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Todays WeatherScattered storms

High 89, Low 75

Full weather report, Page 8C INDEXBusiness 1E Deaths 4B Movies 3D Sports 1C

Classifieds 1F Editorials 6B Puzzles 8D Stocks 4E

Comics 6D Metro/State 1B S.A. Life 1D TV listings 5D

137th year, No. 272,52 pages. Entirecontents copyright2002, San AntonioExpress-News.This newspaper isrecyclable.

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2002

BY LISA SANDBERG

EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

One week ago, San Antonioresidents were digesting thenews that water restrictions hadtaken effect because of a contin-uing drought.

By Monday evening, amidrush-hour traffic, the city was ex-periencing some of the most in-tense rainfall since the historicflood of 98.

Torrential rains drenched SanAntonio for a third straight dayMonday, nearly drowning an 11-year-old boy who was swept byrising floodwater just southwestof downtown, forcing some fam-ilies in the Woodlawn Lake areato flee their flooded homes, andleading to a dramatic late-nightrescue on the Northwest Side.

Officials recorded 9.28 inchesof rain at the San Antonio Inter-national Airport the highestsince the flood of 98, Mayor Ed

Garza said. The heavy rains shutdown hundreds of roads, sparkedpower outages across the cityand kept firefighters busythroughout the day responding todozens of high water rescues andreports of motorists stranded inwaist-deep water.

More than 200 homes acrossthe city were affected by flooding,about half of those in the Wood-lawn Lake area, Garza said. Fif-teen homes in the Old Highway90 neighborhood were also evac-uated.

City officials were encouragingresidents of the River Road

SOUTH TEXAS: Flooding forces numerous evacuations,shuts down roads and interstates for hours. SAN ANTONIO: An 11-year-old boy fights for life afterbeing swept down a West Side creek.

Heavy rains swamp area

JERRY LARA/STAFF

A secure line is extended to a trapped Dilley Volunteer Fire Department truck on Interstate 35 just north of Dilley. High water blocked the interstate on Monday for several hours.

KEVIN GEIL/STAFF

San Antonio firefighters give CPR to a boy while carrying him to amedical evacuation helicopter. The boy had been swept downstream

after he fell into Apache Creek while playing with another youthduring Mondays heavy rainstorm on the citys West Side.

Rainfall totalshighest since 98

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Precipitation in SouthTexas/4AWoodlawn area hit hard by

flooding/5A Its sink or swim for busi-nesses/5A Complete weather/8C

BY CHARLES REX ARBOGAST

ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan U.S.planes bombed a village in central Af-ghanistan on Monday after the U.S. mil-itary said American forces came underfire. Afghans said villagers were cele-brating a wedding and that scores werekilled and injured, including manywomen and children.

Reports of the incident were conflict-ing. The Pentagon insisted the aircraftattacked a legitimate hostile target butsuggested an errant bomb may havecaused civilian casualties.

The U.S. Central Command, which isresponsible for U.S. military operationsin Afghanistan, said a coalition oper-ation in Uruzgan province may haveresulted in civilian casualties.

Close air support from U.S. AirForce B-52 and AC-130 aircraft struckseveral ground targets, including anti-aircraft artillery sites that were engag-

ing the aircraft, the brief statementsaid, providing no other details.

At Bagram air base, U.S. militaryspokesman Col. Roger King said anAC-130 gunship, a B-52 bomber andother aircraft joined the attack after coa-lition ground forces came under fire.

We understand that there were somecivilian casualties in the operation, butwe do not yet know how many casual-ties or how they occurred, King said.The United States expresses its deepest

U.S. bombing raid hitscivilians in Afghan village

Pentagon says errant

projectile may have wounded

women and children.

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Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. ofOklahoma, the onlyblack Republican inCongress, says he willnot seek re-election.

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Calling it quits

BY STEVEN ERLANGER

NEW YORK TIMES

BERLIN A Russian passenger air-liner collided late Monday night with aBoeing 757 cargo plane over southernGermany, exploding in a fireball and ap-parently killing everyone aboard bothplanes, the police said.

The Russian plane, a Tupolev Tu-154operated by Bashkirian Airlines, and theBoeing 757 crashed into one another at11:43 p.m. over the state of Baden-Wurt-temberg in southwest Germany, saidWolfgang Wenzel, a state police spokes-

man in Tubingen.The fireball from the collision lit up

the night sky over one of Germanys fa-vorite summer vacation spots, Lake Con-stance, on the border with Switzerland.

Stanislav Borolof, the night supervisorat Domodedova airport near Moscow,identified the Tupolev flight as Bashkir-

ian Flight 2937, which left Moscow at10:48 p.m. Monday bound for Barcelona,Spain. It was a charter flight carrying acrew of 12 and 57 passengers, 49 adultsand eight children.

The Russian-built Tu-154 is a mainstayof aviation in the former Soviet Union. Itis used on both domestic and interna-tional flights. More than 1,000 were builtand most are still being flown, with justa few converted to freight use.

The Boeing, flown by a crew with the

Passenger, cargo jetscollide over Germany

Fireball lights up sky.

Wreckage starts fires

on ground.

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