Oklahoma Flooding 2013: Tornadoes And Violent Weather In Central U.S. Give Way To Clear Skies

EL RENO, Okla. (AP) ? A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid?tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the East Coast on Sunday.

A tornado killed nine people as it charged down Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City's western suburbs on Friday night, twisting billboards and scattering cars and tractor-trailers along a roadway clogged with rush-hour motorists leaving work or fleeing the storm's path. Flash floods in Arkansas killed three early Friday, including a sheriff attempting a water rescue.

"The last two nights, I've been having hell," said Roy Stoddard, a truck driver from Depew, Okla., who was delayed by rising floodwaters at Little Rock, Ark. on Thursday. Then on Friday evening, he had to take shelter in a store's walk-in cooler during Friday evening's rush-hour in Oklahoma City as deadly weather approached.

"I know what a tornado can do," Stoddard added.

Damage from Friday night's severe weather was concentrated a few miles north of Moore, the Oklahoma City suburb pounded by an EF5 tornado on May 20 that killed 24 people. Next up, the system was approaching the densely populated Northeast.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman predicted a slight chance of severe weather in the Northeast on Sunday, mainly from the Washington, D.C., area to northern Maine. Hail and high winds were the chief threat, though a tornado could not be ruled out, forecasters said.

Friday night's storm formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice. When told to seek shelter, many ventured out and snarled traffic across the metro area ? perhaps remembering the damage from May 20.

"It was chaos. People were going southbound in the northbound lanes. Everybody was running for their lives," said Terri Black, 51, a teacher's assistant in Moore.

After seeing last month's tornado also turn homes into piles of splintered rubble, Black said she decided to try and outrun the tornado when she learned her southwest Oklahoma City home was in harm's way. She quickly regretted it.

When she realized she was a sitting duck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Black turned around and found herself directly in the path of the most violent part of the storm. "My car was actually lifted off the road and then set back down," Black said. "The trees were leaning literally to the ground. The rain was coming down horizontally in front of my car."

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said roadways quickly became congested with the convergence of rush-hour traffic and fleeing residents.

"They had no place to go, and that's always a bad thing. They were essentially targets just waiting for a tornado to touch down," Randolph said. "I'm not sure why people do that sort of stuff, but it is very dangerous."

Friday night's victims included a mother and a baby sucked out of their car as the EF3 hit near El Reno. A 4-year-old boy died after being swept into the Oklahoma River on the south side of Oklahoma City, said Oklahoma City police Lt. Jay Barnett. The boy and other family members had sought shelter in a drainage ditch.

More than 100 people were injured by swirling debris, most with puncture wounds and lacerations, authorities said.

A total of five tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City metro area, the National Weather Service said.

Oklahoma wasn't the only state hit by violent weather Friday night. In Missouri, areas west of St. Louis received significant damage from an EF3 tornado Friday night that packed estimated winds of 150 mph. In St. Charles County, at least 71 homes were heavily damaged and 100 had slight to moderate damage, county spokeswoman Colene McEntee said.

Tens of thousands were without power, and only eight minor injuries were reported. Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency.

Northeast of St. Louis and across the Mississippi River, the city of Roxana was hit by an EF3 tornado, but National Weather Service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said it wasn't clear whether the damage in both states came from the same EF3 twister or separate ones.

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Sean Murphy can be reached at www.twitter.com/apseanmurphy.

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Associated Press writer Jim Suhr in St. Louis contributed to this report.

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James Moore: Storm Crazy

Storm chasers are not crazy. They are either scientists or journalists doing their jobs. Anyone might make an argument that by choosing those endeavors for income they lacked a spoke from one of their wheels, but the truth is that sometimes things choose us.

