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Exactly five weeks before the June 3 primary, Rep. James Buskey and Democratic primary challenger Henry Haseeb answered questions from AL.com/Press-Register reporters and editors Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights.

Former Mayor Sam Jones has been placed on Mobile City Council agendas at the last minute twice in the past seven months -- the last occurring in October to rename Government Plaza after him. That has yet to happen.

There are responders doing miraculous things. This is why we do this."

"If they can get to us, we will happily take them in."

There is a flash flood warning for Mobile County until 3 a.m.

"We have issued a travel advisory," Baldwin County EMA Director Mitchell Sims said. "There is some form of flooding on all roads. Some have been physically closed."

"Once we heard the big boom, that's when she woke me up and told me to come look out the window," Shay French said.

Despite Moody Investors Services shift in how it analyzes municipalities and a host of cities that have faced recent credit rating downgrades, the Stimpson administration says Mobile's problems reflect several years of problems with managing the General Fund.

If the proposal becomes law, Mobile-based Austal USA would be guaranteed to build two littoral combat ships in the coming year. Reducing the order to three ships would mean that either Austal or Marinette Marine would lose an order.

Jose Lopez, 45, of Pasadena Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Mobile on April 21 to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin.