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** FILE ** A helicopter makes a water drop on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Authorities have ordered evacuations of a neighborhood and a university about 50 miles west of Los Angeles where a wildfire is raging close to subdivisions. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment near Rockview, Mo., on Saturday, May 25, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people. (AP Photo/The Southeast Missourian, Fred Lynch)

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Washington Redskins strong safety Brandon Meriweather (31) stretches during organized team activities at Redskins Park, Ashburn, Va., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)

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Keith Birlem is pictured during his time as a quarterback at San Jose State in 1938. He was named a "Little All-American" that year and went on to play in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals and Washington Redskins. Birlem was killed in an airplane accident May 7, 1943 near Polebrook, England. (San Jose State University)

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President Obama greets people on the apron as he arrives on Sunday, May 26, 2013, at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, Okla., en route to the Moore, Okla., to see the response efforts to the severe tornadoes and weather that devastated the area. He will also visit with the families affected as well as first responders. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin greets President Obama as he arrives on Sunday, May 26, 2013, at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, Okla., en route to Moore, Okla., to see the response efforts to the severe tornadoes and weather that devastated the area. He also will visit with the families affected as well as first responders. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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A Lebanese policeman speaks on his phone as he stands at a damaged balcony where a rocket struck an apartment in a building in the Chiyah district south of Beirut on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Rockets that slammed into two Hezbollah stronghold neighborhoods wounded at least four people. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Damaged rail cars lie on the ground near Rockview, Mo., on Saturday, May 25, 2013. Authorities say a highway overpass collapsed when derailed rail cars slammed into one of the bridge's pillars after two freight trains collided. (AP Photo/KFVS, Michael Mohundro)