ESTERO, Fla.- Does your house have a fire sprinkler system? The fire marshal is suggesting every new home built in Estero must have sprinklers installed before anyone can move in.

He says the benefits far outweigh the cost but local builders don't think so.

Joey Hatfield knows a lot about house fires. "There are three main causes of house fires: men, women and children."

He's on the State Board of Fire Prevention and is also a partner of Naples Fire Protection Inc.

The company installs sprinkler heads in buildings as well as in residential homes.

Hatfield says it's a no-brainer. "The evidence is so clear, that these sprinklers save lives, every single day. It's all documented."

The company often demonstrates the effectiveness of sprinklers to the public.

A demonstration by the Naples Fire Department shows fire spreads quickly in a model room without sprinklers. In minutes, it's fully engulfed and destroyed. The opposite happens in the room with the sprinkler.

Some home builders are strongly opposed to the madatory installation of sprinkler systems in residential homes.

The vice president of the Lee County Building Industry Association (BIA) says there's no benefit for the added construction cost.

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BIG SPRING-A major clean up effort is going on inside the VA hospital after a malfunctioning sprinkler system dumped approximately 50,000 gallons of water down the third floor hallway.

"We were installing a new sprinkler system throughout the whole medical center. When they started to pressure it up Sunday evening and test some of the valves, one of them failed,"Iva Jo Hanslik, Community Relations Coordinator for the VA Hospital in Big Spring, said.

Once crews realized what was happening, they quickly sprung to action shutting off the water. Unfortunately, damage had already been done.

"A lot of water damage in our laboratory section and our Radiology Department. Of course, the water comes down to the first floor," Hanslik said.

Hanslik tells NewsWest 9 that Veterans medical records are kept in a secure network known as computerized medical records system. With the water affecting the computer system, the hospital switched over to wireless. They will use wireless until the damaged server can be fixed.

"The two areas hardest hit will be functioning with wireless capability. We are using this so those reports can continue to funnel into the computerized medical records," Hanslik said.

Some departments even had to be moved around so business can still go on while the hospital continues to dry out. Hanslik says that all operating room procedures have been halted for the day. All other parts of the hospital are functioning as scheduled.

"It's just a slight disruption. Doctors and nurses are still doing exams as planned," Hanslik said

Hanslik says that the quick action and long hours put in by the clean up crew has made this more of a technical problem than a water damage problem.

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Paris (AFP) - Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans' colonisation of the planet.

A femur found by chance on the banks of a west Siberian river in 2008 is that of a man who died around 45,000 years ago, they said.

Teased out of collagen in the ancient bone, the genome contains traces from Neanderthals -- a cousin species who lived in Eurasia alongside H. sapiens before mysteriously disappearing.

Previous research has found that Neanderthals and H. sapiens interbred, leaving a tiny Neanderthal imprint of just about two percent in humans today, except for Africans.

The discovery has a bearing on the so-called "Out of Africa" scenario: the theory that H. sapiens evolved in East Africa around 200,000 years ago and then ventured out of the continent.

Dating when Neanderthals and H. sapiens interbred would also indicate when H. sapiens embarked on a key phase of this trek -- the push out of Eurasia and into South and later Southeast Asia.

The new study, published in the journal Nature, was headed by Svante Paabo, a renowned geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who has pioneered research into Neanderthals.

- Neanderthal interbreeding -

The bone found at the Irtyush River, near the settlement of Ust'-Ishim, carries slightly more Neanderthal DNA than non-Africans today, the team found.

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NEW YORK - Shailene Woodley is as steady-on as they come.

Woodley, 22, is indeed bright, beautiful and right on the cusp of famous, but no amount of tinseltown hoopla is going to get her to trade in her flannel shirt or abandon her earth-loving ideals. Environmentally aware, Woodley has often spoken about foraging, creating her own medicines and beauty products and fetching her own drinking water from the mountains. She doesn't wear her interests like a new overcoat, either the actress simply marches to a different drummer, and doesn't make a big deal about it.

She does hug you at first meeting, however, as rumoured.

Hippy-dippy though that may sound, it's a calming, positive gesture that makes a formal interview suddenly friendlier. Woodley is chatting about the advantages of buying vintage and used clothing and says she regrets that her second-hand rain boots are coming apart after four years of use.

"That's like wasting a good pair of shoes because one part's broken. That's a huge thing for me," she says.

"You know, we all have an abundance of s---," she adds, laughing.

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Woodley is promoting White Bird in a Blizzard, a new Gregg Araki movie that combines a coming-of-age story with a domestic mystery. Woodley plays Kat, a girl of 17 whose mother (Eva Green) simply vanishes one day. As she makes her way in the world, Kat believes she doesn't miss her mom, but she has disturbing dreams about her. The movie involves nudity and plenty of sex, and Woodley has been asked a lot about that in North America. "Where sexuality is so taboo."

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MEXICO CITY Mexicos largest exhibit of Mesoamerican manuscripts features a codex made of fig tree bark suggesting that Aztec emperor Moctezuma was slain by a Spanish conquistador with a sword.

The piece is among 44 codices made by several pre-Columbian populations including the Mayas, Purepechas and Zapotecos on display at the National Museum of Anthropology.

