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Monday, June 3, 2013

Taiwan makers showcase computers at Computex

An Acer employee displays a new tablet-laptop hybrid Aspire R7 at an international press conference on the eve of the opening of Computex, one of the world's largest IT exhibitions, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 3, 2013. Aspire R7 features a hinge-attached pad that holds up the touchscreen and allows users to pull the screen closer or flip it over the keyboard, transforming it into a tablet. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Acer Inc.'s Associated Vice President of Mobile Computing David Lee, left, describes features of the new Aspire S7 Ultrabook to Acer President Jim Wong at an international press conference on the eve of the opening of Computex, one of the world's largest IT exhibitions, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 3, 2013. During the press conference, Acer unveiled a new generation of laptop-tablet hybrid known as the Ultrabook. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

An Acer employee displays a new tablet Iconia W3 at an international press conference on the eve of the opening of Computex , one of the world's largest IT exhibitions, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 3, 2013. The 8-inch Windows-8 based Iconia W3 tablet combines both home and office functions. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

From left, Acer Inc. President Jim Wong, Chairman and CEO J.T. Wang, center, and Chief Marketing Officer Michael Birkin stand with their new products at an international press conference on the eve of the opening of Computex, one of the world's largest IT exhibitions, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 3, 2013. During the press conference, Acer unveiled a new generation of laptop-tablet hybrids along with its new new tablet Iconia W3 and smartphone Liquid S1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Acer Inc. Associated Vice President of Mobile Computing David Lee, left, describes features of the new smartphone Liquid S1 to President Jim Wong at an international press conference on the eve of the opening of Computex, one of the world's largest IT exhibitions, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 3, 2013. During the press conference, Acer unveiled a new generation of laptop-tablet hybrids along with the Liquid S1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Taiwan's struggling PC makers are unveiling a new generation of ultra-thin laptops at the world's second-biggest computer show this week, even as they tap into the ever-expanding tablet market to help compensate for declining computer sales.

It won't be an easy transition for them, but the makers hope the traditional glitz of the five-day Computex exhibit opening Tuesday will give them a good start in hyper-competitive markets.

On Monday, Acer Inc. and AsusTek Computer Inc., Taiwan's two leading computer vendors, both unveiled a new generation of laptop-tablet hybrid known as the Ultrabook.

The new Ultrabook crop boasts faster and more energy efficient computing than the first generation, which was first launched in late 2011 but has so far failed to make much of a dent in tablet sales. Those have surged on the back of mobile and affordable Web-surfing and entertainment displays.

The new Ultrabook crop runs on Intel-manufactured Haswell processors, which deliver images sharper than the Ivy Bridge architecture currently in use.

Software is still provided by Microsoft. But the Washington state company hopes its 7-month-old Windows 8 operating system will become more popular as consumers get more familiar with its interface. At Computex, a total of 65 Windows 8-based tablet and PC devices will be exhibited, Microsoft said.

At an Acer pre-Computex presentation Monday, group president Jim Wang said the computer vendor has "reinvented" itself over the past two years, engaging in "progressive design" that aims to not only satisfy users' needs but also allow them to enjoy the devices.

Over the past several years Acer has suffered from declining or static sales.

Wang unveiled the sleek, 8-inch Windows-8 based Iconia W3 tablet that combines both home and office functions. He touted the device for "performing like a desktop" while allowing users to fold up the keyboard and carry the device in one hand.

Acer is fast diversifying its tablet product line. The company has had initial success with two Android-based tablets, which sell for as little as $149 if the screen is 7 inches and $169 for the 7.9-inch variant.

Enhanced models of Acer's flagship Aspire series of the tablet-laptop hybrid were also unveiled Monday. They include the widely praised Aspire R7, which features a hinge-attached pad that holds up the touchscreen and allows users to pull the screen closer or flip it over the keyboard, transforming it into a tablet.

The onslaught of Apple's iPad and a host of imitators have cut deeply into Acer's revenue, which has slipped from second to fourth place among PC vendors amid stalled sales.

The new models' success will be crucial to Acer and others in the industry.

In the first quarter of 2013, global tablet shipments surged 142 percent to 49 million units over the same period last year, according to International Data Corp. The market is dominated by Apple and vendors selling Google's Android devices. Latecomer Microsoft has less than a 4 percent share.

Meanwhile, global desktop and laptop shipments slipped 12.7 percent year-on-year to 78 million units in the first quarter 2013, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

Analyst Vincent Chen of Taipei's Yuanta Securities says that Acer's recent innovations may help reverse the company's decline, but that much more work remains to be done before it is out of the woods.

In attempting its current restructuring, Acer faces a formidable Asian rival in China's Lenovo Group, which ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the world's biggest PC maker.

"Lenovo has had a more diversified product portfolio, making low-end and high-end PCs as well as smartphones, and has a deeper pocket to support its immense marketing needs," Chen said.

AsusTek Computer Inc., the world's fifth-largest and Taiwan's second-largest PC vendor, has fared much better than Acer, and analysts attribute its relative success to the company's persistent efforts in product innovation.

Asus' PC shipments fell nearly 9 percent to 5.1 million units in the first quarter, admittedly a sharp decline, but far less than the industry's overall 12.7 percent fall.

Among the products it is showcasing at Computex is a new generation Ultrabook that features a sleek, glossy glass case, as well as a new model of its widely praised Transformer tablet.

The Transformer series feature a detachable keyboard with a two-sided display panel that can be used for work on one side and film transmission or other entertainment on the other.

Asus' Android-based tablets include the popular Nexus 7, which it jointly brands with Google. In the first quarter of 2013, IDC said its total tablet shipments came in at 2.7 million in the first quarter, ranking third behind Apple's 19.5 million and Samsung's 8.8 million.

Associated Press

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Hagel mixes business and memories in Asia trip

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivers his keynote address on "The US Approach to Regional Security" at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS Asia Security Summit, Saturday, June 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

SINGAPORE (AP) ? Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam war raged on, Army Spc. Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta ? both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

This weekend the two men ? now America's defense secretary and Vietnam's prime minister ? met at a formal dinner at the start of an international security conference here, working to help build America's growing military partnership with Vietnam.

Hagel's first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief has been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.

While Hagel and Dung knew of each other's service in Vietnam, they had never met. So when they spoke on the sidelines of the dinner, they had the chance to exchange war stories.

Back in 1968, Hagel was a specialist in the 2nd Battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment, fighting in the Mekong Delta. Dung, who joined the Viet Cong around 1961 when he would have been about 12, and served as a corpsman, then later led a surgery unit reportedly operating in the Delta's U Minh forest.

According to defense officials, the two men talked briefly about their time at war and the fact that both had bled for their countries. Dung invited Hagel to visit Vietnam, and the secretary said he looks forward to going, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the private meeting.

Hagel also recalled family war history during a private meeting Saturday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin. According to defense officials, Hagel noted that his father served in that country during WWII with the 13th Army Air Corps. Officials said Hagel told Gazmin that during a visit to the Philippines in the 1980s, he was surprised to see a photo of his father in a foxhole on display in an exhibit ? the same photo that had hung in the Hagel family home.

The secretary's first stop on this Asia trip was in Hawaii, where he recalled going on leave with his brother Tom during the middle of their Vietnam war tour. Hagel ate at the same ? although updated ? restaurant in Honolulu during this trip as he had back in July 1968, when he and Tom got together at the Halekulani Hotel with their mother and other family members for the weeklong R&R.

To secure the memory, Hagel stood for a photo at the same large tree that his family had posed in front of during that reunion.

Associated Press

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Power grid getting smarter with big battery

June 1, 2013 ? Research conducted with a large new battery unveiled today in Oregon will help make the Northwest's and the nation's electric system smarter and more efficient, officials said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Portland General Electric's 5-megawatt, lithium-ion energy storage system was shared with the public today at the utility's Salem Smart Power Center in South Salem, Ore. The energy storage facility is part of PGE's contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Half of PGE's $23-million portion of the regional project was paid for with U.S. Department of Energy funds. The regional demonstration is a five-year, $178-million project that launched in 2010.

"The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a successful public-private partnership involving 17 organizations across five Northwest states," said Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for DOE's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which oversees regional smart grid demonstration projects. "It is a highly innovative project demonstrating transactive energy management, which is a promising, cost-effective way to integrate variable renewable energy, energy storage and demand response at scale. The celebration of the Salem Smart Power Center makes it clear that Oregon is helping to lead the way on energy storage commercialization and grid modernization."

Hoffman was a featured speaker at today's ceremony, as was Ron Melton, who directs the regional demonstration project for Battelle.

The battery is part of a highly reliable, localized power zone called a microgrid that will enable about 500 southeast Salem customers to tap into a power reserve during electricity disruptions such as blackouts. The battery and microgrid are examples of the innovative technologies and methods being tested through the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project.

The energy storage system will respond to regional grid conditions with the help of a key aspect of the demonstration called transactive control. Transactive control is based on technology from DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managed by Battelle. The technology helps power producers and users decide how much of the area's power will be consumed, when and where. This is done when producers and users automatically respond to signals representing future power costs and planned energy consumption. The cost signals originate at Battelle's Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center in Richland, Wash. They are updated every five minutes and sent to the project's participating utilities, including PGE.

The automated signals allow project participants to make local decisions on how their piece of the smart grid project can support local and regional grid needs. Participants are now gathering data to measure how the signal can help deliver electricity more effectively, help better integrate wind power onto the power grid and more. The Salem battery will use the signal to coordinate its charge and discharge cycles with the power grid's supply and demand.

"Two-way information exchange in the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project allows grid operators to make the existing electric grid more efficient, while also exploring how using other technologies such as PGE's energy storage system, smart appliances and wind power can bolster the reliability of our system," said Carl Imhoff, who manages Battelle's Electricity Infrastructure Market Sector in Richland.

PGE's role As an investor-owned utility that serves about 830,000 customers in 52 Oregon cities, PGE is testing several smart-grid technologies in the Salem area for the demonstration project. Beyond the energy storage system unveiled today, PGE is working to integrate renewable power sources to the power grid. It is also implementing a demand-response program with residential and commercial customers to help meet peak demand. All these resources will be optimized with the automated transactive control signal.

"Together with our project partners and customers, we are demonstrating smart grid technologies to help Oregon and the nation learn how to build intelligent energy resources for the future while continuing to deliver long-term value for customers," said Jim Piro, PGE president and CEO. "We are proud of the collaboration, hard work and ingenuity that went into this project, and thank our Salem customers who volunteered to participate in this important study."

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Egypt's long-scorned legislature deepens rift

CAIRO (AP) ? When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot.

Thanks to the twists and turns of the rocky transition that followed Egypt's 2011 uprising, the Shura Council is now the sole law-making body in the land. The legislature found itself in this unexpected position after a court dissolved the lower house of parliament, prompting an Islamist-led panel that drafted the new constitution to include a clause handing the council legislative powers until a new parliament is elected.

Like the lower house before it, the Shura Council now finds its fate in the hands of the courts. On Sunday, Egypt's constitutional court is expected to rule on the legality of the legislature's election, which was conducted under the same law as the lower house that was disbanded on an electoral technicality.

It's well within the realm of possibility that the court could order the Shura Council to dissolve ? and may even render its works invalid, including the country's Islamist-backed constitution, bringing Egypt's political process back to square one. Such a move, while far from certain, would push Egypt into legal limbo and could trigger a new political crisis.

Much of the criticism of the council stems from its shaky popular foundations.

Of the legislature's 270 members, 180 are elected with the other 90 being appointed by the president ? a throwback to its days under Hosni Mubarak, the authoritarian leader ousted in 2011, when the legislature's seats were often sinecures for loyalists or favored members of the opposition. Today, five percent of its members are Christians ? about half the proportion of the population ? and four percent are women.

When elections were held in early 2012, not only did many voters stay away but so did many political parties ? especially several of the newborn liberal groups with smaller budgets. Over 70 percent of the seats were taken by Islamists.

The Freedom and Justice party, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, holds 42 percent of the council's seats. Together with allies like the Wasat party and the ultraconservative Construction and Development party ? the political arm of the former militant Gamaa Islamiya group ? the Brotherhood can easily muster nearly 60 percent of the votes to pass favorable bills.

Liberals and critics say that Islamists have been using their majority to ram through their agenda ? a departure from pledges to postpone such issues until a new lower house of parliament, known as the People's Assembly, is elected.

They also allege the Islamists have used the council as a powerful tool to shake-up institutions perceived as bastions of Mubarak loyalists, to make cuts in the state budget that target ? among other things ? the arts and women's programs deemed by Islamists as unnecessary or immoral, and rush through laws rife with loopholes.

"The Shura Council, in its current form, has turned into a speedy machine to pass faulty laws that provoke argument and divisions rather than ... solve a problem," wrote political scientist Hassan Nafaa in a Saturday column in the Al-Masry Al-Youm daily.

Despite its disputed position, the council has taken on an ambitious agenda: a judiciary bill that has ignited a revolt among judges; a new bill for Islamic bonds that has sparked fears of opening a backdoor for foreigners to take over state-owned assets; and a bill to regulate civil society that rights groups complain will harden state control over non-governmental organizations through scrutinizing their funds.

It's the council's seemingly activist stance that rankles many of its critics, who feel that because of the legislature's shaky mandate it should shy away from contentious issues.

Mohammed Fouad Gadallah, a former top Morsi adviser who resigned to protest what he called the Brotherhood's monopolization of decision making, said the council should serve as a parliament only in "exceptional circumstances."

Liberal lawmaker Ihab el-Kharat from the Egyptian Socialist Democratic Party said he received personal assurances from "the head of the council that it will only tackle very limited issues related to the transitional period but defining what is important to this period is vague."

The council's supporters dismiss the criticism, and say the council's legislative role is enshrined in the constitution.

"The respectful members of the Shura Council ... alone have full legislative authority, assigned to them by the Egyptian people," said a statement by the Consciousness Front, a group composed primarily of Islamists who helped draft the constitution. "The constitution didn't talk about an exceptional, partial nature or give conditions of (legislating) only when necessary."

The statement said the Shura Council has been tasked with realizing "the dreams and ambitions of the citizens in achieving justice, righteousness, and equality."

One particularly divisive bill before the Shura Council aims to tackle judicial reform. Islamists say it is necessary to sweep away judges who support Mubarak and are undermining the transition to democratic rule. Many Egyptians, including Morsi's Islamist rivals, fear rushing the law that would lower retirement age for judges from 70 to 60 ? thus pushing thousands of veteran judges into retirement ? would neuter the one branch of the government that is not under Brotherhood control.

Morsi's allies describe Egypt's judiciary as a refuge for Mubarak loyalists bent on blocking their agenda. It was partially to prevent the court from dissolving the Shura Council that Morsi in November 2011 took what was possibly the most controversial move of his presidency, a wide-ranging decree that included putting his own decisions above court review and making the Shura Council "immune" from court dissolution.

Morsi's opponents saw that decree as a dictatorial power grab, and took to the streets for weeks of protests. Morsi ultimately backed down, but the bitterness and polarization it caused have become a constant in Egyptian politics.

Liberal lawmakers ? and their unlikely allies in the ultra-conservative Nour party, who also fear the Brotherhood's power ? complain that the head of the committee debating the judicial reform draft law rushed it through even though a majority of members voted to table debate. The committee head could not be reached for comment.

Now, all eyes are on the judicial decision Sunday.

"The ball is with the Constitutional Court. It could rule either way: disband or not disband," said Yousseri Abdel-Karim, a judge for one of Egypt's top courts. "This could mean calling for new elections, both parliamentary and presidential, and the formation of new constitutional panel to write a new constitution."

If that happens, Egypt's political transition ? already disrupted multiple times in the last two years ? will be thrown into limbo once again.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-long-scorned-legislature-deepens-rift-175004306.html

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IRS aside, political passions take a summer break

HONEA PATH, S.C. (AP) ? Four years after the summer of rage that fueled the tea party movement, the political circuit is much quieter ? even in Republican bastions like this. It's not clear whether conservatives who rallied against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul during raucous town hall-style meetings are tired, wary, complacent or simply saving their strength for a big push in next year's elections.

Whatever the reason, the more muted tone was palpable as conservative lawmakers in South Carolina fanned out across their state to meet with constituents this week during the first congressional break since the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Lawmakers generally found small crowds at town hall meetings and tepid angst about the IRS scandal. They got just a few complaints about "amnesty" for immigrants even though a bipartisan group on Capitol Hill is making progress toward comprehensive immigration revisions and the issue long has riled the political right.

Local officials and residents in western communities near Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson speculated on possible reasons. Is it the slowly recovering economy and higher home values, some asked. Or the grudging realization that "Obamacare" won't be rescinded, and millions of people living here illegally won't be deported? The sudden shrinking of the deficit? Disgust with politicians of both parties?

The temperature among conservatives "is not as high as it has been," said Starr town council member Ed Sokol, who supported Newt Gingrich of nearby Georgia for president. He stared straight ahead and added: "I don't know why."

