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Still, meteorologists say most of the storm's fierce hurricane-force winds should stay out to sea until it nears Cape Cod, Maine and Canada. Weather Prediction Center lead forecaster Bob Oravec says the fast-moving system can bring 70 mph (113 kph) wind gusts to coastal New England.

Canister rounds disperse a wide-range of scattering small projectiles to increase anti-personnel lethality and, for example, destroy groups of individual enemy fighters. The Canister round was first introduced in 2005 by the Army to engage and defeat dismounted Infantry, specifically to defeat close-in human-wave assaults. The M1028 Canister round is the third tank round being replaced.

We also reviewed federal defect investigations, industry technical bulletins, class-action lawsuits, and U. and international reports on sunroof explosions. For this special report, we talked with owners who experienced these explosions and with automakers, regulators, glass and structural engineers, and industry and safety experts.

Both citrus and strawberry growers protect their crops by running irrigation systems once the temperature dips toward 32 degrees. The freezing water creates ice, which releases heat that protects the fruit.

"The laws of physics say this is not possible," Rashid says. And he says any rock spit out from his own car's tires would have flown backward, not up toward the roof. Rashid says he knew the temperature didn't fluctuate much that day (CR confirmed), and no other vehicles were nearby.

Tempered glass is nearly always used in sunroofs because it meets the existing standard. Tempered glass, experts say, is sufficient when sunroofs are small and flat but not for those that are large and curved. It's the same kind of glass used in side and rear windows and is generally strong.

The Army has received delivery of its first of six newly-upgraded MIA2 SEP v3 Abrams Main Battle Tank pilot tank vehicles — specifically engineered to keep pace with fast changing technology and counter major armored warfare threats for decades to come.

The card has been constructed such that you can remove it and replace it without damaging it," Kotchman said. "Similarly, when new capability is introduced or increased computing power is required, changes can be made at the card level rather than redesigning the entire unit. "The principle difference between the Line Replaceable Unit and Module is modularity. Under the Line Replaceable Module concept, internal diagnostics isolates and determines failure at the card level. Currently to initiate a repair or an upgrade of a LRU, you must remove the entire unit from the tank, take it to a test bench and make the changes.

The automakers' response
In all, Consumer Reports reached out to 17 automakers to find out, among other things, how often they've heard from their customers about exploding sunroofs, whether they've detected any telling patterns, and if they would support a standard of glass that would make shatterings less likely.

In their investigation, South Korean car safety regulators found that a step in the manufacturing process known as "ceramic printing"—used to coat some of the glass, creating a darker area that hides mechanical parts—can make portions of the pane weaker and more vulnerable to shattering.

Shattered sunroofs have been reported in  vehicles representing 35 brands over the last 20-plus years in the U. , based on CR's analysis of the consumer complaints database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
. Shattered sunroofs have been reported in at least 208 models of vehicles representing 35 brands over the last 20-plus years in the U.

The company's investigation blamed the high number of incidents on a malfunctioning "unloading station robot" that could have damaged the glass during the manufacturing process. When asked to explain the recent decline in Veloster shattering incidents, Hyundai told CR its recall had solved the original problem.

Further complicating the safety equation are the pressures every automaker feels to reduce costs and to keep vehicles lighter for better gas mileage. Automakers generally use the thinnest glass they can—about half a centimeter thick.

These incidents have happened in every month of the year in every part of the country, in vehicles from all over the world; they have occurred on interstates, on country roads, and even while parked in driveways.

Two resulted in automaker recalls while the models were under NHTSA investigation—for the 2012 Hyundai Veloster and the 2004 Nissan Maxima. Those two models are among the top 10 in consumer complaints. NHTSA can investigate and order recalls. Aside from its current investigation into the Sorento, the agency has conducted four previous sunroof-defect investigations since 2004. Two others closed with no defect identified—the 2004 - 2006 Cadillac SRX and the 2005 - 2006 Scion tC.

