As the government begins deploying whole-body imaging machines to replace metal detectors at airports nationwide, some security experts worry that the new technology could make it easier, not harder, to sneak weapons and explosives onto airplanes, according to the Los Angeles Times. (See item 31)
Heavy rain and storm runoff that swelled creeks and rivers briefly threatened a small hospital and forced the evacuation of a small town in central Nebraska Saturday, The Associated Press reports. North Loup, a town of about 340 in central Nebraska’s Valley County, was evacuated because of street flooding that followed failure of a small dam, state officials said. (See item 65)
