Q&A: Beckye Sprouse on contractor classification and worker's ...

Effective July 1, Tennessee will enforce a recently passed state law (SB233) that penalizes construction services providers that misclassify employees to avoid proper classification of workers' compensation insurance premium calculations. Specifically, the new law will fine a construction services provider up to the greater of $1,000 or 1.5 times its average yearly workers' compensation premium for misstatements and inaccuracies involving payroll, employees or duties.

With the law in place, companies may need to classify some people they previously listed as contractors as employees, which could lead to additional costs due to the state's increased opportunity to crack down on worker?s comp coverage. Post Managing Editor William Williams recently talked to Beckye Sprouse, director of risk management at The Crichton Group, which bills itself as Middle Tennessee?s largest independent insurance provider. Sprouse, who is responsible for large commercial accounts and key accounts for the agency, is a certified risk manager who has worked within the insurance industry since 1968.

Do industry professionals understand the ramifications of the change and why it is being made?

Senate Bill 833 is designed to put teeth into an existing law by imposing monetary consequences for not following the already existing rules. Many construction businesses are already classifying their employees correctly as employees rather than independent contractors and allocating their payroll to the correct construction classification. However, the contractors that abuse the rules ? or make a mistake ? by misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor maintain an unfair competitive advantage because their insurance costs are lower and their payroll taxes are lower than [those of] their counterparts that follow the rules.?

How will enforcement of the law play out in the construction industry ? both in terms of cost and policy?

Enforcement with consequences for non-compliance will increase costs for the companies that misclassify. It should have no effect on the construction companies that are already properly classifying their employees, paying the taxes and paying the correct work comp premium. It will shift the cost of workers compensation insurance and coverage for injured workers to the party where it should be. According to the Tennessee Employee Misclassification Advisory Task Force, based on estimates using 2006 data, Tennessee lost between $2.1 million and $3.7 million in uncollected workers? compensation premium taxes. And its estimated losses from unpaid unemployment insurance premiums range from $8.4 million to $14.9 million.

What are you hearing from industry officials regarding the law? Do they feel it will help the construction sector? Hurt it?

There is nothing clearly announcing the change on the AGC and ABC websites. We have only heard about it from one insurance carrier. So, there needs to be some additional publicity so that those not currently in compliance can take steps to correct their situation.

Do you anticipate lots of fines?

It is difficult to predict what will happen when the law is enforced, but we know that violations will be subject to a penalty up to the greater of $1,000 or one and one half time the average yearly workers? compensation premium for such construction services provider. So the potential is there.

Source: http://nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2013/6/28/qa_beckye_sprouse

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Stockton taxpayers want bigger role in California city's bankruptcy case

By Jim Christie

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of California taxpayers went to court on Friday to demand a greater role in how the city of Stockton would raise taxes to exit the bankruptcy it filed a year ago.

The group asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Sacramento for official committee status so its members could see details on Stockton's plan for increasing its sales tax. If granted this status, the group could also participate in talks about the city's plan to adjust its debts.

Stockton officials aim to file their debt-adjustment plan with the bankruptcy court in September following a vote by the city council on a sales tax increase.

Stockton's city manager wants the council to hold a vote next month on putting a ballot measure to voters in November that would ask them to raise the city's sales tax to 9.0 percent from 8.25 percent.

If approved by voters, the increase would go into effect next April and raise revenue to help Stockton exit bankruptcy, put more money into public safety programs and hire more police officers to help tackle crime in a city that ranks among the 10 most dangerous U.S. cities.

According to a draft of the tax plan, the increase would raise about $219 million over 10 years for public safety spending.

Over the same time, about $112 million in proceeds would fund the city's exit from bankruptcy. The effort would get a larger share of revenue initially as police staffing ramps up.

The taxpayers group wants more details on how the revenue would be allocated and it is concerned Stockton's creditors could press for a bigger share, which would set back plans for hiring more police officers.

"Creditors will no doubt seek as large a recovery as possible leaving taxpayers with significantly reduced health, safety and welfare services," according to an exhibit attached to the taxpayers group's court filing.

A city of about 300,000 residents in California's Central Valley, Stockton is the biggest U.S. city to have filed for bankruptcy and is trying to impose steep losses on its bond insurers and bondholders to restructure its finances.

The U.S. municipal debt market is watching to see if the Stockton prevails or its so-called capital markets creditors can convince the bankruptcy court to have the city cut its pension spending as part of a plan to exit bankruptcy.

Stockton has refused to cut pensions, saying it is prohibited by state law, and that its employees have suffered several years of pay and job cuts while its retired workers are losing subsidized medical coverage.

