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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2013 file photo, Houston Texans free safety Ed Reed watches from the sideline in the second half of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore. Reed tweeted his thanks to the Texans amid reports that the nine-time Pro Bowl safety will be released in what has been a disaster of a season. The Houston Chronicle and KRIV-TV both reported that Reed was expected to be released Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Reed tweeted: “Thanks to the Texans! And the City of Htown!” (AP Photo/Gail Burton, File)
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** FILE ** Wooden boards connect houses in the flood-prone village of Newtok, Alaska, in 2006. The Yup'ik Eskimo community, near Alaska's storm-battered coast, is running out of time as coastal erosion creeps ever closer. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Commerce)
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Typhoon survivors jostle to get a chance to board a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Survivors walk in typhoon ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The Philippines emerged as a rising economic star in Asia but the trail of death and destruction left by Typhoon Haiyan has highlighted a key weakness: fragile infrastructure resulting from decades of neglect and corruption. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)