Sokol, 65, was among the handful of volunteer firefighters and local officials who greeted Rep. Jeff Duncan when he stopped by to chat in Starr, and later in equally tiny Honea Path.

Duncan, a two-term, tea party-backed Republican, called for greater security on the Mexican border, and new drilling for oil and gas off the South Carolina coast. He spent most of his time, however, on a topic that infuriates Democrats when tea partyers highlight it: the importance of bringing federal grants to home districts.

"There are so many grants available in this country," Duncan told firefighters in Honea Path. He said his office will host a district seminar on writing grant applications, noting, "sometimes it's how you ask, more than what you ask for."

The firefighters smiled and nodded. No one mentioned the possible inconsistency of campaigning for less government spending while also fighting to secure federal dollars from Washington. Local physician and Honea Path Fire Chief Jimmy Smith said grants from FEMA -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- helped pay for fire trucks, a big generator and other needs in his town.

"I'm not sure the average citizen understands the role of the federal government," Smith said quietly as Duncan admired the equipment.

Duncan, like all of South Carolina's GOP House members, angered northeastern Republican colleagues by voting earlier this year against emergency FEMA funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Duncan said in an interview that the Sandy aid -- ultimately approved with mostly Democratic votes -- added to the deficit. By contrast, he said, FEMA grants are budgeted annually, which is "the right way to do things."

Whether conservative activism is waning or merely catching its breath, the apparent lull adds uncertainty to a Republican Party that's still coping with consecutive losses to Barack Obama -- and facing a potentially long path to selecting its next nominee. First, however, the 2014 congressional and gubernatorial elections will prove whether the tea party movement can repeat its huge successes in the 2010 mid-term campaigns.

One politician to watch is Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Some county Republican clubs in the state formally censured him in 2009 for working with Democrats on immigration ideas. But many party insiders think Graham is well-positioned to win a third term next year, even as he pushes a bipartisan immigration overhaul harder than ever.

If Congress, including the GOP-controlled House, fails to pass a major immigration bill this year, Graham told the Spartanburg Rotary Club on Tuesday, Republicans won't win the White House anytime soon "because it's killing us with Hispanics." Growers of peaches, peppers and other crops are desperate for Mexicans who will do the hard work that Americans won't, Graham said, and a successful bill must include an eventual pathway to citizenship for people who entered the country illegally.

It's the kind of comment that inflamed South Carolina Republicans four years ago. If it bothered any of the 125 Rotarians, they didn't show it in the Piedmont Club's elegant dining room, where a classical guitarist played during lunch

Later that day, Rep. Mick Mulvaney said he didn't know what to expect at his two-hour town hall meeting in Union, southeast of Spartanburg. Past town halls, the second-term Republican said, have drawn four to 400 people. The one on May 13, in Camden, attracted about 40.

The one in Union -- Mulvaney's first such event since the IRS scandal broke -- drew 20. Some had to be coaxed to ask a question.

Mulvaney is a tea party favorite whose district includes many up-for-grabs voters in the Charlotte suburbs. Like Graham, he says South Carolina's farmers, hoteliers and restaurateurs are desperate for more low-wage workers, which an immigration overhaul could provide.

Mulvaney is more wary of details, however, stopping short of embracing a pathway to citizenship for those here illegally. "I think you're going to see immigration reform," he told the Union audience. "I have no idea what it's going to look like."

Back in Starr, Sokol and some friends discussed possible reasons for what they see as a lull in political intensity, even for a non-election year. Sokol said it's probably a mistake to think the IRS scandal and the furor over a fatal attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, are bugle calls to rile up conservatives against Democrats. Instead, he said, the scandals that excite cable news talkers may simply remind many Americans that both parties repeatedly disappoint them.

"There's so much stuff going on right now, you don't know who the good ones are," Sokol said. "You wonder, who can you vote for?"

Al Gundry, 72, who labels himself a conservative, said of the Washington controversies: "People have heard so much about it, they've become numb."

Rick Adkins, Duncan's Anderson-based district director, said the political calm might not last. "My suspicion is the tea party's not dead," Adkins said. "I think it may be resurrected."

Perhaps so. But for one sunny week in South Carolina, people seemed willing to welcome the start of summer, hope the economy keeps improving, and take a break from the shouting matches that shook the political world during Obama's first term.

