Missouri Parents Plead for the Return of Their Missing Infant

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Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old girl who vanished from her Missouri home Monday night

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In a tearful televised plea, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin begged for the safe return of their missing 10-month-old girl, Lisa Irwin, who vanished from their home in Kansas City, Mo. Monday night.

Bradley said she put Lisa Irwin to bed at 10:30 p.m, and by 3:30 a.m. when Jeremy Irwin, an electrician, arrived home from a late-night shift, the baby was gone. The couple appeared before cameras, imploring their daughter's abductor to return Lisa Irwin somewhere safe, no questions asked. "We just want our baby back," Bradley said.

(MORE: Agonizing Saga: Three-Year Old Abducted in Canada, Returned Safely Five Days Later)

Local law enforcement and FBI agents used dogs to search the family's home and neighborhood, knocking on doors for any information on tips or sightings. "All we know is that there should've been a 10-month-old in that house and we are doing everything we can to find the kid," Capt. Steve Young of the Kansas City police department told MSNBC. Young said authorities are not ruling anything out but there are no suspects thus far.

Police are unsure about how someone broke into the house, but are considering a small window without a screen as a possibly entry point, according to the Today show. Police also discovered there are three missing cell phones from the household. Lisa Irwin was last seen wearing a purple shirt with white kittens and purple shorts. She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair.

Along with local and federal law enforcement support, the parents have also been in contact with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. According to the NCMEC,  since 1986, there have been 278 stranger kidnappings of infants and in all but 12 cases, the children have been safely returned, the Today show reports.

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Putin set to return as president

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24 September 2011 Last updated at 21:15 GMT Mr Putin's formal nomination for president is seen as a foregone conclusion Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has accepted a proposal to stand for president in March 2012.

Addressing the ruling United Russia party's annual congress, Mr Putin and current President Dmitry Medvedev backed one another to switch roles.

The announcements end speculation over which man should run for the top job.

United Russia, which Mr Putin leads, dominates the country's politics and observers say his return to the Kremlin is now all but guaranteed.

He had already served two terms as president before Mr Medvedev took over in 2008. Mr Putin was barred by the constitution from running for a third consecutive term.

News of Mr Putin's candidacy, which had been widely expected, was greeted with dismay by the country's small liberal opposition.

Boris Nemtsov, a deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, likened Mr Putin to Alexander Lukashenko, the long-serving autocratic president of Belarus.

'Great honour'

"I want to thank you for the positive reaction to the proposal for me to stand for Russian president," Mr Putin told delegates after Mr Medvedev suggested he should be a candidate.

Continue reading the main story Steve Rosenberg BBC News, Moscow

There is little doubt that Vladimir Putin will win next year's presidential poll. Not only is he the most popular politician in Russia, he also controls the entire political system, one which keeps any potential rivals from appearing and attracting support.

So what will President Putin Take 3 mean for Russia? His supporters say stability, a calm hand which will guide the country through potentially difficult economic times. His critics predict stagnation, more corruption and the suffocation of democracy.

There may be consequences, too, for the outside world. In the past, Western leaders have found it difficult dealing with Vladimir Putin - they will have to get used to the prospect that once again he will be the man they will need to do business with.

"For me this is a great honour."

Mr Putin also indicated that Mr Medvedev could become prime minister following the 4 December parliamentary vote, introducing a "new, effective, young, energetic management team".

Mr Medvedev had earlier accepted a proposal that he head the party's list of candidates in the elections and spoke of his "readiness to assume practical work in the government" in the future.

Backing Mr Putin for president, he said: "I think it would be correct for the congress to support the candidacy of the party chairman, Vladimir Putin, to the post of president of the country."

The congress must formally nominate Mr Putin as its presidential candidate - but that appears all but certain given the cheering and applause that greeted Mr Medvedev's proposal.

There have been months of speculation that Mr Putin planned to return to the Kremlin when elections are held in March.

Correspondents say most Russians believe he has greater influence in the country and far more power than Mr Medvedev.

Mr Putin told delegates that the two men had reached agreement on who should hold which post "a long time ago, several years back".

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I think Putin is the grave-digger of Russia, he should be in prison rather than in the presidential chair”

End Quote Andrei, Moscow He also warned of possible, unpopular measures to cope with the global financial turmoil.

