Disaster_Accident

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**FILE** President Obama is greeted Oct. 31, 2012, by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport in Atlantic City, N.J. Obama traveled to the region to take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy. (Associated Press)

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Van Metre Homes is building 76 single-family homes at Village Run at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Manchester model, which has 3,132 square feet, is priced from $542,990.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis, here in 1995, is docked with the Russian space station Mir as the two spacecraft orbit the Earth. NASA looks lost in space and without a clear sense of where the agency is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts said in a critical report released Wednesday. (NASA via Associated Press)

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**FILE** This image from July 19, 2011, provided by NASA, shows the International Space Station photographed by a member of Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly-around as the shuttle departed the station on the last space shuttle mission. (Associated Press/NASA)

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Filipinos cross a river in the flash-flood-hit village of Andap in the Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country this year, barreled across the nation's south on Tuesday, killing scores of people while triggering landslides and flooding and cutting off power in two entire provinces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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** FILE ** This Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, file aerial photo shows a collapsed house along the central Jersey Shore coast. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, smoke rises as Egyptian farmers burn their harvest remains in the village of Tamoh near Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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Residents walk back to their homes after Typhoon Bopha made landfall in Compostela Valley in southeastern Philippines Tuesday Dec. 4, 2012. Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo), one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year, barreled across the country's south on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and forcing more than 50,000 to flee from inundated villages. (AP Photo/Karlos Manlupig)

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III, stationed on the Cutter Halibut. Horne III, a Boatswain Mate, was killed in the early morning of Sunday Dec. 2, 2012, from injuries sustained during law enforcement operations near Santa Cruz Island, Calif. Horne, of Redondo Beach, was pronounced dead after being brought ashore at the Port of Hueneme, Ventura County chief deputy medical examiner James Baroni said. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard/ Lt. Stewart Sibert)