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C M Y K Nxxx,2016-09-20,A,001,Bs-4C,E2 Today, morning fog, clouds and sun, warm, humid, high 84. Tonight, clear to partly cloudy, low 69. To- morrow, plenty of sun, less humid, high 84. Weather map, Page B6. VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,361 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+@!;!$!#!] In the fabled English Lake District, divergent interests clashed when some ramblers and climbers banded together to try to buy a mountain. Threlkeld Journal. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Land Battle Over a Mountain People who knew the man held in the stabbing of 10 people at a mall in Minne- sota try to reconcile their memories of a quiet youth with the bloody accounts of the assault. PAGE A11 NATIONAL A11-16 ‘Normal American Kid’ The Justice Department and the Tulsa, Okla., police were investigating a white officer’s killing of an unarmed black man, shown on video apparently raising his hands above his head. PAGE A13 Video Shows Killing by Police The man who the police said sowed terror across two states, setting off bombs in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore and touching off a furious manhunt, was tracked down on Monday morning sleeping in the dank doorway of a neighborhood bar and taken into custody after being wounded in a gun battle with offi- cers. The frenzied end came on a rain-soaked street in Linden, N.J., four hours after the police issued an unprecedented cellphone alert to millions of people in the area telling them to be on the lookout for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who was described as “armed and dan- gerous.” Even as the remarkably swift arrest eased fears across the re- gion, investigators were still in the earliest stages of trying to deter- mine what provoked the attacks, why a street in Chelsea was one of the targets and whether the bomber was aided by others. While investigators have been fo- cused on Mr. Rahami’s actions im- mediately before and after the bombings, they were also working on Monday to trace his activities and travel in both recent months and years. One law enforcement official said that the bomb technicians in- volved in the investigation be- lieved that Mr. Rahami con- structed all the devices and that his handiwork raised the possibil- ity that he had received training from someone with experience building improvised explosive de- vices. “If you’re working off the prem- ise that the guy made all these de- vices,” the official said, “then the guy is a pretty good bombmaker. And you don’t get that good on the internet.” It could not be determined on Monday whether Mr. Rahami had a lawyer, and his father did not re- spond to questions from reporters waiting outside the family’s apart- ment. Mr. Rahami and his family had traveled periodically to Pakistan, and on one trip, he stayed for nearly a year. A senior law en- forcement official said that no evi- BOMBING SUSPECT SHOT AND CAUGHT AFTER A MANHUNT Authorities Scour Man’s Past for Clues in New York and New Jersey Blasts This article is by Marc Santora, William K. Rashbaum, Al Baker and Adam Goldman. Continued on Page A20 WASHINGTON — Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways will be safer with more cars driven by ma- chines and not people. In long-awaited guidelines for the booming industry of auto- mated vehicles, the Obama ad- ministration promised strong safety oversight, but sent a clear signal to automakers that the door was wide open for driverless cars. “We envision in the future, you can take your hands off the wheel, and your commute becomes rest- ful or productive instead of frus- trating and exhausting,” said Jeff- rey Zients, director of the National Economic Council, adding that highly automated vehicles “will save time, money and lives.” The statements were the most aggressive signal yet by federal regulators that they see auto- mated car technology as a win for auto safety. Yet having officially endorsed the fast-evolving tech- nology, regulators must now bal- ance the commercial interests of companies including Tesla, Google and Uber with concerns over public safety, especially in light of recent crashes involving semiautonomous cars. The policies unveiled on Mon- day were designed to walk that line. In a joint appearance, Mr. Zients and Anthony Foxx, secre- U.S. Guidance on Driverless Cars Balances Safety and Innovation By CECILIA KANG Continued on Page B5 A suspect in a bombing was still at large Monday morning, his mo- tives and intentions unknown — but Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump were already racing to seize the political upper hand. With a manhunt still in progress before an arrest later in the day, Mrs. Clinton sought to shift the terms of the presidential contest back in her direction. She called Mr. Trump a “recruiting sergeant for the terrorists” and, from a rainy airport in White Plains, of- fered herself as a seasoned war- rior against terrorism. Mr. Trump returned fire hours later, blaming Mrs. Clinton and President Obama’s handling of immigration and the Iraq war for bringing terrorism to American shores. He called for vigorous po- lice profiling of people from the Muslim world and drew a direct equation between immigration controls and national defense. The attacks could reframe the presidential race around stark questions of national security af- ter weeks of often-bitter sniping between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clin- ton over more personal matters of character, transparency and med- ical records. The violence of the weekend is all but certain to ripple in the first presidential debate, set for next Monday at Hofstra Uni- Candidates Clash on Terrorism By