October snow tricks Northeast, leaves 3M powerless

A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

A downed tree limb lies across power lines in Belmont, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A snowstorm with a ferocity more familiar in February than October socked the Northeast over the weekend, knocking out power to 2.3 million, snarling air and highway travel and dumping more than 2 feet of snow in a few spots as it slowly moved north out of New England. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A car drives on Route 2 in Belmont, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A snowstorm with a ferocity more familiar in February than October socked the Northeast over the weekend, knocking out power to 2.3 million, snarling air and highway travel and dumping more than 2 feet of snow in a few spots as it slowly moved north out of New England. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A house is surrounded by fall foliage colors covered with heavy wet snow in Williamstown, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

Deran Muckjian clears downed tree branches from his yard in Belmont, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A snowstorm with a ferocity more familiar in February than October socked the Northeast over the weekend, knocking out power to 2.3 million, snarling air and highway travel and dumping more than 2 feet of snow in a few spots as it slowly moved north out of New England. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) ? When winter's white mixes with autumn's orange and gold, nature gets ugly.

A freak October nor'easter knocked out power to more than 3 million homes and businesses across the Northeast on Sunday in large part because leaves still on the trees caught more snow, overloading branches that snapped and wreaked havoc. Close to 2 feet of snow fell in some areas over the weekend, and it was particularly wet and heavy, making the storm even more damaging.

"You just have absolute tree carnage with this heavy snow just straining the branches," said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro.

From Maryland to Maine, officials said it would take days to restore electricity, even though the snow ended Sunday.

The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor had gotten 26 inches by early Sunday.

It was blamed for at least 11 deaths, and states of emergency were declared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York.

Roads, rails and airline flights were knocked out, and passengers on a JetBlue flight were stuck on a plane in Hartford, Conn., for more than seven hours. And while children across the region were thrilled to see snow so early, it also complicated many of their Halloween plans.

Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., said she hoped the power will come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house. But no matter what, she said, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating.

"Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said.

More than 800,000 power customers were without electricity in Connecticut alone ? shattering the record set just two months ago by Hurricane Irene. Massachusetts had more than 600,000 outages, and so did New Jersey ? including Gov. Chris Christie's house. Parts of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Maryland and Vermont also were without power.

"It's going to be a more difficult situation than we experienced in Irene," Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. "We are expecting extensive and long-term power outages."

Thirty-two shelters were open around the state, and Malloy asked volunteer fire departments to allow people in for warmth and showers. At least four hospitals were relying on generators for power.

Around Newtown in western Connecticut, trees were so laden with snow on some back roads that the branches touched the street. Every few minutes, a snap filled the air as one broke and tumbled down. Roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast.

One of the few businesses open in the area was a Big Y grocery store that had a generator. Customers loaded up on supplies, heard news updates over the intercom, charged up their cell phones, and waited for a suddenly hard-to-get cup of coffee ? in a line that was 30 people deep and growing.

Many of the areas hit by the storm had also been hit by Irene. In New Jersey's Hamilton Township, Tom Jacobsen also recalled heavy spring flooding and a particularly heavy winter before that.

"I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow, because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now," he said while grabbing some coffee at a convenience store.

It wasn't just the trees that weren't ready for a wintry wallop.

Kerry McNiven said she was "totally unprepared" for the storm that knocked out her water and power and sent tree limbs crashing into her Simsbury, Conn., home. She was buying disposable plates and cups in a darkened supermarket, a setting that she said resembled "one of those post-apocalyptic TV shows."

"They didn't hype this one as much" as Irene, she said. "I didn't think it was going to be as bad."

In Concord, N.H., Dave Whitcher's company had yet to prep its sanding equipment before the storm dropped nearly 2 feet of snow. His crews were plowing and shoveling parking lots Sunday and would be back Monday to salt sidewalks and walkways.

"It was a bit of a surprise, the amount and how heavy it was. We should've probably come out and got a little earlier start, but we did all right," Whitcher said.

Vaccaro, the weather service spokesman, said the snowstorm "absolutely crushed previous records that in some cases dated back more than 100 years." Saturday was only the fourth snowy October day in New York's Central Park since record-keeping began 135 years ago.

There usually isn't enough cold air in the region to support a nor'easter this time of year, but an area of high pressure over southeastern Canada funneled cold air south into the U.S., Vaccaro said. That cold air combined with moisture coming from the North Carolina coast to produce the unseasonable weather.

A few businesses enjoyed the early snow: Ski resorts in Vermont and Maine opened early. But it was more commonly an aggravation.

Many residents were urged to avoid travel altogether. Speed limits were reduced on bridges between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A few roads closed because of accidents and downed trees and power lines, said Sean Brown, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The JetBlue passengers stranded Saturday at Hartford's Bradley International Airport were on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Newark, N.J., that had been diverted. Passenger Andrew Carter, a football reporter for the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, said the plane ran out of snacks and bottled water, and the toilets backed up.

JetBlue spokeswoman Victoria Lucia said power outages at the airport has made it difficult to get passengers off the plane, and added that the passengers would be reimbursed. In 2007, passengers in JetBlue planes were stranded for nearly 11 hours at New York's Kennedy Airport following snow and ice storms.

There were other flight delays in the region over the weekend, and commuter trains in Connecticut and New York were delayed or suspended because of downed trees and signal problems. Amtrak suspended service on several Northeast routes, and one train from Chicago to Boston got stuck overnight in Palmer, Mass. The 48 passengers had food and heat, a spokeswoman said, and they were taken by bus Sunday to their destinations.