(Reporting by Jim Christiel Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stockton-taxpayers-want-bigger-role-california-citys-bankruptcy-020314638.html

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Millions of fans fete victorious Blackhawks

Fans cheer during a rally in Grant Park for the NHL Stanley Cup hockey champion Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, June 28, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Fans cheer during a rally in Grant Park for the NHL Stanley Cup hockey champion Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, June 28, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

The 2013 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks ride in a victory parade down Washington Street as an elevated train passes by Friday, June 28, 2013 in Chicago. The Blackhawks celebrate the team's second championship in four years. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews holds up the 2013 Stanley Cup during a victory parade down Washington Street Friday, June 28, 2013 in Chicago. The Blackhawks celebrate the team's second championship in four years. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews holds up the 2013 Stanley Cup during a victory parade down Washington Street Friday, June 28, 2013 in Chicago. The Blackhawks celebrate the team's second championship in four years. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Chicago Blackhawks' fans takes pictures as Jonathan Toews and the Stanley Cup pass by during a victory parade down Washington Street Friday, June 28, 2013 in Chicago. The Blackhawks celebrate the team's second championship in four years. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

CHICAGO (AP) ? From the jubilant parade all the way to the boisterous rally, millions of excited fans spent a sun-drenched Friday celebrating another Stanley Cup title for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Dressed mostly in red and black, they came out to say thanks for the memories. Turns out, captain Jonathan Toews and Co. wanted to return the favor.

"This shows how unbelievable this city is," Toews said, addressing the rapt crowd at Grant Park. "Unbelievable. Thank you."

The Blackhawks rode to the rally in red, open-topped buses, passing waving and screaming fans of every age as the parade traveled from the United Center to the downtown party. Toews hoisted the Stanley Cup over his head to show it off to the crowd, which was cooled by large water misters placed along the route with temperatures in the low 80s.

One of the many signs read "Thank you, guys" on the top line and "Best 17 seconds of my life" for the second part ? referring to the pair of late goals that lifted the Blackhawks to a 3-2 title-clinching victory over the Boston Bruins on Monday night. And there was at least one expression of love for Andrew Shaw, the hardscrabble forward who required stitches on his face after he was hit by a puck Monday.

It was the second championship in four seasons for the Blackhawks, and authorities thought Friday's crowd was even heartier than the 2 million that came out in 2010.

"What do you say we get back here and do it again next year?" forward Patrick Sharp said to a big cheer at the rally.

The Grant Park crowd also enjoyed a brief but colorful speech by normally reserved goaltender Corey Crawford, who drew wide grins and chuckles from his teammates.

"It's tough to follow that speech by Corey Crawford," Toews said after he carried the Cup onto the stage.

Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said 42 people were taken to hospitals with heat-related health problems. He also said 20 people jumped into a restricted part of Lake Michigan and the fire department made sure that all 20 came out of the water.

The massive crowd at the park grew steadily all morning long, with the most ardent supporters camping out overnight, ready to sprint to the big stage the minute police swung the barriers aside. By the time buses delivered the players and their families, the park was packed.

Some fans brought along homemade versions of the Stanley Cup, including one fashioned from an empty beer keg. Twenty-somethings Courtney Baldwin and Meghan O'Kane, from the city's suburbs, slapped together their tribute from a jumble of jugs and plastic bowls painted grey.

It was empty Friday morning, but Baldwin said they planned to fill it with an adult beverage in the afternoon ? a common occurrence for the actual silver trophy over the past week.

One fan who dashed to the front near the stage was Michael Wilczynski, a 26-year-old sales associate from the suburbs. His father took him to his first game and they partied together downtown after the last Stanley Cup victory.

"My dad died in February. We came to 2010. I'm not going to miss this. I had to be here," he said.

The Blackhawks gave the city something to celebrate as the Cubs and White Sox grind through another lost summer. And fans took note.

"We love the Blackhawks. This is history and this is a championship, unlike the Cubs," O'Kane said, taking a shot at a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908.

The franchise's fifth Stanley Cup was the culmination of a banner season for the Blackhawks, who set an NHL record when they recorded at least one point in the first 24 games ? half of the lockout-shortened schedule. They finished with the best record in the league.

The dramatic Game 6 victory in Boston sparked a raucous party in parts of Chicago. Fans poured out of bars after the thrilling finish and celebrated in the streets in the several neighborhoods.

Sarah Schmidt, 22, who grew up in Chicago and made the pilgrimage to Friday's celebrations from Milwaukee, told her boss she was taking the day off no matter what. She hoped her bartending gig would still be there when the party was over.

"I can't miss this," she said.

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60% Say Climate Change Hurts Businesses - Environmental Leader

June 27, 2013

60% Say Climate Change Hurts Businesses

The majority of small employers ? about 60 percent ? believe climate change and extreme weather events are an urgent problem that can disrupt the economy and harm businesses, according to a scientific opinion poll.

The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of Small Business Majority, found four in 10 strongly believe this (see chart). It also found a third of American small businesses have seen extreme weather impact their business or someone around them.