He recalls going to sleep in a hotel room with glass shards still in his hair. Shaken, and far from home on a remote highway, with ears still ringing, he waited hours for a tow truck to take him to the nearest Toyota dealer.Icicles form on a outdoor string of lights as temperatures struggle to get above freezing Tuesday, Jan. Plunging overnight temperatures in Texas brought rare snow flurries as far south as Austin, and accidents racked up on icy roads across the state. In the central Texas city of Abilene, the local police chief said more than three dozen vehicle crashes were reported in 24 hours. ( Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh-based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and "thermal shock"—the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

The National Weather Service said a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain was expected Wednesday mostly along the Southeast's Atlantic coast. 5 centimeters) of snow could fall in Tallahassee, Florida, while 3 to 5 inches (8 to 13 centimeters) are possible in parts of North Carolina.

89 feet above the average of highest tide readings for the day. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration verified Friday that water levels at the federal agency's Boston tide gauge reached a peak of 4.

Research shows that using laminated glass—two panes fused by a sheet of plastic and designed to hold its form even when shattered—could reduce ejections in other parts of the car. In 2011, NHTSA toughened standards to prevent occupants from being ejected through side windows during a rollover but chose not to issue a similar requirement for sunroofs.

But there's no reason sunroofs can't be big, spectacular—and safe. Auto-glass experts and structural engineers CR spoke with say there are ways to make sunroofs safer, beginning with the kind of glass they're made of.

Valerie Hinkle collects kindling along the edge of the partially frozen Hudson River in Beacon, N. Hinkle was concerned that in incoming storm might knock out the power and she wanted to able to build a fire. Bitterly cold temperatures gripped much of the nation on Tuesday, testing the mettle of even winter-wise northerners and delivering a shock to those accustomed to far milder weather in the South.

Consumer Reports has identified about a dozen class-action lawsuits in the U. involving shattered sunroofs, finding complaints against Hyundai, Kia, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen, among others. Generally, these suits assert that automakers are failing to protect car owners, knowingly selling vehicles with safety defects, and not honoring warranties.

The Scion tC
, Hyundai Veloster
, Kia Sorento
, Nissan Murano
, and Kia Optima
 were the most-cited models. The Sorento is the only car currently under investigation by NHTSA. Some automakers—Hyundai, Ford, Nissan, Kia, and Toyota, for example—are more represented among the NHTSA complaints.

"When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach," says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports. "They don't need to wait for NHTSA to prod them.

A spokesman for both brands told CR, "We take the safety of our products seriously. Audi and Volkswagen have issued sunroof recalls without NHTSA first opening an investigation, Audi for its 2012 Q5 and the 2013 - 2014 A8 and S8, and Volkswagen for its 2013 - 2015 Beetle.

Icicles hang from the "Welcome to Hilliard sign" in Hilliard, Fla. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP) A brutal winter storm scattered a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from normally balmy Florida up the Southeast seaboard Wednesday.

CR's analysis of the available government and industry sunroof failure data suggests that the problem is spread across the industry but is more prevalent in some brands—notably Kia and Hyundai—than their overall market share would indicate.

Rear view sensors and laser detection systems are part of these v4 upgrades as well. Also, newly configured meteorological sensors will better enable Abrams tanks to anticipate and adapt to changing weather or combat conditions more quickly, Army officials said.

3, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Seeing her first winter weather, 9-month-old Roxie, eats snow off the ground of the public basketball courts at Forsyth Park, Wednesday, Jan. A brutal winter storm scattered a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from normally balmy Florida up the Southeast seaboard Wednesday.

Advanced networking technology with next-generation sights, sensors, targeting systems and digital networking technology — are all key elements of an ongoing upgrade to position the platform to successfully engage in combat against rapidly emerging threats, such as the prospect of confronting a Russian T-14 Armata or Chinese 3rd generation Type 99 tank.Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) A woman passes an ice-covered fountain in New York's Bryant Park, Friday, Jan.

A chip at that edge can make the glass vulnerable to failure, which, with tempered glass, means an explosion. For example, Corsi says one quality-control issue involves the beveled edge that surrounds the perimeter of roof glass.

Three relatives of the 13-year-old girl killed - a man in his 40s, a 21-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl - remain in critical condition after the exposure at a 12-unit building Thursday afternoon. Perth Amboy police say at least 35 people were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, including at least seven police officers.

