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In this image taken from video, emergency personnel work the scene of a car crash Friday, May 31, 2013, in Jonesboro, Ga. Former NBA All-Star guard Daron "Mookie" Blaylock's SUV crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a van in suburban Atlanta, police said. (AP Photo/WSB-TV)

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Danny Werfel, acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, appears before a House oversight panel on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, June 3, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Firefighters and medical staff prepare to remove body bags that appears to contain the bodies of those killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin province's Mishazi township on Monday, June 3, 2013. The massive fire broke out at the poultry plant early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing over a hundred people, reports and officials said. (AP Photo)

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Residents of North Cotabato province in the southern Philippines look at boulders that partially blocked a highway on Sunday, June 2, 2013, after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit late Saturday. (AP Photo/North Cotabato Provincial Office)

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The Thompson Ridge fire burns in an area just north of Jemez Springs, N.M., on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico were fighting two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital of Santa Fe. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Roberto E. Rosales)

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Cars that were damaged by a tornado in parking lot at Canadian Valley Technical Center on State Highway 66, west of Banner Road, Friday May 31, 2013 in El Reno, Okla. (Associated Press)

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A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Rosedale, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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The housing market is heating up again in 20 top metropolitan areas, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index. Relatively few homes have been built since the 2008 collapse. (Associated Press)

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Damaged railcars lie on the ground near Rockview, Mo. on Saturday, May 25, 2013. Authorities said a highway overpass collapsed when rail cars slammed into one of the bridge's pillars after a cargo train collision. Seven people were injured, though none seriously. (AP Photo/KFVS, Michael Mohundro)

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President Obama holds up a stuffed bear that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (not shown) had won tossing a football after playing the "Touchdown Fever" game on the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, N.J., on May 28, 2013. Obama traveled to New Jersey to join Christie to inspect and tour the Jersey Shore's recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy. (Associated Press)