2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 7, 2005 NATION/WORLD Tornado rampages and kills 21 NEWS IN BRIEF 4. "a WON-41i", I L74 Twister rips through Kentucky and Indiana at wind speeds of at least 158 miles per hour EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A tornado tore across western Kentucky and Indiana early yesterday, killing at least 21 people as it cut through a mobile home park and obliterated trailers and houses as residents slept. The tornado, estimated to have winds of at least 158 mph, hit a horse track near Henderson, Ky., then jumped the Ohio River into Indiana around 2 a.m. "It was just a real loud roar. It didn't seem like it lasted over 45 seconds to a minute, then it was calm again," said Steve Gaiser, who lives near the East- brook Mobile Home Park in Evansville. At least 17 people were killed in the mobile home park, according to Eric Williams of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department. More people were believed to still be trapped in the debris, and National Guard units were called in to help with search-and-recovery efforts. At least 200 people were injured during the storm. "They were in trailer homes, homes that were just torn apart by the storm, so they're just now getting in there trying to find people," said deputy Vanderburgh county coroner Annie Groves. "It's just terrible." Rescuers on the scene since 2 a.m. reported seeing children wandering the area looking for their parents and parents searching for missing children. Children's bicycles and other toys were strewn amid the debris of aluminum siding, mattresses, chairs and insulation. Four other people were confirmed dead in neigh- boring Warrick County, east of Evansville, where the Ohio River city of Newburgh was hit. No deaths were immediately reported in Kentucky. The storm reduced homes to splinters and scattered debris across the countryside. Entire blocks of build- ings were nothing but rubble. Indiana homeland security spokeswoman Pam Bright said about 100 of the 350 or so homes in at the Evansville mobile home park were destroyed and 125 others were damaged. Larry and Christie Brown rode out the storm inside their mobile home. "Man, it was more than words can say," Larry Brown said. "We opened the door and there wasn't anything sitting there." Chad Bennett, assistant fire chief in Newburgh, told CNN that sirens sounded, but most people didn't hear them because it happened in the middle of the night. The tornado developed in a line of thunderstorms that rolled rapidly eastward across the Ohio Valley. The National Weather Service had posted severe thun- UNITED NATIONS U.N. recommends-U.S. repay Iraq A U.N. auditing board has recommended that the United States reimburse Iraq up to $208.5 million for contracting work carried out by KBR, a subsidiary of Hal- liburton, in the last two years. The International Advisory and Monitoring Board of the Development Fund for Iraq said in a report that the work, paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, was either over- priced or done poorly by the Virginia-based company. Compiled from an array of Pentagon, United States government and private audi- tors, the report did not specify how or what work has been done poorly. Halliburton said its subsidiary had cooperated with the auditing process and that questions raised had to do with documentation rather than the costs incurred by the company. It pointed to findings by the Pentagon's Defense Con- tract Audit Agency. "Many of DCAA's questions have been about the quality of supporting documen- tation for costs that KBR clearly incurred," Halliburton spokeswoman Cathy Mann said in an e-mailed statement. "Therefore, it would be completely wrong to say or imply that any of these costs that were incurred at the client's direction for its benefit are 'overcharges."' WASHINGTON x Lawmakers scrutinize use of Patroit Act Lawmakers expressed concern yesterday that the FBI was aggressively pushing the powers of the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act to access private phone and financial records of ordinary people. "We should be looking at that very closely," said Sen. Joseph Biden, (D-Del.) who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It appears to me that this is, if not AP PHOTO abused, being close to abused." Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, agreed, saying the government's expanded power highlights the risks of balancing national k neigh- security against individual rights. aid, and "It does point up how dangerous this can be," said Hagel, who appeared with Biden 1. on ABC's "This Week." thought Under the Patriot Act, the FBI issues more than 30,000 national security letters allowing the investigations each year, a hundredfold increase over historic norms, husband The Washington Post reported yesterday, quoting unnamed government sources. The wburgh letters, which were first used in the 1970s, give access to people's phone and e-nail of the records, as well as financial data and the Internet sites they surf. The 2001 Patriot Act for the removed the requirement that the records sought be those of someone under suspicion. and did AR DEL PLATA, Argentina l, wood Trade zone summit ends without agement ded the 0 Sharon McCoy helps remove debris from her parents' yard yesterday, after a tornado touched down early yesterday in Munfordville, Ky. derstorm warnings for sections of northern Ohio. Ryan Presley, a weather service meteorologist in Paducah, Ky., said a single tornado touched down near Smith Mills in western Kentucky and cut a 15- to 20-mile swath through Indiana's Van- derburgh and Warrick counties. The tornado appears to have been an F3, with winds ranging from 158 mph to 206 mph, and may have been even stronger, Presley said. Warrick County Sheriff Marvin Heilman said the victims included a woman who was eight months' pregnant, her husband and a young child in the rural town of Degonia Springs. A teenage girl was also killed near Boonville, and her father was critically injured, he said. Tim Martin, 42, was at his parents' mobile home when the tornado struck. The three were awakened by the wind, which picked up the home and moved it halfway into the neighbor's yard. He and his parents escaped unharmed, but they heard several neighbors calling for help. A boring mobile home was overturned, he sa another appeared to have been obliterated "All I could see was debris," he said. "It it was a bad dream." Patty Ellerbusch, 53, said she and her h were in bed at their hilltop home in Ne when a relative called and warned them tornado. They heard a low roar and ran basement. She made it downstairs, but her husba not. He was blasted with shattered drywal and other debris as the tornado shred home's roof. "He was running down the hallway, knocked him down and ripped his glas He said it felt like being in a wind tunn said. 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U.S. and Iraqi troops battled insurgents house-to-house, the U.S. military said. The U.S. commander of the joint force, Col. Stephen Davis, told The Associated Press late yesterday that his troops had moved "about halfway" through Husaybah, a market town along the Euphrates River about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad. At least 36 insurgents have been killed since the assault began Saturday and about 200 men have been detained, Davis said. At least 918 vehicles were burned in the 10th night of violence PARIS (AP) - Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said yesterday. Some 2,300 police poured into the Paris region to bolster security on a restive Saturday night while firefight- ers moved out around the city to douse blazing vehicles. At least 918 vehicles - including those in Paris - were burned during the 10th night of violence, said the Interior Ministry's operational center tracking the violence. There was no word yet on damage in Paris to shops, gymnasiums, nursery schools and other targets which have been attacked around the country. Police made 186 arrests nationwide overnight. For the second night in a row, a helicopter equipped with spotlights and video cameras to track bands of marauding youths combed the poor, heavily immigrant Seine-Saint-Denis region, northeast of Paris, where the violence has been concentrated. Small teams of police were deployed to chase down rioters speeding from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes. On Friday night, 900 vehicles were torched across France in the worst wave of arson since the urban unrest began. The violence - originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large populations of Arab and African Muslim immigrants - has now spread across France, extending west to the roll- ing fields of Normandy and south to resort cities on the Mediterranean. The Normandy town of Evreux, 60 miles west of Paris, appeared to suffer the worst damage Saturday. Arsonists burned at least 50 vehicles, part of a shopping center, a post office and two schools, said Patrick Hamon, spokes- man for the national police. Five police officers and three firefighters were injured battling the Evreux blazes, - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JASON Z. 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