In the greater Hampton area of southeast Virginia, authorities told The Virginia-Pilot that a 75-year-old private contractor, Barry Hale, was hit by the plow shortly after midday Thursday while clearing snow from parking lots in Buckroe. A police statement says the Virginia Department of Labor will conduct a follow-up investigation. He died at a local hospital of his injuries.

A massive front is bringing some of the coldest temperatures in years to parts of Florida. Weather warnings forced some school districts in Florida's northern counties to close just as students were set to return after a winter break.

The weather service says wind chill values could drop to minus 5 degrees (minus 20 Celsius) in the state's northeastern corner. More than 10 city and county school systems in north Alabama say they are delaying the beginning of classes on Thursday and Friday because of the morning chill.

Snow has been cleared on the state's major highways, however motorists are advised to use caution because of icy spots. Speeds have been reduced on the Betsy Ross, Commodore Barry, Ben Franklin and Walt Whitman bridges.

In central Florida, the state's largest theme parks announced that water attractions such as Disney's Typhoon Lagoon, Universal Orlando's Volcano Bay and SeaWorld's Aquatica were closed Wednesday because of the cold snap.

The city has declared an emergency and is hiring outside contractors to help repair water main breaks. Jackson city spokeswoman Kai Williams said Wednesday that the city knew of 37 separate water main breaks that it attributed to cold.

He tried to get the lipstick red luxury car to the repair shop Thursday morning, as a massive storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the state. WPRI-TV reports the roof on John Pratt's Mercedes-Benz has been broken for about a month.

East Coast residents are bracing for a deep freeze a day after a winter storm dumped as much as 18 inches of snow (46 centimeters) and unleashed bitter cold, hurricane-force winds and historic coastal flooding from the Carolinas to Maine.

He's heading to Portland, Maine, for a 10-day creative writing program just as sub-zero temperatures are hitting. He says he likes the snow and the cold weather and is prepared. He says he's been in minus 60-degree temperatures in Alaska, so minus 20 doesn't frighten him.

The SEP v4 variant, slated to being testing in 2021, will include new laser rangefinder technology, color cameras, integrated on-board networks, new slip-rings, advanced meteorological sensors, ammunition data links, laser warning receivers and a far more lethal, multi-purpose 120 mm tank round, Army developers told Scout Warrior.

A 2012 Kia Optima owner wrote, "Either I was struck by a meteorite or Kia has defective glass. (NHTSA redacts names in the self-reported complaints. " The driver, from Houston, reported minor glass cuts.

7 centimeters) of snow in Charleston, South Carolina, as a winter storm blasted the Southeast coast and dumped snow as far south as Florida. The National Weather Service on Wednesday recorded 5 inches (12.

• Regulators should expand their investigation of the Sorento to include other automakers and models. There is enough evidence to consider this a safety defect, Friedman says, and NHTSA should not wait for serious injuries to act.

Warming shelters were opened across the South as freeze watches and warnings blanketed the region, including hard freeze warnings for much of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. A man rides his bicycle along U. (John Fitzhugh/The Sun Herald via AP)

The safety agency requested automaker data and other information on shattering sunroofs from 13 manufacturers as part of its defect investigation into the Sorento, but hasn't publicly shared all of what it learned. Documents from five of the 13 responses are posted on NHTSA's website, but even among those five, key responses are redacted or missing.

One problem is that modern designs are more three-dimensional and often involve bending glass to the curvature of the roof, notes Rob Vandal, senior director of research and development with Guardian Glass, a major American automotive glass supplier. That makes them more susceptible to impacts, even from very small objects, Vandal says, because they present a more vertical surface for an offending object to strike.In Savannah, a coastal city that hasn't seen measurable snowfall since February 2010, up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of snow and sleet were forecast. As city officials filled dump trucks with sand to spread on major streets, Mayor Eddie DeLoach urged residents to stay home and keep off the roads.

regulators, Kia has told NHTSA it has at least 156 Sorento sunroof cases in its own records. Kia Optima owners have filed at least 25 reports with regulators, but the company told NHTSA it is aware of 173 shattered Optima sunroofs. While owners of Kia Sorentos have filed at least 43 reports of shattered sunroofs with U.

dollar in 2009 after hyperinflation destroyed the local currency, giving a rare period of economic stability. Zimbabwe adopted the U. However, severe shortages of dollar cash have set in, leaving Zimbabweans with electronic units in their accounts which are officially dollars but in reality worth far less and depreciating fast.