Five people died in Pennsylvania because of the storm, two each in car accidents in suburban Philadelphia. An 84-year-old Temple man was killed Saturday when a snow-laden tree fell on his home while he was napping in his recliner.

Storm-related traffic accidents also killed people in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. A New Jersey man died Saturday in a house fire sparked by a downed power line, and a man in Springfield, Mass., was electrocuted by downed wires.

The snow was a bone-chilling slush in New York City, and a taste of what's to come for demonstrators camping out at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Nick Lemmin, of Brooklyn, spent his first night at Zuccotti in a sleeping bag in a tent, wearing thermals, a sweatshirt and a scarf.

Lemmin said he thought the early snow was actually "a good test." But it was too much for protester Adash Daniel, who had already been in the park for three weeks.

"I'm not much good to this movement if I'm shivering," Daniel said as he left.

There was much more snow in Concord, where 9-year-old Nate Smith and his brother had fun making a snowman. But Nate wasn't sure he'd be able to go trick-or-treating Monday. Even if he did, his werewolf costume could end up looking a little different than he had imagined.

"I might have to put on snow pants," he said.

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Associated Press writers Noreen Gillespie-Connolly in Newtown, Conn.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; Verena Dobnik, Deepti Hajela and Candice Choi in New York; Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Snow smacks Northeast; power out for millions

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. ?? Millions of people from Maine to Maryland were without power as an unseasonably early nor'easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow.

The snow stopped falling in New England Sunday, but Halloween will likely come and go before many of the more than 3 million without electricity see it restored, officials warned. Several officials referred to the combination of its early arrival and its ferocity as historic, yet another unwelcome superlative for weather-weary Northeasterners.

"You had this storm, you had Hurricane Irene, you had the flooding last spring and you had the nasty storms last winter," Tom Jacobsen said Sunday while getting coffee at a convenience store in Hamilton Township, N.J.

"I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now."

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The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor had gotten 26 inches by early Sunday. It was blamed for at least three deaths, and states of emergency were declared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York.

Roads, rails and airline flights were knocked out, and passengers on a JetBlue flight were stuck on a plane in Hartford, Conn., for more than seven hours. And while children across the region were thrilled to see snow so early, it also complicated many of their Halloween plans.

Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., said she hoped the power will come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house. But no matter what, she said, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating.

"Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said.

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Compounding the storm's impact were still-leafy trees, which gave the snow something to hang onto and that put tremendous weight on branches, said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro. That led to limbs breaking off and contributed to the widespread outages.

"This is not going to be a quick fix," said Peter Judge, a Massachusetts emergency management official.

More than 800,000 power customers were without electricity in Connecticut alone ? shattering the record set just two months ago by Hurricane Irene. Massachusetts had more than 600,000 outages, and so did New Jersey ? including Gov. Chris Christie's house. Parts of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Maryland and Vermont also were without power.

"It's going to be a more difficult situation than we experienced in Irene," Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. "We are expecting extensive and long-term power outages."

Thirty-two shelters were open around the state, and Malloy asked volunteer fire departments to allow people in for warmth and showers. At least four hospitals were relying on generators for power.

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Around Newtown in western Connecticut, trees were so laden with snow on some back roads that the branches touched the street. Every few minutes, a snap filled the air as one broke and tumbled down. Roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast.

One of the few businesses open in the area was a Big Y grocery store that had a generator. Customers loaded up on supplies, heard news updates over the intercom, charged up their cell phones, and waited for a suddenly hard-to-get cup of coffee ? in a line that was 30 people deep and growing.

Many of the areas hit by the storm had also been hit by Irene. In New Jersey's Hamilton Township, Tom Jacobsen also recalled heavy spring flooding and a particularly heavy winter before that.

"I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow, because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now," he said while grabbing some coffee at a convenience store.

It wasn't just the trees that weren't fully ready for a wintry wallop.

Kerry McNiven said she was "totally unprepared" for the storm that knocked out her water and power and sent tree limbs crashing into her Simsbury, Conn., home. She was buying disposable plates and cups in a darkened supermarket, a setting that she said resembled "one of those post-apocalyptic TV shows."

"They didn't hype this one as much" as Irene, she said. "I didn't think it was going to be as bad."

In Concord, N.H., Dave Whitcher's company had yet to prep its sanding equipment before the storm dropped nearly 2 feet of snow. His crews were plowing and shoveling parking lots Sunday, and would be back Monday to salt sidewalks and walkways.

"It was a bit of a surprise, the amount and how heavy it was. We should've probably come out and got a little earlier start, but we did all right," Whitcher said. He held up his shovel and added, "Me and this guy are going to get to know each other real well today."

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Vaccaro, the weather service spokesman, said the snowstorm "absolutely crushed previous records that in some cases dated back more than 100 years." Saturday was only the fourth snowy October day in New York's Central Park since record-keeping began 135 years ago.

There usually isn't enough cold air in the region to support a nor'easter this time of year, but an area of high pressure over southeastern Canada funneled cold air south into the U.S., Vaccaro said. That cold air combined with moisture coming from the North Carolina coast to produce the unseasonable weather.

Though the fact that leaves were still on the trees worsened storm damage inland, the nor'easter did less damage in coastal areas than it would have in winter because warm ocean temperatures limited snowfall, Vaccaro said.

A few businesses enjoyed the early snow: Ski resorts in Vermont and Maine opened early. But it was more commonly an aggravation.

