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Trump, Biden set for first debate tonightCLEVELAND (AP) — In an

election year like no other, the first debate between President Donald Trump and his Dem-ocratic challenger, Joe Biden, could be a pivotal moment in a race that has remained stub-bornly unchanged in the face of historic tumult.

The Tuesday night debate will offer a massive platform for Trump and Biden to outline their starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises, including racial justice protests and a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs.

The health emergency has upended the usual trappings of a presidential campaign, lending heightened importance to the debate. But amid intense political

polarization, comparatively few undecided voters remain, raising questions as to how, or if, the debate might shape a race that has been defined by its bitterness and, at least so far, its stability.

Biden will step onto the Cleveland stage holding leads in the polls — significant in the national surveys, closer in the battleground states — but facing questions about his turn in the spotlight, particularly consider-ing Trump’s withering attacks. And Trump, with only 35 days to change the course of the race, will have arguably his best chance to try to reframe the campaign as a choice election and not a referen-dum over his handling of a virus that has killed more people in America than any other nation.

“This will be the first moment

in four years that someone will walk on stage as co-equal to Trump and be able to hold him to account for the malfeasance he has shown leading the country,” said Steve Schmidt, senior cam-paign aide for John McCain’s 2008 Republican presidential bid and a frequent Trump critic. “If Biden is unable to indict Trump for all that he has done, (that) would be profound failure. There is no spinning that away.”

The president’s handling of the coronavirus will likely dominate much of the discussion. The pandemic’s force will be tangible as the candidates’ podiums will be spaced far apart and the traditional opening handshake scrapped.

And the debate could be shaped by an extraordinary confluence of

other recent moments: the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, allowing Trump to nominate a conservative jurist to replace a liberal voice and reshape the high court for generations, and the blockbuster revelations about Trump’s long-hidden tax history, including that he paid only $750 a year in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and nothing in many other years.

But the impact of the debate — or the two that follow in the weeks ahead — remains unclear.

The tumult of 2020 is difficult to overstate: COVID-19 has rewritten the rules of everyday life; schools and businesses are shuttered; and racial justice pro-tests have swept the nation after a series of high-profile killings of Black people by police.

Despite the upheaval, the pres-idential race has remained large-ly unchanged since Biden seized control of the Democratic field in March. The nation has soured on Trump’s handling of the pandem-ic, and while his base of support has remained largely unchanged, he has seen defections among older and female voters, particu-larly in the suburbs, and his path to 270 Electoral College votes, while still viable, has shrunk.

Polls suggest fewer undecided voters remain than at this point in the 2016 campaign. And sever-al high-profile debates in past elections that were thought to be game-changing moments at the time ultimately had little lasting effect.

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Jellyfish at sunset

Contributed Photo by Alexandra Mateski

Alexandra Mateski took this captivating photo at Horsfall Beach during sunset on Sept. 20. Mateski has a love for photography and has shown her talents in this breath-taking photo. There will be plenty of sun this week for beachgoers to try to capture great pictures.

Census to end Oct. 5 despite court ruling

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says the 2020 census will end Oct. 5, despite a federal judge’s ruling last week allowing the head count of every U.S. resident to continue through the end of Octo-ber, according to a tweet posted by the Census Bureau on Monday.

The tweet said the ability for people to self-respond to the census questionnaire and the door-knocking phase when census takers go to homes that haven’t yet responded are target-ed to end Oct. 5.

The announcement came as a virtual hearing was being held in San Jose, California, as a follow-up to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s preliminary injunction. The injunction issued last week suspended the Census Bureau’s deadline for ending the head count on Sept. 30, which automatically reverted back to an older Census Bureau plan in which the timeline for ending field operations was Oct. 31.

The new Oct. 5 deadline doesn’t necessarily violate the judge’s order because the injunc-tion just suspended the Sept. 30 deadline for field operations, as well as a Dec. 31 deadline the Census Bureau has for turning in figures used for determining how many congressional seats each state gets in a process known as apportionment. The census also is used to determine how to distribute $1.5 trillion in federal spending annually.

Koh asked federal government attorneys during Monday’s hear-ing to provide documents on how the new decision to end the head count on Oct. 5 was made. When a federal government lawyer sug-gested that the decision-making was a moving target without any records, the judge asked, “A one sentence tweet? Are you saying that is enough reason to establish decision-making? A one sentence tweet?”

Given the judge’s preliminary injunction and a temporary re-straining order she had previous-ly issued prohibiting the Census Bureau from winding down 2020 census operations, the decision was made that the Sept. 30 dead-line was no longer viable, said August Flentje, special counsel to the assistant U.S. Attorney General.

“It’s day to day adjustments and assessments,” Flentje said.

Koh said in her ruling last Thursday that the shortened schedule ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration likely would produce inaccurate results that would last a decade. She sided with civil rights groups and local governments that had sued the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Com-

Worldwide death toll from COVID-19 now over 1 millionNEW DELHI (AP) — The

worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.

“It’s not just a number. It’s human beings. It’s people we love,” said Dr. Howard Markel, a professor of medical history at the University of Michigan who has advised government officials on containing pandemics and lost his 84-year-old mother to COVID-19 in February.

“It’s our brothers, our sisters.

It’s people we know,” he added. “And if you don’t have that hu-man factor right in your face, it’s very easy to make it abstract.”

The bleak milestone, recorded on Monday in the U.S. by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Jerusalem or Austin, Texas. It is 2 1/2 times the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969. It is more than four times the number killed by the 2004 earthquake and tsu-nami in the Indian Ocean.