In addition to receiving a common high-resolution display for gunner and commander stations, some of the current electronics, called Line Replaceable Units, will be replaced with new Line Replaceable Modules including the commander's display unit, driver's control panel, gunner's control panel, turret control unit and a common high-resolution display, developers from General Dynamics Land Systems say.

Bulletins typically tell dealers how to fix a known problem, but only after a consumer complains. Bulletins aren't an admission of a safety defect, and repairs aren't necessarily free. Other, less transparent approaches are available to automakers, like "technical service bulletins" sent to dealers. Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, and Toyota have dealt with various sunroof fixes, including leaks, in this way.

More than half the flights scheduled for Thursday at Boston Logan International Airport had been scrubbed, and so had nearly half the flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Tracking service FlightAware. com says more than 1,700 flights have been canceled Thursday. Two other New York-area airports, JFK and Newark, were also hit hard along with smaller airports in the Northeast.

US soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division move to their battle position during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 11, 2016.

"As we all know, the way to hell is paved with good intentions," said Gary van Staden at NKC African Economics. "The current euphoria in Zimbabwe over the prospect of a post-Mugabe era needs to be tempered by the understanding that what follows may not necessarily be much better.

This current mobility and power upgrade, among other things, adds an auxiliary power unit for fuel efficiency and on-board electrical systems, improved armor materials, upgraded engines and transmission and a 28-volt upgraded drive system.

Authorities say a girl struck by a pickup truck while sledding and a 75-year-old man hit by a snow plow while clearing business parking lots have died in Virginia in the aftermath of the East Coast snowstorm.

" Officials also warn that dangerous driving conditions persist across the area. In a tweet, the National Weather Service in Tallahassee said points to the east are getting "steady freezing rain, sleet and snow.

However, Australian-listed platinum producer Zimplats has seen its shares drop nearly 40 percent since the start of the year. In August, Zimbabwe filed a court application to enforce a previous notice to seize more than half of Zimplat's mining land.

For consumers, the pain comes in waves, first when they have to live through the experience, and then when negotiating repairs and determining who pays. , man with an exploded sunroof on his 2013 Ford F-150
pickup truck wrote, "Ford customer service denied my warranty claim, so I had to get it repaired under my insurance and pay the difference," which, he said, came to $1,009.

Airlines have already canceled 500 U. flights on Wednesday because of a winter storm socking the Southeast, and many more will be scuttled Thursday as the brunt of the winter weather is expected to hit the Northeast.

Cambria Africa Plc - a Zimbabwe investment company listed on London's junior stock market - has gained more than 35 percent since the start of the year compared with a 21 percent rise in the overall Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

The Army is looking at a range of domestically produced and allied international solutions from companies participating in the Army's Modular Active Protection Systems (MAPS) program, an Army official told Scout Warrior.

Many predicted there would be no going back for Zimbabwe with the military intervention designed to cut off Mugabe's succession plans. But for many analysts, it was too early to tell what the future would hold for Zimbabwe.

Passengers took a portable stairwell onto the tarmac and walked into the airport building. Then the airline provided ground transportation. The runway was long enough, but the gates were too small for the plane.Firefighters in Newark are working to extinguish a fire that started in a vacant building then spread to two adjacent structures before gusty winds carried the flames across the street to two more buildings.

It's also clear that the safety standards and regulatory oversight of sunroofs have not kept pace with those dramatic size and design changes and that more needs to be done to guarantee they are safe. Our investigation has found that, with a few exceptions, automakers are not acknowledging or resolving the issue.

Most stockbrokers here in the UK will not let you open an account for compliance reasons," he said. "It is extremely complicated to get a local account if you want to invest on the ground. "The challenge has always been: How do you get your money out at the other end?