Many residents were urged to avoid travel altogether. Speed limits were reduced on bridges between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A few roads closed because of accidents and downed trees and power lines, said Sean Brown, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The JetBlue passengers stranded Saturday at Hartford's Bradley International Airport were on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Newark, N.J., that had been diverted. Passenger Andrew Carter, a football reporter for the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, said the plane ran out of snacks and bottled water, and the toilets backed up.

JetBlue spokeswoman Victoria Lucia said power outages at the airport has made it difficult to get passengers off the plane, and added that the passengers would be reimbursed.

In 2007, passengers in JetBlue planes were stranded for nearly 11 hours at New York's Kennedy Airport following snow and ice storms.

There were other flight delays in the region over the weekend, and commuter trains in Connecticut and New York were delayed or suspended because of downed trees and signal problems. Amtrak suspended service on several Northeast routes, and one train from Chicago to Boston got stuck overnight in Palmer, Mass. The 48 passengers had food and heat, a spokeswoman said, and they were taken by bus Sunday to their destinations.

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In southeastern Pennsylvania, an 84-year-old man was killed when a snow-laden tree fell on his home while he was napping in his recliner. In Connecticut, the governor said one person died in a Colchester traffic accident that he blamed on slippery conditions.

And a 20-year-old man in Springfield, Mass., stopped when he saw police and firefighters examining downed wires and stepped in the wrong place and was electrocuted, Capt. William Collins said.

The snow was a bone-chilling slush in New York City, and was a taste of what's to come for demonstrators camping out at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Nick Lemmin, of Brooklyn, spent his first night at Zuccotti in a sleeping bag in a tent, wearing thermals, a sweatshirt and a scarf.

"I slept actually pretty well," he said. "It was pretty quiet."

Lemmin said he thought the early snow was actually "a good test," giving protesters a chance to deal with such weather before it sets in more permanently.

The weather was too much for protester Adash Daniel, who had already been in the park for three weeks. "I'm not much good to this movement if I'm shivering," he said as he left.

The snow was relatively light in Manhattan, as it was farther north in Albany, where a couple of dirt- and leaf-caked snowmen stood about the protesters waving "We are the 99 percent" signs for passing cars.

In Concord, 9-year-old Nate Smith had more than enough snow to make a proper snowman with his brother, but he was worried about Halloween. He wasn't sure he'd be able to go trick-or-treating, and even if he did, his werewolf costume could end up looking a little different than he had imagined.

"I might have to put on snow pants," he said.

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Associated Press writers Noreen Gillespie-Connolly in Newtown, Conn.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; Verena Dobnik, Deepti Hajela and Candice Choi in New York; Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Magnitude-6.9 quake shakes Peru's coast

LIMA, Peru?? A magnitude-6.9 earthquake centered off Peru's central coast sent people running panicked into the streets Friday in cities badly damaged by a killer quake four years earlier. There were no reports of damage though hospital directors reported at least 20 injuries.

People who had lost loved ones and homes in the earlier quake were badly shaken and some broke into tears.

"It felt like the one in 2007 because it was very strong," Felix Sihuas told RPP radio. He said he was buried under rubble for six hours in the Aug. 15, 2007, quake, which killed 596 people and largely destroyed the town of Pisco.

Friday's quake was considerably less violent in Lima, a city of 8.5 million people. The capital shook for about 30 seconds in a series of moderate, swaying movements.

Several aftershocks followed with magnitudes up to 5.5, said the U.S. Geological Survey.

It said Friday's quake was centered 31 miles (51 kilometers) south-southwest of Ica, a provincial capital of about 200,000 people which suffered widespread damage in the 2007 quake. It was at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers).

The directors of two hospitals in Ica told RPP that 20 people were treated for non life-threatening injuries including two for broken bones.

Peru's government-run Institute of Geophysics put the quake's magnitude at 6.7 and put its depth at 19 miles (30 kilometers). The USGS said the killer 2007 quake was centered 24 miles (39 kilometers) deep.

A seismologist at the institute, Hernan Tavera, told RPP the 2007 quake released 33 times more energy than Friday's temblor but this time " the radius of action was far wider."

"There was panic, a lot of panic," said Ruben Vargas, a police official in Ica, which is flanked by asparagus fields and vineyards that produce wine and the liquor pisco.

Vargas said that many people were still in the streets nearly a half hour after the 1:54 p.m. (18:54 GMT) quake. "Little by little people are calming down but they're still outside their homes," he added.

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In Pisco, police officer Julio Lopez said people were spooked though the quake wasn't nearly as bad as the 2007 temblor.

"It wasn't like the last time. It was shorter," said Jorge Luis Yupanqui, 30, from Pisco. "Some people started to cry."

He said there was a big traffic jam in Pisco because he, like many others, went home to make sure his family and home were safe.

About 40,000 homes were destroyed in the 2007 quake and the previous government of President Alan Garcia was widely criticized for the slow pace of reconstruction.

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Associated Press writers Martin Villena and Carla Salazar contributed to this report.

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Please learn this to know more about baby automobile seats and preserving your child protected whereas in the car.

Q. What?s the finest child car seat?

The very best automotive seat is the one which matches your baby?s measurement and weight. It also matches correctly in your automobile and is easily installed.

Q. What kinds of child automobile seats can be found?

There are several forms of child car seats akin to infant seats, front going through car seats, and convertible seats. There are also combination seats (can face front or rear), booster seats and built-in automobile seats. With every sort of seat there are variations.

