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A dark line of morning storm clouds creep across the sky near Pentagon City, Arlington, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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FILE - This Oct. 16, 2009, file photo, shows driver Jason Leffler at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Leffler died after an accident Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the Nationwide Series, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said. (AP Photo/Bob Jordan, File)
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A slurry bomber flies over homes as it prepares to drop fire retardant on the Black Forest fire northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The fire has consumed an estimated 7,500 acres and forced the evacuation of thousands of people. (AP Photo/BryanOller)
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FILE - In this June 30, 2012, file photo, an American Beech tree is down on Capitol Hill grounds in Washington across from the U.S. Supreme Court after a powerful storm swept across the Washington region. A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms with tree-toppling winds is likely to threaten one in five Americans Wednesday is as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland, meteorologists warn. The massive storms may even spawn an unusual weather event called a derecho, which is a massive storm of strong straight-line winds spanning at least 240 miles. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Bangladeshi garment workers who fell ill during their shifts at a sweater factory lie on beds at a hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 6, 2013. About 450 garment workers fell ill at the Starlight Sweater Factory near Bangladesh's capital, due to possible water contamination. A building collapse near Dhaka in April killed 1,129 workers, injured others and highlighted the hazardous working conditions in thousands of garment factories in Bangladesh. (Associated Press)
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Passengers view lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry while crossing New York's Upper Bay on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Giant removable floodwalls would be erected around lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to protect the city from storms and the effects of global warming. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks while a map of the projected 2050s 100-year flood plain of New York City is displayed in New York, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: a city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and there could be as many 90-degree days as is now normal for Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Dave Dunlap watches from the bed of his truck as a wildfire crosses Black Forest Road near his home Tuesday afternoon, June 11, 2013, in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Black Forest Fire was one of at least three significant wildfires burning in Colorado amid gusty winds and record-breaking hot, dry weather. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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A woman returns home after fetching water in a village in Mohmand Agency (FATA). It is a woman’s task to collect and carry water for domestic use. Village houses usually do not have a direct water supply. Photo / Alamgir Khan
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Passengers line the vehicle ramp to the terminal at the Richmond International Airport after the building was evacuated at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in Richmond, Va. Authorities cleared the building after receiving what they called a "credible threat." Passengers and staff were allowed to return when the building was reopened after about a three-hour wait. (AP Photo/The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)
