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• "You couldn't walk. The water was going so fast through here right over this bridge and right on down the street," he said. "My nephew tried to go through there and they stopped him, and the Fire Department said 'don't walk through here, you won't make it.'"
• Wind gusts estimated at more than 70 mph buffeted Flandreau late Saturday and early Sunday, tearing off tree limbs, knocking a mobile home off its foundation and tearing the roof from the Big Sioux Baptist Mission and dropping it onto a house.
• "It's amazing how it lifted it clear off and carried it clear over a half block away and dropped it on their roof." Pastor Ray Scott told KSFY. No one was hurt, he said.
• Hail caused an estimated $1 million in damage to hundreds of vehicles at a Mitchell auto dealership, KELO reported. The heavy rain made some roads unsafe, including state Highway 19 near Madison, which was closed early Monday. The rain also filled farm fields and swelled many rivers, including the Big Sioux, the James and the Little Vermillion. Some were at or near major flood stage early Monday.
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Rapid City bar damaged by Sunday fire; no one hurt
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a weekend fire that damaged a Rapid City bar.
• Firefighters quickly extinguished the small blaze Sunday afternoon at Teddy's Sports Grill, but the building was filled with smoke. Manager Doug Roth says he expects to reopen on Wednesday.
• No one was in the bar at the time of the fire, and there were no injuries.
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AP News in Brief
FBI studies 'undetectable' device after CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the FBI's explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, U.S. officials said.
• The unexploded bomb represents an intelligence prize, the result of a covert CIA operation in Yemen that thwarted a suicide mission around the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, officials said. The device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear (Continued on page 26)
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