Q. Is a 5-level harness or a protect safest for my baby?

A 5 point harness offers your youngster the greatest safety as a result of it holds your baby tighter within the seat within the event of a crash. A T-Defend or over-the-head restraint permits too much room or can get in the way in which of chubby tummies and legs. The stalk of the T-Defend can cause critical damage to your baby.

Q. How can I find out how to soundly install my child?s automobile seat?

All automotive seats (besides most second hand seats) come with printed directions. If after studying the directions you still aren?t sure how you can properly install it. You possibly can name or email the manufacturer. Some police stations and hospitals have help packages as well.

Q. Is there an accurate way to safe my baby within the baby automotive seat?

Sure, there?s a right method by which to secure your baby in his automotive seat. The way you secure your baby within the car seat will seemingly depend upon the age and measurement of your baby. For youngsters beneath a 12 months of age they should be positioned in rear-dealing with seats in the center of the rear seat. Older kids can sit facing front and their seat are usually positioned behind the driver or passenger with a view to make the most of the shoulder/lap belts.

Q. What?s LATCH?

LATCH refers to Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children. It?s a child automotive seat set up system. The lower hooks are connected between the bottom of the again of the seat and seat itself. The tether piece is a strap made of seat belt material with a clip that secures forward dealing with baby automobile seats and prevents excessive motion of the newborn?s head in crashes.

Q. What?s a Tether?

The tether is a strap fabricated from seat belt material with a clip. It attaches to the clips on the seat and secures entrance going through child automobile seats. In a crash it prevents excessive movement of the seat and the newborn?s head, lowering the severity of injuries.

Q. How can I tell when my youngster is able to use car seat belts with out a booster seat?

Your youngster might be ready for using the automotive safety restraint system when s/he can sit all the best way back within the seat and the knees can bend comfortably over the edge of the seat. The belt crosses the shoulder between the neck and the arm and the lap belt is low and touches the thighs. Your baby should be capable of remain seated the whole trip.

Q. Can a child automotive seat be used safely in an airplane?

Sure it can. Airways require youngsters age 2 and beneath, to be in authorised automotive seats. The seats have to be sixteen inches or much less to fit in the airplane seats. Call ahead and find out in case your seat is an authorized seat. Once on the airplane, the hostess/es, will be able to help you.

Q. Is it safe for me to make use of second-hand child automotive seats?

Yes it is secure to make use of second-hand baby automobile seats supplied you do a safety check. Belts and harnesses should not be frayed or cracked. There should be no cracks or tears within the seat cowl and the seat ought to recline easily and stay upright when the infant is seated. Look into the history of the seat, if it has been in an automobile crash do not purchase it, its skill to safely restrain your baby has been compromised. If the seat does not include a handbook contact the producer to make sure the seat can be correctly installed. If the seat is more than 5 years previous do not use it, it might have been in a crash and older baby automotive seats could not slot in new mannequin cars.

Q. What should I do if my child car seat is recalled?

Most often, the producer will give you instructions of what to do if child automobile seat is recalled. In some circumstances they will change it without spending a dime they may have you carry it somewhere to get alternative components also without charge to you.

Q. Are there baby automotive seats available for kids with particular wants?

Children with particular needs could require different restraint systems. Talk about your options together with your pediatrician.

Q. What?s the finest type of harness for my baby automotive seat?

There are 4 varieties of harnesses in baby automotive seats. The six-level harness has straps on the shoulders, at the hips and two at the crotch. The five-point harness has straps on the shoulders, two on the hips and one at the crotch. The t-protect is a padded triangle that latches on the crotch whereas the overhead shield comes down from over the head and latches on the crotch. The safest harnesses are the 5 ? 6-level harnesses. These prevent extreme motion of the child in crash situations. The t protect and the over-head protect allow for too much room and will cause your child to be ejected from the automotive in a crash.

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Body of San Diego hanging victim to be exhumed (AP)

SAN DIEGO ? The family of a woman who was found hanged in a San Diego mansion say they'll exhume her body for more testing and the findings will be aired on the "Dr. Phil" TV show in the future.

Relatives of Rebecca Zahau don't accept the medical examiner's conclusion that she committed suicide in July at the Coronado home.

The San Diego Union-Tribune ( http://bit.ly/uiVIBr) quotes a family statement as saying a public donation fund will pay for the exhumation and a second autopsy.

Zahau's naked and bound body was found in the mansion owned by her boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, CEO of Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corp., an Arizona-based company.

Authorities say she killed herself because she was distraught over a fatal fall that Shacknai's 6-year-old son suffered at the house two days earlier.

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Missing Mo. baby's age makes her harder to find

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo posters for missing baby Lisa Irwin are taped to a light pole near the Irwin home in Kansas City, Mo. The pictures on the "KIDNAPPED" flier have put an emotional face on what could have been simply just another missing person's case. Lisa?s parents reported her missing Oct. 4. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo posters for missing baby Lisa Irwin are taped to a light pole near the Irwin home in Kansas City, Mo. The pictures on the "KIDNAPPED" flier have put an emotional face on what could have been simply just another missing person's case. Lisa?s parents reported her missing Oct. 4. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? The reported sightings have come from as far as California, people just certain they've spotted the blond-haired Kansas City baby whose cherubic face has been printed on fliers and circulated on national television programs since her disappearance three weeks ago.

Yet so far, the roughly 200 calls fielded by Kansas City police have only generated a string of false positives in the search for Lisa Irwin.

