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**FILE** Vice President Joseph R. Biden, joined at the White House by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), holds a meeting Jan. 9, 2013, with gun-safety advocates and victims' families. (Associated Press)

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A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a Terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, following a fire that started in one of the plane's lithium ion batteries. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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**FILE** Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan (right) and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley accompany President Obama at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on May 5, 2011, en route to New York City to visit ground zero and meet with first responders and family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), speaks during a meeting with victims groups and gun-safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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This aerial photo provided by WABC News Channel 7 shows emergency personnel at the scene of a ferry crash in Lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in New York. The Fire Department says about 17 people were injured when a ferry from New Jersey struck a dock during rush hour. (AP Photo/WABC News Channel 7)

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Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, Pa., set up a tent Monday to handle flu patients outside its emergency room. “This was our attempt to be proactive,” a hospital director says. It is one of many hospitals reporting an incredibly busy — and early — flu season. (Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Express-Times via Associated Press)

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The tanker Overseas Reymar travels in the California's San Francisco Bay from Yerba Buena Island on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The empty oil tanker ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, but there were no reports of leaking oil, and the bridge remained open to traffic, officials said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Washington Redskins strong safety Reed Doughty (37) celebrates after sacking Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) in the NFC wild card game at FedEx Field, Landover, Md., Sunday, January 6, 2013. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)