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Damage checks begin after deadly Midwest twisters

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Emergency officials set out Saturday morning to see how much damage a violent burst of thunderstorms and tornadoes caused as it swept across the Midwest overnight, killing at least nine and injuring dozens.

The storm toppled cars and left commuters trapped on an interstate highway as it bore down during Friday's evening rush hour near Oklahoma City. The National Weather Service reported "several" tornadoes rolled in from the prairie, terrifying towns along their paths.

The storms brought another tense day for a region still reeling from the recent top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado that struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on May 20, killing 24 and decimating neighborhoods. Many said they took severe weather warnings issued during the day Friday seriously.

As the storm bore down on suburban Oklahoma City, Adrian Lillard, 28, of The Village, went to the basement of her mother's office building with a friend, her nieces, nephews and two dogs.

"My brother's house was in Moore, so it makes you take more immediate action," Lillard said while her young nieces played on a blanket on the floor of the parking garage. "We brought toys and snacks to try our best to keep them comfortable."

Storm chasers with cameras in their cars transmitted video showing a number of funnels dropping from the supercell thunderstorm as it passed south of El Reno and into Oklahoma City just south of downtown. As the cell advanced, police urged motorists to leave I-40 and seek a safe place.

Violent weather also moved through the St. Louis area. Early aerial images of the storm's damage showed homes with porches ripped away, roofs torn off and piles of splintered wood scattered across the ground for blocks. Officials in St. Charles County also reported that local schools suffered some damage.

Among the nine dead in Oklahoma were a mother and a baby found in a vehicle. Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner, said Saturday the death toll was up to seven adults and two children. At least 75 people were hurt, five critically, hospital officials said.

Meteorologists had warned about particularly nasty weather Friday but said the storm's fury didn't match that of the tornado that struck Moore. The Friday storm, however, brought with it much more severe flooding. It dumped around 8 inches of rain on Oklahoma City in the span of a few hours and made the tornado difficult to spot for motorists trying to beat it home, said Bruce Thoren, a meteorologist with National Weather Service in Norman.

"Some tornadoes are wrapped in rain, so it's basically impossible to see, which is extremely dangerous," Thoren said. "Somebody driving along really not familiar with what's going on can basically drive into it."

The heavy rain and hail hampered rescue efforts in Oklahoma City. Frequent lightning roiled the skies well after the main threat had moved east. Highways and streets were clogged late into the night as motorists worked their way around flooded portions of the city. Roads all around Oklahoma City were inundated with muddy water Saturday morning.

Will Rogers World Airport was slowly reopening and some flights were resuming. But the airport reported significant damage to the roof of the terminal, and flooding damage to walls, counters and floors.

Emergency officials reported that numerous injuries occurred in the area along I-40, and Randolph said there were toppled and wrecked cars littering the area. Standing water was several feet deep, and in some places it looked more like a hurricane had passed through than a tornado. More than 86,000 utility customers were without power.

Among the injured was Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes, who suffered minor injuries when his "tornado hunt" SUV that he and two photographers were riding in was thrown 200 yards. The Weather Channel said all of the people in the vehicle were able to walk away, and that it was the first time a network personality was injured in a storm.

In Missouri, the combination of high water and fallen power lines closed dozen of roads, snarling traffic on highways and side streets in the St. Louis area. At the Hollywood Casino in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, gamblers rushed from the floor as a storm blew through, causing minor damage to the building.

Rich Gordon, of Jefferson City, said he was on the casino floor when he heard a loud "boom."

"I didn't know if it was lightning or what, but it was loud," Gordon said.

The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year and most are relatively small. Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes to hit since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been hit the most ? seven times each.

National Weather Service meteorologists said Saturday that it's unclear how many tornadoes touched down as part of the Friday evening storm system. Dozens of tornado warnings were issued for central Oklahoma and parts of Missouri, especially near St. Louis, they said, but crews must assess the damage before determining whether it was caused by tornadoes or severe thunderstorms.

But one thing is certain: The chances for severe weather are on the decline as a cold front moves through the region, said weather service meteorologist Gene Hatch in Springfield, Mo.

This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keepingfunnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.

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Associated Press writers Ken Miller and Tim Talley in Oklahoma City, Justin Juozapavicius in Tulsa; Jeannie Nuss in Texarkana, Texas; and Jim Salter in Maryland Heights, Mo., and freelance photographer Nick Oxfrod in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/damage-checks-begin-deadly-midwest-twisters-132356773.html

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