I never chased tornadoes as a TV news correspondent. Hurricanes, however, I raced in their direction, thrilled by the logistical challenges and slow motion drama that unfolded. I did run to the aftermath of twisters, though. In Wichita Falls in 1979, there were people found inside their cars a few miles from where they had last been seen at stop lights, their vehicles crushed by falling from the sky. Parts of the asphalt were torn back like an earthen scab by the F-5 that passed through Jarrell, Texas in the late 90s, and the Chihuahuan Desert town of Saragosa just disappeared in the first tornado ever recorded in Pecos County, Texas back in the late 80s.

But reporting on what a storm hath wrought is almost cowardice compared to going close to see and understand its power. I always thought tornadoes were to be run away from, not chased. The scientists try to get close enough to determine the funnel's path and then set instruments in front to see if they can gather data that may one day help predict formation and, as a consequence, save lives. But what about the news crews? Why are they taking these risks?

One answer is that their editors in New York want drama. The closer a camera gets to a tornado the more a video can be promoted and drive viewership. Videographers share some of the guilt. Most love risk, getting close to the flame. A combat photographer once told me in Central America that, "After you hear a bullet whiz past your ear, it changes your life. Everything is different." I somewhat glibly responded that, "And the day a bullet enters your ear it changes your life, too. It ends it. That'll be really different."

All of this is prompted by injuries to a friend who is as fine a person as I have ever known and who was a long time colleague in the TV news business. Austin Anderson and I began working together in the early 80s when he was a student at the University of Texas, where his father, Al Anderson, was a legendary journalism professor. There was nothing Austin would not do to get the video to tell the story. We chased criminals across the Caribbean and presidents and hurricanes across the U.S. and he was always where he needed to be with his lens. He made every correspondent with whom he worked look like they were great journalists even when they were often nothing more than the benefactors of Austin's entrepreneurial determination. The lazy ones could've sat at the bar and waited for him to come back with the video, and I know a few who did.

Austin was driving the Weather Channel's Tornado Hunter car near El Reno, Oklahoma when a funnel abruptly changed course and lifted his vehicle. Reports vary on how far it was thrown through the air but it was discovered on the far side of a barbed wire fence after rolling over several times. Mike Bettes, another journalist riding with Austin, said they were "weightless for a moment" and then started tumbling. He escaped serious injury but my old friend Austin is in a hospital in Oklahoma City where he is facing surgery for a broken breastplate, ribs, and damaged vertebra. He is, however, alive. A doctor has indicated it will be at least three months before he can again pick up a camera. But he will pick up a camera again. And he will still be one of the best in the business.

A few of my colleagues from my days in television, and those who never worked in that industry, have expressed dismay that a person might put themselves at risk to get a better, more dramatic piece of video. But that is the mandate of the profession: get more and better than the other crew. Great photographers are also subject to a psychological phenomenon called "distancing," which allows their brains to process what they are seeing through their lens as not real or a part of their immediate environment. There is no other explanation for combat photographers getting video in the midst of fire fights or my friends Jim Peeler and the late Dan Mulloney who stood with their cameras in the crossfire between ATF agents and the Branch Davidians of David Koresh to record some of the most famous news video in history.

I believe in the kind that puts distance between any tornado and me.

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Lucroy, Peralta help Brewers top Phillies 4-3

Philadelphia Phillies pinch-runner Kyle Kendrick, left, dives back to second base on a pick-off attempt as Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura applies the tag in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Kendrick was called out on the play. Milwaukee won 4-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Philadelphia Phillies pinch-runner Kyle Kendrick, left, dives back to second base on a pick-off attempt as Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura applies the tag in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Kendrick was called out on the play. Milwaukee won 4-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Milwaukee Brewers' Logan Schafer watches his double off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Tyler Cloyd in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. At left is catcher schaErik Kratz. Milwaukee won 4-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Francisco Rodriguez, left, and catcher Jonathan Lucroy celebrate after a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. The Brewers won 4-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Milwaukee Brewers' Wily Peralta pitches in the second inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Ben Revere cannot reach a double by Milwaukee Brewers' Logan Schafer in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Aramis Ramirez was thrown out at home trying to score and Schafer advanced to third on the play. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Francisco Rodriguez and the Milwaukee Brewers had a little extra help holding off the Phillies.

Second-base umpire Mike Estabrook called pinch-runner Kyle Kendrick out on a pickoff even though shortstop Jean Segura tagged him without the ball and the Brewers held on to beat Philadelphia 4-3 on Saturday.

Kendrick was the second out of the inning, and the next batter doubled before Rodriguez was able to nail down his third straight save.

After the game, crew chief Tom Hallion told a pool reporter that it was an incorrect call after looking at replay.

"The ball goes in the glove and comes out of the glove with Kendrick diving back in and with Segura diving back for the ball," Hallion told a pool reporter. "Obviously, Mike was in the right position to make a pickoff play call like that. But the way that the play developed, the ball comes free and rolls right in Segura's bare hand and he comes up shows him the ball."

Before the ninth, Jonathan Lucroy homered and Wily Peralta tossed seven strong innings for Milwaukee.

After Rodriguez intentionally walked Domonic Brown, he retired Michael Martinez on a groundout to end the game. Kendrick went right to the video room after the play and said he was "just mad" when he saw the replay.

"He was in a bad position to see that, but that was the game," Kendrick said. "I score right there and we have a tie game and anything can happen."

Logan Schafer went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI for Milwaukee, which won its second straight after finishing May tied for the worst winning percentage (.214) in club history.

"We got some breaks again today," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. "This game is fun because you're always trying to figure it out. It's frustrating because you can't do anything about it. It really isn't fair."

Peralta (4-6) entered on a four-game losing streak but had one of his best outings of the season, surrendering two runs and eight hits with six strikeouts and a walk. Peralta successfully pitched out of trouble throughout and stranded runners at second in four of his seven innings, including when he struck out Brown with his final pitch in the seventh.

Brown had 12 homers in May with six in his last five games. He went 1-for-4 with a single and a pair of strikeouts Saturday. Freddy Galvis homered and Hernandez went 3-for-5 with a double for Philadelphia, which lost its third straight and fifth in seven games. The Phillies dropped to 8-24 when scoring three runs or less.

Galvis homered to lead off the ninth before Jimmy Rollins, who didn't start due to a sore foot, followed with a pinch-hit single. Kendrick ran for Rollins and went to second on Ben Revere's sacrifice bunt, but was picked off.

"It's unfortunate, but it's one of those plays that if any one of us ? any umpire ? had seen the loose ball, we certainly would have come in and helped Mike out with that," Hallion said. "The problem was that I don't think anybody saw the ball. I don't think anyone from the Phillies dugout or the Brewers dugout or Kendrick knew that the ball was on the ground."

After the Kendrick out, Rodriguez intentionally walked Brown to put runners on first and second with two outs before getting Michael Martinez to ground out to end the game.

"It's kind of how things have been going for us," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said.

Tyler Cloyd (1-2) gave up three runs (two earned) on eight hits with three strikeouts and one walk in seven innings.

Delmon Young was responsible for two of the Brewers' first three runs, as his throwing error in the second inning allowed Lucroy to score after Schafer's RBI single that also scored Aramis Ramirez and gave Milwaukee a 2-0 lead.

Kevin Frandsen's RBI groundout in the fourth pulled the Phillies within 2-1. But the Brewers got the run back in the fifth when Segura tripled for a 3-1 lead.

Philadelphia closed within 3-2 on Erik Kratz's RBI single in the sixth, but Lucroy homered to left with two outs in the eighth off reliever Mike Adams. It was the third homer in two games for Lucroy, who went 5-for-5 with two homers and a double in Friday's 8-5 win over Philadelphia.

Notes: Schafer was filling in for regular center fielder Carlos Gomez, who got the day off. . Brown became the first player in Major League history with at least 10 homers and no walks in a month. . Brewers right-hander Mike Fiers (1-3, 5.66) is scheduled to face Phillies lefty Cliff Lee (6-2, 2.34) in the finale of the three-game series at 1:35 Sunday.

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Gunmen attack central prison in Niger's capital

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) ? Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked the central prison in Niger's capital, opening fire on the guards and killing at least two people, according to a government spokesman and a witness who was 200 meters (yards) from the prison when the incident occurred. It was not immediately clear if the assailants had come from inside or outside the jail.

Two security guards were killed and a third was gravely wounded, said Niger government spokesman Marou Amadou. He said the attackers had been captured and the incident is being investigated.

"There are two versions of what happened, and right now we think it's more likely that they came from inside the jail," Amadou said by telephone. "These are people who are wanted for terrorism. We do not know how they were able to arm themselves inside the prison, and how they were able to get out to attack the guards. We have two dead guards already and one seriously wounded," he said.

Souleymane Magagi, whose house sits about 350 meters (yards) from the gates of the prison, says neighbors came running to tell him about the attack at around 3:30 p.m. When he approached the prison, he saw the bus normally used to transport prison workers parked with its doors open, near the entrance to the jail. What looked like two bodies were being loaded into the bus, though he said he was afraid of coming any closer than around 200 meters (yards) and could not be sure if the bodies were of the dead guards, or if they were people wounded in the incident.

Magagi, who is the secretary-general of the country's union for mine and petroleum workers, says he believes the attackers came from the outside.

"There is a specific hour at mealtime when relatives of the prisoners are allowed inside the prison with baskets of food for their relatives. They took advantage and entered at this moment," he said, saying he had spoken to relatives that were already in the prison complex waiting to bring food to their family members when the shooting erupted. He believes the attackers were trying to free fighters from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, based in Nigeria, Niger's larger neighbor to the south.

"Armed men came and attacked the central prison," said Magagi. "They shot at the guards and were able to penetrate the prison, probably to liberate their colleagues. They are likely elements of MUJAO and Boko Haram."

However, the government spokesman said that it is too early to say which group carried out the attack, describing them simply as "people with links to terrorism." Also reached by telephone on Saturday, Defense Minister Karidjo Mahamadou said that he was away from the capital, and did not have details on the identity of the attackers, adding: "The situation is under control."

An Associated Press reporter who rushed to the scene was unable to get close because the roads leading to the prison had been roped off. The prison attack comes a little over a week after after Islamic extremists carried out one of the boldest attacks in recent years when suicide bombers on May 23 infiltrated the Nigerien towns of Agadez and Arlit, succeeding in detonating explosives inside a military camp and a French-operated uranium mine, killing 35 people in all. Both those attacks were claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, as well as by "Those Who Sign in Blood," the six-month-old terror cell of Algerian jihadist Moktar Belmoktar, who also masterminded the attack on a BP-operated gas plant in Algeria in January.

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Callimachi contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.

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Camino web browser for Mac meets a quiet end

When Camino's web browser launched in February 2002 as Chimera, it rescued many Mac users caught between a dying Internet Explorer and the distant launches of Firefox (Phoenix) and Safari. It's unfortunate, then, that the Camino team has just laid their once-heroic browser to rest. There's little surprise as to why, though: Camino hasn't been keeping pace with its rivals, which makes it both obsolete and a security risk. We won't mourn when there's now an abundance of alternatives, but we'll certainly pay our last respects.

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eCommerce Isn't the Field of Dreams. - Scott Sanfilippo

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Scott Sanfilippo

If there?s one thing that bothers me about eCommerce, it?s the misconception many people have about opening and running an online business. There seems to be this belief out there that running an online store is simple and you?re going to make so much money in a short amount of time, you won?t know how to spend it.

Sure, there are plenty of very successful eCommerce stores out there. Mine were generating $12M in annual revenue when they were sold in 2007, but getting sales to that point wasn?t something that was done in a few months. It took years. And patience. And money.

I?ve helped entrepreneurs for nearly 20 years by offering advice and real world experience to help them be successful online and I always use a clich? I absolutely HATE using. ?The Internet isn?t the Field of Dreams.? Unfortunately, many think they can spend a couple grand, open a store, and like magic people are going to find it and start ordering.

