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A electrical worker cleans wiring at a substation on Harrison and 2nd Street as surrounding neighborhoods remain without power due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

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Volunteer Jamie d'Amico, 25, of Fort Lee, helps sort through donations at Hoboken High School as surrounding neighborhoods remain without power due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Hoboken, New Jersey. About 1 million homes and businesses across New Jersey are still without electricity due to Superstorm Sandy on Sunday, and officials say many of those customers may not have service restored until Wednesday. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

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A woman walks through an area impacted by Superstorm Sandy in Breezy Point, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. The beachfront neighborhood heavy populated by firefighters and police officers was devastated during the storm when a fire pushed by Sandy's raging winds destroyed 100 or more homes and buildings. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Mary Wittenberg, president of the New York Road Runners, walks down a street lined with furniture and other belongings after speaking Sunday with a family on Staten Island whose house was heavily damaged during Superstorm Sandy. With the cancellation of the New York Marathon, hundreds of runners, carrying backpacks full of supplies, took the ferry to the hard-hit island to help people in neighborhoods. (Associated Press)

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Galina Quacinella (right) gets some blankets for herself and her husband at a Red Cross aid station on Staten Island. Overnight temperatures are sinking into the 30s. The city has opened warming centers in senior centers and set up food distribution sites. (Associated Press)

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Raymond Simpson Jr., with Atlantic City’s Department of Public Works, examines the damage of Superstorm Sandy, which caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (Associated Press)

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Carolina Panthers free safety Haruki Nakamura (43) hits Washington Redskins wide receiver Josh Morgan (15) in the head resulting in a fifteen yard personal foul in the second quarter, Landover, Md., Sunday, November 4, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Law enforcement officers console each other Nov. 4, 2012, as others investigate the scene of an Atlanta Police Department helicopter crash that killed two officers aboard the chopper when it crashed near a shopping center late Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama visits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for an update on the recovery from Hurricane Sandy that hit New York and New Jersey especially hard as well as much of the East Coast earlier this week, Saturday morning, Nov. 3, 2012, in Washington. He is joined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, right, as he displays a photo of an Air Force C-17 transporting utility trucks to aid the devastated areas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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The half of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge attached to Brooklyn is lit while the half attached to Staten Island is dark in New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 96 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at more than 3.6 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5 million. The cost of the storm could exceed $18 billion in New York alone. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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This image taken during an overflight by Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod shows storm damage from Superstorm Sandy in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Rob Simpson)

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People pass by a fallen tree on 14th Street SW on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)