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A fatal mudslide brought debris down the Stillaguamish River near Oso, Wash., Saturday, March 22, 2014, stopping the flow of the river and destroying several homes. (AP Photo/The Herald, Genna Martin)

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A crew member on board a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force P3C patrol plane waves to ground crew members as he leaves the Royal Malaysian Air Force base headed for Australia to join a search and rescue operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370, in Subang, Malaysia, Sunday, March 23, 2014. Search planes headed back out to a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

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Crushed woody debris and a slurry of silt laden water is nearly at a stand still in the North Fork of the Stillaguamish river just a few miles downstream of the landslide that blocked the river Saturday morning. The river below the slide dropped several feet by Saturday afternoon and was backing up above the slide March 22, 2014, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/ The Seattle Times,Mark Harrison) MANDATORY CREDIT TO: Mark Harrison / THE SEATTLE TIMES.

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Claire Logan, at right, carries supplies to help set up an evacuation center at Post Middle School in Arlington to assist those impacted by the landslide on the North Fork of the Stillaguamish river March 22, 2014, in Arlington, Wash. (AP Photo/ The Seattle Times,Mark Harrison) MANDATORY CREDIT TO: Mark Harrison / THE SEATTLE TIMES.

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Robin Youngblood survived the landslide that destroyed her house next to the North Fork of the Stillaguamish river Saturday, March 22, 2014. She is holding the only item that survived the disaster, a painting of a Cherokee warrior that was knocked from the wall and muddied. "It saved us." she said. (AP Photo/ The Seattle Times,Mark Harrison) MANDATORY CREDIT TO: Mark Harrison / THE SEATTLE TIMES.

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A wide aerial view shows the extensive damage of the landslide after taking out a chunk of earth from the side of the hill facing the Stillaguamish River, and down into the State Route 530, on the left, between the cities of Arlington and Darrington, on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Search and rescue operations are underway for survivors. (AP Photo/ The Seattle Times, Marcus Yam )

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Portion of a barge is submerged after it collided with a ship in the Houston Ship Channel Saturday March 22, 2014. The barge is carrying 924,000 gallons heavy fuel oil and is leaking. The barge was being towed from Texas City to Bolivar at the time. Kirby Inland Marine, owner of the tow vessel Miss Susan and the barge, is working with the Coast Guard and Texas General Land Office at the scene, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Neal Mora)

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Portion of a barge is submerged after it collided with a ship in the Houston Ship Channel Saturday March 22, 2014. The barge is carrying 924,000 gallons heavy fuel oil and is leaking. The barge was being towed from Texas City to Bolivar at the time. Kirby Inland Marine, owner of the tow vessel Miss Susan and the barge, is working with the Coast Guard and Texas General Land Office at the scene, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Neal Mora)

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A response boat heads to the scene of a collision between a ship and barge in the ship channel near the Texas City Dike on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Two workers on one of the vessels were exposed to hydrogen sulfide and decontaminated by the first department at the end of the dike.(AP Photo/The Galveston County Daily News, Neal Mora)