Even then, the figure is almost certainly a vast undercount because of inadequate or incon-sistent testing and reporting and suspected concealment by some countries.

And the number continues to mount. Nearly 5,000 deaths are reported each day on average. Parts of Europe are getting hit by new outbreaks, and experts fear a second wave in the U.S., which accounts for about 205,000 deaths, or 1 out of 5 worldwide. That is far more than any other country, despite America’s wealth and medical resources.

“I can understand why ... num-bers are losing their power to shock, but I still think it’s really important that we understand how big these numbers really are,” said Mark Honigsbaum, author of “The Pandemic Centu-ry: One Hundred Years of Panic,

Hysteria and Hubris.”The global toll includes people

like Joginder Chaudhary, who was his parents’ greatest pride, raised with the little they earned farming a half-acre plot in central India to become the first doctor from their village.

After the virus killed the 27-year-old Chaudhary in late July, his mother wept incon-solably. With her son gone, Premlata Chaudhary said, how could she go on living? Three weeks later, on Aug. 18, the virus took her life, too. All told, it has killed more than 96,000 in India.

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Coos County has five new COVID-19 cases over weekendThe World

COOS COUNTY — Five new and confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported over the weekend in Coos County, bringing the total number of cases to 113 positive and 44 presumptive for a total of 157 cases, according to Coos Health & Wellness.

There are currently 12 active cases, with no current hospital-izations, CHW reported. Active cases means positive and pre-sumptive cases that are currently

still in their infective period.There have been 12 new con-

firmed or presumptive cases in the past seven days in the county. Non-cases that tested negative are at 7,039.

No one in Coos County has died from complications due to COVID-19, according to CHW.

Case-specific information on new cases since the last update:

Adult over 60, female, confirmed, under investigation, low exposure to others, iso-lating at home. No underlying

health conditions.Adult under 40, female, pre-

sumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolat-ing at home. Underlying health conditions.

Adult 40-60, female, presump-tive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health condi-tions.

Adult under 40, male, con-firmed, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, iso-lating at home. No underlying

health conditions.Adult 60-70, female, con-

firmed (previously reported as presumptive) linked to known cases, high exposure to others, isolating at home.

Adult under 20, male, con-firmed (previously reported as presumptive), linked to known cases, moderate exposure to others, isolating at home.

Adult 40-60, female, presump-tive, linked to known cases, low ex-posure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health conditions.

Adult 50-60, female, presump-tive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Unknown underlying health conditions.

Adult over 60, female, pre-sumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolat-ing at home. Underlying health conditions.

Adult under 40, female. pre-sumptive, linked to known cases, moderate exposure to others, isolating at home. No underlying health conditions.

Oregon coronavirus death toll unchanged MondayThe World

PORTLAND — The state’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged from Sunday and remains at 547, the Oregon Health Authority reported Mon-day.

Oregon Health Author-ity also reported 181 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the state total to 32,994.

The new cases reported today are in the follow-ing counties: Benton (4), Clackamas (13), Clatsop (5), Columbia (8), De-schutes (13), Douglas (1), Hood River (1), Jackson (13), Jefferson (6), Lane (26), Malheur (6), Marion (12), Morrow (6), Mult-nomah (21), Polk (2), Umatilla (11), Wasco (4), Washington (24), and Yam-hill (5).

September is National Preparedness Month

People in Oregon were working on adjusting their lives to autumn and a return to school during

the COVID-19 pandemic when they were suddenly confronted with dangerous wildfires, evacuations and hazardous smoke. While so many folks are still having to adjust their lives after being impacted by the wildfires, it may seem like too much to think about preparedness for future emergencies at this time. Even so, keeping track of what you are missing in your preparedness kit right now while it’s fresh in your mind may really help you in the future.

There are many low-to-no cost actions you can do today that will help you in the event of a disaster or emergency, including measures everyone can take during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. You can limit the impacts that disasters have on you and your family by taking steps to:

• Know what disasters and hazards could affect your area and learn what to do before, during and after each type of emergency.

• Have important doc-uments lined up, from in-surance coverage to health/medical records.

• Learn how to make your home more prepared for emergencies, both structurally and non-struc-turally.

• Sign up for emergen-cy alerts so that during a disaster or emergency, you receive immediate life-sav-ing information from your state and local municipal-ity and are prepared to act fast.

• Ensure your home has the right types of insur-ance coverage based on where you live. Consider purchasing homeowners, renters, health, life and/or flood insurance to protect yourself and your property.

Oregon Office of Emergency Management has a webpage that can help you prepare for future emergencies, and below is a video that can help you prepare.

Back to school – Help-ing your child stay physi-cally active

Even if your child’s online school offers a physical education class, you may wonder how to make sure your child stays physically active this year. Here are some things to keep in mind:

• Plan for at least 60 minutes of physical activ-ity per day. This could be two 30-minute sessions (before and after school), six 10-minute sessions or whatever works with your family’s schedule.

• If you can, join in the activity and have fun! You and child can make a list of the activities that work best for both of you, whether it’s dancing, yoga, walk-ing, biking, a game of tag or ball, or jumping rope. You could also find an online class or video series to complete together.

You can find more ideas for adding physical activities to your routine on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website and the American Academy of Pediatrics website.

Florence resident dies when car crashes into riverFLORENCE (AP) — A

91-year-old Florence resi-dent was found dead after his car went off the road into the Siuslaw River on Sunday.

A witness called police

after seeing Parker Kend-all’s Jeep Wrangler swerve, leave the road and crash into the river, KEZI-TV reported.

