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A resident walks on the debris of a collapsed house in Tepalcingo Lorenzo Pellegrini AS Roma Jersey , Morelos, Mexico, on Sept. 22, 2017. Some 293 people have been confirmed killed in the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit central Mexico on Tuesday, the head of the national civil protection agency, Luis Felipe Puente, said on Friday. (XinhuaMarco Diaz)
by Luis Rojas
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- "My whole life is here," said Amanda Gonzalez, a resident of capital Mexico City, explaining why she refused to vacate her residential building, despite clear risks.
The downtown Geminis building where Gonzalez lives is sandwiched between two others that were severely damaged by the destructive 7.1-magnitude quake, which toppled nearly 40 apartment buildings, damaged 2,900 buildings and killed 155 people across the capital city.
The buildings flanking Gonzalez's have been evacuated due to the near certainty that they will collapse.
"Civil Protection already told us the buildings next door are going to fall, but that they are going to plummet downwards, not fall sideways," Gonzalez told Xinhua, sounding confident of their assessment.
Most owners of the apartments in the Geminis building are clinging to their properties inside, hoping for the best. Those who have left were mainly tenants, said Gonzalez, who lives with her husband, their four-year-old son and her parents.
Her block has been closed to traffic. Authorities are even discouraging foot traffic in the area, by installing yellow caution tape along the sidewalks, though no officials are on site to keep pedestrians out.
The quake collapsed the interior staircases of the damaged buildings and shattered windows; one of the buildings appears to list slightly.
Hermilio Estrada, the owner of a small shop on the ground floor of the Geminis, was selling merchandise to other stores.
"There are still many people (in the building). The problem is they don't have a place to go to. But the risk of the buildings falling down is very high," said Estrada.
He has run the store for 14 years, he said, adding the buildings in the block were built in the 1970s.
Ricardo Monreal is the head of the city's Cuauhtemoc district, where the damaged buildings stand, part of a three-building complex called Morelos.
During an inspection of the quake damage earlier this week, he said he was "very concerned" about the Morelos complex, where each structure houses 54 apartments.
Gonzalez admitted that she shared some of that concern.
"They told me we were in no danger, but they warned us the decision to stay was our own responsibility," she said.
The death toll from the quake has been rising steadily and now stands at 293, with most registered in densely populated Mexico City, said the national civil protection agency on Friday.
Rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors.
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Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" had a big debut.
Clinton's book, about her stunning presidential election loss in 2016 to Donald Trump, sold more than 300,000 copies in the combined formats of hardcover, e-book and audio, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The book's hardcover sales of 168,000 were the highest opening for any nonfiction release in five years, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85 percent of retail print sales. Mark Owen's "No Easy Day," a 2012 memoir about the killing of Osama bin Laden, sold more than 250,000 copies in its first week.
Hillary Clinton waves to the audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, for book tour event for her new book "What Happened" hosted by the Politics and Prose Bookstore. (AP PhotoCarolyn Kaster)
Sales for "What Happened" far exceeded the first-week numbers of more than 100,000 copies for Clinton's book about her years as secretary of state, "Hard Choices," which came out in 2014 as she was preparing to launch her run for president. "What Happened" has been at or near the top of the Amazon best-seller list since its publication Sept. 12 despite a suspicious early wave of negative reader reviews, likely posted by commentators who had not read the book and later pulled by Amazon.
"The remarkable response to 'What Happened' indicates that, notwithstanding all that has been written and discussed over the last year, there is clearly an overwhelming desire among readers to learn about and experience, from Hillary Clinton's singular perspective, the historic events of the 2016 election," Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy said in a statement. "In its candor and immediacy, 'What Happened' is satisfying that demand."
Clinton's all-time opening was for her memoir, "Living History," a 2003 release that included her first extended comments on the affair between her husband, President Bill Clinton, and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "Living History" sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week and came out before the rise of e-books and before the collapse of the Borders superstore chain and the struggles of Barnes & Noble weakened the hardcover market.
Clinton, a Democrat, had promised to let her "guard down" for her first book to come out when she was neither in government nor seeking office. Responses to "What Happened," as with so much of Clinton's political career, have varied widely.
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