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In this April 17, 2011, photo, Jeffery Lee looks at a photograph in the middle of debris that was once his friend's home in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)

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In this April 17, 2011, photo, a business lies in ruin in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)

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In this April 17, 2011, photo, homes lay in ruin in a subdivision in Fayetteville, N.C., after a tornado hit the area Saturday. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue plans to tour areas that were hit hard by a ferocious storm system with twisters that ripped through the South, killing at least 45 people across six states. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)

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This aerial photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011, shows a home severely damaged by a tornado that ripped through Gloucester, Va., on Saturday. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Randall Greenwell)

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This aerial photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011, shows damage to Page Middle School by a tornado that ripped through Gloucester, Va., on Saturday. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Randall Greenwell)

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Kathy Gay looks at the damaged ceiling in the home of her brother Gary Jordan on Sunday, April 17, 2011, in Gloucester, Va. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

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A truck in Gloucester, Va., damaged by Saturday's tornado, is shown in this photo taken Sunday, April 17, 2011. Tornadoes and flash flooding left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

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Page Middle School is damaged along with two school buses after Saturday's tornado in Gloucester, Va., as shown in this picture taken Sunday, April 17, 2011. Tornadoes and flash flooding have left several people dead in Virginia, and crews are continuing to assess damage that severe weekend storms caused across several areas of the state. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Sunday declared a state of emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local officials in response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

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An EMS worker assists an employee from the Umami Sushi restaurant to safety after a tornado left several businesses in ruins on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Sanford, N.C. A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs left at least 40 people dead on a rampage that stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia. Emergency crews searched for victims in hard-hit swaths of North Carolina, where 62 tornadoes were reported from the worst spring storm in two decades to hit the state. (AP Photo/The Sanford Herald, Wesley Beeson)

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Lowe's Home Improvement employees stand in the parking lot of their store after it was hit by a tornado in Sanford, N.C., on Saturday, April 16, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of tornadoes from the western hills to the streets of Raleigh. "The Lowe's Home Improvement has been flattened," said Monica Elliott, who works at the nearby Brick City Grill. "It's totally destroyed." (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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Will Harrison's flag hangs from a fallen tree after it was blown off his house when a tornado ripped through the Cottonade neighborhood in Fayetteville, N.C., on Saturday, April 15, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of tornadoes from the western hills to the streets of Raleigh. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)

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A radio-controlled PakBot robot opens a door inside the reactor building of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as the robot is monitored by another Pakbot from behind during inspection of the tsunami-damaged facilities on Monday, April 18, 2011, in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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An aerial photo shows destroyed mobile homes in the Stony Brook Mobile Home Park in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday. A tornado ripped through the area Saturday as a line of severe storms moved across the state. (Associated Press)

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Kizuki Ishimori, 27, clears debris from his family's home in Higashi-Matsushima. After the March 11 tsunami devastated his hometown, Mr. Ishimori said he might have to move south to find work. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Rescuers worked throughout the early morning hours of Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullen, Idaho, to clear debris from a collapsed tunnel in search of a miner missing more than a mile underground since Friday, officials said. The miner's brother, who also was working in the mine, was able to escape. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)

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Fire and smoke rises from storage warehouse at a construction site that is run by a foreign company, with no clear causes of the incident, in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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A car drives through a partially flooded street, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Decatur, Ala. Waves of strong storms left damage across a wide area of Alabama on Friday, slamming into homes and businesses and forcing promoters to cancel the first race of a busy weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 18, 2008, file photo, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski poses in the cockpit of an FAA jet in a hangar at Washington's Reagan National Airport. Krakowski, the official who oversees the nation's air traffic system resigned Thursday and the FAA began a "top to bottom" review of the entire system following disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take a seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)