EU Calls For 'Humanitarian Pause', Manhunt for Maine Shooter, Acapulco Hurricane
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European leaders call on israel of positive air strikes on cost that to .

get humAnitarian relief in the european union needs to react and act united and resolute.

Will israel listen?

I, me, mart, is that lay a bottle? This is up first from P. R. news. Police are still searching for the gunman of a horrific mass shooting in mine.

This is a very fluid situation. We have a lot of resources that around the ground, the effort to apprehend this individual .

entire city of Lewison is unlock now.

And herrick noticed, is one of the harder storms to ever hit mexico, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Stay with us will give you the news.

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Panic on officials say the U. S. Struck two facilities in syria ing to iran impact malicious IT follows a .

growing number of attacks against U. S. Forces in a rock in syria. World leaders are concerned the fighting between israel and the armed palestinian group MaaS could escalate into a broader war in the middle east. Meanwhile.

the leaders of twenty seven european and nations are calling for a humAnitary arian pause in the fighting to allow desperately needed aid to reach people in gaza, which has become a rapidly determining humAnitary arian crisis. We go to npr, elenor beards, who has been following events from paris.

Good morning or good morning.

So after more than five hours of ringing and discussions about the precise language to use, E. U. Leaders came out with their proposal for humAnitary arian corridors and pauses in israel's bombing. Why is IT difficult for e ears to reach a united position? Well.

there are new hands of differences between the twenty seven nations. Those differences depend on history and the different populations living there.

Let's take germany, for example, its world war two history with the holocaust, inst the jewry people means IT stands solidly behind israel france is trying a more baLanced approach as IT has europe's largest jewish and muslim populations and spain has been one of the palestinian people's stanchest supporters pains prime minister pedro sanchez, whose country holds the rotating uh present cy of the european council, wanted to call for a ceasefire which israel does not want because IT says that would allow homos to recover but everyone settled on humAnitarian pause. It's very important to show A U unity. Let's listen to A U. Commission president of arts of the underline and taking journalists questions, SHE said everything kicked off with the horrible attack on october seventh. So wonderland said, IT is important to acknowledge the pain and suffering of the israeli people.

Here he is if we want to speak to israel and influence israeli. And therefore, IT is so important that you first listen if you want to be listening to all.

he said. All the leaders agreed that israel has the right to defend itself, but insisted its defenced must be in line with international law.

And of course, leaders emphasized that the siege must stop and that IT is of utmost importance that the palestinian people have access to humAnitarian an aid. There is no contradiction between showing solidarity, too, is well, and of course, acting on the need of humAnitarian aid for the people of gaza.

So how likely is a humAnitarian pause to let more aid through?

Well, at least now the E. U. Is speaking with one voice layer and in tandem with the U.

S. Present job and expressed support for a humAnitary arian pause wednesday. So that increases its chances.

And what about the ease support for ukraine is IT wavering in this new crisis?

Well, the leaders say no. They reaffirm their support for ukraine last night, but everyone admits the plate, their plate is full. The middle east conflict is clearly complicating things.

There's not unanimous ity, for example, for two packages of some seventy billion euro and weapons and financial aid that the E. U. Was planning for ukraine for the next four years. And yesterday we sells lavaux as new prime minister said his country will no longer send eight to ukraine, although that's unrelated to the conflict in middle east I think what european parliament president Robert to my solar set summit up.

this should do not take our attention away from ukraine. And this is exactly what putin want.

So there is huge pressure for the eu to stay united on every front.

And P, R. elenor. biz. Thank you, elinor.

You're welcome.

When community suffer trauma, they often come together sharing their grief. That's not possible right now. In luis in main, the scene of america's latest mass shooting.

the suspect robbert card is still on the loose, so the communities locked down, sheltering in place. Last night, people held a visual online for eighteen neighbors killed and thirteen wounded. A gene field with the main council of churches offered a prayer.

Be especially with those in lock down tonight who are afraid, who may be alone, and plant in them the seed of hope and peers.

Brian man is in leiston and joins us now. Good morning.

brian.

So last night there was real hoped that the suspect in the shooting, Robert card, would be captured. What happened?

Yeah, please believe that cards, forty years old, is the man who allegedly opened fire a bowling ali and bar wednesday night. He's been on the run ever since. So around seven pm last night, a huge force of police served a search warrant to a run down farmhouse in boden, about fifteen miles outside loison.

They were being really cautiously, the shouting over bullhorns for anyone inside the house to come out. A helicopter circled overhead in the, and no arrest were made. IT was apparently another false lead.

