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Smoke plumes rise from the West Ash Creek wildfire near Crawford, Neb., on Saturday. Firefighters made progress Sunday and Monday in containing three wildfires affecting areas of Nebraska and South Dakota. Conditions are likely to remain ripe for fires because hot weather and drought have dried vegetation. (Omaha World-Herald via Associated Press)

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Floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac inundate structures in Scaresdale, La., on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather at the site of the suicide bombing of a U.S. government vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Police officers remove a computer hard drive from a Pathmark supermarket on Route 9 in Old Bridge, N.J., Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Officials say a supermarket employee killed two people at the store early Friday and then fatally shot himself. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2001, file photo shows an aerial view of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Authorities say a 20-year-old man who plunged about 35 feet from the Georgia Dome's upper level and struck another fan during the Tennessee-North Carolina State college football game has died. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Rich Addicks)

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Tony Miranda takes a break from clearing out his home in LaPlace, La., on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, after it was flooded by Hurricane Isaac. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Arthur D. Lauck)

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Washington Redskins safety Tanard Jackson (34) and DeAngelo Hall (23) reacts after a play against the Indianapolis Colts during a preseason NFL football game, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his wife Ann, center, and Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., right, talk with Sen. David Vitter, R-La., back to camera, during a tour of flooding caused by hurricane Isaac, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, in Jean Lafitte, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Kenny Melkin (left) helps his wife, Becky, navigate Aug. 31, 2012, through floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac as they make their way to see their flooded home in the West End Park neighborhood along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. (Associated Press)

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Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine seismology agency, points Aug. 31, 2012, during a press conference in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, to an area on a Philippine map where the epicenter of a 7.6-magnitude earthquake happened that day. (Associated Press)