Small businesses want to know the government is equipped to help them rebuild from future extreme weather events, the poll found. Forty-two percent of respondents believe the Small Business Administration should track small business claims related to extreme weather events as a way to increase the amount of aid the government provides small businesses. Meanwhile, 21 percent said they weren?t sure if the SBA should track claims and 37 percent said it shouldn?t.

Small Business Authority notes that the political affiliation of the poll?s respondents was varied, with 37 percent identifying as Republican, 30 percent as Democrat and 33 percent as independent.

Last month, Small Business Majority released additional polling that found a majority of small businesses support the EPA regulating carbon emissions and setting standards for existing power plants, refineries and other major emitters.

Extreme weather events like last summer?s drought and Hurricane Sandy affected businesses and exposed the US? economic vulnerability to climate change, according to the 500 firms including Nike and GM that have signed Ceres? Climate Declaration. The declaration calls upon federal policymakers to address climate change as an economic opportunity.

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Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/06/27/60-say-climate-change-hurts-businesses/

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Paula Deen's 'Today' appearance ends in tears

NEW YORK (AP) ? Paula Deen dissolved into tears during a "Today" show interview Wednesday about her admission that she used a racial slur in the past, saying anyone in the audience who's never said anything they've regretted should pick up a rock and throw it at her head.

The celebrity chef, who had backed out of a "Today" interview last Friday, said she wasn't a racist and was heartbroken by the controversy that began with her own deposition in a lawsuit. Deen has been dropped by the Food Network and as a celebrity endorser by Smithfield Foods.

"I've had to hold friends in my arms while they've sobbed because they know what's been said about me is not true and I'm having to comfort them," she said.

Deen told Lauer she could only recall using the "n-word" once. She had earlier said that she remembered using it when retelling a story about when she was held at gunpoint by a robber who was black while working as a bank teller in the 1980s in Georgia. In a deposition for the lawsuit involving an employee in a restaurant owned by Deen and her brother, she had said she may also have used the slur when recalling conversations between black employees at her restaurants.

Looking distressed and her voice breaking, Deen said if there was someone in the audience who had never said something they wished they could take back, "please pick up that stone and throw it as hard at my head so it kills me. I want to meet you. I want to meet you.

"I is what I is and I'm not changing," she said. "There's someone evil out there that saw what I worked for and wanted it."

An uncomfortable Lauer tried to end the interview, but Deen repeated that anyone who hasn't sinned should attack her.

Deen said she appreciated fans who have expressed anger at the Food Network for dropping her, but said she didn't support a boycott of the network.

"These people who have met me and know me and love me, they're as angry as the people who are reading these stories that are lies," she said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paula-deens-today-appearance-ends-tears-120225940.html

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Doctor in Maine stopped taking insurance, cut prices 50% (Americablog)

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The Engadget Show 44: Education with Google, OLPC, Code.org ...

It's time to rethink the way our children learn. It's all a bit overwhelming, attempting to restructure the age-old classroom model, particularly in a system as bogged down in bureaucratic red tape as education. This month, however, we packed up our things and toured the country to find out how educational institutions are adopting new models to help reinvent the learning process -- rather than sitting idly by, waiting for the system to change around them. Naturally, technology is playing a huge role in that shift, moving from models of teaching to models of learning, where students can explore, express themselves and learn at their own speed.

We kick things off in Chicago, where Jackie Moore, a former systems programmer, is teaching inner city students how to build robots in a shopping mall basement at LevelUP. Next up, we head Miami and California, to see how technologies like the iPad, Google Chromebook and One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop are being implemented in three schools, including interviews with educators, students, OLPC CEO Rodrigo Halaby and Google director of product management, Rajen Sheth. We'll also talk to component retailers SparkFun and Adafruit about the initiatives those companies have implemented to help kids learn electronics at an early age, and then we sit down with American Museum of Natural History president, Ellen Futter, to discuss the ways the New York City institution is redefining itself for the 21st century.

We've also got an interview with Ali Partovi, a serial entrepreneur, who is working to make computer science an essential part of the elementary-level STEM program, through Code.org. Richard Culatta, the acting director of the US Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology discusses how devices can help target the learning process for individual students and LeapFrog CEO John Barbour tells us how his company is rethinking the educational toy. All that plus prognostications from John Roderick and some really sweet moose dioramas can be yours to enjoy after the break.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guests: Jackie Moore, Rajen Sheth, Ellen Futter, Rodrigo Halaby, Limor Fried, Becky Stern, Ali Partovi, Lindsay Levkoff, John Barbour, Richard Culatta, Jody Sherman LeVos, John Roderick and more
Producer: Benjamin Ahr Harrison
Executive Producer: Brian Heater

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Contentful, Out Today In Beta, Wants To Be The CMS For The Next Generation Of Screens

Contentful, a startup out of Berlin, is today releasing a beta of a platform that it hopes will be the future of how companies manage their content in a multi-screened world, where nearly any physical object has a shot at being a piece of "hardware." It is also announcing a seed round of an undisclosed amount from Balderton and Zendesk backer Point Nine Ventures to help further that vision.

