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An adult is taken by stretcher toa Sycamore Fire Department ambulance outside Cortland Elementary School in Cortland, Ill., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, after gas released from the nearby landfill got caught in the school's ventilation system making staff and students nauseous. None of the injuries or illnesses were life threatening. The school was closed for the rest of the day Tuesday. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Rob Winner) MANDATORY CREDIT
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In this image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a Coast Guard helicopter crew hoists one of four people from the 42-foot sailboat Be Good Too, background, about 300 miles off Virginia's coast Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014. Be Good Too was headed to the British Virgin Islands from New York when the crew contacted the Coast Guard on Monday. The Coast Guard says the crew reported that the sailboat was disabled and adrift. The sailboat's crew was rescued around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a brush fire on Kimball Island in the San Joaquin River, Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. The Coast Guard Station Rio Vista evacuated four people from the island Tuesday after arriving on the scene. Tuesday's wildfires struck an unusually arid and windy Northern California, where a fire on the small Kimball Island between San Francisco and Sacramento engulfed at least one of the island's 20 buildings and was threatening others, Solano County fire dispatcher Robyn Rains said. (AP Photo/Coast Guard Station Rio Vista, Petty Officer Loumania Stewart)
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, passengers in an inflatable raft move away from US Airways Flight 1549 that went down in the Hudson River in New York. Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, First Officer Jeff Skiles and some passengers who were on the plane on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 are expected to join some of the ferry crews who rescued them from the cold waters five years ago. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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FILE - This Sept. 4, 1992 file aerial photo provided by Pantex shows the U.S. Department of Energy's Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. Actions to clean up contamination at the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant are proving effective and the effort will continue for years, according to the first five-year review of the Superfund site. The goal of the long-term project at Pantex in the Texas Panhandle is to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater beneath the plant. (AP Photo/Pantex, File)
