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Trash downtown is getting a high tech makeover. A program has launched 4 new, solar powered trash cans. Each one contains a bin for paper, bottles, and trash. When the levels get too high the solar senses take action and compact the trash. This will help reduce the amount of trips taken to empty the cans. They cans are located at the Downtown Library, The Bricktown Ballpark, and two at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.High Tech Trash

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Oklahoma schools hit by tornado had no safe rooms
May 21, 2013 21:14 GMT

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in more than 100 schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them.

Albert Ashwood is director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. He told reporters Tuesday it's up to each jurisdiction to set priorities for which schools get limited funding for safe rooms.

Ashwood says a shelter would not necessarily have saved more lives at the Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children sheltering in above-ground classrooms were killed. He says no disaster mitigation measure is absolute.

He says authorities are going to review which schools have safe rooms and try to get them in more schools across the state.

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