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Samsung Adds Listings for Hulu Plus to Its WatchOn TV Software

Samsung is making it a little easier to find something to watch on its giant televisions.

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Video Discovery Has Lost Its Way; Rockpack, Backed By Qualcomm, Pascal Cagni And More, Wants To Find It

Video -- as Instagram's recent launch, Yahoo's would-be?and actual?acquisitions, and others' new content initiatives show -- is a hot property today, with more people than ever before consuming video online, and advertisers scrambling to catch that wave. While Google's YouTube is by far the biggest player in this space, video -- like the medium itself -- is a moving target that will see a number of new players continue to enter the scene, that that long tail has bred a whole sub-genre of video apps dedicated to video discovery. The latest of these, London-based?Rockpack, is launching today, with a focus on simplicity, personalization and curation that it believes will make itself stand apart from the crowd.

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Get which users the request was sent to Facebook Android

I'm trying to create a application were you can "invite" or tell your friends about it through the Facebook request dialog. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/androidsdk/3.0/send-requests/

It works somewhat but one thing I need is to know who the requests were sent TO. How can I do this?

I also have a secondary issue where the request notification only shows up on the users app - not on the desktop page. Anyone know anything about that?

Request code:

private void sendRequestDialog() {         Bundle params = new Bundle();         params.putString("message", "!");          WebDialog requestsDialog = (             new WebDialog.RequestsDialogBuilder(MyPage.this, Session.getActiveSession(), params))                 .setOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener() {                      @Override                     public void onComplete(Bundle values, FacebookException error) {                         if (error != null) {                             if (error instanceof FacebookOperationCanceledException) {                                 Toast.makeText(MyPage.this,                                      "Inbjudan avbruten",                                      Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                             } else {                                 Toast.makeText(MyPage.this, "N?tverksfel, kontrollera din anslutning och f?rs?k igen", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                             }                         } else {                             final String requestId = values.getString("request");                             if (requestId != null) {                                 Toast.makeText(MyPage.this, "Inbjudan skickad", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                             } else {                                 Toast.makeText(MyPage.this, "Inbjudan avbruten", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                             }                         }                        }                    })                 .build();         requestsDialog.show();     } 

If anyone can help me with this I'm very grateful! Thank you

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Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation.

Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated, relatively rare procedures that usually require extensive preparation, typically months or years. But medical officials said the Polish patient's condition was deteriorating so rapidly that a transplant was seen as the only option. The patient is now being watched for any potential infections.

The patient worked at stonemason's workshop, where in April a machine used to cut stone severely damaged his face and crushed his upper jaw. The man, identified only as Grzegorz, received intensive treatment at a hospital in Wroclaw, but an attempt to reattach his own face failed, doctors said.

So he was taken to the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, which is the only place in Poland licensed to do face transplants and has experience in facial reconstruction for patients disfigured by cancer. Doctors at the center said the 27-hour face and bone transplant was performed May 15 soon after a matching donor was found.

The surgery reconstructed the face, jaws, palate and the bottom of the man's eye sockets. Pictures show surgery stitches running from above the patient's right eye, under the left eye and around the face to the neck. The donor was a 34-year-old man.

The head of the team of surgeons and other specialists, Dr. Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first life-saving face transplant carried out so soon after the damage. Face transplants are usually a last resort after conventional reconstructive and plastic surgeries have been tried.

But Maciejewski and other doctors said the surgery was the patient's only shot at survival ? prior to the operation the man faced danger from infections because of the tremendous damage to his mouth area and the skull bone. The man also could not breathe on his own nor eat.

"We assume the surgery will allow the patient to return to normal life," Maciejewski said. "He will be able to breathe, to eat, to see."

However, surgeon Dr. Michal Grajek told The Associated Press that the patient still runs a risk of infection, and medical workers are using drugs to ward off any potential viral, bacterial or skin infections.

For now, the patient is in sterile isolation, but he has already started the rehabilitation process. He will stay on special drugs for the rest of his life to prevent rejection of his new face.

A picture of the patient taken Tuesday, six days after the surgery, showed him giving a thumbs-up sign from his hospital bed.