Divers with the Lane County Sheriff’s Office

found the vehicle Sunday evening and located Kendall in the driver’s seat. The vehicle was pulled out of the river and the body was re-covered. Authorities say

criminal activity is not suspected.

The US Coast Guard, Siuslaw Valley Fire Department and Medical Examiner’s Office also helped in the incident.

“This pandemic has ruined my family,” said the young doctor’s father, Ra-jendra Chaudhary. “All our aspirations, our dreams, everything is finished.”

When the virus over-whelmed cemeteries in the Italian province of Bergamo last spring, the Rev. Mario Carminati opened his church to the dead, lining up 80 coffins in the center aisle. After an army convoy carted them to a crematory, another 80 arrived. Then 80 more.

Eventually the crisis receded and the world’s attention moved on. But the pandemic’s grasp en-dures. In August, Carmi-nati buried his 34-year-old nephew.

“This thing should make us all reflect. The problem is that we think we’re all immortal,” the priest said.

The virus first appeared in late 2019 in patients hospitalized in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first death was reported on Jan. 11. By the time au-thorities locked down the city nearly two weeks later, millions of travelers had come and gone. China’s government has come in for criticism that it did not do enough to alert other countries to the threat.

Government leaders in countries like Germany,

South Korea and New Zealand worked effectively to contain it. Others, like U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, dismissed the severity of the threat and the guidance of scientists, even as hospitals filled with gravely ill patients.

Brazil has recorded the second most deaths after the U.S., with about 142,000. India is third and Mexico fourth, with more than 76,000.

The virus has forced trade-offs between safety and economic well-being. The choices made have left millions of people vulner-able, especially the poor, minorities and the elderly.

With so many of the deaths beyond view in hospital wards and clus-tered on society’s margins, the milestone recalls the grim pronouncement often attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: One death is a tragedy, millions of deaths are a statistic.

The pandemic’s toll of 1 million dead in such a lim-ited time rivals some of the gravest threats to public health, past and present.

It exceeds annual deaths from AIDS, which last year killed about 690,000 peo-ple worldwide. The virus’s toll is approaching the 1.5 million global deaths each year from tuberculosis, which regularly kills more people than any other infectious disease.

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SALEM — Nonresident recreational clamming and crabbing closures that were in place due to COVID-19 restrictions are being lifted coastwide as of Wednes-day, Oct. 7, according to a press release from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Clamming coastwide and crabbing in ocean areas north of Cape Falcon and the Columbia River had been closed to nonres-idents since April 11. The emergency rule was meant to limit visitation and crowding in coastal com-munities. The rule expires midnight Oct. 6 and will not be renewed.

As a reminder, razor clamming on Clatsop beach-es (from Tillamook Head in Seaside to the mouth of the Columbia River) remains in a conservation closure until Oct. 1. This is an

annual summer closure to allow newly set razor clams to establish themselves on Clatsop beaches.

At this time, South Coast beaches are closed for recreational and com-mercial mussel harvesting due to the marine biotoxin, paralytic shellfish poison. The closure runs from the South Jetty of the Coquille River in Bandon to the California border.

Always check for tox-in-related closures before harvesting clams or crabs by calling the shellfish safety hotline 1-800-448-2472. Closures are also noted on ODA’S Recre-ation Shellfish page and on ODFW’s Recreation Report — Clamming and Crabby Report.

For more information about clamming on the Or-egon coast, visit ODFW’s

Crabbing and Clamming page online.

“Please continue fol-lowing safety measures in place due to COVID-19 including maintaining at least six feet distance from anyone not a member of your household, wearing a mask when you can’t maintain social distance, washing hands frequently, and staying home if you are sick,” stated the release.

DEAR ABBY: My family just came back from a relative’s after a weekend visit. The occasion was a birthday party, and he had a tattoo artist come over. My boyfriend -- the father of our 14- and 3-year-olds -- spent our last $100 and went ahead and got himself a tattoo! We aren’t rich, and we had to borrow money for gas to get home.

I think he is the most selfish person on the face of the planet, and I get mad at him for every other little thing now. I can’t imagine many adult men would do that to their partner. I know a few who would even say, “No, Honey, YOU get something. I can wait.” Is there any hope for mankind? -- MARK OF DISASTER IN WASHINGTON

DEAR MARK OF DISASTER: There is plenty of hope for mankind; for the father of your 14- and 3-year-olds, maybe not so much. Was he under the influence at that party, or does he make poor decisions about money often?

That tatt is now a constant reminder of your disappointment in him, so I hope it’s in a place where you don’t have to see it every day or night. You have my sympathy, but you chose this person as a life partner.

DEAR ABBY: My parents have been together for more than three decades, but their marriage has been strained for years. Still, they won’t pull the plug and call it quits. It’s making us kids (all in our 20s and out of the house) and our extended family confused and frustrated.

They still live under one roof, although they spend all of their time in separate parts of the house and communicate only through us kids. They’re clearly miserable, but if any of us tries to speak to them about their toxic dynamic, each one blames the other.

Abby, I adore both of my parents, but they’re becoming shells of themselves. I know it’s not my business to step in, but something has to change. I can’t handle another tense holiday visit. What should I do? -- CONCERNED IN CALIFORNIA

DEAR CONCERNED: You and your siblings should sit down with your parents and tell them the effect their toxic dynamic has had on you as a family. All of you should urge them to seek counseling from a licensed marriage and family therapist. Then cross your fingers and hope they are willing to follow through. However, if they aren’t and you can’t handle another tense holiday visit, I recommend you make other plans and tell them why.

