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SD satellite center helping with typhoon recovery
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A U.S. Geological Survey center in South Dakota is providing satellite images in the aftermath of the devastating typhoon in the Philippines.
• The Earth Resources Observation and Science Center north of Sioux Falls collects, archives and makes available for download more than 400 data-filled images of Earth each day.
• The center is providing information to the United Nations, the Red Cross and other agencies responding to the Philippines disaster, KELO-TV reported (http://bit.ly/17vX9pm ).
• "It's one of the South Dakota exports that probably is unmatched by anything that South Dakota has in terms of bringing data to the world," EROS spokesman Tom Holm said.
• The information is especially useful for search and rescue groups, scientist Brenda Jones said.
• "They know where the most devastation is and they can use it for air fields to determine if airports are still usable," she said. "To see what bridges and roads are damaged or usable for transportation, so they know how to get supplies in and out and people in and out."
• Typhoon Haiyan late last week killed thousands of people in the Philippines and displaced a half million more.
• "It's not often you see whole communities wiped out by a whole typhoon or a hurricane, so it's very tragic," Jones said.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. HOUSE GETS ITS SAY ON HEALTH CARE CANCELLATIONS
• Republicans are pushing ahead with their plan to permit companies to continue to sell the plans to new customers as well as existing ones.
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• 2. 'IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS, NOTHING IS FAST ENOUGH'
• Philippines Interior Secretary Mar Roxas defends his government's efforts to de (Continued on page 25)
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