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ByJonathanLemire The Associated Press NEW YORK Laying new groundwork for his pres- idency, Donald Trump chose retired Gen. John Kelly Wednesday to head his Homeland Security Department and offered newly sympathetic words for the hundreds of thou- sands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. il- legally as children. He also said he expects to name his secretary of state next week and former rival Mitt Romney still has a chance to win the post. "Yes, he does," Trump told NBC's "Today." Romney, the 2012 presi- dential nominee, was blis- teringly critical of Trump on foreign policy and other issues during the business- man's campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton. So Trump's consideration of him — and Romney's in- clusion on the short list for one of the Cabinet's most prestigious positions — has been a surprise. Longtime Romney rival Jon Huntsman is also now in the running. Kelly, Trump's choice for Homeland Security, is a retired Marine general whose last command in- cluded oversight of the Guantanamo Bay deten- tion center. The general re- tired this year after three years as head of U.S. South- ern Command, which spanned some of the more fractious debate over the Obama administration's ultimately failed pledge to close Guantanamo. He served three tours in Iraq. In still another develop- ment, the president-elect announced he has selected Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as the new U.S. ambassa- dor to China. Trump and Branstad are expected to appear together in Iowa on Thursday. Meanwhile, Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, a choice the magazine's managing editor said was "straight- forward" given that Trump had upended politics-as- usual during the course of his extraordinary race for the White House. In an interview with Time, Trump said he will "work something out" to help immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children and granted work visas by President Barack Obama. Trump's tough com- ments on immigrants dur- ing the campaign have led to fears among immigrant advocates that he will end Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals pro- gram. Hundreds of thou- sands of young immigrants have gained work visas and temporary protection from deportation under the 2012 program. Trump offered no details in the Time interview but talked much more sympa- thetically than he had dur- ing the campaign. He said "We're going to work some- thing out that's going to make people happy and proud." As for Romney, Trump denied he was stringing Romney along to make him pay for saying the for- mer reality show star was unfit to serve. "No, it's not about re- venge. It's about what's good for the country, and I'm able to put this stuff behind us — and I hit him very hard also," Trump said in the telephone in- terview on NBC. Those close to the selec- tion process have said that Trump has begun moving away from both Romney and another former front- runner for the post, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker and former CIA Di- rector David Petraeus had also been previously iden- tified by transition aides as part of the final four. In the wide-ranging NBC interview, Trump said he picked a fight with Boe- ing this week over the cost of new presidential planes because "we're going to get the prices down, and if we don't get the prices down we're not going to order 'em." He said Boeing would benefit from his ad- ministration's tax cuts and reductions in regulations. The federal govern- ment has agreed that Boe- ing will build two new planes, which would go into service around 2024. That means Trump might never fly on the aircraft, which carry U.S. presidents around the globe. Trump also confirmed that he had sold stocks back in June, but neither he nor his aides have pro- vided any evidence of the sale. POLITICS ForTrump:kinder words for immigrants, one new Cabinet pick BLAZE ERICRISBERG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Members of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office stand outside the site of a warehouse fire Wednesday in Oakland Recovery efforts at the site have ended officials said Wednesday. By Paul Elias and Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press OAKLAND The fire that killed 36 people during a dance party at an Oakland warehouse grew rapidly and was raging by the time peo- ple on the second floor of the building detected it, trap- ping them upstairs, investi- gators said. Federal investigators pro- vided the details Wednes- day. With the death toll at 36, officials earlier an- nounced that recovery ef- forts at the site have ended. Jill Snyder, special agent in charge of the San Fran- cisco office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- arms and Explosives, said it appears the fire started on the first floor "and the oc- cupants were consumed by smoke before they could get out of the building." She said smoke traveled up two stairwells, trapping the occupants on the sec- ond floor. The news comes a day after Oakland officials de- clared a local state of emer- gency. The Oakland City Council is slated to ratify the state of emergency on Thursday. This will begin the process for state and federal aid. A refrigerator was a po- tential source of the fire, but it was too soon to say for sure, said Jill Snyder, spe- cial agent in charge of the San Francisco office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "We have no indication that this was intentionally set," she said. Tearful family members visited the scene Tuesday and exchanged hugs hours after the founder of the arts collective that used the warehouse stood near the gutted building and said he was "incredibly sorry." Derick Ion Almena said he was at the site to put his face and his body in front of the scene, but he deflected blame for the blaze, saying he signed a lease for the building that "was to city standards supposedly." "Everything that I did was to make this a stronger and more beautiful commu- nity and to bring people to- gether," Almena told the "Today Show" on NBC. The fire broke out during a dance party Friday night in the cluttered warehouse. It had been converted to art- ists' studios and illegal liv- ing spaces, and former den- izens said it was a death trap of piled wood, furniture, snaking electrical cords and only two exits. Almena did not respond to emails or calls to phone numbers associated with him by The Associated Press. He told San Jose tele- vision station KNTV that he didn't attend the event Fri- day night and that he and his wife had decided to stay at a hotel because he was ex- hausted. City and state officials fielded years of complaints about dangerous conditions, drugs, neglected children, trash, thefts and squab- bles at the warehouse, rais- ing questions about why it wasn't shut down. The dis- trictattorneywarnedofpos- sible murder charges as she determines whether there were any crimes linked to the blaze. A building inspector who went to an Oakland ware- house on Nov. 17 after re- ceiving a complaint of ille- gal interior construction left after being unable to get in- side. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said late Tuesday the inspector followed pro- cedure and later sent a re- quest to the owner to gain entry. She did not reveal the outcome of that request. Under the Oakland city code, building officials and fire marshals need court permission to enter com- mercial lodgings if the owner or manager refuses access. Building inspectors typi- cally cannot force entry to a property unless there are pressing circumstances, Schaaf said. Fire officials have started knocking down parts of the building, known as the "Ghost Ship," that they said were structurally unsound. Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said that of the 36 victims found, 35 have been identified and 20 of their families have been notified. Officials are still lacking any type of identity for one person. Stories of the victims' last minutes, meanwhile, emerged. Alameda County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said that some of the victims texted relatives, "I'm going to die," and "I love you." Rescue crews found bod- ies of people "protecting each other, holding each other," Kelly said. Official: Fire at warehouse tr ap pe d pe op le o n se co nd fl oo r By Michael Graczyk The Associated Press HOUSTON Texas' highest criminal court threw out the conviction of a Waco man sent to death row for the 2011 ambush slayings of two men, saying Wednes- day that a proper search warrant wasn't used to ob- tain text messages that tied him to the killings. The texts were used against ruled 29-year-old Albert Leslie Love Jr. at his capital murder trial. "The strongest evidence of his guilt came from the improperly admitted text messages," the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said in a 6-3 ruling, but those messages "could not be ob- tained without a probable- cause warrant." Love is one of two men on death row for the fa- tal shootings of 17-year-old Tyus Sneed and 20-year-old Keenan Hubert, who were among four people sitting in a car who were shot in what prosecutors said was a gang-related ambush in retaliation for another kill- ing. 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