DEAR ABBY: I am 13. Three years ago, I was in a car accident that left me in a wheelchair. I have been able to move on in life and am happy and have lots of friends who help me stay active in sports, etc. My problem is, I had a friend before my accident who moved away, and I’m sure he doesn’t know his once best friend can no longer walk.

I just heard his family is moving back here, and I’m not sure how to handle this. Should I contact him before the move, or wait and be like, “Oh, by the way”? Do you have any advice? -- WONDERING IN NEW YORK

DEAR WONDERING: The news is bound to be a shock. If you have this young man’s contact information, I vote for letting him know in advance about the accident. And while you’re at it, fill him in on what you have been doing since he left town.

-------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van

Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren

Man uses family gas money to buy a birthday party tattoo

Amy Moss Strong, The World

People crab from Weber’s Pier in Bandon on the Fourth of July.

Crabbing closure will end Oct. 7

Public invited to candidate meet-and-greet on FridayThe World

NORTH BEND — A grassroots team of North Bend residents is inviting Coos County residents to attend the first Grassroots Candidate Meet-and-Greet at 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, at Airport Heights City Park, 3000 Colorado Ave. North Bend.

This is an opportuni-ty for attendees to meet

candidates who will be on their ballot Nov. 3. The Grassroots group hopes this will be the first of many candidate meet-and-greet events.

“This year we are fortu-nate to have state senator and candidate for Oregon Secretary of State Kim Thatcher, who will be giving a short talk about the importance of voting and the election process,”

said Michael Brainard, one of the Grassroots organizers.

The candidates will be set up in individual stations at the Airport Heights ballpark to increase social distancing. Following Thatcher’s talk, attendees will have the opportunity to go to the different can-didate stations and meet candidates, ask questions and pick up candidate

information.Those scheduled to

attend include: Mayor candidates for

the City of North Bend Jessica Engelke and James Rose

North Bend City Coun-cil candidates Timm Slater, Levi Clow, Ron Kutch and Eric Gleason

Coos County Board of Commissioners candidate Bob Main

Coos County Treasurer candidates Megan Simms and Steve Scheer

State Representative District 9 Candidate Boomer Wright

State Senator District 5 candidate Dick Anderson

State Treasurer candi-date Jeff Gudman

Secretary of State candi-date Kim Thatcher

U.S. Senator candidate Jo Rae Perkins

There will also be a ta-ble where Oregon residents age 16 and up can register to vote or update their vot-er registration. Those who register at 16-17 won’t be able to vote until the first election after their 18th birthday.

Organizers are encour-aging attendees to wear masks, respect people’s personal space and become informed voters.

Two injured when boat explodes in boathouse on South Tenmile LakeThe World

LAKESIDE — Two people were injured in a boating accident on South Tenmile Lake on Saturday afternoon.

According to a press release from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, on Sept. 26 at about 3:15 p.m., the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Lakeside Fire department, Bay Cities Ambulance, Lower Umpqua Ambulance and Reach Helicopter Ser-vice responded to a boat explosion/accident on the Devore Arm of South Tenmile Lake.

The Sheriff’s Office was conducting routine boat patrol in the area when the call came in, stated the release. A Sheriff’s Office deputy was first on scene, pulled one victim out of the water and rendered po-tentially lifesaving first aid

to both victims involved in the incident.

Minutes later, the Lakeside Fire Department arrived on scene, provid-ed advanced first aid and assisted with extrication of the victims via boat.

One female victim, with multiple lacerations and possible broken bones, was taken to Bay Area Hospital via Bay Cities Ambulance.

The second victim, a male, suffered a severe compound fracture to the lower leg and was trans-ported by Lower Umpqua Hospital Ambulance to a nearby airport and Reach Helicopter Service flew him to River Bend Hospi-tal in Eugene.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation. Preliminary results are that the personal watercraft exploded during start-up while inside of a boat house at the location.

Attorney general to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor caseLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)

— Kentucky’s attorney general has acknowledged that he never asked the grand jury to consider homicide charges against police in the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Amid outrage over the long-awaited charging deci-sion, Attorney General Dan-iel Cameron said he would agree with a judge’s order to make public a recording of the proceedings, and that he wouldn’t object if mem-bers of the panel want to speak publicly about their grand jury experience.

In his statement Monday night, Cameron also re-vealed that the only charge he recommended to the jury was wanton endanger-ment. He had previously declined to provide details on what charges prosecu-tors brought to the grand jury to consider when it met last week.

Cameron said the grand jury is meant to be a “secretive body,” but “It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen.”

Cameron said a record-ing of the grand jury pro-ceedings would be released on Wednesday.

“Once the public listens to the recording, they will see that over the course of two-and-a-half days, our team presented a thorough and complete case to the grand jury,” Cameron said.

Last week, the grand jury in Louisville issued charges against one officer, Brett Hankison, for endan-gering three of Taylor’s neighbors by firing through her home, into an adjacent unit where bullets missed people. None of the the officers were indicted in the killing of Taylor, who was shot five times after

officers knocked down her door to serve a narcotics warrant on March 13.

Cameron said last week that two of the officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, were justified in firing their weapons because Taylor’s boyfriend had fired at them. Mattingly was struck by a bullet in the leg. There was no conclusive evi-dence that any of Hank-ison’s bullets hit Taylor, Cameron said.

A coroner’s report says Taylor was shot five times and died of multiple gunshot wounds. It says she was hit in the torso, her upper left extremity and both lower extremities. She tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

“Our prosecutors pre-sented all of the evidence, even though the evidence supported that Sgt. Mat-tingly and Det. Cosgrove

were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker,” Cameron said in the statement. “For that reason, the only charge recommended was wanton

endangerment.”Hankison, who was

fired from the force for his actions during the raid, pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Also Monday, an un-

identified grand juror filed a court motion asking a judge to release the record of the proceedings, and to allow the panel’s members to talk publicly about their experiences.

