The president thanked Bernard Arnault’s French luxury company LVMH for the “Medals of Sacrifice” made by its subsidiary, Tiffany & Co., as Trump presented them to the families of three sheriff’s deputies from Palm Beach County, Florida, who were killed in the line of duty.
People were also forced to relocate at two other county schools on Tuesday. Allegany County Public Schools said 12 students stayed overnight at Mountain Ridge High School before being picked up Wednesday morning. County schools were closed Wednesday.Emergency officials said no one had been reported missing or injured, but residents were urged to stay home anyway because several secondary roads had been washed out.
The Potomac River remained within its banks, with only minor flooding reported and conditions generally improving, officials said. Crews were assessing damage after water receded in the Georges Creek area.By Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining and many residents had already spent hours scraping, shoveling and hauling massive quantities of mud. Crews used heavy equipment to clear mud from the streets and carted it away by dump truck.They started cleaning out the town’s library and a fire station, where receding floodwaters left behind a thick layer of sludge. From backhoes to mops, people grabbed whatever they could find and pitched in.
“Everybody’s coming together just trying to clean up,” Lafferty said.Much of Allegany County received about 3 to 5 inches (8 to 13 centimeters) of rain Tuesday. Rainfall records were broken in some spots of the region, said Anna Stuck, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Baltimore/Washington International Airport broke a rainfall record for the day, as did the city of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
More rain was on the way Wednesday, and while not as much was expected as on Tuesday, people should tune in for warnings, watches and advisories, Stuck said.
“Because of the rain yesterday, it won’t take much,” she said. “It will take less precipitation for it to flood because the ground is so saturated.”“This lack of due process and rule of law make the upcoming elections a free-for-all with an unpredictable, unsustainable outcome.”
More surprising was the tribunal’s decision to suspend Rodríguez’s candidacy pending a hearing on the legality of his political alliance. Judges accepted his appeal and set a first tribunal session for Wednesday.The new constraints on the candidates also drew criticism even from officials within the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
“The democratic system is at risk by legal actions affecting the normal development of elections,” wrote Francisco Vargas, a member of the electoral body. “I am alerting the country and the international community.”DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina.