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Emergency Management
Southern Californians learn to live with the risk of earthquakes.
But over the last week, anxieties were particularly heightened, and the natural denial that is part of living in earthquake country was harder to pull off.
A swarm of seismic activity at the Salton Sea that began a week ago prompted scientists to say there was an elevated risk for a big San Andreas fault earthquake. By Monday, that risk had lessened. But the impact of that warning was still being felt.
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CBS News
It’s a bacteria that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain and it has been hitting Mid-Michigan hard, especially Flint, a city riddled with water problems over the past two years.
Genesee County, where Flint is located, had 84 cases of shigellosis through September of this year, while neighboring Saginaw County was second-highest in the state with 47 cases, reports CBS affiliate WNEM in Saginaw, Michigan.
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FutureStructure
Devices in people’s homes and offices that are connected to the Internet — things such as routers and cameras, rice makers and thermostats — could increasingly be taken over by hackers in the coming weeks and used to suppress free speech and commit crime. Cybersecurity experts have been issuing the warning since last week, when a piece of software involved in a major cyberattack was publicly released for anyone to tap.
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Government Technology
The greater Atlanta area is experiencing unprecedented population growth, and with that growth comes substantial strain on the city’s largely unprepared infrastructure and public services.
This increasing pressure to meet the growing public demand has technology leaders looking to smarter infrastructure and actionable data as a means to bridge the widening gap and better serve the city's expanding constituency.
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Nature
It is fitting that the United Nations Habitat III conference in October will be held in Quito, Ecuador. In April, the city and nearby Portoviejo and Manta suffered an earthquake that killed more than 660 people and injured at least 10,000. Around 73,000 people were displaced. Some 700,000 needed emergency assistance, such as drinking water, sanitation and hygiene kits.
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USA Today
Authorities in Florida and South Carolina began evacuating hundreds of thousands of people Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew roared closer to the U.S. after leaving a path of destruction across Haiti.
Tropical storm conditions are expected to reach parts of the Florida coast by early Thursday, intensifying to hurricane conditions in some areas later that day, the National Hurricane Center warned.
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Route Fifty
As interest grows in flashy new “smart cities” technology such as self-driving vehicles, roadway sensors and data analytics, many local governments are finding it tough just to meet the demands of paying for traditional infrastructure — like streets and bridges.
A recent survey of local governments by the International City / County Management Association found that 39 percent of respondents say they’d need more money to sustain infrastructure at a baseline level and that the current state of their infrastructure is hurting quality of life.
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Governing
Delays in getting $1.1 billion to combat Zika meant some drug companies gave up working with the federal government on developing vaccines and states won't see their share of money until early 2017, a health panel said.
Congress approved $1.1 billion for fighting Zika, seven months later and $800 million less than when funding was first sought, which meant federal health agencies had to pull money from other programs for Ebola, malaria, tuberculosis and research to address Zika, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a media call.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
Florida Governor Rick Scott sounded the alarm on the powerful Hurricane Matthew on Wednesday, saying no matter what path the storm takes now, “the effects will be devastating.“
At least 11 deaths have been blamed on the powerful storm during its weeklong march across the Caribbean, five of them in Haiti. But with a key bridge washed out, roads impassable and phone communications down, the part of Haiti hit the hardest remains isolated and there was no word on dead and injured.
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Nextgov
Uber driver Nathan Stachelek was pulled off to the side of the road when he saw the self-driving car turn the wrong way.
It was the night of Sept. 26 and the car he had spotted, one of the autonomous Ford Fusions Uber is testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was heading through the city’s Oakland neighborhood, just steps from the center of campus for the University of Pittsburgh.
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Government Executive
It’s no secret that many leadership teams don’t function as well as they could or should. Leadership teams are the people in your organization who collectively hold the responsibility for just about everything that impacts growth, operations, employee engagement and productivity. They’re often looked up to and have say and sway regarding how things get done.
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NPR
Back in January 2010, Patrick Meier, a Ph.D. student in international relations at Tufts University, was checking email at home, with CNN on in the background, when he was jolted by a breaking news alert. An earthquake had struck Haiti, and tens of thousands were feared dead.
"I froze," he says. "Just paralyzed."
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