The problem, officials say, is that at her age ? just 10 months when she went missing on Oct. 4 ? countless babies match the same description, right down to the bright blue eyes and two bottom teeth. She does have a distinguishing birth mark on her right thigh, but that would hardly be noticed from a distance.

"There is a kind of generic, cute little baby, little chubby cheek, bald-headed baby look," said Ernie Allen, president of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "But our message to the public is, look at her picture. Really look at her in the eyes. Don't just see a cute little baby but look in the child's face. Like every human being she is unique. She is different. She doesn't look like every baby."

Investigators in the past week have stepped up their focus on the parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, searching their home after a cadaver dog reacted to what seemed to be the scent of a dead person inside.

Yet amid those developments, police say they continue to follow up on other tips and leads. Allen said his organization received at least a dozen tips over the weekend, even after news of the cadaver dog's finding became public.

The couple's attorneys, meanwhile, say the parents ? who insist someone must have snatched Lisa as her mother and two other boys slept ? are still answering questions and deny having anything to do with the disappearance.

Without any formal suspects, police can't yet rule out that Lisa was abducted in the middle of the night and taken away from the area, potentially entering a vast pool of infants that could pass for Lisa.

"We do not want to discourage any one from calling in a tip that may lead to Lisa Irwin," police spokeswoman Sgt. Stacey Graves said.

ABC News reported Sunday that it had obtained fuzzy surveillance video from a gas station near the home showing an unidentified man leaving a wooded area in the early morning, just before the baby was discovered missing from her crib. Kansas City police spokesman Steve Young declined to comment on the video.

Other tips have focused on the baby herself.

Last week, police in Manhattan, Kan., about two hours west of Kansas City, scrambled six officers to look for a black car with Missouri license plates after getting a tip that two women eating at a deli had a baby who looked like Lisa. Police eventually tracked down the "creeped out" customer and confirmed the child she had seen wasn't Lisa.

The child may have looked like Lisa, but the baby was a little older and had reddish hair, said Riley County Police Capt. Kurt Moldrup, adding that matching a baby in public to a photo of Lisa is tricky, partially because of her age.

As the father of 11, Moldrup should know. He said his children looked a lot like Lisa when they were babies.

"It's hard to take a picture and put that on a real face," he said. "Video is better. Kids, it's even harder."

In northwest Missouri, police in St. Joseph have taken at least three calls from people who thought they saw Lisa. One came from a gas station where a child in a car seat resembled the missing baby. Another time, a couple shopping at a St. Joseph mall aroused suspicions before an officer was able to use a photo to determine their baby wasn't Lisa.

"Something that has attracted this much attention is generating a lot of, 'That looks like it could be.' And so they are calling the police to check it out," said St. Joseph police spokesman Commander Jim Connors. "I actually favor that kind of thing. It's better than people not calling the police to check it out."

Over the past 20 years, about one in six children has been recovered as the result of photographs on fliers, billboards and other media, Allen said.

In one case in Texas, a 5-year-old saw a flier on her dining room table and told her mother that the pictured boy was a classmate. Her mother was doubtful but eventually called the school principal. It was learned that the boy had been abducted from Michigan.

Allen said another child was recovered after a young girl waiting in a south Texas health clinic wandered down a hallway and recognized one of the children on a missing children bulletin board display.

"There is example after example," he said. "Photos are powerful."

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Wal-Mart ups the ante in holiday price matching

NEW YORK (AP) ? Wal-Mart announced a new strategy that it hopes will pull in procrastinators early by giving them a big incentive: a guarantee that they'll get the lowest price no matter when they buy during the holiday season.

The discounter said Monday it will match prices on many of its products. Shoppers who buy something at a Walmart store between Nov. 1 and Dec. 25, but then find the identical product elsewhere for less, can get a gift card in the amount of the difference.

The offer excludes some items, such as groceries.

To qualify, shoppers need to bring in the original Wal-Mart receipt and the local competitor's print ad. Gift cards will not be given out after Dec. 25.

"The greatest gift we can give our customers this holiday is great low prices on the things they want most," said Duncan MacNaughton, chief merchandising officer at Wal-Mart's U.S. division, in a statement. "Wal-Mart is easing shopping stress this Christmas by allowing customers to shop when and how they want, all while guaranteeing low prices through the entire holiday season."

The holiday price guarantee builds on Wal-Mart's aggressive everyday price-matching strategy and comes as the world's largest retailer aims to solidify its position as the low price leader and reverse nine straight quarters of declines in revenue at stores opened at least a year in its U.S. namesake business.

The move also raises the competitive stakes for the 2011 holiday season, which accounts for as much as 40 percent of retailers' annual revenue. With the job market still weak and the stock market in turmoil, shoppers are focusing on grabbing the lowest price and are using their smartphones to check rivals' prices in the store aisles and walking away if they're not getting the best deal.

Heading into the holiday season, a growing number of stores, including Staples Inc. and Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., are even matching prices with online-only merchants like Amazon.com to convert browsers into buyers.

Wal-Mart's price matching for the holidays still excludes Internet retailers, but clearly the latest announcement underscores the discounter's need to hammer its low-price message even more in a bid to bring back customers it had lost.

Wal-Mart's U.S. business has been in a slump because of mistakes it made on price and selection. The company is reversing that weak trend and has seen three straight months of revenue gains, starting in July, as it finishes up restoring thousands of products it culled during an overzealous bid to de-clutter its stores.

