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Newsfeed LANSING, MICH. Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Sny- der says he will quickly sign legislation gradually raising the state's minimum wage to $9.25 an hour by 2018 to pre- clude a pending ballot initia- tive to increase the hourly minimum to $10.10. The current hourly wage is $7.40. The Republican-led House voted 76-34 and the GOP- controlled Senate 24-12 Tuesday to send the bill to Republican Gov. Rick Sny- der, who's expected to sign it later in the evening. The compromise was struck a day before a com- mittee turns in petition sig- natures for a higher mini- mum wage hike. The bill going to Snyder includes a provision requir- ing the minimum wage to grow with inflation once it hits $9.25 an hour. It also would raise the wage for workers who get tips to 38 percent of the min- imum wage. PAY Michigangovernor to sign $9.25 hour SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA South Korean officials say 20 patients and a nurse have died in a fire at a hospital in the southwestern city of Jangseong. An officer with the Jang- seong Fire Department says that most of the victims were elderly patients. The officer spoke on condition of anonym- ity because of office rules. The officer says the vic- tims died after suffocating on poisonous gas. The officer says there were 33 patients and a nurse on duty when the fire broke out on the second floor of an annex of Hyosarang Hospital early Wednesday morning. Seven people were injured The fire was put out af- ter about seven minutes. The cause was not immediately known. The fire comes as South Korean officials are still searching for missing passen- gers from a ferry sinking last month that killed or left miss- ing more than 300 people. SOUTH KOREA Officials: Fire kills 20 patients in hospital TERRE HAUTE, IND. Terre Haute police say they've solved a nearly 34-year-old double homicide. WTHI-TV and the Tri- bune-Star report 61-year- old California prison in- mate Harry Rowley has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the July 1980 fatal shoot- ings of 29-year-old Lucinda Farmer and 28-year-old Mary Quillen. Documents show Rowley and his wife resided in the same apartment complex as the victims, who were room- mates. Rowley has told investi- gators he shot the women after he saw them leaning on his car. A few days later, he and his wife packed up and left Indiana. He told them he was sorry for kill- ing the women and wanted to apologize to their fam- ilies. Rowley is serving a life sentence in California for an unrelated slaying. CORRECTIONS Inmate charged in 1980 double slaying CAIRO Egypt on Tuesday ex- tended its presidential election for a third day after reports of low voter turnout threatened to deprive the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Ab- del-Fattah el-Sissi, of the over- whelming show of public sup- port he seeks. Opponents and observers said the thin voting showed the extent of discontent with el-Sissi and his campaign, not just among his Islamist foes but among many in the pub- lic who fear the retired field marshal offers no solutions for Egypt's woes and will re- turn it to the autocratic ways of Hosni Mubarak, ousted in a 2011 uprising after 29 years in power. Throughout Tuesday, the second day of voting, officials and supporters of el-Sissi in the media urged voters to go to the polls. Scenes of empty polling stations drove el- Sissi supporters in the coun- try's TV stations into a froth, scolding Egyptians for not turning out. ELECTION Egypt extends presidential vote a day ABUJA, NIGERIA Nigeria's military chiefs and the presi- dent are apparently split over how to free nearly 300 school- girls abducted by Islamic ex- tremists, with the military saying use of force endangers the hostages and the presi- dent reportedly ruling out a prisoner-hostage swap. The defense chief, Air Mar- shal Alex Badeh, announced Monday night that the mili- tary has located the girls, but offered no details or a way for- ward. "We can't go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back," he said. Previous military at- tempts to free hostages have led to the prisoners being killed by their abductors, in- cluding the deaths of two en- gineers, a Briton and an Ital- ian, in Sokoto in March 2012. A human rights activist close to mediators said a swap of detained extremists for the girls was negotiated but fell through because President Goodluck Jonathan refused to consider an exchange. NIGERIA Impasse in rescue of kidnapped girls JPATCARTER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Joe Cione, who studies how storms interact with the ocean at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division, displays a drone he hopes to use this hurricane season for research. By Jennifer Kay The Associated Press MIAMI The point where the roiling ocean meets the fury of a hurricane's winds may hold the key to improving storm intensity forecasts — but it's nearly impossible for scientists to see. That may change this summer, thanks to post-Hur- ricane Sandy federal fund- ing and a handful of winged drones that can spend hours spiraling in a hurricane's dark places, transmitting data that could help forecast- ers understand what makes some storms fizzle while oth- ersstrengthenintomonsters. Knowing that information while a storm is still far off- shore could help emergency managers better plan for evacuations or storm surge risks. A hurricane is like an en- gine, and warm ocean water is its fuel. One secret, scien- tists say, is getting a better understanding of how the warmwatertransfersenergy to tropical storms. "We really need to get a better idea of what's go- ing on down there before we even look to improve our in- tensity forecast," said Joe Ci- one, who studies how storms interact with the ocean at the National Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Administration's Hurricane Research Divi- sion in Miami. Hurricane hunter air- craft typically don't fly be- low 5,000 feet and can't de- scend below 1,500 