Cain escapes serious damage in Republican debate

Herman Cain's presidential debate on Wednesday escaped serious injury when the Republicans held the opponent allegations of sexual harassment, threatening to derail his White House bid in 2012 to their fire.

Cain, a former pizza execution, resulting in some surveys in the game, facing only one problem, dating back to the late 1990s by the four women's allegations. Romney refused to wade into the main competitors controversy.

"The American people should be superior based on unfounded accusations in the court of public opinion of the people," Cain said, in Rochester, Michigan, Oakland University in the debate.

Cain has denied the harassment allegations and pointed out that the problem did not weaken his campaign, in the face of the November 2012 election, Democratic President Barack Obama voters enthusiasm.

"They do not care about character assassination, the leadership and the State's care, he said:" The cheers from the audience.

These allegations include that from a woman groping her in 1997, Cain, he is responsible for one of the National Restaurant Association.

Debate has been more than a week wandering, erosion Cain favorable views of the electorate, but he is still running close to the top of the package, the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Cain's difficult, you can open the door, hoping to become a clear alternative to the more moderate conservatives Romney's allegiance to combat one of the other candidates.

Cain in the debate, some eyebrows when he described as "Princess Nancy", this sentence he later said he regretted that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Questions of the host, brought the allegations in the debate audience, which is focused on economic issues of the boos. Romney was cheered when he refused to answer when a reporter asked if he would face similar charges to hire executive.

"You see, Herman Cain who answer these questions, he just did," Romney said. "In this room, and the people make their own assessment."

"Embarrassing"

But the most memorable moments in the debate is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who saw his poll standing debate crash after several poor performances.

Perry, another flame, when he was named the third federal agency completely blank, he wanted to close. Although some of his opponents helpful suggestions, Perry did not name the third after the education and business organizations. "I'm sorry," he said.

After a child, in the debate, he thought the answer - the Department of Energy.

"Yes ah, this is embarrassing, of course," Perry told reporters in a rare debate in the media room. "But people understand what we do conservative principles."

Romney in the debate in the face of their own personality problems, refused troubled him, because his 2008 presidential campaign, he failed flip the key issues, including in 2009, blamed the failure of U.S. auto rescue.

"I think people realize that my stability and faithful people," Romney said. "I do not think you're looking for than I do these attributes."

Romney's past support for abortion rights and health care tasks, and governor of Massachusetts - he opposed - still makes many of his social and religious conservatives suspect.

Many Republican candidates condemn other countries for business and government assistance, and that they will not come to Italy's financial rescue, which is to control its debt.

"It does not make any difference, either Wall Street or some business entity or some European countries - if you are too big to fail, you are too," Perry said.

Romney, his father, former Michigan governor and former auto executive, defended his opposition to bailout the automotive industry in 2009 to help revitalize, headquartered in Michigan, USA General Motors and Chrysler.

"This is the wrong way to go," he said, he would rather let the company into a structured bankruptcy.

Democrats hope that if he complies with Romney in the 2012 election, the auto industry's problems will be one of Obama's strong. All other Republican candidates are opposed to the rescue.

Seen its manufacturing base hit hard by the economic downturn in Michigan, the economic struggle as the background of the debate. In the state's unemployment rate is 11.1% and third in the country, far higher than the national rate of 9% of the maximum.

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Emergency Alert Test to Interrupt TV, Radio in U.S. Today

Radio and television programs will be interrupted 30 seconds today, the United States conducted the first national disaster warning system test.

Emergency Alert System test will be at 2:00 pm New York radio and satellite television, radio and cable television time, according to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Testing will be conducted in a similar previous local appearance and sound.

50 years, the U.S. has been using the area has been provided according to the bad weather and other emergency information, a variety of names alarm system.

The test is in the national identification system failures, so that they can be fixed "first step", the administrator Craig Fugate FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, wrote in a letter: last week governor and private sector groups.

Rachel Racusen, the Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman said that a country is a reminder that a nuclear attack or other disaster warnings.

In preparing the test, U.S. officials have found that the system can not run closed hearing impaired, subtitles, and in some cases cable channels, visual warnings to accompany announcements, Fugate wrote Genachowski and leaves.

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A Powerful storm heading toward coastal Alaska

Alaska residents braced with an unusual western Bering Sea, to the coast, packing winds of hurricanes and storm waves churn.

Neil said Murakami in Anchorage, the National Weather Service forecast storm lashing parts of the wind speed over 80 mph Tuesday night's coastline. Small coastal communities, especially wind and flood damage caused by the expected risk.

Sharp rise in sea level caused by the storm, more than 3 feet of high tide, the National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks Sidifenke Tierney said. Officials said, is expected to rise 7 feet of water overnight. Reports of serious flooding is expected on Wednesday morning, Kearney said.

Kearney said late Tuesday night, the storm had reached Nome, brought 60 miles of wind and snow, visibility dropped to just a quarter mile. Noam sounded to busy phone lines Tuesday night.