But reclaiming its reputation as the lowest-prices leader is critical to sustain the improving sales trend. The company, based in Bentonville, Ark., strayed from its bedrock philosophy of "everyday" low prices, and late last year, switched back to emphasizing low prices across the whole store, instead of promoting select items.

This past April, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a series of ad campaigns focusing on its low prices and said it was directing store employees to comb through competitors' advertisements so price matches at the register would be easier.

But with the latest incentive, Wal-Mart is offering an even more hassle-free way of guaranteeing shoppers they'll get the best price and giving shoppers more of a reason to go to Wal-Mart first for their holiday needs.

Shoppers don't have to bring back purchases to Wal-Mart in order to take advantage of better prices elsewhere. They just need to bring in the receipt and the local printed ad to the customer service desk.

Furthermore, even items placed on layaway will be eligible for the company's "Christmas Price Guarantee" program. Wal-Mart is also hoping to tap into another stream of revenue ? by giving shoppers the price difference in the gift cards, it's hoping customers will come back and spend more than the value of the card.

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Apple's efforts to lower prices explained (Digital Trends)

Some years back, tech pundits used to throw out the words ?Apple tax? when describing Apple?s products. Macs were often much more expensive than Windows-based machines, but people would pay more for what they considered an exemplary product. In the last decade, things have changed. Now, Apple?s MacBook Air, iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone are all leading devices in terms of price. They aren?t the least expensive, but they definitely aren?t on the high end of the spectrum anymore. In fact, many manufacturers are having an incredibly difficult time beating Apple on price these days. This is because the company makes very strategic component purchases for its new products, buying up key supplies for new devices and locking in low prices on different ends of the supply chain.?

The NY Times has an interesting article about Apple?s methods of lowering prices, which have long been headed up by new CEO Tim Cook. The article goes over the change in philosophy at Apple over the last decade and how its pricing has changed in the last decade. The benefit is clear, by containing costs through supply chain manipulation and attention to detail, it can produce premium products for mass market prices, opening up Apple products to millions of possible new consumers.

For example, did you know that before the iPad was announced, Apple purchased more than $4 billion in screens for the iPad? It bought up a majority of the world?s capacity to produce the screens. When the iPad took off, this left the rest of the industry to scramble and compete with one another for the remaining screens available so they could produce competing tablets. This may be one of the reasons why most manufacturers opted for 7-inch and 10.1-inch screens instead of the proven 9.7-inch screen size of the iPad. Only HP chose to go with a 9.7-inch screen with its ill-fated TouchPad.?

It?s almost certain that Apple?s lower prices have helped it make its remarkable resurgence. Oddly, by meeting consumers halfway, Apple has also forced a lot of competing manufacturers to up the quality of their products to use better, sturdier materials, more efficient production methods, and cleaner design.

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Romney formally becomes candidate in NH

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, right, watches as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney fills out his candidacy papers to be on the New Hampshire ballot in the nation's earliest presidential primary, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, right, watches as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney fills out his candidacy papers to be on the New Hampshire ballot in the nation's earliest presidential primary, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is greeted by New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner as he arrives to file his papers to be on the Nation's earliest presidential primary ballot, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, right, watches as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney fills out his candidacy papers to be on the New Hampshire ballot in the nation's earliest presidential primary, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, right, greets supporters following a rally at the State House in Concord, N.H., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks to supports in front of the State House on Concord, N.H., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, after filing his papers to be on the ballot for the Nation's earliest presidential primary. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ? Mitt Romney became a candidate Monday for the New Hampshire Republican primary.

The former Massachusetts governor's formal filing with New Hampshire's top election official was little more than a photo opportunity for a man who has been running for president ? formally and informally ? for the better part of the last five years. But his visit to the state capital offered a reminder of the huge stakes at play for Romney in New Hampshire, which is expected to host the nation's first Republican presidential primary in less than 80 days.

Friends and foes alike agree that his political future depends upon a win here. It won't guarantee the Republican nomination, but a loss in a state where he enjoys strong natural advantages may very well lead to defeat.

Romney's recent dominance in local polls only adds to lofty expectations here.

The former Massachusetts governor has led the crowded Republican field by no fewer than 18 points ? and as many as 32 points ? this month among New Hampshire voters.

"As long as he wins, I think he'll be fine," said Alan S. Glassman, chairman of the Belknap County Republican Committee.

A second-place finish four years ago helped sink Romney's first White House bid. But a simple win in 2012 may not be enough ? according to his rivals, anyway. They're pushing the notion that a victory by anything less than double digits amounts to a symbolic loss in New Hampshire, where Romney enjoys a summer home, near-universal name recognition and a ballooning network of prominent supporters, some of whom have been working on his behalf for years.

New Hampshire is also the only early voting state to allow independents to participate in the Republican primary. That's good news for Romney's chances here, as he has struggled to win over some conservative activists who are more prominent in places like Iowa and South Carolina.

"Governor Romney has been campaigning in New Hampshire for over half a decade. He is literally a resident of the state," said Tim Miller, a spokesman for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and a Romney rival for the nomination. "It's impossible to overstate his expectations."

Welcome to the ever-spinning world of presidential politics, where a win is sometimes a loss and second place can represent both victory and failure. Romney's top advisers addressed the New Hampshire expectations challenge on Monday, largely downplaying the relevance of early polling in a state known for voters that break late.

"We have to win this state, and we intend to win this state," said Tom Rath, a Romney adviser during the first and second campaigns. "We never stopped working, some of us, after we lost the last one. We stayed at it and now it's bearing fruit."

