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Two women in kimonos make their way through rains in Tokyo's Ginza shopping area as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes central Japan. The storm made landfall in the afternoon near the central Japanese city of Hamamatsu, about 125 miles west of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Police officers in rain gear regulate vehicles moving across a flooded national route in Toyokawa, central Japan, on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes central Japan with heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 100 mph. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, joined by Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, speaks about funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Pedestrians in Tokyo make their way through strong winds and rains from Typhoon Roke on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, as the powerful storm bore down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinals safety Adrian Wilson snuffed out a red zone possession with this interception of Redskins quarterback Rex Grossman on Sunday.
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, said that if a government shutdown occurred because of a dispute over disaster aid, it would be on the shoulders of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, wants to add almost $7 billion in disaster aid to a temporary funding bill crafted to avert a government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Joplin, Mo., neighborhood devastated by a tornado that killed 162 people in May is seen a week later. A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says residents did not take shelter after first alarms.
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Nepalese soldiers on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, carry an injured civilian over an area near Dharan in the Dhankuta district of eastern Nepal that was hit by a landslide following a magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Sunday. (AP Photo/Sita Mademba)
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An ambulance worker with a stretcher arrives as firefighters and security officials work at the site of a car bombing on a busy street in Ankara, Turkey, the nation's capital, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a villager in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region looks at a cow killed in a strong earthquake that hit neighboring Sikkim in northern India on Sunday evening. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gesang Dawa)
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A Nepalese woman looks out of a window at debris of collapsed buildings damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Nepalese remove a motorbike buried under the debris of a house damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Residents and patients from a local hospital take shelter in a Hindu temple on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, after Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Residents fearing more aftershocks following Sunday's strong earthquake sit on a basketball court at a university in Gangtok, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Soldiers clean up a quake-hit house in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. At least seven people have died in the county after Sunday's strong temblor. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wen Tao)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a Buddhist monk looks at a monastery damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo)
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A family eats dinner on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, after taking shelter in a Hindu temple in fear of more aftershocks following Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Police on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, look for victims in a house that collapsed after Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital. (AP Photo)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, Indians walk past a crack in a road caused by an earthquake in Gangtok, India, on Sunday. The powerful temblor damaged more than 100,000 homes in the remote Himalayan region, officials said. (AP Photo)
