March 5 Photo Brief: Oldest woman in the world celebrates 115th birthday, satellite view of an enormous winter storm, violence in Egypt
Oldest woman in the world celebrates her 115th birthday, a satellite view of an enormous winter storm, violence in Egypt continues and more in today’s daily brief. | Warning: Visual coverage may show injury and/or death.
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- This handout picture taken by Tomohito Okada from the Kurenai nursing home on March 5, 2013 shows the world’s oldest woman Misao Okawa celebrating her 115th birthday at the nursing home in Osaka, western Japan. Okawa, who late last month received a certificate from Guinness World Records confirming her status as the oldest living woman, celebrated her 115th birthday on March 5 in a Japanese nursing home with her favourite mackerel sushi dish on the menu. (AFP/Getty Images)
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- This photo taken on February 14, 2013 shows sumo wrestler Moriurara (background C) exercising with other wrestlers during a training session at a sumo stable in Tokyo. Most of the 610 wrestlers who come under the aegis of the venerable Japan Sumo Association are lodged in stables like this one; living, eating and sleeping together in facilities that allow for little personal space. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A delegate from an ethnic minority leaves the Great Hall of the People following the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5, 2013. Thousands of delegates from across China were meeting this week to seal a power transfer to new leaders whose first months running the Communist Party have pumped up expectations with a deluge of propaganda. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Suraj, 11, walks with his pet monkey towards a group of tourists to start a show on the Marine Drive promenade, which overlooks the Arabian Sea, in Mumbai on March 5, 2013. Suraj earns around 110 rupees ($2) by putting up shows and acrobatic performances of his monkey for tourists. (Indranil Mukher/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man watches the tallying of cast votes on a television set during presidential and parliamentary elections in the western town of Kisumu, 350km (218 miles) from the capital Nairobi, March 5, 2013. Kenyan presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta opened an early lead as ballots were counted on Tuesday in an election that brought out millions of voters despite pockets of violence that killed at least 15 people. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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- A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez prays in a chapel outside the military hospital in Caracas March 5, 2013. Chavez’s adoring supporters prayed and wept on Tuesday over a serious setback in his battle against a cancer that threatens to end his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
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- Boys play on a wall in Gao, Mali, March 5, 2013. (Joe Penney/Reuters)
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- Artist Mark Wallinger poses beside his new sculpture ‘The White Horse’ outside the headquarters of The British Council on the Mall on March 5, 2013 in London, England. The British Council unveiled the marble and resin, life-size sculpture representing a thoroughbred racehorse, as it announced a GBP 7 million investment in work connecting UK-based creative talent overseas. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- This March 5, 2013 NASA GOES handout image shows a satellite view of an enormous winter storm system running across the U.S. from Canada all the way down to the Florida panhandle. Two powerful winter storms blanketed huge swaths of the central United States Monday and threatened to bury much of the northern portion of the country in the coming days. (NASA HO via AFP/Getty Images)
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- Floodwaters cover a headstone in a graveyard in South Jakarta on March 5, 2013 following heavy rains in nearby mountain areas. The rainy season is expected to last until later this month, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A swarm of locusts fly near Kmehin in Israel’s Negev desert March 5, 2013. The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Tuesday that the location of the locusts which crossed into Israel from neighbouring Egypt had been mapped and and will be fumigated tomorrow. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
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- A riot policeman releases tear gas at protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi during clashes in front of Security Directorate in Port Said city, 105 miles northeast of Cairo March 5, 2013. Police shot into the air and fired tear gas during clashes with hundreds of protesters in Egypt’s Port Said on Tuesday, the third day of violent protests in the port city, a Reuters witness said. Waves of demonstrations have been erupting in Port Said since January after the detention of dozens of people in connection with a football riot last year when 70 died. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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- A protester, opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, throws a stone at riot police, near a fire, during clashes in front of Security Directorate in Port Said city, 105 miles northeast of Cairo March 5, 2013. Police shot into the air and fired tear gas during clashes with hundreds of protesters in Egypt’s Port Said on Tuesday, the third day of violent protests in the port city, a Reuters witness said. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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- Afghan National Army soldiers fire artillery during a military training in Laghman province, March 5, 2013. (Parwiz/Reuters)
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- A woman lights a candle during a vigil on March 5, 2013 outside the city hall of Varna, on the site where a man who became a symbol of the three-week wave of protests against corruption, set himself on fire. Plamen Goranov, a 36-year-old amateur photographer and rock climber, died on March 3 after setting himself ablaze on February 20 in the Black Sea city of Varna. Goranov’s self-immolation prompted Varna protestors to adopt his cause and turn their initial anger over high electricity bills against the long-time mayor, whom they accused of corruption and favouritism towards a local business group. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of a tusker elephant after it was struck by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, some 12 kms from Alipurduar on March 5, 2013. The adult tusker was killed by the speeding Guwahati-bound Somporkkranti Express inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal. (AFP/Getty Images)
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- An aerial view of a sinkhole at 240 Faithway Drive in Seffner, Florida that opened up, killing Jeffrey Bush is seen March 4, 2013. The sinkhole is exposed as demolition of the house continues. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/MCT)
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- A female mine worker is seen underground at Lonmin’s Karee mine in Rustenburg, 62 miles northwest of Johannesburg, March 5, 2013. Thousands of miners remained on strike at two shafts in South Africa’s Marikana platinum mine on Tuesday, operator Lonmin Plc said, revising an earlier statement that they had gone back to work. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
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- In this photograph taken on on March 15, 2012, cloned pashmina goat Noori is pictured at a laboratory near Srinagar. Heavy snow has killed nearly 25,000 pashmina goats in the Indian Himalayas, threatening supplies of silky cashmere wool used to make high-end scarves, an official said on March 5, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)
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- A brown bear lies in his enclosure at the Gelsenkirchen zoo and enjoys the sunny early spring day on March 5, 2013 in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. (Caroline Seidel/AFP/Getty Images)
Snowstorm slams road, air travel in U.S. Midwest
Reuters
2:00 p.m. EST, March 5, 2013
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A deadly late winter storm dumped heavy snow on the Midwestern United States on Tuesday, contributing to numerous highway crashes and flight cancellations as it moved east toward the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic states.
More than 1,000 flights were cut in and out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports and 107 more were canceled in and out of Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport, according to the FlightAware.com flight tracking service.
In Chicago, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning through midnight, residents were girding for between 5 to 10 inches of snow, much of it expected to fall around the evening rush hour.
At a late morning press conference hosted by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the city’s Office of Emergency Management & Communications said nearly 300 snow plows were working to keep roads clear in the city.
Temperatures above freezing in many parts of the city were helping those efforts, OEMC said, turning much of the fallen snow into water.
“Obviously as the evening comes and temperatures drop, this will start to accumulate,” Emanuel said.
All flights in and out of Chicago’s Midway Airport were canceled through 5 pm as a precaution, the Chicago Department of Aviation said.
Roads in northwest Illinois had patches of ice and snow on Tuesday and road crews were bracing in northeast Illinois for the storm, which began dropping snow on Chicago near the middle of the morning rush hour.
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