feet, and real-time radar doesn't pro- vide information about the thermodynamics at work in- side a storm's cloudy core. Canisters stuffed with elec- tronics dropped from the planes transmit data about a storm's pressure, temper- ature, winds and moisture as they fall to the ocean, but theyremainairborneforonly a few minutes. The kind of drone that Ci- one plans to launch from the hurricane hunters will spend hours descending slowly, cruising on the air currents spinning through a storm, possibly even orbiting a hur- ricane's eyewall. The amount of data the 3-foot, 7-pound drone — the Coyote, shaped like a thin missile with re- tractable wings — could col- lect in the lowest parts of a hurricane would give re- searchers a movie compared to the snapshots sent back by the canisters, Cione said. The drones have a pro- peller and are controlled by someone in the hurricane hunter aircraft, but they are designed to float on air cur- rents, not fly against strong winds. And the small drones are disposable — once they hit the water, they won't be recovered. Hurricane forecasters have gotten good at predict- ing where a storm is will hit, and the so-called "cone of uncertainty" that shows a storm'slikelypathwillshrink again this year. Improve- ments in predicting changes in the intensity of storms, though, have lagged. Several factors can alter a storm's intensity, such as cold water from the ocean's depths mixing with warm water at the surface, wind shear, the cyclical rebuilding of the wall of clouds that ring a hurricane's eye or a change in the energy a storm is pull- ing from the ocean. That last variable is what Cione calls a "data void region," and it's where the drones will aim. "There's a reason you don't have hurricanes over land — they need the wa- ter, they need that evapora- tion and condensation, which is the source of their energy. So, how does that happen?" Cione said. "If we can't sam- ple this region very well, very accurately, all the time, we could have the potential to miss how much energy is coming out of the ocean by a third or a half." Cione plans to test five or six drones in the peak of hurricane season, and pos- sibly next year, to see how well they communicate data in real time. The $1.25 mil- lion project is among a slew of other NOAA hurricane re- search funded by last year's Sandy supplemental bill that authorized $60 billion for di- saster relief agencies. The potential for the data collected by the drones is priceless, Cione said. "A lot of people talk about first responders, and I have the utmost respect for that, but we're sort of like pre- first-responders," Cione said. "Imagine these type of things out there 12 hours be- fore landfall, and it's a cate- gory higher than we think. Maybe that's the difference between evacuating people and not evacuating people." HIGH TECH Drones:Thenewesttool for studying hurricanes By Peter Leonard The Associated Press DONETSK, UKRAINE Doz- ens of dead insurgents lay piled in a van outside a morgue Tuesday, and a rebel said more were on the way. Bomb disposal ex- perts disarmed a mortar round lodged in a corpse. A wrecked and blood-soaked truck at the Donetsk air- port showed the grisly af- termath of battle. The fight for eastern Ukraine seems to have taken a ferocious turn, as both sides step up their at- tacks after the rebellious regions mostly boycotted a presidential election that delivered a decisive winner. Following a day and night oftheheaviestandmostsus- tained assault by Ukrainian government forces to date, the pro-Russia separatist movement finds itself facing an emboldened and resolute national leadership. With Sunday's election of billionairePetroPoroshenko to the presidency, Kiev has received grudging and ten- tatively positive diplomatic overtures from Russia. But with evidence that irregulars are continuing to pour into Ukraine from Russia, it remains unclear whether the Kremlin is en- couraging fighters whose attack Monday on the Do- netsk International Airport showed their increasing ag- gression. What is certain is that the Ukrainian govern- ment's anti-insurgent oper- ation has been kicked into a higher a gear, with the mili- tary unleashing fighter jets, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery. Government opponents insist they have taken up arms to defend eastern Ukraine's Russian-speak- ing population and have ap- pealed to Moscow for assis- tance.Kievcondemnsthein- surgentsas"terrorists"bent ontearingthecountryapart. Donetsk Mayor Olek- sandr Lukyanchenko said 40 people, including two civilians, were killed in fighting after government troops thwarted a rebel at- tempt to seize the airport, Ukraine's second-largest. The bodies of about 30 insurgents were brought Tuesday morning to the Ka- linin Hospital morgue, said Leonid Baranov of the self- proclaimed Donetsk Peo- ple's Republic. The fight- ers had been wounded and were being transported to a hospital in a truck when it was shot up by government forces, he said. Inside the morgue, bod- ies were stacked crudely in heaps. Some were missing limbs. Experts removed an unexploded mortar round that had embedded itself in one man's abdomen. Baranov said up to 100 rebels were probably killed in combat, but many bodies had not yet been recovered because they were in areas under government control. His death toll could not be independently confirmed. "As they are controlling the airport and the fight was there ... we cannot right now identify exactly how many victims we have," he said, adding that hundreds were also wounded. A bloody flatbed truck stood wrecked outside the airport, with body parts and teeth strewn around it. After being squeezed out of the airport following hours of intense fighting, in- surgents called in several hundred reinforcements. Many were from a unit calling itself the Vostok — or East — Battalion, which Donetsk People's Republic representatives have said includes combatants from Russia's North Caucasus. UKRAINE Fighting intensifies following election 365 S. 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