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U.S. NEWS Monday 10 June 2019
Puerto Rican Day Parade honors arts, culture trailblazers

By JULIE WALKER and DEEPTI celebrated alongside his
HAJELA foundation, which is dedi-
Associated Press cated to fighting human
NEW YORK (AP) — With trafficking.
Puerto Rican pride on As New York City marks
full display along New Pride Month, the parade is
York City’s Fifth Avenue, paying posthumous tribute
Gov. Andrew Cuomo an- to Sylvia Rivera, an LGBTQ
nounced Sunday he’s re- rights activist who took part
turning to the island to help in the Stonewall rebellion
rebuilding efforts after Hur- 50 years ago this month.
ricane Maria. Others being honored in
Speaking at the National the parade themed “One
Puerto Rican Day Parade, People, Many Voices” in-
Cuomo said he’s also ap- clude singers La India and
pointing a commission to José Feliciano, golfer Chi
oversee the construction Chi Rodriguez and Hall of
of a memorial, located in Fame-bound baseball slug-
Manhattan’s Battery Park ger Edgar Martinez.
City, to victims of the 2017 Doris Martinez, 61, of Man-
storm. hattan, said she’s been go-
Cuomo, a Democrat, said ing to the parade since she
more than 300 students was 15.
from state-run colleges will “My mommy made it a
travel to Puerto Rico over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., center, takes part in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, point to show me my heri-
the summer to help the re- Sunday, June 9, 2019, in New York. tage and culture at an
covery. Associated Press early age, and for me, it’s
Public health experts have Rico every step of the way.” ter, including a group of it’s highlighting Discover a pride and joy especially
estimated that nearly 3,000 Cuomo has already trav- marchers who had been Puerto Rico, an organiza- to show the world who we
people died in 2017 be- eled to Puerto Rico five displaced from their homes. tion encouraging business are,” she said.
cause of the effects of Hur- times since Hurricane Maria This year, for its 62nd itera- and leisure travel to Puerto New York City Mayor Bill de
ricane Maria. hit. tion, the parade is looking Rico. Blasio skipped the parade,
“In New York, we have not Last year, parade organiz- to promote the economic Grand marshal Ricky Mar- opting to campaign in Iowa
forgotten,” Cuomo said. ers mounted a tribute to development needed for tin, the singer known for his as he seeks the Democratic
“We said on day one that those affected by the Sep- the island to fully get back stint in Menudo and his hit party’s nomination in the
we will stand with Puerto tember 2017 natural disas- on its feet. As part of that, “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” was 2020 presidential race.q

Crane collapses during storm in Dallas, killing 1 woman

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JUAN without working traffic medics worked on his in-
LOZANO lights. Isaiah Allen told the juries. “It felt like a year,”
Associated Press Dallas Morning News he Bosquez said.
DALLAS (AP) — A construc- was in his apartment when Video shows that downed
tion crane buffeted by high he heard what he thought crane ripped a large hole
winds during a storm col- was a deafening thunder- in the east side of the build-
lapsed on a Dallas apart- clap. “I saw that the crane ing and landed on an ad-
ment building Sunday, had actually fell straight jacent parking garage. Ev-
killing one woman in the through the building and ans said the top priority for
building and injuring at had destroyed a good search and rescue person-
least six more people, two eight to 10 apartments and nel was the eastern side of
of them critically, a fire of- so there’s like floors and the building where all five
ficial said. stuff falling through,” he floors collapsed and where
Crews searching the Elan said. Allen told the paper the deceased woman was
City Lights building found he saw a bloodied woman found.
the body of a woman in- Officials respond to the scene after a crane collapsed into Elan trapped in her apartment Evans said “every single
side after the crane top- City Lights apartments amid severe thunderstorms, Sunday, on the second floor. level of the parking garage
pled and ripped a large June 9, 2019, in Dallas. Yesenia Bosquez’s family in part has collapsed” and
gash into the side of the Associated Press had moved into their top- that multiple vehicles were
five-story structure, Dallas garage,” Evans said. storm watch for the Dal- floor apartment just two damaged. He said he was
Fire-Rescue spokesman Of those injured, two were las/Fort Worth area and weeks ago. She returned not sure if anybody was in
Jason Evans said during a listed in critical condition, warned of winds up to 70 from a shopping trip to the garage at the time of
press briefing. three had suffered serious mph (113 kph). Evans said find her apartment, where the collapse.
Evans said it is too early to injuries and one suffered the reason the crane fell she’d left her husband, Jay, He said rescue personnel
say whether there may be minor injuries and was later is unknown but there is a to recover from a shoulder were using dogs to try to
more people hurt, killed or discharged from a hospital, “strong possibility” that the injury, crushed by the twist- find people who might be
missing. Evans said. winds “played some role in ed metal. trapped inside the rubble.
“The building itself has suf- Crews were called to the the collapse.” It took about 30 minutes for Across Dallas the storms
fered multiple collapses in site of the collapse just Across Dallas the storm authorities to tell her that felled mature trees and
different areas of the build- before 2 p.m., after the felled mature trees and her husband had been res- knocked out power Sunday
ing to include residential National Weather Service knocked out power Sun- cued alive and had been leaving many areas with-
spaces and the parking issued a severe thunder- day, leaving many areas holding their dog while out working traffic lights.q