaked mud sending waves of mud for his cousin, Jorge Luis Fer- to “decreased risk.” Con- the bank’s lobby Wednesday. appeared to be drying out, miles and burying much in its reira, who worked for Vale. servation groups in the area After a standoff with police, which could help firefight- path. “Right now, I can only hope alleged that the approval was Zephen Xaver, 21, was arrested ers get to areas previously She was one of dozens of for a miracle.” unlawful. and is now facing five counts unreachable. people in Brumadinho who Vanilza Sueli Oliveira On Twitter, new Brazil- of premeditated murder. State Even before the brief sus- desperately awaited word on described the wait for news of ian President Jair Bolsonaro Attorney Brian Haas has said pension of rescue efforts, hope their loved ones. her nephew as “distressing, said his government would do it is likely that he will seek the that loved ones had survived Romeu Zema, the governor maddening.” everything it could to “prevent death penalty.

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