"The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine," Mr Putin said.

"But this should always be done openly and honestly, and then the overwhelming majority of people will understand their government."

Mr Medvedev has spearheaded a drive to modernise Russia during his term in office.

Some economists say the return of the more conservative Mr Putin could counter this. Others say the two men vary in their styles but differ little on policy.

Mr Medvedev took over in 2008 after Mr Putin had served two terms as president

Under recent constitutional amendments, the new president will have a six-year mandate rather than four years as before. He or she will be able to serve no more than two consecutive terms, meaning Mr Putin could be in office until 2024.

Mr Nemtsov, who co-founded the unregistered People's Freedom Party, predicted "increased migration, capital flight and even more dependence on raw materials" under Mr Putin.

"We're in for a giant corruption component in politics, which will be incomparable with the current one," he told Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy.

Strange tweets

News of the candidacy generated a wave of Russian-language traffic on Twitter, much of it enthusiastic, such as a tweet by @xurinlev which read, "The man who pulled Russia out of the crash is coming back!"

However, along with genuine messages of support, a #putin2012 hashtag appeared which raised suspicions of manipulation among bloggers.

It was being promoted, in part, by tweeters who had registered on Twitter on the same date, 27 June 2011, some within seconds of each other, with account locations that spanned Russia.

"It's very easy to tell real public opinion from fake," tweeted @samklebanov after noticing the pattern. "Compare searches for "Putin" in Twitter with searches for #putin2012."

Meanwhile, one of the country's most popular micro-bloggers, @navalny, quipped "Android replacing iPod", seeming to refer to Mr Putin's strongman image and Mr Medvedev's well-known enthusiasm for social media.

"What happened to Mr Medevedev?" joked another tweeter, @ivan_f_davydov. "He drowned in the ovation."

The Russian president, who on Wednesday had tweeted "Half a million - that's cool. Thanks!", in apparent reference to the number of followers of his @MedvedevRussia account, did not tweet on Saturday.

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Weaver to return in Avatar sequel

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  Sigourney Weaver's character fleshed out Avatar's environmental message Actress Sigourney Weaver says she will appear in the sequel to sci-fi film Avatar, despite her character dying in the first instalment."Don't worry, I will be back," she told US movie website Coming Soon.
Weaver played botanist Grace Augustine in the 3D epic, which took more than $2.7bn (£1.7bn) worldwide.
Her character was fatally wounded in a climactic battle, but the actress said director James Cameron had told her "no one ever dies in science fiction".
"He's told me the stories for the next two movies and I have to say that they're absolutely wonderful," she added.
"Now we just have to make them."
The original Avatar, which told the story of humans mining an alien planet for reserves of the improbably-named mineral Unobtanium, is the highest-grossing movie of all time.
Director Cameron promised to turn the story into a trilogy if box office receipts reached $1bn (£633m).
Work on the scripts has begun but, as yet, there is no filming schedule.
When shooting commences, Avatar 2 and 3 will be made back-to-back, with months of post-production to create the computer-generated alien world of Pandora.
Speaking on the red carpet at the 2010 Oscars, Cameron admitted: "If I were to start Avatar 2 tomorrow, it would still be three years away".
He later confirmed that the first possible release date for the sequel was Christmas 2014.
"The boss, Jim Cameron, he's not just going to make it for the sake of it," actor Sam Worthington told Radio 1 Newsbeat last year.
"He always wants the challenge, he always wants to push the envelope and raise the bar and I think audiences will demand that of Avatar 2.
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Able to return to Millions in California, Arizona and the Mexico

SAN DIEGO - utility crews brought electricity to much of California, Arizona and Mexico Friday, a day after a failure left millions of people on highways dark, paralyzed and interrupted electricity flights at the airport in San Diego.

Officials, however, warned that electricity was still too fragile, and asked residents and businesses to move easily over - or even put off using - major appliances such as air conditioners.

"Conservation will really help reduce the strain," Stephanie McCorkle said the operator of the system of the independent in California, which manages the power grid.

