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This NOAA satellite image taken on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2011, at 2 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Katia, which increased to hurricane strength on Sunday, at center right. Tropical Storm Lee is seen off the U.S. Gulf Coast at center left in the photo. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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North Korean workers unload emergency flood aid sent from the United States at the Pyongyang airport in North Korea on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. The small but symbolic shipment of emergency aid for the flood-stricken North is the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the countries. (AP Photo/Associated Press Television News)
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Alabama Department of Transportation road crews clear debris from the road to Dauphin Island, Ala., early on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, as Tropical Storm Lee continued to meander along the Gulf Coast, bringing torrential rains and flooding. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Tropical Storm Irene caused road and building damage along Route 15 in New York, Thursday, Sept.1, 2011. Utility companies continue to bring New York electricity customers back on line, but almost 182,000 are still blacked out four days after Irene pounded the state with drenching rains and high winds. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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** FILE ** In this May 26, 2011, file photo, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) headquarters is seen in Rockville, Md. The risk of an earthquake causing a severe accident at a nuclear power plant is up to 24 times greater than previously believed, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data, and the nation’s nuclear regulator believes that a quarter of reactors may need modifications to make them safer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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In this photo from Aug. 31, 2011, some of an estimated 4,000 people wait to enter a job fair called the "For The People Jobs Initiative," where job seekers met employers, job counselors, skills trainers and others at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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ROD A. LAMKEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A tanker truck rolls by a storage tank at the Transmontaigne facility at the Pickett Road tank farm in Fairfax. Federal and state agencies fined Transmontaigne about $114,000 after two spills in 2010.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Workers install safety netting at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday after the landmark was damaged Aug. 23 by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake. A cathedral spokesman said no additional debris is expected to fall, adding that the netting is strictly a precautionary measure.
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associated press photographs In Paterson N.J. on Thursday, people on a foot bridge watch the Great Falls of the Passaic River roar with water after Hurricane Irene. Flooding continues to hamper recovery efforts in northern New Jersey. Paterson got more than 8 inches of rain from the storm and the subsequent flooding was the worst in more than a century.
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A worker attaches a chain to a washed-out rail line in Phoenicia, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Irene caused $1 billion in damage in New York, most of it from flooding upstate.
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Richmond American Homes is building 50 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Stonewall Manor in Triangle. The Amherst model, with 2,800 square feet, is priced from $419,950.
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Exhibit: Covering Katrina By the time Hurricane Irene had finished dumping buckets over Queens, the media was full-throatedly debating whether they had devoted too much of their attention to the storm. Some folks argued that the storm received wall-to-wall coverage because, unlike previous hurricanes, it posed an inconvenience to media-saturated cities like D.C. and New York. Still others countered that the media didn't cover the storm enough, that it switched to navel-gazing just in time to miss Irene beat the living daylights out of Vermont. While the jury's still out on Irene coverage, it gave itself a happy verdict on Hurricane Katrina. To review what the media believe they did right before, during, and after the worst storm in history, the Newseum has created an exhibit that "chronicles the dramatic tale of the media's reporting of the killer storm." To Sept. 18 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Phone: 888/639-7386. Web: newseum.org.
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Paterson, N.J., firefighters suit up for a possible rescue on the city's Bridge Street as the swollen Passaic River floods on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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An air tanker drops fire retardant on a hot spot in an area destroyed by a wildfire at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (center) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (left) speak Aug. 24 in Mineral, Va., with businessman B.J. Singh after his store was damaged by last week's earthquake. The distribution of disaster-relief funds has caused political backlash in Virginia.
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North Koreans and Chinese travel agents enjoy a buffet during the 21-hour trial cruise on the refurbished Japanese-built cargo ship. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Vermont National Guardsmen load ready-to-eat meals and water for residents of Fair Haven on Wednesday. Vermont Emergency Management officials said all but one of the state's communities left isolated by flooding had been reached by ground crews as of Wednesday.
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A bridge on Route 73 in Rochester, Vt., lies in the river in this aerial view on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. All access to the town was cut off by flooding from the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene in a deluge that took inland areas of New England and upstate New York by surprise with its ferocity. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (left) takes a helicopter tour Tuesday of hurricane damage to North Carolina with Gov. Beverly Perdue (center) and Sen. Kay R. Hagan. Also Tuesday, she said she wants the National Guard to stay on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)
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Neighborhood children come to see Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (left) as he talks with Glenn Colby on Tuesday about the damage to his home from Hurricane Irene along Whiskey Creek Lane in Hollywood, Md. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
