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8A Daily News – Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Obama swaps toral votes needed for vic- tory. commander WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy as the sprawling storm roared menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to ''do your very best'' in donating to relief efforts. campaign role for hurricane- response quickened on Monday even without the custom- ary clash of rallies and rhetoric. Romney's allies put down $1.2 million for a last-minute television ad campaign designed to make Pennsylvania com- petitive — or at least appear so — and the roll of early voters swelled past 15 million in scat- tered states. With the race in its The political pace The president changed roles quickly during the day, highlighting the advantages of the incum- bency — as long as events go smoothly. He scrapped a morning campaign appearance in Florida, boarded Air Force One for a bumpy flight to the nation's capital and appeared before reporters in the White House not long afterward. Crane luxury tower NEW YORK (AP) — A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high- rise in midtown Manhat- tan collapsed in high winds Monday and dan- gled precariously, prompting plans for engi- neers and inspectors to climb 74 flights of stairs to examine it as a huge storm bore down on the city. dangles from atop NYC The harrowing inspec- tion task was being under- taken by experts who are ''the best of the best,'' city Buildings Department spokesman Tony Sclafani said final full week, most national polls showed the two presidential rivals separated by a statistically insignificant point or two, although others said Romney had a narrow lead for the overall popu- lar vote. won or lost in the nine most competitive states. Republicans claimed momentum there, but the president's high com- mand projected confi- dence. And Romney's increasingly narrow focus on Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio suggested he still searched for a break- through in the Midwest to deny Obama the 270 elec- But the election will be WORLD BRIEFING Circle and Central Park. Syrian regime launches widest campaign of an fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most wide- spread bombing in a sin- gle day since Syria's trou- bles started 19 months ago. airstrikes yet BEIRUT (AP) — Syri- Some buildings, including the Parker Meridien hotel, were being evacuated as a pre- caution and the streets below were cleared, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. Authorities received a call about at around 2 p.m. as conditions wors- ened from the approach- ing Hurricane Sandy. Meteorologists said winds atop the building could have been close to 95 mph at the time. The nearly completed high-rise is known as One57 and is in one of the city's most desirable neighborhoods, near Carnegie Hall, Columbus was supposed to be a four-day cease-fire between the regime of President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his overthrow exceeded 500, and activists guessed the government's heavy reliance on air power reflected its inability to roll back rebel gains. ''The army is no longer able to make any progress on the ground so it is resorting to this style,'' said activist Hisham Nijim via Skype from the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun. Activists said more than 80 people were killed nationwide Mon- day while videos posted online showed fighter jets screaming over Syrian towns, mushroom clouds rising from neighbor- hoods and residents searching the remains of damaged and collapsed buildings for bodies. One video from Maaret al- Numan in the north showed residents trying to save a boy who was buried up to his shoulders in rubble. Another showed the dead bodies of a young boy and girl laid out on a tile floor. The airstrikes focused on rebel areas in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, as well The death toll for what Through the Newspapers in Education program, area classrooms receive the Red Bluff Daily News every day thanks to the generosity of these local businesses & individuals. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING NEWS DAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY E VOICE OF TEHA M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 NEWSPAPERS Congress' failure so far to reach a deal to prevent tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect next year and possibly triggering another reces- sion. Yet as President Barack Obama has found, the White House can't force a congressional accord. And whether Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney wins Nov. 6, he'll likely have to deal with one chamber of Con- gress led by the opposing party. Polls suggest the Senate will remain in Democratic hands after the election and the House in Republican control. as on restive areas in and around the capital Damas- cus. The regime has been bombing rebel areas in the north for months, but had sparingly used its air force near the capital, pre- sumably to avoid isolating its supporters there. decreased WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines, the FBI announced Monday. Meanwhile, the total number of property crimes reported to law enforcement agencies went down by 0.5 percent to 9 million, the ninth consecutive year that fig- ure has fallen. Property crimes resulted in esti- mated losses of $156.6 billion. Violent crime reported to police The latest declines mark the continuation of a nearly two-decade drop in crime levels — a trend that almost no one in the field of criminology pre- dicted, said Professor John Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon Heinz College. The trend, said Caulkins, is a reflection of a range of many factors, including policing prac- tices. teens to 25-year-olds also contributed to the crime reductions, Caulkins said, but added that ''if this were only a story of demographics, we would never have had this kind of substantial decline.'' Government figures released two weeks ago said that violent crime has fallen by 65 percent since 1993. Next US president will have limited ability to manage key economic candidates CAIRO (AP) — A coun- cil of Egypt's Coptic Chris- tians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church, as the community struggles to assert its identity and rights in a rising tide of Islamism that has left many Copts fearful for their future. The succession follows the March death of the charismatic Pope Shenouda III at the age of 88, after 40 years as the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The congregation repre- sents the majority of Egypt's Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the country's 83 million people. Egypt's Coptic Christian Church narrows challenges WASHINGTON (AP) About 2,400 clergymen, community leaders and Egyptian Coptic notables gathered in the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo for the voting. They were choosing a short list of three candi- dates from a field of five monks and auxiliary bish- ops. A drop in the number of people in the peak crime-age category of — Whoever wins the U.S. presidential election will likely struggle to manage the biggest economic threats he'll face. That's the cautionary message that emerges from the latest Associated Press Economy Survey. Europe's recession will persist deep into the next presidential term, accord- ing to a majority of the 31 economists who respond- ed to the survey. A weaker European economy would shrink demand for U.S. exports and cost U.S. jobs. Yet there's little the next president can do about it. An even more urgent threat to the U.S. econo- my, the economists say, is Over 25 years of experience Professional Nail Services • THE GOLD EXCHANGE • LUIGI'S PIZZA • RED BLUFF AUTO DISMANTLING • OLIVE CITY QUICK LUBE • WALMART • ADOBE ROAD CHEVRON • CORNING AUTO CENTER • DM TECH HIGH SPEED INTERNET • GARCIA CONSTRUCTION • INTER-CITY BODY & PAINT • NORTH MAIN AUTOMOTIVE • RANCHO GRANDE RESTAURANT • SCHOOL HOUSE MARKET • TEHAMA CO. 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