Electricity returned to San Diego early Friday, signaling that the blackout was essentially on because most of the affected people were in the eighth largest city in the nation. Schools of the city, State universities and community colleges in the region remained entering. Beaches were closed because the failure caused a spill of wastewater of $ 3.2 million - gallon.

The Mexico power utility has said that the lights are on for 1.1 million customers, or 97% of those who have lost power. Power was also restored to all 56,000 customers in Yuma, Ariz.

The San Diego region was particularly hard with collected power on 16 Thursday to all household customers and business of 1.4 million of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. has.

That has left residents without air conditioners are stifling and paralyse some traffic Highway and the airport.

The blackout extended in southern Orange County, through the Interior deserts of California, as far as Yuma and the Mexico. The region is the home of 6 million people, although it was impossible to say exactly how many had lost power.

The failure occurred after an electrical worker removed a piece of equipment to a power of southwestern Arizona of monitoring substation, officials based Phoenix Arizona Public Service Co. said.

It is therefore not clear that mishap, which normally would have been isolated, has attracted such widespread failure. The company said that would be the subject of an investigation.

"This was not a deliberate act." "The employee was just switching on a piece of equipment that was problematic,", a declared Daniel Froetscher, an APS Vice-President.

It is possible that extreme heat may also have caused some problems with the transmission lines, said Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

During the night, a large part of San Diego was in the dark, and all outgoing flights based at its main airport, Lindbergh Field. The airfield was opened and had the power to Friday morning, but authorities said that some airlines have cancelled flights.

There was no immediate report of major injuries related to the failure. The authorities of San Diego and elsewhere said they were on alert, but no major problems had arisen, including the slightest sign of looting or other disorders.

There are reports of minor accidents as the crash caused mayhem in the streets without traffic during rush hour.

Leah Walden, 59, said she saw five swept on its drive of his work of accountant in suburban Spring Valley for a tasting of wedding cake to San Diego.

"People are irritated." "They don't want wait," said Walden, adding that about 15 cars had a setback on the highway turning off the highway of traffic sense opposite to escape traffic jams. "This is how nuts people."

In the city of Encinitas in the range to the North of San Diego, Tim Grenda, 41, put a positive spin, noting that its hot yoga class was cooler due to the failure. The class, usually conducted at 104 degrees, was closer to 99 degrees because an oven used for heat pump had been eliminated.

"It was hot enough for me, but this is not quite as intense as the usual practice," he said.

Rosa Maria Gonzales, a spokesman with the Imperial Irrigation District in sizzling California eastern desert, was less enthusiastic - temperatures were well on the territory of three figures when the power is turned off.

"It feels like you are in an oven and you cannot escape," she said.

The blackout extended South of the border in Tijuana, Mexicali and other cities in the State of Baja California to the Mexico, which are connected to the U.S. power grid, said Niggli. The police on both sides by reinforcements sent to prevent the crime of looting and other in their cities, but none were reported.

In the border city of Tijuana, people formed long lines outside stores Thursday, trying to buy ice or take advantage of the beer sold at half price. Many people drank this beer in the street or in the parked cars with loudspeakers for loud music booming.

Cars a form lines and in stations of rare gas generators which remained open and traffic seized streets after traffic lights stopped working.

Jose Padilla Flores, who was one of the few people who still had electricity Thursday, offered to let people watch the telenovela on its television if they bought fried tacos and water flavoured his small restaurant "Eldorado" in the neighbourhood of la Independencia.

"My female neighbours were the first to ask if I could let them watch the telenovela," said Padilla Flores, 35. "I thought it was a great idea to promote my business."

San Diego residents poured into the few bars that remained open downtown after dark, some donning reading lights on their heads as minors. A pair of men carried flaming torches tiki - usually planted in backyards - to see their way to the bottom of the street of pitch black.

"This is surreal, said Myrna Contreras, 35, sitting on the patio of a candle-lit bar." "". He is optimistic. "He is friendly.

Two reactors at a nuclear power plant along the coast went offline after losing power, but officials said that no there was no danger to the public or the workers.

The blackout came more than eight years after a more severe black fate in 2003 darkens a wide swath of the Midwest and Northeast. More than 50 million people were affected in this failure.