Earlier in the day, the state emergency management officials said the storm's path led some residents have an emergency shelter.

Noam Brevig Mission 70 miles north of the village, AnnMarie Rudstrom teachers have planned from their home, her family to higher ground and marine lagoon separating the village spit.

Marine Day (Tuesday) afternoon loss of shades of gray.

"This is a very ominous-looking waves and growing," Rudstrom said.

State officials warned that hurt the way, home heating fuel tanks to ensure that the case of submerged into the neighborhoods. Osinsky Jeff said, the regional early warning weather service coordinator, to make communities more vulnerable than in the past few years is the lack of shore fast sea ice. "The existence of sea ice, and sometimes can take action to protect coastal areas," he said.

Waves begin to recover later this morning, Scott Johnson, 28, Norm banker said, prompting some people to evacuate to inland with friends or family circumstances forecast to remain a big surge of the waves proved to be true.

"The waves began to go against our seawall, he said:" From his second floor apartment located in the ocean.

Johnson said he and his wife into the car bags of gas, so he was ready to go.

"If a 30-foot waves, one, they may harbor and B, they may go to my apartment," he said.

Some businesses close early.

, "Johnson said:" The general view here is that we get a storm fairly regularly. "We shrugged it off, but the National Weather Service tried to sound the alarm and 30-foot seas, which is a rare storm, take it seriously, I think they are taking a serious grain of salt."

Greater concern to Alaska Natives in the region of 18 villages.

"They will impact less infrastructure than we do," Johnson said.

Storm is expected to generate at least 10 feet of surge, forcing the emergency preparedness of many coastal communities.

Windows were boarded up Tuesday morning at the Polar cafe, a popular restaurant facing the ocean Nome.

Andre Surina waitress said the project has been in the basement to upstairs, one in the hotel rooms. Plan is a safer place moving propane tanks, she said.

However, the upcoming storm, keep regulars away. They sat in their usual table, talking about the storm, she said.

"This is our title," Surina said. "No one missed a good storm."

See a similar prediction last time was in November 1974, when Norm also took part in the turmoil. This peak, measured over 13 feet or more, the type of storm in 1913, before the level, to promote the beach driftwood.

Expected from the current turmoil is Norton's voice pushed to a lot of water, raise sea levels 10 feet above normal (Wednesday). Forecast that this will lead to coastal erosion and flooding may push the Norton Bay ice on land, in particular, is the lack of sea ice.

Ted Fathauer, the National Weather Service in Fairbanks lead to forecasts that some low-lying areas and roads, running along the beach of Nome may encounter flooding.

Point Hope Village, which is located on a peninsula, the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea tips and party on the other 7-8 feet above sea level, said Mayor Steve Oomittuk.

Inupiat Eskimo village of about 700 people have evacuated the sea wall and there is no road. He said that if evacuation becomes necessary, each person will go to school, because it is located in the higher ground, large enough to accommodate everyone.

Smaller communities, are vulnerable to storm erosion of particular concern, especially in Kivalina village, has been most threatened countries, one of the communities because of erosion.

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Alaska soldier charged with attempted espionage

(Country News)... A military policeman stationed in Alaska has been formally charged with attempted espionage by military prosecutors, who say he handed over unclassified national defense information to a contact he believed was a foreign intelligence agent.

The formal charges filed Monday against Army Spc. William Millay, assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, offer the first glimpse of the government's case against the 22-year-old soldier, who was arrested last week.

The Army statement released Monday suggests there was no actual contact between Millay and a foreign government, nor was any sensitive information handed over. Rather, Millay appears to have been caught by investigators, likely with the help of an informant, dealing with someone the young policeman purportedly believed was a foreign agent.

"It was because of the close coordination between the Army and other agencies [including the Federal Bureau of Investigation] that he was observed and apprehended before any damage could occur," Army spokesman Lt. Col. William Coppernoll said in an interview.

According to the Army's statement on the charges, Millay transmitted "unclassified national defense information" to an individual he believed was a foreign intelligence agent with the intent of aiding a foreign nation.

The information he had gained was gleaned both in the course of his normal duties as a military policeman in the United States and on a previous deployment, the Army said. Millay served one combat tour of duty in Iraq, from December 2009 to July 2010, as part of the 164th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Engineer Brigade.

Millay also is charged with failing to report "multiple contacts" with the person he believed to be a foreign agent and with making false statements to Army counterintelligence officers regarding those contacts. Another charge: soliciting a fellow service member to obtain classified information and "tangible items" for the purpose of delivering them to the foreign agent.

Millay's lawyer, Kenneth P. Karns, said he had not had a chance to study the charges in detail, but said he has talked with Millay about the case.

"I found him to be as his friends described him, a simple young kid from Kentucky, who loves his country and has followed in his brother's footsteps in joining the Army," Karns told The Times. "The charges sound far worse than what I think anyone who knows him would say he's capable of doing."

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