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Highway tunnel ceiling
slabs fall in Japan, kill 9
Unstable roof
delays search and
rescue effort
TOKYO (AP) - Concrete ceil-
ing slabs fell onto moving vehi-
cles deep inside a long Japanese
highway tunnel, and authorities
confirmed nine deaths before
suspending rescue work Monday
while the roof was being rein-
forced to prevent more collapses.
Two vehicles caught fire
in the accident Sunday morn-
ing, and heavy smoke initially
hindered rescue efforts. The
location of the accident about
1.7 kilometers (a mile) inside
the 4.7-kilometer (3-mile) long
Sasago Tunnel was also making
the work difficult.
The nine dead were traveling
in three vehicles in the tunnel
about 80 kilometers (50 miles)
west of Tokyo on a highway that
links the capital to central Japan.
The tunnel opened in 1977 and is
one of many in the mountainous
country.
The search was suspended
Mondaymorningwhile the high-
way operator does work to sup-
port the remaining slabs in the
ceiling, said Jun Goto, an official
at the Fire and Disaster Manage-
ment Agency. It's expected to
resume by afternoon.
Goto said it's not clear if there
are other survivors.
Police and the highway opera-
tor Central Japan Expressway
Co. were investigating why the
concrete slabs collapsed. An
inspection of the tunnel's roof in
September found nothing amiss,
according to Satoshi Noguchi, a
company official.
An estimated 270 concrete
slabs, each weighing 1.4 metric
tons (1.54 short tons), suspended
from the arched roof of the tun-
nel fell over a stretch of about
110 meters (120 yards), Noguchi
said.
The operator was exploring
the possibility that bolts hold-
ing a metal piece suspending
the panels above the road had
become aged, he said. The pan-
els, measuring about 5 meters (16
feet) by 1.2 meters (4 feet), and
8 centimeters (3 inches) thick,
were installed when the tunnel
was constructed in 1977.
Local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climatec
Doha, Qatar, on Saturday.
New Zealand drops
Koto at ..Cim
Third storm in less than a
week drenches North Calif.
Powerful rain
and winds, but
structural damage
less than expected
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -
Residents of Northern Cali-
fornia endured the brunt of
another powerful storm that
drenched the area with yet
another round of pounding rain
and strong winds, but damage
from the storm was less than
expected, officials said.
The latest storm system -
the third to hit the area in less
than a week - moved across the
region late Saturday and early
Sunday dropping as much as an
inch of rain per hour in some
areas, toppling trees and knock-
ing out electrical service to tens
of thousands of people, officials
said.
Rivers across Northern Cali-
fornia swelled from the deluge,
but did not flood as extensively
as had been expected, officials
said,
Forecasters had issued flood
warnings for the Napa and Rus-
sian rivers, two rivers north of
San Francisco with a history of
flooding, as well as the Truckee
River, near Lake Tahoe, but by
Sunday afternoon had canceled
the warning for the Russian
River.
"It (the storm) moved
through a lit bit faster than it
was looking like it would, so
it didn't plant on top of us and
keeping raining," said Austin
Cross, a meteorologist with the
National Weathir Service. "The
period of heavy rain didn't last
as long."
In Napa, where officials had
handed out more than 8,000
sandbags and about 150 tons of
sand before the storm hit, offi-
cials breathed a sigh of relief Sun-
day afternoon after the heaviest
rain moved out of the area and
the city appeared to avoid any
major damage from the storm.
"We've had some minor
street flooding and some of the
intersections were flooded,"
Napa city spokesman Barry
Martin said.
Flood construction projects
were credited with keeping the
river within its banks through
the city, while most of anticipat-
ed flooding, expected around 6
p.m. Sunday, was expected to
hit a mostly agricultural area
outside of the city, officials said.
Island nation claims
treaty is outdated,
insufficient
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - High-
lighting a rift between the rich
countries and emerging econo-
mies like China, New Zealand's
climate minister staunchly
defended his government's deci-
sion to drop out of the emis-
sions pact for developed nations,
saying it's an outdated and
insufficient response to global
warming.
Other key issues at the con-
ference, now starting its sec-
ond week, include how to help
emerging nations switch to
climate-friendly energy sources
and charting the course for a
new treaty that would replace
the Kyoto Protocol, which covers
only developed countries.
New Zealand announced
before the U.N.'s climate talks
started here last week that it
would not take part in the sec-
ond phase of the Kyoto treaty.
That angered climate activists
and stunned small neighboring
island nations, who fear they
could be submerged by rising sea
levels spurred by global warm-
ing.
Climate Minister Tim Groser
told The Associated Press on
Sunday that New Zealand is
"ahead of the curve" by shifting
its attention from the 1997 Kyoto
deal to a new global climate pact
that would also include develop-
ing nations.
The U.S. never ratified Kyoto,
which expires this year, partly
because it did not impose limits
on China and other emerging
economies.
Australia and European coun-
tries want to extend the pact at
the current conference in Doha
until a wider treaty comes into
force. That is not scheduled to
happen until 2020.
Groser didn't see a point in
that, because those countries
together represent less than 15
percent of global emissions.
"You cannot seriously argue
you are dealing with climate
Osama Faisal/AP
change at the U.N. climate talks in
Out Of
ate Talks
change unless you start to tackle
the 85 percent of emissions that
are outside (Kyoto)," Groser said.
"We're lookingbeyond Kyoto now
to where we think the real game
A majority of emissions of
heat-trapping gases that most
climate scientists blame for ris-
ingglobal temperatures currently
come from developing countries,
and China is now the world's top
emitter. Beijing argues it must be
allowed to increase its emissions
as it economy expands, lifting
millions of people out of poverty.
It also insists that Western
nations bear a historical respon-
sibility for climate change, since
their fossil fuel factories spewed
emissions into the atmosphere
long before China started indus-
trializing.
China therefore wants to retain
the sharp division between rich
and poor countries that has guid-
ed the slow-moving climate talks
since they started two decades
ago. Rich countries want to get rid
of that distinction, which they say
doesn't reflect the world today.
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