FACES PACIFIC NFL ‘Stateless,’ ‘Palm North Korea rejects Mahomes signs Springs,’ The Dalai talks as US envoy richest contract Lama out this week arrives in Seoul in sports history Page 15 Page 4 Back page Soldier with links to satanic neo-Nazi group pleads not guilty » Page 4 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 58 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Death toll VIRUS OUTBREAK rises, dozens missing from floods in Japan Short BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO — Soldiers rescued residents on boats as floodwaters supply flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by deadly rains that were expanding across the region Tuesday. At least 50 people have died and a dozen are missing. Pounding rain since late Fri- day in Japan’s southern region of Kyushu has triggered widespread flooding. More rain was predicted in Kyushu and the western half of Japan’s main island as the rain front moved east. In Fukuoka, on the northern part of the island, three soldiers waded through knee-high water pulling a boat carrying a mother, her 2-month-old baby and two other residents. “Good job!“ one of the soldiers said as he held up the baby to his chest while the mother got off the boat, Asahi video footage showed. Several children wearing orange life vests over their wet T-shirts arrived on another boat. SEE FLOODS ON PAGE 4 WILFREDO LEE/AP Health care workers help each other with their personal protective equipment at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Sunday. Protective gear is running out again as the virus resumes its rapid spread. Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again BY GEOFF MULVIHILL plies. And Democratic members of Congress ‘ AND CAMILLE FASSETT are pushing the Trump administration to We’re five months into Associated Press devise a national strategy to acquire and dis- this and there are still tribute gear in anticipation of the crisis wors- shortages of gowns, hair The personal protective gear that was in ening into the fall. dangerously short supply during the early “We’re five months into this and there are covers, shoe covers, weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is still shortages of gowns, hair covers, shoe masks, N95 masks. running low again as the virus resumes its covers, masks, N95 masks,” said Deborah rapid spread and the number of hospitalized They’re being doled out, KYODO NEWS/AP Burger, president of National Nurses United, patients climbs. who cited results from a survey of the union’s and we’re still being told Japan Ground Self-Defense A national nursing union is concerned that members. “They’re being doled out, and Force search for people at the gear has to be reused. A doctors association to reuse them. ’ we’re still being told to reuse them.” site of a mudslide in Tsunagi warns that physicians’ offices are closed be- Deborah Burger town, Kumamoto prefecture, cause they cannot get masks and other sup- SEE SUPPLY ON PAGE 7 president of National Nurses United southwestern Japan on Tuesday. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Uber buys Postmates in $2.65 billion deal Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9424 Euro costs (July 8) ................................ $1.10 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.21 Dollar buys (July 8) ...........................€0.8630 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8657 British pound (July 8) ........................... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (July 8) .........................105.00 available to customers at military banking BY MATT OTT rides while boosting home de- delivered to your home, Uber is South Korean won (July 8).............1,162.00 Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance AND CATHY BUSSEWITZ livery needs. While Uber’s meal going to be there with you, and for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 delivery business, Uber Eats, has we think these everyday frequent Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Associated Press British pound .....................................$1.2553 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., mostly focused on restaurants, interactions create a habit, create Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3577 purchasing British pounds in Germany), SILVER SPRING, Md. — Uber China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0193 Postmates delivers a wider array a connection with customers. check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6031 has widened its reach in the facility. Commercial rates are interbank of goods including groceries, Uber will gain ground against Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.0398 fiercely competitive delivery pharmacy items, alcoholic drinks DoorDash, which controls about Euro ........................................$1.1285/0.8861 rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies market by acquiring Postmates and party supplies. 44% of the U.S. meal delivery Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7502 Hungary (Forint) .................................313.53 to one dollar, except for the British pound, in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal, “The vision for us is to become market, according to May fig- Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4558 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, the company said Monday. an everyday service,” said Dara ures from Second Measure, a Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.66 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The acquisition enables the Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3081 INTEREST RATES Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, in data analysis company. That’s Norway (Krone) ...................................9.4321 ride-hailing giant to increase a conference call with investors compared with Uber Eats’ 23% Philippines (Peso).................................49.50 Prime rate ................................................3.25 its delivery offerings at a time Monday. “Postmates is a great share before the Postmates deal. Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.96 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7509 Federal funds market rate ...................0.08 when the global pandemic has step along that vision. Anyplace Postmates had about 8% of the Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3642 3-month bill ............................................. 0.15 suppressed customers’ desire for you want to go, anything you want market. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,194.22 30-year bond ...........................................1.44 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 70/65 Kabul 87/55 Seoul 84/64 Baghdad 114/85 Kandahar 103/77 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 84/63 77/70 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 59/50 58/51 73/68 Iwakuni 73/70 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 96/90 Brussels 56/53 Guam 108/90 61/55 Ramstein 76/71 84/81 Lajes, 70/52 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 112/87 107/82 68/65 72/52 74/54 Aviano/ Vicenza 74/56 Naples 86/68 Okinawa Morón 83/80 99/72 Sigonella Rota 90/69 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 103/88 81/69 78/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 18 Crossword ................. 18 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 20-24 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Pentagon mulls ban on Confederate flags BY MISSY RYAN tion of anonymity to discuss in- President Donald Trump de- Military bases generally are symbol inside barracks rooms AND ALEX HORTON ternal deliberations. A Pentagon crying NASCAR’s flag ban and not decorated with Confederate and homes and on personal bags The Washington Post spokesman declined to comment vowing to veto an annual defense flags. Many barracks and homes and vehicles. on the proposed change, which bill if it includes a Democratic on post carry the U.S. flag, ser- While the Army, the largest WASHINGTON — Pentagon was first reported by CNN. proposal to change the names of vice-specific banners, the colors military branch, has previously leaders are considering a ban on The Pentagon’s consideration military bases honoring Confed- of service academies or sports resisted pressure to rename its 10 Confederate flags at all bases, an of the new policy comes as some erate leaders. teams and college teams. The bases honoring Confederate com- official said Monday, in another state and local leaders, along with Those proposals come amid a Confederate flag can more often manders, saying in 2017 that such possible step in the military’s colleges, universities and organi- nationwide reckoning that began be found on T-shirts, service moves would be “controversial reckoning with racism and its zations, take steps to address the with the death of George Floyd, a members’ tattoos, bumper stick- and divisive,” officials have said long acceptance of Civil War legacy of the Civil War, slavery Black man, in Minneapolis police ers or banners hanging inside a in recent weeks that Army lead- tributes. and racism, removing statues of custody in May. barracks. ers are