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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 14 april 2020
Easter storms sweep South, killing at least 20 people

Continued from Front wind and hail on Monday. nagement agency twee- in Davidson County, nor- Paula Reid Ainsworth, aut-
The storms knocked down ted, promising details later theast of Charlotte, as high horities said.
Andrew Phillips crowded trees across Pennsylvania, in the morning. winds were blowing throu- “Robert left this world a
into a closet-sized “safe and an apparently strong In northwest Georgia, a gh, Sheriff’s Capt. Mike hero, as he shielded Mrs.
room” with his wife and two tornado moved through narrow path of destruction Burns said. Paula during the tornado,”
sons after watching an on- southern South Carolina, five miles long hit two mo- Apparent tornadoes da- said a Facebook message
line Easter service because leaving chaos in its wake. bile home parks, killing five maged dozens of homes by the sheriff’s office.
the pandemic forced their “Everything is up in the air. people and injuring five in a line from Seneca to “This is not how anyone
church to halt regular wor- Power lines are down, trees more, Murray County Fire Clemson. Emergency offi- wants to celebrate Easter,”
ship. Then, a twister struck, are all over the place. It’s Chief Dewayne Bain told cials also were working to said Mississippi Gov. Tate
shredding their house, hard to get from one place WAGA-TV. Another person open shelters in the North Reeves. “As we reflect on
meat-processing business to the other because the was killed when a tree fell Carolina mountains after the death and resurrection
and vehicles in rural Moss, roads are blocked,” Hamp- on a home in Cartersville, heavy rainfall there. on this Easter Sunday, we
Mississippi. The room, built ton County Sheriff T.C. the station reported. In Chattanooga, Tennes- have faith that we will all
of sturdy cinder blocks, was Smalls said. In Arkansas, one person see, the National Weather rise together.”
the only thing on their pro- A suspected twister lifted a was killed when a tree fell Service confirmed a tor- There were no immediate
perty left standing. house, mostly intact, and on a home in White Hall, nado struck, damaging at reports of serious injuries in
“I’m just going to let the in- deposited it in the middle southeast of Little Rock, least 150 homes and com- Louisiana, even though the
surance handle it and trust of a road in central Geor- the Jefferson County De- mercial buildings. More storm damaged between
in the good Lord,” said Phil- gia. In Louisiana, winds rip- partment of Emergency than a dozen people were 200 and 300 homes in and
lips. ped apart a metal airplane Management said. In Sou- treated, but none of their around the city of Monroe,
The National Weather Ser- hangar. th Carolina, a person was injuries appeared to be life- Mayor Jamie Mayo, told
vice tallied hundreds of re- Deaths were tallied in small found dead in a collapsed threatening, Chattanooga KNOE-TV. Flights were can-
ports of trees down across numbers here and the- building near Seneca as an Fire Chief Phil Hyman said. celed at Monroe Regional
the region, including many re, considering the storm apparent tornado struck, The deaths in Mississippi in- Airport, where airport di-
that punctured roofs and front’s vast reach and in- Oconee County Emergen- cluded a married couple — rector Ron Phillips told the
downed power lines. Mete- tensity. cy Management Direc- Lawrence County sheriff’s News-Star the storm cau-
orologists warned the mid- Mississippi’s death toll rose tor Scott Krein said. And in deputy, Robert Ainsworth, sed up to $30 million in da-
Atlantic states to prepare to 11 early Monday, the North Carolina, a person and a Walthall County Jus- mage to planes inside a
for potential tornadoes, state’s emergency ma- was killed by a falling tree tice Court deputy clerk, hangar.q

NY death toll surpasses 10,000; new hot spots slow to emerge

By ERIC TUCKER, ARITZ PAR- parts of the United States
RA and JOSEPH WILSON still seeing increasing daily
Associated Press levels of deaths or infec-
MADRID (AP) — New York's tions; France and New York
coronavirus death toll hoping they are stabilizing,
topped 10,000 on Monday albeit at a high plateau
even as the absence of of deaths; and nations
fresh hot spots in the U.S. like Italy and Spain seeing
or elsewhere in the world declines in the rates of in-
yielded a ray of optimism crease.
in global efforts against the Spanish Prime Minister Pe-
disease, though a return to dro Sánchez said his gov-
normal was unlikely any- ernment must balance its
time soon. response to the virus crisis
Officials around the world that "threatens to destroy
worried that halting quar- lives and at the same time
antine and social distanc- destroy the economic and
ing measures could eas- social fabric of our coun-
ily undo the hard-earned try." Seeking to restart man-
progress. Still, there were ufacturing, Spain's govern-
signs that countries were ment is allowing workers
looking in that direction. to return to some factory
Spain permitted some A woman on a bicycle passes a coronavirus graffiti by street artist 'Uzey' showing a nurse as and construction jobs. The
workers to return to their Superwoman, the lettering reads "for the real heroes" on a wall in Hamm, Germany, on Easter country on Monday report-
jobs, a hard-hit region of Monday, April 13, 2020. ed its lowest daily growth in
Italy loosened its lock- Associated Press. infections in three weeks.
down restrictions and grim virus Sunday, though once devastates economies Spain, one of the hardest Retail stores and services
predictions of a virus that discharges and deaths are worldwide, governments hit countries in the pan- remain closed, and office
would move with equal accounted for, the num- are struggling with the deli- demic. In South Korea, of- workers are strongly en-
ferocity from New York to ber of people hospitalized cate balance between ficials warned that hard- couraged to keep working
other parts of America had has flattened to just under keeping people safe from earned progress fighting from home. A prohibition
not yet materialized. New 19,000. "This virus is very a highly contagious dis- the virus could be eroded on people leaving home
York state's 671 new deaths good at what it does. It is a ease and making sure they by new infections as restric- for anything other than
on Sunday marked the first killer," Gov. Andrew Cuomo can still make a living or tions ease. The decisions groceries and medicine will
time in a week that the said Monday during a state have enough to eat. are complicated because remain in effect for at least
daily toll dipped below 700. Capitol news briefing. Workers in some nones- each nation is on its own two weeks.
Almost 2,000 people were As the coronavirus throws sential industries returned coronavirus arc, with plac-
newly hospitalized with the millions out of work and to their jobs Monday in es like Britain, Japan and Continued on Page 26