As fires burned in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, firefighters from other states were already in place north of San Diego on Thursday when a major fire erupted and rapidly spread in the Fallbrook area, known for its avocado groves and horse stables in the rolling hills.

Active Protection Systems
As part of this broad effort to accelerate Abrams technological advancement into future decades, the Army is fast-tracking an emerging technology for Abrams tanks designed to give combat vehicles an opportunity to identify, track and destroy approaching enemy rocket-propelled grenades in a matter of milliseconds, service officials said.

3, 2018, along Philips Highway in Jacksonville, Fla. A pedestrian's makeshift raincoat blows in the rainy cold weather Wednesday, Jan. (Will Dickey/The Florida Times-Union via AP) A hard freeze with possible icy roads is predicted overnight.

The fire swept through the San Luis Rey Training Facility, where it killed more than 40 elite thoroughbreds and destroyed more than 100 homes - most of them in the Rancho Monserate Country Club retirement community. Three people were burned trying to escape the fire that continued to smolder Saturday.

One death, so far, a 70-year-old woman who crashed her car on an evacuation route, is attributed to the fire in Santa Paula, a small city next to Ventura where the fire began. Overall, the fires have destroyed nearly 800 homes and other buildings, killed dozens of horses and forced more than 200,000 people to flee flames that have burned over 270 square miles (700 square kilometers) since Monday.

People might presume there are adequate safety standards for such a prominent feature as a panoramic sunroof. Consumers must rely on a manufacturer's quality control and regulatory diligence. A range of remedies
All of this makes it nearly impossible to differentiate a stable sunroof from a vulnerable one.

5, 2018, in Newark, N. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Gusty winds carried the flames to two buildings across the street. The fire broke out in a vacant structure in Newark early Friday morning in the area of 9th Avenue and South 14th Street and spread to two adjacent structures. Icicles and a sheet of ice cover a burned out vehicle parked adjacent to a building that caught fire, Friday, Jan.

AMP also provides two additional capabilities: defeat of enemy dismounts, especially enemy anti-tank guided missile, or ATMG, teams at a distance, and breaching walls in support of dismounted Infantry operations.

The Ventura blaze continued to burn into rugged mountains in the Los Padres National Forest near the little town of Ojai and toward a preserve established for endangered California condors. While many evacuation orders were lifted, new ones were established as the fire grew.

The international community has been aggressive in trying to solve for this vulnerability—first prompted by South Korean regulators looking into a spate of complaints in 2013 linked to cars from the Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia, and a few others.

Images posted to the hospital's Facebook page show one patient making a table-sized snowman - complete with a hat and scarf. Mary's Healthcare System for Children in Queens brought in plenty of snow for the children who are patients there to build snowmen or go sledding indoors during the Thursday snowstorm.

While Army officials explain that many of the details of the next-gen systems for the future tanks are not available for security reasons, Army developers did explain that the lethality upgrade, referred to as an Engineering Change Proposal, or ECP, is centered around the integration of a higher-tech 3rd generation FLIR — Forward Looking Infrared imaging sensor.

The advanced FLIR uses higher resolution and digital imaging along with an increased ability to detect enemy signatures at farther ranges through various obscurants such as rain, dust or fog, Army official said.

McCready had just made his 25-mile commute from Savannah to Bluffton, South Carolina, before dawn Wednesday, only to go back home after 30 minutes at the office. "On my way back, I slid a little bit on a couple of bridges.

The flooding sent large trash containers floating down Boston streets, forced the shutdown of a subway station as water cascaded down the steps and prompted rescues of people trapped in cars and homes in Boston and several other Massachusetts communities by rapidly rising waters.5-million-dollars had been approved for housing assistance for victims, mainly for help with rent of up to $2,000 a month. Victims are also eligible for a one-time payout of $500 to cover "critical needs" such as diapers, infant formula, food and fuel.

3, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Children from the Hoffman and Lynns families build a snowman on the public basketball courts in Forsyth Park, Wednesday, Jan. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency through Friday for at least 28 counties because of the frigid weather.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urged owners to heed Ford's warning. "It is extremely important that all high-risk air bags are tracked down and replaced immediately," NHTSA spokeswoman Karen Aldana said.