Man falls to death in Tillamook CountyThe World

TILLAMOOK — A Seaside man has died after falling from a cliff on the northern Oregon coast in Tillamook County.

On Sunday, Sept. 27, at approximately 1:48 p.m., Oregon State Police troopers and emergency personnel responded to a person who fell from a cliff, into the ocean, at Devil’s Cauldron trail in Oswald West State Park.

Preliminary investiga-tion revealed two people walked down the Devil’s Cauldron trail to take a photograph at a cliff side viewpoint, according to a press release from Ore-gon State Police. Steven Gastelum, 43, of Seaside, climbed a tree on the cliff’s edge to pose for a photo-graph. A limb broke, on the tree, causing him to fall approximately 100 feet into the ocean.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and Nehalem Bay Fire Department jet skis assisted in locating

Gastelum and bringing him to shore.

Gastelum was trans-ported to Tillamook

Regional Medical Center by ambulance where he was pronounced deceased, stated the release.

Photo courtesy of Oregon State Police

A warning sign posted along a trail at Oswald West State Park.

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Four years ago, Dem-ocrat Hillary Clinton was widely seen as besting Trump in their three debates, but she lost in November. In 2012, Mitt Romney crushed Barack Obama in their first meet-ing only to falter in the rematches.

But some debates have mattered: most famous-ly, a turning point in the 1960 race was when John F. Kennedy was per-ceived — at least by TV viewers — as outdueling Richard Nixon. And in 1980, Ronald Reagan was able to reassure nervous voters that he possessed a presidential temperament when he delivered a win-ning performance against incumbent Jimmy Carter.

While both sides an-ticipate a vicious debate between two men who do not like each other, the Biden campaign has

downplayed the night’s importance, believing that the pandemic and the battered economy will outweigh any debate stage gaffe or zinger. Conversely, the Trump campaign has played up the magnitude of the duel, believing it will be a moment for the president to damage Biden and recast the race.

Trump had told advis-ers that he is preparing an all-out assault on Biden, claiming that the former senator’s 47 years in Wash-ington have left him out of touch and that his family, namely his son Hunter, has benefited from corruption. The president on Monday also repeated his demand that Biden take some sort of drug test, asserting without evidence that the Democratic nominee was somehow using a perfor-mance enhancer.

That continued a curi-ous round of expectations setting: While Trump’s campaign has of late praised Biden’s debate

skills, the president has also vividly portrayed his opponent as not being up to the job, potentially al-lowing Biden to come off well as long as he avoids a major stumble.

“This guy doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t know where the hell he is,” Trump said recently, liken-ing the debate to a boxing match and pointing to his head. “To win matches you need that up here. This wins, probably, it’s 50% of it. This is not prime time for Joe.”

But Trump — never a polished debater, though a commanding presence on stage — has done little in the way of formal prepa-rations, which may mean he is walking into his own trap.

“Historically, incum-bents do less well in the first debate, largely because they’re unaccus-tomed to being challenged openly,” said presidential historian Jon Meacham. “The most important single

debate in terms of direct impact on outcome came 40 years ago, with the sin-gle Carter-Reagan meeting a week before the election. The key question then — ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ — has fresh and compel-ling resonance.”

Biden’s performances during the primary debates were uneven, and some Democrats have been nervous as to how he will fare in an unscripted setting. But his team views the night as a moment to illuminate Trump’s failings with the pandemic and economy, with the former vice president acting as a “fact checker on the floor” while bracing himself for the onslaught that is coming.

“They’re going to be mostly personal,” Biden said. “That’s the only thing he knows how to do. He doesn’t know how to de-bate the facts because he’s not that smart. He doesn’t know that many facts.”

merce, which oversees the statistical agency, arguing that minorities and others in hard-to-count communi-ties would be missed if the counting ends this month.

Attorneys for the federal government said they were appealing the decision. During hearings, federal government attorneys argued that the head count needed to end Sept. 30 in order to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for handing in figures used for apportion-ment.

Monday’s statement was noteworthy in that it was solely attributed to the commerce sec-retary, while previous announcements about census schedule changes had been made either by Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham or both men jointly.

“It is time that the Trump Administration stopped working to polit-icize and jeopardize the 2020 Census,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has oversight over the Census Bureau.

The decision by the Commerce Department came as census takers across the U.S. told The Associated Press that they were being pressured to meet the Sept. 30 deadline, even after Koh issued her injunction.

In upstate New York, a census supervisor told her census takers Friday that the Buffalo office was operating with Sept. 30 as the end date, according to a text obtained by AP. “5 days left (no matter what the court status),” the text said.

In northern California, a manager told super-visors working under him on Sunday, “We’re in the home stretch with only 3 days left,” according to an email obtained by AP.

In that same region, a different manager told the census supervisors working underneath her Monday that they needed to complete 99% of house-holds in the the Santa Rosa region by Wednesday, including 12,000 house-holds yet to be counted in Mendocino County. In the conference call, area manager Nicole Terrazas pleaded with her super-visors to ask their census takers to head to Mendoci-no County, even though that part of California is under threat of wildfires.

“We need as much help as we can get. We only have three days to do it,” said Terrazas on a call that an AP reporter listened in on.

When a census supervi-sor asked why they were being pressured with the Sept. 30 deadline when Koh’s preliminary injunc-tion prohibits the count from ending at the end of this month, Terrazas called the judge’s order “something completely different.”