More than two dozen transplants of the face or parts of the face have been performed around the world. The first one was a partial face transplant in a woman maimed by her dog in France in 2005.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/polish-man-gets-quick-face-transplant-injury-154622336.html

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Schools Face Tough Choices As A Tornado Nears

A man salvages stuff from what left of a bedroom of his tornado devastated home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Heath Thayer, left, and his brother Derek Thayer look at Derek's tornado-ravaged pickup truck which was thrown across the street from where it was parked Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Charlie Riedel / AP)

Zac Woodcock salvages items from the rubble of a tornado-ravaged rental home which they own Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Charlie Riedel / AP)

Volunteers from Mercy Chefs prepare food for tornado victims on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

A Harley Davidson motorcycle is salvaged from rubble after a powerful tornado ripped through the neighborhood on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Curtis Cook recovers his high school football photo from the rubble of his family's house after a powerful tornado ripped through the area destroying his home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The photo was also recovered after his parent's home was destroyed is a in a tornado in 1999. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Chris Combs and her husband Jimmy look over damge at Briarwood Elementary School after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Chris is a secretary at the school and was inside the school office when the tornado hit. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

A lifeless horse lays tangled in power lines in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Alonzo Adams / AP)

Joe Curry, left, and his friend search for his wife's purse in the damaged remains of his home in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Alonzo Adams / AP)

Tornado survivor Fred Galarza lies in his hospital bed as his wife Julie Galarza looks on in the emergency room at Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Fred was rescued after being buried in the rubble of his Nick's Liquor Store in Moore, Ola., that was attached to the Seven Eleven where three people were killed. (Paul B. Southerland / The Oklahoman / AP)

Scott Perdue, left, yells to his parents, Gene and Colleen Perdue, not pictured, that he has located his father's 1957 Chevy in what remains of their barn as his brother-in-law Jeff Teel takes a photo at the home of Gene and Colleen Perdue, 1409 SW 149th, in Oklahoma City, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, after a tornado struck south Oklahoma City and Moore, Okla., on Monday. (Nate Billings / The Oklahoman / AP)

Jon Johnson, left, looks through what is remains of his home at 14716 S. Broadway with his brother Matt Johnson on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, after a tornado struck south Oklahoma City and Moore, Okla., on Monday. (Nate Billings / The Oklahoman / AP)

This photo taken Tuesday, May 21, 2013 shows damage caused by Monday's tornado in the area near 4th and Bryant in Moore, Okla. (Chris Landsberger / The Oklahoman / AP)

A man who asked not to be identified hangs an American flag on what is left of a tree in a neighborhood north of SW 149th between Western and Santa Fe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, after a tornado struck south Oklahoma City and Moore, Okla., on Monday. (Nate Billings / The Oklahoman / AP)

Michelle Kelley peers into her friend's tornado-ravaged car Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Charlie Riedel / AP

A home in Moore, Okla. sits severely damaged Tuesday, May 21, 2013, after Monday's massive tornado moved through the area. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Alonzo Adams / AP)

A tornado victim family take a break from cleaning debris from their devastated home to eat dinner late evening on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman and young boy walk along a street as they view destroyed house on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Joshua Lott / AFP / Getty Images)

Tornado devastated houses are seen on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Sean Xuereb recovers a dog from the rubble of a home that was destroyed by a tornado on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Roger Graham sits in front of his destroyed home after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Residents search through rubble after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Insulation hangs from the rafters of a liquor store destroyed by yesterday's tornado on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Brett Deering / Getty Images)

Bonnie Lolofie (L) and Ashley Do walk from their apartment that has no power or water but was otherwise undamaged by yesterday's tornado on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down yesterday killing at least 24 people and leveling everything in its path. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Brett Deering / Getty Images)

Men walk at their backyard of their tornado devastated neighbourhood on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman salvages memorable from her tornado devastated home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images

A resident moves some of his belongings from his destroyed home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Joshua Lott / AFP / Getty Images)

A destroyed police car is seen on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Joshua Lott / AFP / Getty Images)

Rodney Heltcel, left, salvages the wreckage of his home for photos and irreplaceable items, such as the print of his grandchildren he placed at right, a day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Brennan Linsley / AP)

Kandi Scott salvages items from the rubble of her home, which she shared with her mother, until it was destroyed Monday when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

A soldier walks past the wreckage left when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

The medical center in Moore, Okla. sustained serious damage during Monday's tornado.

The powerful tornado that swept through Moore, Okla. on Monday leveled homes and businesses, while also destroying much of the natural landscape. This photo shows trees stripped of their bark by the extreme winds.

Hundreds of cars were destroyed by Monday's tornado as it swept through Moore, Okla.