I think I just heard you say, ?no shit, Scott.?

At least two times a week, I get an email from a new store owner pleading for help in getting them orders. While I sympathize with them wanting to be that overnight success we all dream of, I have to shock them back into reality by telling them that just because they?ve been online for less than a year, the membership card for the Millionaire?s Club isn?t coming in the mail just yet.

Unless you?re selling an instant cure for?gonorrhea.

When that email hits my inbox, I spend a few minutes taking a look at the store, offering some advice and explaining that being an eCommerce store owner takes work. Lots of it. And if they stick to it, devote money to advertising, marketing, customer service and all the other components that go into running a successful store, they will eventually be on the path to success.

The other day, I got one of these emails. I did my usual response to the store owner, but I also threw it out to my Facebook followers and said, ?How would YOU answer this email??

Here?s the email that I received:

Scott,

I started a store about three months ago. I get somewheres [sic] around 10 sales a week. I need more but I have no money to spend on internet ads. Can you help me get more sales?

Here are the responses, unedited and some humorous, from my Facebook peeps:

Joe P: You?re selling your products for too little margin. Be creative with packaging and marketing and try to find a way to maintain your volume of sales, while increasing your margin.

Kevin R: That?s normal for us too. Hard times. We really wish that we could do more to reach out and find ways that they could grow with little to no investment? Unfortunately, business just doesn?t grow without investing. Those of us that have grown remember the Mac n? Cheese only for weeks on end.

Bob B: Use a branded Facebook page along with Twitter to push people seeking your product to your store. Talk it up, blog it up.. FREE. Use proper hashtags and invite comment .. ask open ended questions, offer a coupon code. activity is the key to the NEXT level.

Farukh S: While this is not a step by step approach? it let?s you know the right/long term way of everything that you need to be involved in to grow sales/brand: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/575867_10151414097856246_178700067_n.jpg

Jamie M: E-mail market to your current customers. There are many platforms that offer it for free up to X number of subscribers. Find products that compliment the products they already bought and use them or cross/upsells and e-mail marketing. Do social media and get the customers you did sell something to to join and market those products that compliment what they bought. Signup for as many marketing services out there that you can find that arrange their compensation based on conversions, meaning revenue share, so that you only pay for sales that happen and not some monthly service. Insert fliers in your outgoing orders to market other products or services. Call the customers who did buy to check and see if they had any questions about what they bought and maybe sell other items by gently suggesting the benefits they would garner by doing so ? plant the seed. Recruit affiliates and simply use your Yahoo tracking links to avoid hefty network fees in the beginning. Offer multiple unit pricing. Create combos of products that go together to raise average order value. Ask your suppliers for co-op dollars to help with paid advertising costs. Bid on mis-spellings of the actual product names in PPC engines to lower costs. I can go on forever?

James R: Sure, I?ll send this to all my FB friends and urge them to buy from you, and if that doesn?t generate enough sales, I?ll personally order as much as you need to get on your feet. Because I?m that nice a guy.

Shirley T: Everything that Jamie M said and barter for ad dollars somebody must be willing to help him out and take some products in trade.

Joseph K: Get some scantily clad drunk whores to dance around with your products. Be sure to make a video of this and put it on YouTube. Don?t forget to include your URL in the video.

Don?t dis Joseph K?s answer just yet. A funny video that goes viral can drive sales. Not sure what he described would fit that definition, but you get the point. Thanks everyone for your great comments. I wanted to include them here for those that don?t stalk me on Facebook, can benefit from your answers as well.

I?ve taken enough time away from you for today?. don?t you have your own Field of Dreams to plow on a Saturday afternoon?

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Will Kanye West, Brody Jenner Have A Hard Time 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians'?

Khloe Kardashian gives MTV News the scoop on the latest additions ahead of the season-eight premiere.
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