Other census takers and supervisors, including one from Texas, have sent emails to Koh’s court, saying that field operations in their areas are slated to shut down Sept. 30.

In response to the pan-demic, the Census Bureau last April pushed back the deadline for ending the 2020 census from the end of July to the end of October. The bureau also asked Congress to let it turn in numbers used for apportionment from the end of December to the end of April.

The deadline exten-sion passed the Demo-cratic-controlled House but it stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate after President Donald Trump issued a memorandum seeking to exclude people in the country illegally from being used in the appor-tionment count. A panel of three judges in New York said earlier this month that the memoran-dum was unlawful.

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Another wildfire hits wine countrySAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fire-

fighters say they hoped dying winds would enable them to bear down on a wildfire that exploded in the North-ern California wine country, prompt-ing tens of thousands of evacuations while a second blaze killed at least three people.

The Glass Fire raged through Napa and Sonoma counties on Monday, tripling in size to around 56.6 square miles (146.59 square kilometers) without any containment.

Some two dozen homes had burned, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

The fire north of San Francisco was driving through brush that hadn’t burned for a century, even though surrounding areas were incinerated in a series of blazes in recent years.

But dry winds that gave the flames a ferocious push appeared to have eased by Monday evening and firefighters were feeling “much more confident,” said Ben Nicholls, a division chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.

“We don’t have those critical burn-ing conditions that we were experi-

encing those last two nights,” he said.The Glass Fire is one of nearly 30

wildfires burning around California and the National Weather Service warned that hot, dry conditions with strong Santa Ana winds could remain a fire danger in Southern California into Tuesday.

In a forested far northern part of the state, more than 1,200 people were evacuated in Shasta County for the Zogg Fire.

Three people have died in the fire, Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini said Monday. He gave no details but urged people who receive evacuation orders: “Do not wait.”

Residences are widely scattered in the area, which was torched just two years ago by the deadly Carr Fire — infamously remembered for produc-ing a huge tornado-like fire whirl.

Pacific Gas & Electric had cut power to more than 100,000 custom-ers in advance of gusty winds and in areas with active fire zones. The utility’s equipment has caused pre-vious disasters, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and devastated the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

By Monday night, the utility said it had restored electricity to essential-ly all of those customers. However, PG&E said about 24,000 people remained without power in areas af-fected by two fires in Napa, Sonoma, Shasta and Tehama counties.

So far in this year’s historic fire season, more than 8,100 California wildfires have killed 29 people, scorched 5,780 square miles (14,970 square kilometers), and destroyed more than 7,000 buildings.

The Glass Fire began Sunday as three fires that merged and drove vineyards and mountain areas into eastern Santa Rosa. Some 70,000 people are under evacuation orders, including the entire 5,000-plus popu-lation of Calistoga in Napa County.

Some people were injured and Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies had to rescue people who ignored evacuation orders, officials said.

The fires came as the region ap-proaches the anniversary of the 2017 fires, including one that killed 22 peo-ple. Just a month ago, many of those same residents were evacuated from the path of a lightning-sparked fire that be-came the fourth-largest in state history.

Tampa Bay raises Stanley Cup in bubbleEDMONTON, Alberta (AP)

— The joyful yells from the bench could be heard in the empty arena in the final seconds and the roar from players when Commissioner Gary Bettman called for Steven Stamkos to accept the Stanley Cup echoed even louder.

The triumph of winning the NHL championship in a bubble was certainly no less sweet for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 in Game 6 on Monday night to finish off the most unusual NHL postseason in history, staged nearly entirely in quaran-tine because of the pandemic.

The clock hitting zeros with no fans in attendance set off a celebration for a team that en-dured years of playoff heartbreak and two months in isolation — and their fans outside Amalie Arena in Tampa celebrated right along with them.

“It takes a lot to be in a bubble

for 80 days or whatever long it was,” said defenseman Victor Hedman, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. “But it’s all worth it now. We’re coming home with the Cup.”

Before giving that trophy to Hedman, Bettman gave all the players credit for enduring a quarantine largely on their own for so long.

“To be in this place at this time under these circumstanc-es is remarkable and frankly overwhelming,” Bettman said. “Frankly, all of the players who participated should feel like MVPs.”

Goals from Point and Blake Coleman and a 22-save shutout by Andrei Vasilevskiy in Game 6 were enough to power the Lightning to their second cham-pionship after winning it in 2004. That one came just ahead of a lockout that wiped out an entire season and similar uncertainty hangs in the air now because of the coronavirus.

Questions about the future

were put off for a celebration by the Lightning and by the NHL, the first of the four major North American professional sports leagues to crown a champion since the start of the pandemic.

Tampa Bay’s core group closed out the final with an almost poetic display of what got the Lightning to this point over the past several years and months. Point’s goal came with assists from longtime standouts Nikita Kucherov and Hedman, key addition Coleman scored on an odd-man rush in the second and Vasilevskiy did his job on a relatively slow night in net.

Veteran defenseman Braydon Coburn was the first to get the Cup after Stamkos and Hedman, even though he played just three games in the postseason. He played 964 regular-season and 137 playoff games to get to this point, losing in the final twice before.

“The beauty of our team is everyone was chipping in,” Point

said. “We got contributions from anyone and everyone at different times, and that’s what makes this win so special.”

It was more of a coronation than a challenge as the dominant Lightning outshot the Stars 29-22 and looked like the powerhouse they’ve been for much of the past decade.