Some of the pieces in the temporary exhibit, titled Codices of Mexico: Memories and Wisdom, are as large as 10 sq. meters (108 sq. feet).

One cost the government $1 million to buy from the Bible Society in Britain.

Its the biggest codex exhibit (in Mexico), curator Baltazar Brito, director of the National Anthropology and History Library, said.

The codices were written by tlacuilos, which in Mayan means a person who carves stones.

The ancient manuscripts present a vision of history from the point of view of the people who were subdued after the conquest, Brito said.

They are a very important demonstration of the knowledge acquired by Mesoamerican peoples throughout their history.

The collections centerpiece is the Chimalpahin codex, which the government bought in May from the Bible Society to stop it from being auctioned off.

The manuscript was made by indigenous historians Domingo Chimalpahin (1579-1660) and Alva Ixtlilxochitl (1578-1650).

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Harris, who had been suspended on the heels of the allegations, has since been reinstated. He's expected to start for the Gators Saturday.(Photo: Randy Sartin, Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. New information surfaced Wednesday surrounding the investigation of a sexual assault complaint against Florida Gators quarterback Treon Harris, but it's still not completely clear what happened the night of the alleged incident.

Harris was accused of raping a female acquaintance Oct. 6, after she told investigators they'd had sex against her will in Harris' dorm after a night at the club the day before, according to incident reports released by the University of Florida Police Department. Three days later, the woman withdrew her complaint.

What has become clear is that Harris and other Gators football players were partying with the woman and others at Rain nightclub in Gainesville during the night leading up to the incident. Several witnesses, including friends of both, recalled seeing the two being very close that night, even kissing at one point, a police report said.

Marcus Maye, Latroy Pittman, Brian Poole and Keanu Neal, all teammates of Harris, recalled the group leaving the club about 2 a.m. and heading to Waffle House, but stopping at a Kangaroo gas station. At the gas station, Harris and the woman were either holding hands or walking arm-in-arm before they left in her car, witnesses told investigators.

Police said surveillance images confirmed the chain of events described by Maye, Neal, Pittman and Poole. But what exactly happened when the two split off from their friends and went back to Harris's dorm room depends on whom you ask.

The woman claims she lied down on Harris' bed because she was tired, but then he forced himself on her, refusing to climb off and ignoring her pleas for him to stop. "I don't want to have sex with you," she recalled saying that night, according to a police report. Harris felt like a "dead weight" on top of her, she told investigators.

Harris didn't see it that way. In his initial interview with police Oct. 5, he said it all started with a kiss and didn't recall her saying she didn't want to have sex. "We were talking, and she did, she start kissing, we kissing each other, and like it just happened," he told investigators, the report said. Asked to clarify what 'it' meant, Harris reportedly said, "We had sex."

About 7:36 p.m. the same day, Harris sent the woman a text, saying "Don't tell nobody bout nothing." As Harris explained it to police, the pair had agreed to keep their encounter quiet.

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PROVO -- Joseph Smith learned early in his associations with deity that study and inquiry most often lead to revelation and restoration.

According to a new church essay, in the case of polygamy, Smith learned that not responding to the Lord brings unanticipated encouragement.

The essay, released Wednesday by the LDS Church, gives greater insight as to the nature of the practice of polygamy.

"The revelation on plural marriage was not written down until 1843, but its early verses suggest that part of it emerged from Joseph Smiths study of the Old Testament in 1831," the essay says.

During his study of the Old Testament, Smith prayed to understand why prophets such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon had many wives without punishment.

"The Lord responded that he had commanded them to enter into the practice," the essay says.

It says Joseph was also commanded to enter into the practice -- no easy task.

With the thousands of descendants of polygamists that exist today, the purposes of growing the church seemed to have been fulfilled.

In what may not be new, but rarely discussed, information, the essay says that between 1834 and 1843 an angel appeared to a hesitant Smith three times and commanded him to proceed with plural marriage.

"During the third and final appearance, the angel came with a drawn sword, threatening Joseph with destruction unless he went forward and obeyed the commandment fully," the essay says.

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SHINNECOCK BAY, N.Y.(CBSNewYork) According to new data released by marine scientists on Wednesday, Long Island is in crisis mode when it comes to its waterways.

As CBS 2s Jennifer McLogan reported, commercial fisherman Kenny Raynor, of East Quogue, has seen dramatic and worrisome changes along the coast of Long Island.

It affects everything the fish, the wildlife, the birds. Nothing comes into the bay because theres too much nitrogen in the bay, Raynor said.

Too much nitrogen in the water means marine life swims away or dies off. Fin fish and shellfish cannot survive without enough oxygen and toxic algae takes over, McLogan reported.

In a startling new study by Stony Brook scientists, more than two-thirds ofthe Islandscoastal waters this summer showed poor to lethal amounts of oxygen.

Researchers used water monitors at 30 sites;of those sites, 21 failed, McLogan reported.

Sites with the worst oxygen levels include Westhampton Beach, Huntington Bay, Shinnecock and Flanders Bay.

By makingcontinuous measurements 24-7 all through the summer, we caught these times and periods where the oxygen levels would go to zero and stay there for an extended period of timeabsolutely dangerous, Professor Christopher Gobler said.

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