Justin Stehan salvages photographs from his tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An unidentified man watches a rain storm from inside the garage of his tornado-damaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Victor Gonzalez seeks shelter from the rain under a sheet of plastic as he helps a friend salvage items from a tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Jim Stubblefield, of Norman, Okla., raises a tattered flag he found while helping his sister salvage items from her tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

An aerial view of homes damaged by Monday's tornado Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla.At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Austin Brock holds cat Tutti, shortly after the animal was retrieved from the rubble of Brock's home, which was demolished a day earlier when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

An aerial view shows homes damaged by Monday's tornado as others appear untouched, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

An aerial view of a street lined by homes destroyed by Monday's tornado is shown Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

An aerial view of an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado is shown Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Damaged vehicles from Monday's tornado can be seen in the parking lot of the Moore Medical Center Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

A man stands on the roof of a destroyed home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. (Joshua Lott / AFP /Getty Images)

Lea Bessinger and her son Josh Bessinger look through the rubble of the elder Bessinger's tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Zac Woodcock salvages items from the rubble of a tornado-ravaged rental home which they own Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A destroyed police car sits among the debris of tornado-ravaged homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A concrete angel rests on a destropyed car in a tornado-ravaged neighborhood Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Zac and Denisha Woodcock look through the rubble of a tornado-ravaged rental home which they own Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy conducted a spacewalk Saturday to fix an ammonia leak. They replaced a suspected faulty pump on the International Space Station.?

By David Clark Scott,?Staff writer / May 11, 2013

The gloved hands of one of two astronauts working to replace a possible faulty pump on the International Space Station that was leaking ammonia.

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UPDATED: 4:30 p.m., Saturday.

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As a nearly five-hour spacewalk Saturday morning drew to a close, the two astronauts replaced a suspected faulty pump in an effort to fix an ammonia coolant leak on the International Space Station.

Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy began their spacewalk at 8:44 a.m. Saturday. The two successfully replaced a 60-pound pump box which NASA suspected was the source of the leaking ammonia coolant. They found no evidence of the frozen ammonia flakes that had originally led them to the pump box. The astronauts also found no evidence of damage to the pump box.

The walk was hastily planned after ISS crew members alerted Mission Control about the leak on Thursday when they spotted "snowflakes" of frozen ammonia floating near the pump box. NASA says that it has been aware of a slow ammonia leak, but the rate had jump to 5 pounds per day on Thursday.

The ammonia coursing through the plumbing is used to cool the space station's electronic equipment, according to the Associated Press. There are eight of these power channels, and all seven others were operating normally. As a result, life for the six space station residents was pretty much unaffected.

NASA's space station program manager Mike Suffredini said it's a mystery as to why the leak erupted on Thursday. One possibility is a micrometeorite strike.

By 1:20 p.m. Saturday, Cassidy and Marshburn were finished with the space walk, and were heading back to the airlock. They saw no sign of leaks coming from the new pump. NASA engineers continued to pressure check the system and be certain that the new pump is working properly.?

"We're happy, we're very happy [with the space walk]," said Joel Montalbano, Deputy ISS Program Manager, in a press conference in Houston after the space walk. "We didn't see any obvious signs of leaks," but added that testing would continue in the coming days and weeks.
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If the old pump isn't the source of the leak, NASA's hunt for the source will continue. But that will be another crew's problem. Mashburn and Canadian commander, Chris Hadfield, are scheduled to head back to Earth on Monday.

The two men are experienced space walkers: this was their fourth working sojourn outside the space station. But as they worked, there were the occasional moments when they could pause to look at the view 255 miles above the Earth. "Did you see the moon? Oh my God! Burn that in your memory, said Cassidy.

After running through a system check, the following exchange was heard:

"Houston, if you're still there, I'm feelin great," said Cassidy.

"We're still there. Copy that on feelin great," responded Mike Fincke, an astronaut who was guiding the duo from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA broadcast the spacewalk live on its website.

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Jarrod Clowery is helped by first responders after the explosions. (Kenshin Okubo/AP)

Fifteen days ago, Jarrod Clowery was standing with three friends on Boylston Street in front of the Forum Bar watching the Boston Marathon.

Today, Clowery, a 35-year-old carpenter from nearby Stoneham, is in Boston?s Brigham and Women?s Hospital, recovering from shrapnel wounds and thermal injuries suffered near the second explosion. He's had multiple surgeries to remove carpentry nails, bee-bees, pieces of plastic and denim from his jeans embedded in him from the pressure cooker bomb planted near the railing three feet from where he was standing. Doctors estimate Clowery will face several more surgeries to remove the 20 bee-bees left in him. Yet he considers himself lucky.

"I feel blessed," Clowery said Tuesday during a press conference at the hospital. "My friends are in much worse shape."

Clowery's friends?brothers James and J.P. Norden and Marc Fucarile?each lost a limb in the second blast.

Clowery and his friends can be seen standing near 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in one of the photos released by the FBI. But Clowery can't bring himself to look at his alleged attacker.

"I don't even look at the bomber," he said. "I look at me and my friends."

When he heard the first explosion, Clowery said, he knew it was not an accident. "I knew right away in my gut it wasn't a gas leak," he said. "I saw the open space in the street, I said, 'Let's get in the street.'"

As Clowery cleared the railing, he paused to urge his friends to follow him. That was when the second bomb exploded.

