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HOUSTON Authentic Alexander Wennberg Jersey , Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The metro region of Houston felt somewhat relieved Tuesday as Tropical Storm Harvey kept moving eastward, but risks of flooding still exist and the task to accommodate a rising number of people made homeless by the disaster is formidable.
The Barker Reservoir and Addicks Reservoir, the two major flood-control reservoirs for the Houston area, are spilling over into adjacent subdivisions. Officials warn that thousands of homes are at risk and have issued voluntary evacuations for at least 80 subdivisions.
By Monday night, at least 100-200 homes in adjacent subdivisions were flooded. Officials expect that more homes will be impacted throughout the week.
Outflows from the two reservoirs would eventually reach the Buffalo Bayou, a river which flows through the center of Houston.
According to the National Hurricane Center, a preliminary report from one Texas rain gauge has broken the Texas tropical cyclone rainfall record, which reaches 49.32 inches (about 125 cm), higher than the previous record of 48 inches (about 122 cm) set during tropical cyclone Amelia of 1978 at Medina, Texas.
The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison determined that many areas of southeast Texas have received rain that is expected to come around only once every 1,000 years.
The record-breaking precipitation brought by Harvey has made many residents homeless and they have to seek shelter.
The American Red Cross estimates that more than 17,000 Texans spent Monday night in one of 45 shelters open across the state, including about 9,000 people at downtown Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center.
The mayor's spokesman Alan Bernstein said Tuesday evening that it will soon begin moving 2,500 people taking shelter at the downtown George R. Brown Convention Center to help relieve the convention center, which was prepared for just 5,000 people.
An official of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coordinating federal Harvey relief said Tuesday evening that the agency is getting ready to open NRG Stadium as Houston's next major shelter.
Houston's fire chief says the fire department made more than 750 water rescues on Tuesday.
Houston police reported that 14 looters were arrested in the last two days.
To deal with the security problem, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has imposed a daily curfew which originally started from 10:00 p.m. (0300 GMT) to 5:00 a.m. (1000 GMT). On Tuesday evening, Turner announced the curfew was pushed back to midnight, running to 5:00 a.m.
Under the curfew, city residents are not allowed outside. Police Chief Art Acevedo said this was partly to prevent looting and other crimes.
Texas law increases punishments for assault, robbery, burglary and theft in counties declared as disaster areas.
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's defense budget in 2018 would rise the most in nine years to counter rising threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), financial ministry said Tuesday.
According to the 2018 budget plan submitted by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance to the National Assembly, a total of 43.12 trillion won (38.3 billion U.S. dollars) was allotted to the defense budget next year.
It was up 6.9 percent from the previous year, marking the fastest yearly increase since 2009.
Costs to improve defense readiness stood at 13.48 trillion won for the 2018 defense budget, up 10.5 percent from the previous year, while the military management costs would grow 5.3 percent to 29.64 trillion won.
Among the defense improvement costs, 4.36 trillion won would be spent next year on budget to counter the DPRK's nuclear and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats.
The 4.36 trillion won budget would be spent mainly on the so-called three pillars of the Korean version, including the Kill Chain, the Korea Air and Missile Defense (KAMD) and the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) systems.
The Kill Chain is designed to preemptively strike the DPRK's missile launch sites when signs of the first strike are spotted. The KMPR is a project to preemptively strike the DPRK's leadership and headquarters with massive missile attacks when Pyongyang's first strike signs are detected.
The KAMD is a project to develop its indigenous missile defense system to shoot down incoming DPRK missiles at multiple layers. The project includes the development of interceptors such as medium-range surface-to-air missiles (M-SAM) and long-range surface-to-air missiles (L-SAM) that can intercept missiles at an altitude of less than 100 km.
The growing defense budget followed the DPRK's tests in July of what it called an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Early Tuesday, Pyongyang fired an unidentified ballistic missile that flew over the Japanese territory. The missile test came just three days after the DPRK's test on Saturday of three short-range missiles.
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