Tampa Bay’s power play turned the series around after Dallas won the opener. Point’s goal made it 7 for 16 over the past five games to decimate the Stars, who were undone by their lack of discipline and couldn’t get enough “Dobby” magic from goaltender Anton Khudobin.

“There is no feelings right now,” Khudobin said. “Just emp-ty, you know. We battled hard, especially with this situation, it’s not easy to stay without families for two months and stuff like that.”

The Stars simply ran out of gas after injuries piled up.

“I couldn’t ask more from our players,” said coach Rick

Bowness, an assistant for Tampa Bay for five years who was part of their 2015 run that fell short in the final. “So it wasn’t enough to beat that team, so it wasn’t enough. But it’s better than sitting here saying how we could done this or could have done. We don’t second-guess anything we’ve done.”

The Lightning did to the Stars what Chicago did to them in the ’15 final, when injuries built up. Tampa Bay had Point and No. 2 center Anthony Cirelli playing hurt this time, didn’t have Stam-kos for almost all of the playoffs — and still survived.

“These last six weeks have been really emotional for my family and I, not only on the ice but off the ice,” said Stamkos, who played just 2:37 in the play-offs yet scored a goal in Game 3. “I just want to say to my family: I love you guys so much. To all the friends and everyone who supported us along the way: We love you, we can’t wait to cele-brate with you.”

Mahomes leads Chiefs to victory over RavensBALTIMORE (AP) — It wasn’t just

that Patrick Mahomes threw for a ton of yards and four touchdowns. Most impres-sive was how he did it.

Mahomes juked, danced, and jumped in and out of the pocket. Sometimes he just dropped back and fired pinpoint throws downfield. He tossed shovel passes and flung it sidearmed.

The common thread was that just about everything he did worked for the defend-ing Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who rolled past the Baltimore Ravens 34-20 on Monday night.

Mahomes put on a scintillating show while outperforming Lamar Jackson, who’s 0-3 against the Chiefs and 21-1 against the rest of the NFL as a regu-lar-season starting quarterback.

With Mahomes leading the way, the Chiefs (3-0) emphatically ended the Ravens’ 14-game regular-season winning streak while extending their own run to 12 games (including playoffs). Mahomes went 31 for 42 for 385 yards and averaged 6.5 yards on his four rushing attempts.

“They don’t give that guy a half-billion dollars for no reason,” Ravens defensive tackle Calais Campbell said. “He just made play after play. You’ve got to give him respect.”

Mahomes, who signed a 10-year, $503 million extension in July, gave the Chiefs their money’s worth on Monday night, surgically shredding a Baltimore defense that had allowed only two touchdowns in its first two games.

“You got to give credit to Pat for leading the charge. He stepped up big,”

Kansas City coach Andy Reid said.Mahomes was not intercepted, and

avoided being sacked. The Chiefs led 27-10 at halftime and held on to defeat Baltimore (2-1) for the third year in a row.

“The plays we ran, we got in the right situations,” Mahomes said. “I thought guys executed at a very high level on

those plays.”In a duel between Mahomes, the 2018

NFL MVP, and the player who won that honor last year, Jackson was no match for the man whose resume also includes a Super Bowl MVP trophy.

Jackson completed 15 of 28 passes for 97 yards and ran for 83 yards, 30 of them

on one carry during the Ravens’ opening possession. It wasn’t nearly enough against Mahomes, whose performance Jackson described in one word: “Outstanding.”

The Chiefs scored touchdowns on their first two possessions — one on a run by Mahomes, the other on a shovel pass to Anthony Sherman — for a 13-3 lead. Following that second score, Ravens rookie Devin Duvernay fielded the kickoff and sprinted down the right sideline for a 93-yard touchdown.

Kansas City followed with a three-and-out, but Baltimore simply could not con-tain Mahomes for long. After he got the ball back, Mahomes completed passes of 29 and 18 yards before hitting Tyreek Hill for a 20-yard score to cap a 73-yard drive.

A 49-yard touchdown pass from Ma-homes to Mecole Hardman put the Chiefs up by 17 at halftime. The only other time Jackson trailed by that much at the break in an NFL game was last year, when the Chiefs held a 23-6 lead.

In this one, Kansas City pumped the brakes in the second half before Baltimore closed to 27-20. That’s when Mahomes showed why he’s the league’s highest-paid player and arguably the NFL’s best quar-terback.

During a 13-play, 75-yard drive that produced the game-clinching score, Ma-homes converted a third-and-5 with an 18-yard pass and ran for 12 yards on a third-and-10. He flipped a sidearm 12-yard pass to Sammy Watkins to set up a first-and-goal at the 2, from where Mahomes tossed a touchdown pass to appreciative tackle Eric Fisher with 8:14 remaining.

Seahawks 3-0, but defense needs workSEATTLE (AP) — Bobby Wagner

sounded deflated. And angry.The Seattle Seahawks should have

been celebrating after they improved to 3-0 for the first time since their Super Bowl season of 2013 after Sunday’s 38-31 win over Dallas.

But Wagner’s pride and the numbers on the stat sheet told him there was very little to be happy about, at least on the defensive side of the ball.

“It’s not something I am accustomed to. It is not something I want to be ac-customed to,” Wagner said.

Seattle is undefeated in perhaps the most un-Seahawks way possible. They are throwing the ball all around the field, relying on the arm of Russell Wilson, who is putting up record numbers through three weeks. Wilson set NFL marks for most TD passes through three games with 14 and became the first quarterback to throw four or more touchdowns in each of the first three weeks.

But on the other side of the ball, Seat-tle is surrendering points and yards at an

alarming rate. They’ve given up nearly 1,300 yards passing. The 86 points allowed by Seattle are third most by an 3-0 team in league history.