"I remember feeling engulfed," he said. "Just like the movies?all the sound got taken away."

[Related: Fund launched to pay for physical therapy, counseling for Boston victims]

Clowery continued: "I remember trying to count my fingers and feel my feet. My hand was too much to look at."

He looked down at his legs. "I didn't want to look at them, either."

Two off-duty police officers picked up Clowery from the ground and carried him to an ambulance. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors said he had suffered the worst burns of any victim they saw.

According to Dr. Robert Riviello, a lead surgeon on the hospital's burn, trauma and critical care unit, Clowery's burns have "almost entirely" healed.

Clowery praised the first responders and emergency room doctors who treated him.

"In all my years in New England, I never seen Tom Brady put a drive together as good as what these people were doing," Clowery said, adding: "No disrespect to Tom Brady."

As for what he'd say to Tsarnaev given the chance, Clowery declined to answer. "[He's] gotten too much air time," he said.

A fund has been set up by Clowery's family to help pay for his medical expenses.

Clowery, who's being transferred to a rehabilitation facility on Wednesday, hasn't decided if he'll go back to the marathon next year.

"I'm not scared to go back," he said. "I'm not scared of crowds. Maybe me and the same group of guys will go back down there."

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? World finance leaders say they are determined to attack a sluggish global economy in which growth is too weak and unemployment too high. Their problem is arriving at a consensus over the proper mix of policies.

Finance ministers and central bank presidents from the world's biggest economies issued a joint statement Friday that papered over stark differences between opposing views. The United States and other countries are pushing for less budget austerity and more government stimulus while Germany and others contend that attacking huge budget deficits should be job No. 1.

The discussions were scheduled to wrap up Saturday with meetings of the steering committees of the 188-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister lending agency, the World Bank.

The G-20 joint statement revealed no major new policy initiatives and sought to straddle the divide in the growth-and-austerity argument.

The United States is being represented at the talks by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

"Strengthening global demand is imperative and must be at the top of our agenda," Lew said in remarks late Friday before the IMF policy-setting group. "Stronger demand in Europe is critical to global growth."

However, other nations, led by Germany, have resisted a move away from austerity programs, saying they are critical to getting government deficits under control.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble apologized to a Washington audience for being late for a speech after the G-20 discussions Friday, saying, "On reduction of indebtedness ... we have a little bit of differences of opinion all over the world, to be very frank, and that's the reason I am a little bit late."

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, encompassing the 17 finance ministers whose countries use the euro currency, said that European nations needed to keep pushing to reduce huge budget deficits but "we can and will adjust" the speed that the deficit cuts are implemented to take into account economic conditions.

The G-20 joint statement singled out the recent aggressive credit-easing moves pushed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying they were intended to stop prolonged deflation and support domestic demand.

Those comments were viewed as giving a green light to Japan's program, which has driven the value of the yen down by more than 20 percent against the dollar since October. That sizable decline has raised concerns among U.S. manufacturing companies that Japan's real goal is not to fight deflation, a destabilizing period of falling prices, but to weaken the yen as a way to gain trade advantages.

To address those concerns, the G-20 did repeat language it used in February that all countries should not use their currency as a trade weapon and guard against policies that could trigger currency wars.

Japanese officials told reporters following the discussions that they were pleased by the support the G-20 had given them to pursue growth policies in an effort to lift the world's third-largest economy out of its two-decade slump.

Haruhiko Kuroda, head of the Bank of Japan, said, "There has been international understanding and acceptance of this, so we can have further confidence to appropriately conduct monetary policy."

The G-20 statement also said that there was an urgent need for the euro currency area to move toward a banking union and reduce the "financial fragmentation" that now exists.

The communique said that "more needs to be done to address the issues of international tax avoidance and evasion in particular through havens." The financial crisis that hit the Mediterranean island of Cyprus earlier this year revived concern over countries that serve as tax havens.

In Cyprus, banks held more than $162 billion in assets, or roughly seven times the country's total GDP. Much of that money came from wealthy Russian investors.

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Associated Press writers Christopher S. Rugaber, Matthew Pennington and Desmond Butler contributed to this report.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) ? A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest Thursday and threatened to bring its mix of hard rains, high winds and severe thunderstorms to the East by the weekend.

The massive system was wreaking havoc from the Rockies to the Rust Belt. Up to a foot of snow was expected in parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Snow and ice closed highways in Colorado and Wyoming. Rivers surged beyond their banks from downpours in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Tornadoes caused scattered damage in Oklahoma. Hail caused a wreck that injured a high school teacher and her students. Lightning temporarily knocked out a nuclear power plant. Rain caused a sinkhole that devoured three cars in Chicago.

In the Plains and Midwest, seemingly every community was under some sort of watch or warning.

Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist for AccuWeather, said the storm's biggest punch had come from its intense rainfall: "There's been a general 3 to 6 inch swath of rain from portions of Oklahoma all the way up to southern Wisconsin."

