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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photograph, Hoboken Mayor, Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media as she stands near the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. Zimmer, mayor of a New Jersey city that sustained severe flooding from Hurricane Sandy claims the Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development. MSNBC first reported her comments Saturday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
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Demonstrators hold signs Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Local residents voiced their concerns about the quality of their tap water after a Jan. 9 chemical spill into the Elk River tainted the water supply. (AP Photo/John Raby)
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Emma Del Torto of Charleston, W.Va. holds a sign during a demonstration at the state Capitol on Saturday, Jan.18, 2014. More than 100 people gathered to question their tap water's quality following a chemical spill that tainted the local water supply. (AP Photo/John Raby)
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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. The plane was supposed to land at the nearby Branson Airport on Sunday evening, but instead landed at Clark Airport, also known as Taney County Airport, which has a much shorter runway than at Branson, about 7 miles away. The plane's pilots have told investigators they were confused by the small airport's runway lights, believing it to be a larger airport in nearby Branson, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family's home in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas. A preliminary analysis of testing in the past year of North Texas water contaminated with explosive methane has found that the problem has spread to more residential wells, and scientists analyzing those samples believe the new evidence more conclusively points to a nearby gas drilling operation as the source of the problem. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)
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Law enforcement officials gather outside the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City, Nev., Thursday Jan. 16, 2014, after a suspicious white powdery substance was delivered to the court. Although the package was labeled anthrax, the substance was found to not to be hazardous. (AP Photo/Sandra Cherub)
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A hazmat crew emerges from the Nevada Supreme Court after the all clear was given on Thursday Jan. 16, 2014. The building in Carson City was evacuated when a white powder was found on a letter. The substance was determined to be non-hazardous. (AP photo/Sandra Chereb)
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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, investigators work the scene where a tour bus collided with a pickup truck on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., killing eight people. Federal regulators ordered the tour bus operator, National City, Calif.-based Scapadas Magicas LLC, to immediately stop operating because its buses weren't properly maintained or inspected and its drivers weren't properly vetted for qualifications. Intercity bus and truck companies with a continuing history of safety problems will be easier to shut down under new regulations the Federal Motor Carrier Administration said Friday that it plans to issue. The regulations give the agency authority to put out of business operators who have been cited for repeated problems, even if their most recent inspection alone doesn't quite meet the threshold for closure, the agency said. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza, File)
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Gov. Jerry Brown points to images showing the snow depth in the Sierra mountains on Jan. 13, 2013, left, and Jan. 13, 2014, center, while declaring a drought state of emergency in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. With a record-dry year, reservoir levels under strain and no rain in the forecast, California Gov. Jerry Brown formally proclaimed the state in a drought Friday, confirming what many already knew. Brown made the announcement in San Francisco amid increasing pressure in recent weeks from the state's lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this image provided by NASA a smoke and ash plume from a wildfire that started and spread quickly in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles in California is seen by The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellite Thursday Jan. 16, 2014. The plume of ash and smoke from the Colby fire blanketed much of the metropolitan area and prompted air quality warnings. (AP Photo/NASA)
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The Singer Mansion burned down during a wildfire burns just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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A fire crew works on a fire line as a wildfire burns just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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The Singer Mansion burned down during a wildfire burns north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started early Thursday when three people tossed paper into a campfire in the dangerously dry and windy foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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A fire crew works on a fire line as a wildfire burns just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started early Thursday when three people tossed paper into a campfire in the dangerously dry and windy foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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An air tanker drops water on a wildfire Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, near Azusa, Calif. The wildfire burned out of control near homes in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains early Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into neighborhoods in the city below, igniting trees. Evacuations were ordered for houses at the edge of the fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Smoke rises from the remains of a guest house destroyed by the Colby Fire at the Singer mansion on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Glendora, Calif. Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in the damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A firefighting plane makes a water drop on a wildfire that's burning in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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The Colby Fire burns above Glendora, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. A portion of the former Singer home, of sewing machine fame, partially burned. Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started early Thursday when three people tossed paper into a campfire in the dangerously dry and windy foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, authorities said. (AP Photo/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Will Lester) MANDATORY CREDIT.