The Seahawks are doing well at stopping the run -- 66.7 yards per game -- but why run when it’s so easy to pass?

“We have to do good at something so it’s good to hold teams under 50 yards or 75 yards rushing,” Wagner said. “But when we’re still giving up as many yards as we’re giving up, it doesn’t matter.”

While Seattle seems to be evolving offensively into a more pass-heavy team -- even as coach Pete Carroll contin-ues to preach balance -- the defensive concerns are significant. If the Seahawks can’t find a way to control their oppo-nents’ passing game, that’s only going to increase the expectation for Wilson to be great every week.

He’s been up to it so far.“I would rather win by a lot, but I

don’t mind,” Wilson said. “I don’t mind winning either way. A win is a win and I love winning.”

Rivers out as Clippers coachLAKE BUENA VISTA,

Fla. (AP) — Doc Rivers would easily be considered the best coach in Los Angeles Clippers history. Most wins. Most playoff appearances. Top winning percentage.

And now he’s out.Rivers announced in a

statement posted to Twitter on Monday that he is not returning as coach. The move comes about two weeks after the Clippers wasted a 3-1 series lead and lost to the Denver Nuggets in the West-ern Conference semifinals.

“Doc has been a terrific coach for the Clippers, an incredible ambassador, and a pillar of strength during tumul-tuous times,” Clippers Chair-man Steve Ballmer said in a statement. “He won a heck of a lot of games and laid a foun-dation for this franchise.”

The Clippers said Rivers and Ballmer came to the deci-sion jointly.

Rivers spent seven seasons with the Clippers, making the playoffs in six of them — major success for a once-woe-begone franchise. This season’s team, with the summer 2019 additions of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, was expected

to compete for a championship.But losing three closeout

opportunities to the Nuggets cost the Clippers a chance to play the Los Angeles Lakers in the West finals, and likely played a role in Rivers not remaining as coach.

“When I took this job, my goals were to make this a winning basketball program, a free agent destination, and bring a championship to this organization,” Rivers wrote in the statement. “While I was able to accomplish most of my goals, I won’t be able to see them all through.”

Rivers went 356-208 over seven seasons with the Clip-pers, taking them to the West second round three times. But the franchise has never made the conference finals, and going 0-3 in chance to get there this year was a devastating blow.

Expectations were high, and on the night the season ended, Rivers took responsi-bility.

“We didn’t meet them. That’s the bottom line,” Rivers said on Sept. 15 after the Game 7 loss. “I’m the coach and I’ll take any blame for it. But we didn’t meet our expectations, clearly.”

Filly Swiss Skydiver to race in PreaknessBALTIMORE (AP) — Swiss

Skydiver will become the second filly since Rachel Alexandra won in 2009 to run against males in the Preakness on Saturday.

Trainer Kenny McPeek con-firmed the decision on Sunday. Jockey Robby Albarado, who won the 2007 Preakness aboard Curlin, will replace Tyler Gaffali-one on Swiss Skydiver.

In her only other start against males, Swiss Skydiver finished second to potential Preakness rival Art Collector in the Blue Grass Stakes on July 11. She won the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga on Aug. 15 and finished second in the Kentucky Oaks on Sept. 4.

Five fillies have won the Preak-ness, including Rachel Alexandra,

who went on to become Horse of the Year in 2009. In all, 55 fe-males have run in the 1 3/16-mile race. Ria Antonia was the most recent, finishing last in 2014.

“I know she will make the distance without any problem,” McPeek said. “It was a tough call between racing against straight 3-year-olds or older fillies and mares or turf, which was briefly thought about. I think she will handle it fine.”

Authentic was installed as a 9-5 favorite for the race when the draw was held Monday.

Swiss Skydiver was given 6-1 odds and will start at the No. 4 post.

It could be a near-perfect day for Bob Baffert if the two-time

Triple Crown-winning trainer captures his record-breaking eighth Preakness, either with Authentic or Thousand Words, who drew the No. 5 post and is 6-1 on the morning line. Baffert’s assistant trainer, Jimmy Barnes, will miss his first Preakness in decades after Thousand Words acted up in the Churchill Downs paddock at the Derby, resulting in a broken arm.

Art Collector, who was scratched from the Derby, ap-pears to be the biggest threat to Authentic and is the 5-2 second choice on the morning line out of post No. 3. Trainer Tom Drury hopes Art Collector is on the lead the first time going by the stands, which will be noticeably empty.

Nadal, Serena start French Open with victoriesPARIS (AP) — No matter how

much success they’ve had over the years, and to this day, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal both profess to deal with doubts.

Both began this French Open with straight-set victories against overmatched foes in Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday.

And both have something sig-nificant at stake over the coming two weeks: a chance to equal a record for Grand Slam singles ti-tles. Williams already has 23, the

most by anyone in the profession-al era; one more will allow her to tie Margaret Court’s all-era mark.

Nadal began his attempt to pull even with rival Roger Fed-erer for the most by a man, 20, by beating Egor Gerasimov of Belarus 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

His 2020 debut at a place he’s won 12 trophies did not change Nadal’s view of things at this pandemic-postponed event: It’s colder than usual, the balls are heavier than usual, he’s had less

preparation than usual.“The conditions are completely

different,” he said, “than any oth-er Roland Garros that we played.”

Still, Gerasimov would have been forgiven for choosing the same metaphor to describe Nadal that Williams’ opponent came up with: “a runaway train.”

After she played OK in the opening set, then was terrific in the second, of a 7-6 (2), 6-0 win over 102nd-ranked American Kristie Ahn,