In 2001, failed experiment of California with the deregulation of the energy was widely blamed for six days of rolling blackouts that cut off electricity to more than 3 million customers and close the refrigerators, ATMs and traffic lights.

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Texas crews make progress, but the victims of forest fires still can't return home

After nearly a week to ask if his house was destroyed in massive wildfires sweeping across Central Texas, George Gaydos has obtained the new Saturday: his house was burned in the blaze.

But still, Gaydos - who lives in a hotel with his wife, two children and his father since fuyant fire nearly a week ago – cannot return to his neighbourhood to see what remains of his home.

Fire crews, made progress Saturday fight against forest fires, but still slow hot spots concerns have kept thousands of residents, including Gaydos, to return home.

Tensions flared at a press conference Saturday as some residents shouted questions to the official County, demanding to know when they could return to their homes - or what is left of them - in the area of Bastrop, located about 30 miles to East of Austin.

Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald said officials hope to return other residents as soon as possible, but he did not know how long that would take.

"This is the seventh day, tensions are high," McDonald said.

Texas is in the midst of one of its worst outbreaks of wildfires in the history of the State. A dangerous mixture of warm temperatures, strong winds and a historic drought caused fire Bastrop-area, the largest fire near 190, said the forest service broke out this week, killing four people, destroying more than 1,700 houses and forcing thousands to evacuate.

A blaze of 22,000 acres straddling three rural counties, 40 km northwest of Houston has burned for several days, destroying approximately 60 houses and forcing some people to evacuate. The forest service said about half of the fire was behind the containment lines and no towns or cities were threatened. Most of the houses in the region are scattered in the forest, the ranch and in clusters of small subdivision.

In Bastrop, officials said Saturday that the fire was about 50% of content after almost a week of combustion. Although residents were eager to make their neighbourhoods, Bastrop County Sheriff Terry Pickering said the authorities must be certain that they are safe before residents would be allowed to. Residents of an area of 700 acres which includes twenty houses were allowed to return home Saturday, but other areas remained evacuated: crews worked to extinguish the potentially dangerous hot spots.

"Everybody hang in there and we're going to you at home as soon as possible", said Pickering.

Fire crews continued battling points hot Saturday, but not the major through the night wind gusts expected.

But the authorities also warned that the number of victims of the fire could worsen. McDonald said that expected the number of houses destroyed by the fire to increase the tally 1,400 current that many evaluations are completed. A spokesman for the State team, local and federal agencies also said that the number should increase.

"We have even hit our most difficult region," McDonald said Saturday afternoon, adding that the teams did not have the opportunity to go and "counting these houses or obtain a score due to the amount of heat that is in the area."

In the meantime, residents are staying around where they can - and makeshift shelters in churches, the homes of friends and parents, even cars parked nearby.

"There are some of those who are in fact pick apartments," said Sean McGahan, pastor of the Church of New Beginnings in Bastrop. "If you do not already started it, you are probably behind the curve of.".

Next week, Gaydos and his family will move in a trailer in Bastrop while they decide whether to rebuild. To find out Saturday on a Web site of fire as his house had been destroyed, Gaydos spent much of the last week so worried by his house that he could not sleep.

"You wake up in the middle of the night and you cannot go back to sleep," said Gaydos. "I was will work soon because I am already up.".

Office of the Governor Rick Perry said families whose houses have been destroyed will receive vouchers from the hotel for seven days of a non-profit organization as well as assistance of the State.

The exhibits were relief for Russell Horn, who said the hotel bill nightly $ 104 for him, his wife and two boys had become too expensive. The electrician for 32 years, said their house was destroyed by fire and he had only been able to out door an undershirt and short films.

"There are not too many places, you can go just for that,"Horn said."".

Friday, officials of the White House announced that President Barack Obama has signed a federal claim to Texas. The move allows federal funding to be made available to people in Bastrop County. Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses and other programs.

Perry unexpectedly cancelled plans Saturday to visit areas affected by the Bastrop fire and a Conference of press because of "logistical issues" with him arriving in time, but it was in Austin and keep regular contact with officials on forest fires, his spokesman said.

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Pennsylvania residents return as the Susquehanna River recedes Lee

HARRISBURG, PA. -tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in Pennsylvania were allowed to return Saturday as the Susquehanna retreated some flood waters higher never seen, inflated by remnants of the storm tropical Lee.

