WA GOV JAY INSLEE (D) SAYS FED OFFICIALS ARE SEARCHING FOR A TEMPORARY REPLACEMENT FOR THE I-5 BRIDGE THAT COLLAPSED INTO THE SKAGIT RIVER THURS NIGHT *

INSLEE SAYS REBUILDING THE 160-FOOT SECTION COULD TAKE MONTHS IF A REPLACEMENT CAN'T BE FOUND *

STATE OFFICIALS SAY AN OVERSIZED TRUCK CAUSED THE COLLAPSE AFTER HITTING AN OVERHEAD SPAN *

TWO VEHICLES PLUMMETED INTO THE WATER LEAVING THREE PEOPLE INJURED *

FDA RECEIVES REPORTS OF SEVEN CASES INVOLVING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED STEROID MEDICATIONS MADE BY A PHARMACY IN NEWBERN, TN *

INJECTIONS CONTAIN THE SAME DRUG AT THE CENTER OF LAST YR'S DEADLY FUNGAL MENINGITIS OUTBREAK THAT KILLED MORE THAN 50 PEOPLE *

THE PHARMACY HAS RECALLED THE PRODUCTS PENDING AN INVESTIGATION *

NY RESCUE CREWS SEARCHING FOR A PILOT WHO WENT MISSING AFTER AN ANGEL FLIGHT CRASH ON FRI *

AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH IN EPHRATAH, ABOUT 50 MILES NW OF ALBANY *

IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH *

ANGEL FLIGHT IS A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT ARRANGES FREE AIR TRANSPORTATION FOR SICK PATIENTS FROM VOLUNTEER PILOTS *

PRES OBAMA CALLING ON THE NATION TO DO MORE FOR VETERANS ON MEMORIAL DAY *

IN HIS WEEKLY ADDRESS, THE PRES SAYS THE COUNTRY MUST MAKE SURE ALL FALLEN HEROES RECEIVE THE CARE AND BENEFITS THEY EARNED *

MEANWHILE, IN THE GOP ADDRESS, SEN JAMES INHOFE (R-OK) THANKED THOSE WHO ASSISTED IN RESCUE AND RECOVERY EFFORTS FOLLOWING MONDAY'S DEADLY TORNADO IN MOORE, OK *

UK OFFICIALS ARREST A FRIEND OF ONE OF THE TWO SUSPECTS IN THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A BRITISH SOLDIER EARLIER THIS WEEK *

THE ATTACK LEFT 25-YR-OLD BRITISH SOLIDER LEE RIGBY DEAD NEAR AN ARMY BARRACKS IN THE SE LONDON NEIGHBORHOOD OF WOOLWICH *

THE TWO MUSLIM ATTACKERS WERE SHOT BY POLICE AND TAKEN TO CUSTODY *

PRIME MIN DAVID CAMERON SAYS THERE ARE "STRONG INDICATIONS" THE ATTACK IS RELATED TO TERROR WHILE LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON SAYS IT WAS "OVERWHELMINGLY LIKELY'' A TERRORIST ATTACK *

ATTYS FOR MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO SAY THEY'LL APPEAL A JUDGE'S RULING THAT HIS OFFICE RACIALLY PROFILED LATINOS *

ACTION COMES AFTER A JUDGE SAID ON FRI ARPAIO'S OFFICE PROFILED LATINOS DURING IMMIGRATION PATROLS AND DETAINED THEM FOR UNREASONABLY LONG PERIODS *

ATTYS ARGUE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS "NEVER USED RACE" IN LAW-ENFORCEMENT DECISIONS *

AUTO CLUB AAA PREDICTING 34.8 MIL PEOPLE WILL TRAVEL MORE THAN 50 MILES THIS MEMORIAL DAY WKND *

THAT'S DOWN 0.9% FROM A YEAR AGO *

31.2 MIL ARE EXPECTED TO TRAVEL BY CAR WHILE 2.3 MIL WILL TAKE TO THE SKIES *

TWO FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE IN MISSOURI, INJURING AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE *

COLLISION EARLY THIS MORNING OCCURRED BETWEEN SCOTT CITY AND CHAFFEE, ABOUT 100 MILES SOUTH-SE OF ST. LOUIS *

CRASH ALSO IGNITED A FIRE AND TRIGGERED THE COLLAPSE OF AN OVERPASS UNDER WHICH THE TRAINS WERE TRAVELLING *

A HAZMAT TEAM IS ON SCENE TO ASSESS WHAT LEAKED OUT OF THE CARGO TRAINS *

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Latest White House Press Pool Report: Where are President Obama and the First Lady? Click to see…

Subject: POTUS pool #3

 

Press entered school at 11:58. Smell of paint now replaces with smell of wood stain.

 

POTUS and FLOTUS standing in a first-floor hallway, flanking two City Year ppl and staining a 5-tier shelf. Shelf looks like pinewood. They are staining a shade of medium-brown.

 

Order of standing: FLOTUS – boy city year person – girl city year person – POTUS. (we’re working on getting names and ages for the girl, who was blind and had glasses, and the boy, whose hair color I forgot to write down. Usually City Year ppl have finished high school – these guys looked about college age.) **NAMES: girl: Sheri Fisher, a City Year employee

Jeff Franco – Executive Director of City Year

 

As press comes in, POTUS made a joke about power tools, saying he heard them “How’d you guys get power tools?” he asked. The sound of power tools was audible, intermittently. Several in the pool then heard Obama say they don’t let him have power tools, but this pooled couldn’t hear it from where she was standing.

 

Obama, who was wearing khakis, a thin brown leather belt, brown dress shoes, what appeared to be a dark blue chambray shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and clear plastic gloves, held a plastic cup of stain and talked to the girl city year volunteer as he stained. He asked her where she was from — she said PA. He asked her how she came to DC — she said she chose to come here.

 

FLOTUS talking to the boy, but it was too quietly to be audible. She was wearing a purple long-sleeved shirt with black print, black leggings, black mid-calf boots and clear gloves. She appeared to be making more progress in her staining on her side of the shelf. (The Obama’s each seemed to have claimed a side, with the city year ppl doing the shelf-parts in the middle.)

 

The did not finish by the time press were escorted out at 12:02. POTUS and FLOTUS didn’t interact with anyone but those two city year ppl and the press in the time we were in the hall.

 

Obama and FLOTUS and the shelf and the City Year-ers were all standing on a clear tarp taped to the floor. The set up was at an intersection of two hallways on the first floor of the school building. The building has white walls, low-ish ceilings and there was a lot of kid-art hung on the walls. Nearby was a wall of snowmen and a wall on which kids wrote about how “I can help my friends buy food when they are hungry.”

 

POTUS making remarks soon.

 

 

Karoun Demirjian

Washington Correspondent

Las Vegas Sun








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