A veteran Republican operative, Rath described expectations associated with strong poll numbers as "a good problem to have," noting that momentum is generally paramount in presidential politics.

"What you can't do anymore is deny the existence of public polls. They're out there. Those of us that are close to it don't ignore them, but also realize they're ephemeral and they can change very quickly," he said. "You know there's an inevitable closing of the numbers that will occur. It happens in every election and it will happen in this one."

Romney got a big boost this weekend after announcing the endorsement of former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, who was at Romney's side when Romney filed the paperwork to get his name on the ballot at the State House Monday.

"I hope it takes this time," Romney said of his second run at the presidency.

Sununu, a former chief of staff in the first Bush White House, laughed off talk of high expectations tied to big leads in the polls.

"Look, would you rather be behind? Whenever you're in a campaign that's behind you try and set your opponent's expectations high," he said. "Primaries are cycles ? they go up and they go down ? as long as we're up on primary day, that's all that counts."

The New Hampshire presidential primary will likely be scheduled for Jan. 10 ? just 11 weeks away.

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Windows Live, Desktop Communications Job - Jobs at Microsoft

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 774370-66649
Division: Windows Division

If you?ve seen the recent news about the next version of Windows, code-named ?Windows 8?, you know that it?s a big step forward for the world?s most popular operating system. And you can play a part in building key communications applications for that platform.

We?re the Windows Live Desktop Communications team and we?re building Metro-style, touch-first, immersive applications on the Windows 8 platform: Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging (http://win8.ms/frkafl). We?re looking for a gifted, experienced software developer to join our team and help define and build the applications that comprise the next generation of personal communications for Windows.

Qualifications for this position include a minimum of 3 years of demonstrated work experience in software development, with prior experience shipping products and/or building client applications targeted at large, end-user customer bases. Strong software design, coding and debugging skills and technical expertise in C++, COM, and XML are a must. Experience developing user interfaces with Win32 and/or HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a strongly preferred. Experience building voice & video communications software is preferred. The candidate must also have strong customer focus, be able to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, demonstrate technical leadership for other software engineers, and be able to deliver results on schedule. A B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline is strongly preferred.

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EU ready for decisive measures on debt crisis: French PM (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? The European Union is ready to adopt decisive measures to tackle its sovereign debt crisis, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday.

"Member states, including France and Germany, and various EU institutions are ready to take decisive measures," Fillon told reporters after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

EU leaders hold talks Sunday to try to hammer out a comprehensive plan for tackling the euro zone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until another summit on Wednesday.

France hosts the Group of 20 summit early next month and Europe's efforts to contain its debt crisis will be a key issue on the summit's agenda.

(Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)

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Obama: Gadhafi, Iraq show renewed US leadership

President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says the death of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and the end of the Iraq war are powerful reminders of America's renewed leadership in the world.

At the same time, Obama said Saturday that the U.S. now must tackle its "greatest challenge as a nation" ? rebuilding a weak economy and creating jobs ? with the "same urgency and unity that our troops brought to their fight."

Obama informed the nation on Friday that the long and costly war in Iraq will be over by the end of the year and that some 40,000 U.S. servicemen and women still there "will definitely be home for the holidays."

A day earlier, he hailed the killing of Libya's longtime leader as a "momentous day" in the history of a country that Gadhafi had ruled for decades through tyranny.

Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address that these foreign policy successes were part of a larger story.

"This week, we had two powerful reminders of how we've renewed American leadership in the world," Obama said. "After a decade of war, we're turning the page and moving forward, with strength and confidence."

He said withdrawing troops from Iraq has allowed the U.S. to focus on Afghanistan and score major victories against al-Qaida, including the killing in May of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Troops also have been coming home from Afghanistan.

Obama said ending both wars will allow the U.S. to focus on rebuilding a weak economy so it can start creating enough jobs to reduce high levels of unemployment. That could possibly aid his re-election bid, which is being jeopardized by the tough financial circumstances.

"Over the past decade, we spent a trillion dollars on war, borrowed heavily from overseas and invested too little in the greatest source of our national strength ? our own people," the president said. "Now, the nation we need to build is our own."

In the Republicans' weekly message, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., bemoaned 32 consecutive months with unemployment above 8 percent.

While Obama on Saturday called anew or passage of his $447 billion jobs bill, Burr urged action on a Republican alternative.

Senate Republicans recently blocked Obama's overall bill, leaving Democrats in charge of the chamber to try to pass it piece by piece. But Republican senators also blocked action on the first component of the larger bill, a $35 billion measure to boost hiring of teachers and emergency services workers.

In turn, Democrats stalled a measure both parties support that would stop the government from withholding 3 percent of payments to government contractors.

A test vote is expected next month, after the Senate returns from vacation, on a $60 billion bill to finance construction of roads, bridges and other public works projects.

Burr said people are hurting and the economy is in "grave danger."

"It's time for Congress to focus on the American people and not how difficult change might be," he said. "It's time stop playing games and to get on with the serious business that the American people expect from us."