"The Abrams has been around since early 80s, and the original designers were forward thinking to build in the provisions for continual upgrade. Over the years, there have been significant improvements in sensor capabilities, power generation, mobility, lethality, survivability, armor and situational awareness," Donald Kotchman, Vice President, Tracked Combat Vehicles, General Dynamics Land Systems, told Scout Warrior in an interview.

The Army-GDLS deal is also the first contract is for SEPv4 upgrades, which include the Commander's Primary Sight, an improved Gunner's Primary Sight and enhancements to sensors, lethality and survivability.

The integration will allow Ola Play to perform features such as predictive maintenance, navigation, and vehicle diagnostics through Microsoft's connected car suite. The platform could then trigger an automated alert to tell the driver when the battery will soon need to be replaced. This could involve, for instance, the platform collecting data on a car's battery usage and sending it to the Azure cloud to be analyzed.

The company was founded by a handful of former members of Carnegie Mellon's robotics institute back in 2011. Near Earth Autonomy is developing software and sensors to enable drones and other aircraft to fly themselves autonomously. Shortly thereafter, it worked with the US Army to develop and trial one of the world's first full-size, self-flying helicopters.

Ken Pimlott, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said authorities were prepared for destruction on the level of 2003 and 2007 firestorms in Southern California and possibly those in Northern California that killed 44 people and destroyed nearly 9,000 homes and other buildings in October.

"We had many resources in the area very quickly on this incident, but unfortunately within several minutes the fire had gotten out of control and well-established, and necessitated massive evacuations," said Steve Abbott, chief of the North County Fire Protection District.

This lack of transparency on the true extent of this widespread safety issue may be why the problem has yet to fully bubble up into the public consciousness or to attract the serious attention of U. And it may be why consumers seeking remuneration have turned to joining class-action lawsuits brought against individual automakers.

High fire risk is expected to last into January and the governor and experts said climate change is making it a year-round threat. Even as firefighters made progress containing six major wildfires from Santa Barbara to San Diego County and most evacuees were allowed to return home, predicted gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) through Sunday posed a threat of flaring up existing blazes or spreading new ones.

At least 21 deaths worldwide are linked to the Takata inflators that can rupture and send deadly metal fragments inside vehicles. The faulty inflators have led to the largest automotive recall in history. Ford said both Takata deaths occurred with inflators built on the same day installed in 2006 Ranger pickups. The other 19 deaths have occurred in Honda Motor Co vehicles, most of which were in the United States.

The wind-swept blazes have forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California. Dick Marsala looks through debris from his destroyed home after a wildfire roared through the Rancho Monserate Country Club Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, in Bonsall, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Lemaitre said one of the big changes since Katrina is that FEMA is more pro-active in getting help to people faster. Victims can sign up online via FEMA's new app. The agency also sends teams out into shelters to register people on the spot.

Calling it an act of God feels like an old industry playbook for a new car feature. Based on the number of complaints, Jason Levine, executive director at the Center for Auto Safety, says, "Something is going on. The fact the roof is half glass instead of a quarter glass or no glass doesn't change the responsibility of the industry and the individual automaker to make sure the compartment is as safe as possible," he says, adding, "The concern has to be for safety first, and then the aesthetics.Systems of this kind have been in development for many years, however the rapid technological progress of enemy tank rounds, missiles and RPGs is leading the Army to more rapidly test and develop APS for its fleet of Abrams tanks.

, gets a hug from a woman who did not give her name after she arrived to find her house was intact in the Rancho Monserate Country Club, Friday, Dec. Firefighter Simon Garcia, of Heartland Fire Dept. The wind-swept blazes have forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California. 8, 2017, in Fallbrook, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

On Tuesday they brought in more helicopters from the National Guard and "every last plane we could find in the nation," said Thom Porter, southern chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

It's not known whether criminals have been able to carry out such attacks as neither Meltdown nor Spectre leave any traces in log files. Both would enable a hacker to access secret passwords or photos from desktops, laptops, cloud servers or smartphones.