National Guard Responds To Minnesota Floods

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About 150 National Guardsmen are on duty in southeastern Minnesota supporting flood response operations. In particular, the town of Zumbro Falls was evacuated this weekend after water from a nearby river rose to the second story of many homes.

Jacob Wheeler

In addition to shooting videos for The UpTake, Jacob Wheeler is a contributing editor at the progressive political magazine In These Times, publishes the Glen Arbor Sun in his native Michigan, and authored "Between Light and Shadow," a recent book about the Guatemalan adoption industry. Wheeler's stories have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, Earth Island Journal, Rotarian and Teaching Tolerance magazine, and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. He speaks fluent Spanish, German and Danish.

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