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Emergency Management
Hawaii residents can now send a text message to alert authorities or summon help in an emergency.
“Text-to-911” service is limited to no more than 160 characters and can’t contain photos, videos or emojis. An active wireless service including a text or data plan is required, with device location activated.
The service may not be available on wireless devices in roaming mode or outside of the service provider’s coverage area.
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The Wall Street Journal
Searchers found two more bodies inside vehicles submerged in floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew in North Carolina, increasing the death toll in the state to 26, Gov. Pat McCrory said on Saturday.
Many areas were still underwater, a week after the hurricane dumped more than a foot of rain 100 miles inland causing massive flooding in the eastern part of the state.
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Government Executive
I’ll begin by saying: This is a terrible interview question, but it is one you will be asked during your career, so it’s best to be prepared with some type of response. For starters, absolutely do not humblebrag when asked this question. It is incredibly trite.
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Government Technology
The Syrian refugee crisis hits close to home for Stanford graduate student Anton Apostolatos. His father fled communist Romania. Apostolatos doesn’t feel he can return to turmoil-stricken Venezuela, where he was born and raised.
“Every day I’m looking for opportunities and looking for signs of life so I can go back and do my part to build a country that’s in shambles,” Apostolatos said, referring to Venezuela.
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NextGov
About as long as hobbyist drones have been popular, there have been people who want to knock them out of the sky. Maybe the drones were flown over brush fires, disrupting fire fighting efforts. Others are sometimes flown near airports, causing alarm and, occasionally, grounding flights. In a truly scary turn, ISIS militants have even used drones to carry small bombs.
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Governing
A new report by a think tank at Georgetown University calls for greater oversight in the use of emerging facial recognition software that makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of them black — searchable by law enforcement agencies. While the agencies, including the FBI, have historically created fingerprint and DNA databases primarily from criminal investigations, many of the photographs scattered among agencies at all levels of government are of law-abiding Americans, according to the report.
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CNN
It's been more than a week since Hurricane Matthew socked the Southeast with powerful winds and torrential rains. But parts of the region are still reeling.
North Carolina is facing devastating floods, and governors in several states are asking for help.
The storm killed 45 people in the United States. More than half of the victims were in North Carolina, where 25 people died due to Matthew, Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday, revising an earlier tally that had listed a higher death toll in the state.
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The Washington Post
A wildfire is spreading rapidly through a central Colorado county, forcing people in nearly 200 homes to evacuate or prepare to evacuate, with more to be announced. Officials do not know what caused the fire, which was first reported at 3:40 a.m. on Monday, but by late Monday morning, it had grown to at least 2,500 acres.
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