Yeah, I was texting with a friend five miles from house, and I know he feels like, how long will this go on? I mean, what does the lock down there look and feel like for people? Are these .

communities frozen heading into the holiday, halloween, weekends? Stores and restaurants are close, schools are shute's, streets mostly empty? Main governor Janet mills talk yesterday, urging people to be really cautious.

But mister carr is considered armed and dangerous. Named people should not approach him under any circumstances, please. If you see anything suspicious, please call nine one one. And npr s learned that car is an army reserve.

S last summary was that a national guard training facility in new york. When officials there became concerned about erratic behavior, they called police and transported him to a hospital for evaluation. Well, we don't know, is how he then wound up back home here in Lewiston.

heavily armed. Now the issue gun control has come up. IT came up yesterday.

I was raised by one of ma's congressman, jay golden. What did he say? As was .

interesting golden's democrats who lives here in Lewis, and he's long opposed many kinds of gun control, including a ban on firearms with military or assault type features. That speaking yesterday afternoon after this mass shooting in his own town, he said he changed his mind.

I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war, like the assault rife used to Carry out this crime to the people of luisa. I asked for forgiveness, support that I seek to prevent these terrible shootings.

And president bide also removed his call this week for a ban on a salt style weapons that that kind of legislation been installed in congress for years.

And this isn't over the arch. A Robert card continues. I mean, where does this go? I mean, i'm sure people are wondering, when are they going to get them?

Yeah, yeah, there's a huge ever on the ground here. Local, state, federal authorities FBI special agent jodie coin spoke yesterday about this is asking the public for patients.

We work day and night along side long west partners to get the answers to the questions this community deserves.

The question, of course, is now various Robert card, and with his troubled history, how did he still have access to these powerful firearms? Eighteen people dead lay. And so far they're just aren't good answers.

And here is brian man in luis in man this morning. Thank you for your reporting, brian.

Thank you.

The mexican resort town of a copco is coming to terms with the massive at destruction left by hurricane tis.

The storm crashed into mexico shore as a category five hurricane that flooded streets, ripped roofs off the homes. In this rupa communication across psychopath co, the government has counted at least twenty seven people dead so far.

P, S, ater perl, to join us from alcohol, where power is still out. And so we may have some audio issues later. Where are you right now and what are you seeing?

So i'm sitting in a parking lot, uh, right now in an apartment complex where some nice person has let us stay in the apartment, uh and that's completely destroyed. Uh, all the windows are blown out, all the furniture has been destroyed, the roof has caved and we've just made a little corner for ourselves.

And this is unspeakable devastation, like a myth in mexico is built along this half moon bay with clifts on either side and a huge stretch of hotels in high rise buildings. And all of that is totally, utterly destroyed. Um sometimes you look up at the buildings and you can see straights through them, like everything inside was sucked out by the wind and then um in the hills above a couple of a the rivers broke their banks and they flooded everything.

People I spoke to said that when the storm hit, the water in their homes came up to their chests, uh, and they have spent two days now showing mud out of their homes. And as we moved through neighborhoods, IT seemed that everyone wanted to talk. IT was like they wanted to scream to the world that they are in pain. Uh, let's listen to anna.

And what he saying there is that during the storm, her house was chaos. Everything was toss around, everything was full of water, and all that water took everything from her. Everything he had saved for, everything he had worked so hard for was gone. In an incident.

you can hear that pain in her voice. how? How are people getting by.

I mean, in any way that, you know, all of this has made to desperation and opportunity ism. Last night, as we were trying to find a place to rest, the streets were full of people. IT seemed that every story in a up cope was being looted.

We people coming out of home deeper with paint, out of sams clubs, with a paddy o furniture. But we also saw a lot of people taking food and essential items. I met one Young man who had been going from pharmacy to pharmacy, trying to find a medicine that is sick aunt needed.

Another lady I met hit her face in her hands. A when he spoke to me and he told me that this situation had turned her into a thief. Uh, her Young son had taken some ice and some water from the supermarket, and SHE said that the worst part was that he had money. But, uh, none of the stores here are open.

We will. Is there any type of government response what the authorities doing?

I mean, they're here, but this is a huge catastrophe in the response so far. But IT seems inadequate. We've seen the military trying to cut huge down trees with my shades.

Ah we've seen maybe just a handful of heavy machinery um but what we haven't seen at all is aid. We haven't seen truck bringing water or food. Uh and in some of these neighbors ods, uh, uh, we have talked to people who are drinking juice because the'd run out of water. So things are really bad right now here. And if they don't get Better soon, they could get much worse here.

That's npr, adr, perl to reporting from alcohol mexico.

Thank you are thank you.

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