ALEXANDER BURNS and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Continued on Page A22 Monday, 11:30 a.m., LINDEN, N.J. The police capture Ahmad Khan Rahami after a shootout. He is taken to a hospital in Newark. ED MURRAY/NJ ADVANCE MEDIA FOR NJ.COM Saturday, 9:30 a.m. SEASIDE PARK, N.J. A pipe bomb explodes near the route of a five-kilometer run. MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES Saturday, 8:30 p.m. MANHATTAN A bomb explodes near a Dumpster on West 23rd Street. CHRIS DUFFY Saturday, 11:30 p.m. MANHATTAN Two State Police troopers find an unexploded bomb on 27th Street. LUCIEN HARRIOT Sunday, 8:45 p.m. ELIZABETH, N.J. Five bombs are found in a back- pack near a train station. EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS LOUAI BESHARA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Airstrikes on an aid convoy for Aleppo killed 12 people. One for Homs, above, was halted. Page A4. Syria Declares Cease-Fire Over NEWARK — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey knew that three of his top officials were in- volved in a plan to shut down lanes leading to the George Wash- ington Bridge as it was happening and that the closings were in- tended to punish a local mayor for declining to support him, federal prosecutors said on Monday. The assertion was an unexpect- ed and startling beginning to the trial of two former Christie admin- istration officials charged with closing the lanes in 2013 and then covering it up. And it was a sur- prising claim because of the side of the courtroom it came from, as lawyers made opening state- ments. Defense lawyers have long ar- gued that Mr. Christie, a Republi- can, and his top advisers were well aware of the lane closings and that they directed the cover-up as they tried to protect the gover- nor’s political aspirations — say- ing their clients were “thrown un- der the presidential bus,” as one lawyer argued on Monday. But this was the first time a prosecutor had pointed a finger at Mr. Christie. And it directly con- tradicts the governor’s state- ments in the three years since the lanes were mysteriously closed, paralyzing the borough of Fort Lee, N.J. Mr. Christie, a former top fed- eral prosecutor in New Jersey, has consistently denied that he knew about the lane closings as they un- folded, and argued that the United States attorney’s office had “exon- erated” him when it declined to in- U.S. Asserts Christie Knew Of Bridge Plot By KATE ZERNIKE Continued on Page A22 He presided behind the counter of a storefront New Jersey fried chicken restaurant, making his home with his family in an apart- ment above it. To some of his friends, Ahmad Khan Rahami was known as Mad, an abridgment of his name rather than a suggestion of his manner, and they liked that he gave them free food when they were short on money. Beyond that, his other known obsession was souped-up Honda Civics that he liked to race. In re- cent years, though, some friends noticed a marked change in his personality and religious devotion after what they believed was a trip to Afghanistan, where he and his relatives are from. In fact, a federal official, speak- ing on the condition of anonymity, said Mr. Rahami had actually traveled to Pakistan, for three months in 2011 and, most recently, to Quetta, for nearly a year, where he stayed with family, returning to the United States in March 2014. While there, he is believed to have married. Back in New Jersey, he and his relatives had a fractious relation- ship with neighbors and the police in Elizabeth, N.J., because of the always-open hours of their restau- rant and the rackety customers it attracted. The longstanding fric- tion led to the Rahami family’s fil- ing a lawsuit in 2011 against the city and its Police Department in which they alleged that they were harassed and intimidated because of their religion. They accused a local businessman of complaining to them, “Muslims make too much trouble in this country.” Now, Mr. Rahami is suspected of being responsible for the bomb- ings over the weekend in both New York and New Jersey. He was taken into custody on Mon- day after being discovered asleep in a bar doorway in New Jersey Seeing a Transformation After a Trip Overseas By N. R. KLEINFIELD Continued on Page A19 Jamie Palmeroni-Lavis and Rob Lavis, like many couples who want to know they are Zika-free before conceiving, are not eligible for testing. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-7 Not Easy to Get a Zika Test Beyond the Angkor Wat temple, a tech- nology known as lidar allows archaeolo- gists to find the ancient Khmer empire’s intricate urban landscape. PAGE D1 Hidden Cities of Cambodia TEXT ALERTS An electronic most- wanted poster was sent to cell- phones. PAGE A18 A new poll shows white voters are keeping Donald J. Trump’s hopes alive in Florida, a must-win state for his campaign. The Upshot. PAGE A16 A Boost From White Voters As other business leaders cower in fear of Donald J. Trump and his Twitter account, Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has created a card game that dares to poke fun at him. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-8 Your Move, Mr. Trump Henry M. Paulson Jr. PAGE A25 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25 The prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, right, was honored in a speech by Sarah Paulson, the actress who won an award for portraying her. PAGE C1 Marcia Clark’s Emmy Victory The NBC show pushes all your buttons, with birth, death, reunions, crises, heart-to-hearts and reconciliations. A review by James Poniewozik. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 ‘This Is Us,’ a Full Hour JERSEY SHORE Residents of Sea- side, N.J., wonder why it all started in their town. PAGE A18