Other residents evacuated from cities of river in New York and Maryland were waiting for permission to return as damage flooding interviewed officials.

In Northeastern Pennsylvania, officials lifted an evacuation order Saturday afternoon to 60 000 70 000 residents in and around Wilkes-Barre. The rest would probably be able to return later Saturday and Sunday, said alfalfa County Emergency Management Agency Director Stephen Bekanich.

Level of the Susquehanna River had dropped to about 32 feet Saturday morning and was to be back within its banks about 29 feet, alfalfa County Commissioner Maryanne Petrilla said.

Bekanich estimated that damage was in the tens of millions - but could have been more than 3 billion if the levees had not occurred.

"Held dykes", said Bekanich. "Dykes executed beautifully."

Much of the northeast was still soggy Hurricane Irene and its consequences, a week earlier at the arrival of rains of Lee remains.

The Susquehanna River crested Thursday to near 42.7 feet to Wilkes-Barre, higher than the established record during catastrophic hurricane Agnes in 1972 and 25.7 feet in Binghamton, N.Y. The River reached a record of 15 years of 32.4 feet Friday to the Conowingo dam in northeastern Maryland.

At least 15 deaths were attributed to Lee and its aftermath: seven in Pennsylvania, three in Virginia, Maryland as a single and four other people killed when he came ashore on the Gulf Coast last week. Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Corbett said Saturday Government officials had received reports of five deaths from the storm, but that the circumstances of these deaths had not been confirmed.

The President Barack Obama declared States of emergency in Pennsylvania and New York, opening the way with the Federal Government.

Mayor of Binghamton Matt Ryan said officials were working on the modification of evacuation orders issued in the flood areas so that people whose homes were flooded could perhaps back this weekend. Among the 20,000 inhabitants of the region evacuated Binghamton began Friday in return.

"We're going to redraw the lines to ensure that any person to back, he can go back so that they feel as they do something wrong,"said Ryan."

Ryan could not say when the orders would be lifted entirely, noting that the inspectors must verify all risks to the safety of flooded of gas and electricity.

Most of the 1,000 residents of the Port deposit, MD, told to evacuate due to flooding expected as early as the opening of the doors of the Conowingo dam flood to relieve pressure on the Susquehanna. Representatives of the County of Cecil will decide when residents can return after an assessment of the damage Saturday afternoon, spokesman Mike Dixon said.

"It will take some time," Dixon said assessment. "Utilities are disabled, there is a lot of contamination down there, so it is an important obstacle yet to be worked on."

Treatment of wastewater from the city is also out of service, said Dixon.

Flood waters had receded around noon of Main Street of Port deposit, which along the River, but still covered many areas. A large truck was in the street, providing water to spray teams the pavement of hardened mud.

Bill Herold, who owns The Susky River Grill, sweating in a T-shirt and shorts in front of a barrel of double smoking grill taken meals for people household in the city centre. He said that his restaurant of edge water is high enough to escape flooding.

"" We have lost our rear terrace and our beach area little we had. "."Just no power, said Herold. "For us, it's a loss of revenue, we that you know, but for all that we want to help people who are in the city, the people who remained, everyone tries to do something."

Hundreds more residents were urged to leave the Havre de Grace, MD., where the river empties into the Chesapeake Bay. Spokesman for the County of Harford Bob Thomas said that residents may be able to return home Saturday or Sunday.

At the Centre of Pennsylvania, a nighttime curfew remained in force in areas affected by the flood of Harrisburg. One person was arrested for looting, said Mayor Linda Thompson.

Ellie Martindale, a retired nurse who lived in the neighborhood of waterfront Shipoke Harrisburg for 30 years, was one of the first residents to return Saturday, as city officials ordered the evacuation Thursday.

Because his house is high, built over a garage on the first floor, Martindale said the damage was minimal - mainly mud washed in by approximately 4 feet of water from the river which ruined gypsum in driveways.

"The mud is on the floor and on any surface that might resolve," she said. "This is beautiful stuff." It clings. »

Martindale said she plans to stay in a hotel in downtown until his house is cleaned up - I hope more than a few days.

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