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Online:

Obama address: www.whitehouse.gov

GOP address: www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress

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NATO tries to remove Kosovo Serb roadblocks

A car passes by a billboard that reads "This is Serbia", on the road near Zubin Potok, Kosovo, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. The commander of NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo again warned Serbs on Friday to remove their roadblocks in the north of the country or force would have to be used to lift the blockade. Maj. Gen. Erhard Drews said he supports the peaceful resolution of the standoff between his troops and hundreds of Serbs manning the roadblocks which are hampering the freedom of movement in the Serb-controlled region.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A car passes by a billboard that reads "This is Serbia", on the road near Zubin Potok, Kosovo, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. The commander of NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo again warned Serbs on Friday to remove their roadblocks in the north of the country or force would have to be used to lift the blockade. Maj. Gen. Erhard Drews said he supports the peaceful resolution of the standoff between his troops and hundreds of Serbs manning the roadblocks which are hampering the freedom of movement in the Serb-controlled region.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Kosovo Serbs draw the Serbian coat of arms in the northern, Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. The commander of NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo again warned Serbs on Friday to remove their roadblocks in the north of the country or force would have to be used to lift the blockade. Maj. Gen. Erhard Drews said he supports the peaceful resolution of the standoff between his troops and hundreds of Serbs manning the roadblocks which are hampering the freedom of movement in the Serb-controlled region. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) ? NATO-led peacekeepers tried to remove roadblocks in northern Kosovo on Saturday, but were prevented by Serbs guarding the blockade that has paralyzed travel in the tense region.

The troops in full riot gear tried overnight to push through three of the 16 roadblocks formed from vehicles, rocks, mud and logs. But they were met by hundreds of Serbs who sat on the roads to stop the advance.

No force was used and no injuries were reported during the tense six-hour standoff.

Kosovo Serbs have been blocking roads to stop the country's ethnic Albanian leadership from extending its control over the part of the country populated mostly by ethnic Serbs.

Serbs reject Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and consider the region a part of neighboring Serbia. They say the peacekeepers are biased against them.

The NATO-led troops say they want to establish freedom of movement for all citizens and ensure supply of their troops stationed in Kosovo.

In July, ethnic Albanian authorities deployed their security forces to two border posts in northern Kosovo to enforce a trade ban with Serbia. Serbs reacted by blocking roads and triggering clashes with Kosovo police that left one police officer dead.

Kosovo Serb leaders say they are willing to negotiate free passage for the 5,500-strong peacekeeping force ? known as KFOR ? but only if it doesn't transport Kosovo officials.

"As long as KFOR tries to deploy Kosovo authorities in the north of Kosovo by force, freedom of movement is impossible," said Kosovo Serb official Slavisa Ristic.

On Friday, the commander of NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo Maj. Gen. Erhard Drews again told Serbs to remove their roadblocks, warning that otherwise force would have to be used.

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Associated Press writer Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade.

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Plane diverted over screaming passenger

By Joy Jernigan, senior travel editor

A passenger who reportedly was screaming obscenities prompted a Southwest Airlines flight to divert to Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday.

Flight 3683 was enroute from Los Angeles to Kansas City when a male passenger reportedly began making a disturbance. The Transportation Security Administration told NBC News that man was screaming.

Amarillo Aviation Director Patrick Rhodes told the Amarillo Globe-News that the flight crew asked for emergency clearance to land?around 3:30?p.m. CDT. Despite earlier reports that the man was attempting to break into the cockpit, Rhodes told the newspaper that?the passenger "was being disruptive and unruly on the flight, but he was not specifically trying to break into the cockpit.?

Passenger Doug Oerding told the newspaper that the man started screaming obsenities at other passengers during the flight. ?All of us guys were looking at him like are we going to have to do something,? Oerding said.

The?Globe-News reported that Ali Reza Shahsauri, 29, of California, was arrested on a charge of interfering with a flight crew. The FBI was investigating.

Southwest spokesperson Ashley Dillon told NBC News that the plane?was carrying?136 passengers.

After a delay of just over an hour, the?Southwest flight?continued on to Kansas City.

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Older Americans hit hardest by recession

By Allison Linn

The recession and weak recovery have been difficult for all Americans, but a new government report suggests that older people may be particularly vulnerable to the downturn?s worrisome effects on long-term economic security.

That?s partly because Americans 55 and older have less time to catch up on retirement savings and recover from housing market losses before they stop working, the Government Accountability Office report found.

In addition, although older workers haven?t been as hard-hit by unemployment, government data show that when they do lose a job, they?have a much tougher time finding a new one.

For many older Americans, the most immediate effect of the economic downturn has been the hit to their nest egg. The report noted that many older?Americans simply don?t have time to wait for the stock market to recover and home values to start rising again.

That means they may?have to delay retirement or resign themselves to living on much less in their golden years.

Meanwhile they?have to grapple with how to pay for rising health care costs and may have to make difficult choices between covering medical costs and?other expenses.

The report also noted that it has been extremely difficult for older workers who lose jobs to find new ones.

The unemployment rate for Americans 55 and over was 6.7 percent in September, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That?s far lower than the overall unemployment rate of 9.1 percent.

But for workers 55 to 64 years old, the median duration of unemployment is 43 weeks. That compares to an overall median duration of 22 weeks, according to the most recent BLS data.

The report found that in some ways, Americans ages 55 to 64 were hit worse than those who are 65 and older. Household income for 55- to 64-year-olds fell 6 percent from 2007 to?2010, the report found, and poverty rates increased.

For adults 65 and older?household income rose?5 percent?and the poverty rate declined.

The report also shows that?Social Security is a?lifeline and safety net for many older Americans.?Testimony associated with the GAO report noted that Social Security provides a little more than one-third of aggregate income for households that include someone?65 or older. Not surprisingly, low- and middle-income households are likely to lean much more heavily on Social Security to cover expenses.

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