The system will thin out as it heads east but could still spell trouble in the Appalachian Mountain region Friday and in some spots along the East Coast by Friday night, Sosnowski said.

Midwesterners will be glad to see it go.

In Clarksville, Mo., a small, scenic Mississippi River town about 60 miles north of St. Louis, some 100 people were working feverishly to build a makeshift levee of gravel, plastic overlap and sandbags in a bid keep downtown dry. The heavy rain caused a sudden surge in the river, with a crest expected by early Sunday.

"I'm confident it will work, but I'm not confident we're going to get it done in time," Clarksville resident Richard Cottrell, 64, said of the sandbag levee. "It's a race against the clock."

City Clerk Jennifer Calvin said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was bringing in 500,000 additional sandbags, but the nearest available gravel had to be trucked in from nine miles away, and there weren't enough available trucks to expedite the effort.

The Mississippi is expected to crest 8 to 12 feet above flood stage at several spots in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The Missouri River was also expected to exceed flood stage by up to 10 feet at some Missouri locations.

Other rivers were rising quickly, too.

The town of Wyoming, Mich., evacuated about 25 homes in the path of the flooding Grand River. The Grand Rapids suburb called in all available police, firefighters and public works employees to help with sandbagging.

In suburban Chicago, Nick Ariano helped rescue a friend's grandmother, who became trapped in a home filling with water after a branch of the flooding DuPage River spilled over its levee.

Ariano, his friend and another man raced to a sporting goods store to buy inflatable rafts, then paddled out to the home and got Mille Andrzejewski, in her mid-80s, to safety. The three friends got some enjoyment out of the raft ride, despite the eeriness of floating over submerged cars and mailboxes.

"As kids growing up we used to raft down the river," Ariano said with a laugh.

About 60 miles southwest of Chicago, Morris Hospital in Grundy County began evacuating 44 patients to other hospitals after a nearby creek and the Illinois River rose and water crept into the basement, spokeswoman Janet Long said. Elective surgeries scheduled for Friday were canceled, although the emergency department remained open, the hospital said on its website.

In Gary, Ind., a flood-fighting drill scheduled for Friday was canceled ? because of real flooding. Sandbagging operations were under way along the Little Calumet River.

Flash flooding was common. In Utica, Ill., the fire department evacuated a mobile home park. In Marshall County, Ill., boats were needed to rescue trapped morning commuters.

In Ava, Mo., a school bus carrying several children stopped because of water on the road. The driver turned around to go back, only to find flooding behind him, too. The driver and kids waited at a nearby home until help arrived.

Perhaps the storm's most bizarre scene came in Chicago, where a massive sinkhole opened and swallowed two parked cars and one that was driving through. The driver was hospitalized but was expected to survive.

Flooding from all-night rain storms forced authorities to close sections of several major expressways around Chicago, canceled classes at some schools and scrapped around 550 flights at O'Hare International Airport.

The storm-swollen Chicago River was being allowed to flow into Lake Michigan, in part to relieve sewer backups. Meanwhile, workers were furiously filling sandbags and putting up barricades along the Chicago River's north branch. The river was diverted away from the lake more than a century ago to keep pollution out of the lake, the source of the city's drinking water.

Winds, possibly from a tornado, damaged dozens of homes in Spavinaw, Okla., injuring one person. Another twister damaged a few buildings near Paris, Mo. High winds also blew two tractor-trailers off a highway near Monroe City, Mo.

In Kansas, large hail was blamed for an accident that injured six high school students and their teacher. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the wreck happened Wednesday on Interstate 70 near Russell. The group was returning to school from an art exhibition when the teacher lost control of the SUV and struck a car.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said a lightning strike knocked out power to a northern Illinois nuclear plant for several hours Wednesday night, but emergency generators kicked in to keep the site running. Exelon Generation said reactors will remain offline until safety checks and procedures are completed.

Up to a foot of new snow was expected in northern Minnesota. Duluth has already received 24 inches of snow this month, and the additional snowfall could push it past the April record of 31.6 inches set in 1950

Snow and ice forced closure of sections of Interstate 70 and Interstate 25 in Colorado. The Wyoming Department of Transportation warned drivers to watch for black ice.

The snow didn't bother 63-year-old Bill Zubke, a retired motivational speaker who was relaxing in the lobby of a downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. Zubke, from Watertown, S.D, described the unpredictable weather as "just April in South Dakota," though temperatures ordinarily reach into the 60 this time of year.

"We're South Dakotans," he said. "We can handle it."

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Keyser reported from Chicago. Associated Press writers Maria Sudekum in Kansas City, Mo., Dirk Lammers in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Tammy Webber in Chicago contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rockies-rust-belt-storm-brings-extremes-204222538.html

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