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A man consoles a woman grieving for her loss as rescue workers search for victims after a mudslide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people walk among disaster relief tents set up at the No.3 Middle School in Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province. Heavy rains Wednesday lashed the remote section of northwestern China where weekend flooding killed at least 702 people, as hopes of finding more survivors faded and crews worked to stave off outbreaks of disease. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang He)
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A Chinese soldier rests on his shovel during an effort to dig out victims a mud slide that swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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** FILE ** An American flag flies at half-staff over the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, in honor of former Sen. Ted Stevens, who died in a plane crash in Alaska two days before. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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One of the survivors of the plane crash near Dillingham is transferred from a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 to a waiting Anchorage Fire Department Paramedic rig on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Three of the plane crash survivors were transported aboard this flight to Kulis Air National Guard Base in Anchorage. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)
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Tom Tucker, owner of Tucker Aviation is shown in Dillingham, Alaska, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in front of his Robertson R44 helicopter. Tucker made three trips to the site of the plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and three others Monday night northwest of Dillingham. He delivered a doctor and paramedics to the scene and helped aide survivors. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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This July 15, 2009 photo, released by Louie Balukuoff, shows an aircraft with tail number N455A, and taken near the GCI Lodge on Lake Nerka, near Aleknagik, Alaska. The National Transportation Safety Board reports that at about 8:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, a DeHavilland DHC-3T with tail number N455A crashed 10 miles northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Louie Balukuoff)
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Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, center, adjutant general of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell , right, and Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters, speak at a news conference about the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens. The plane carrying Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe crashed into a remote mountainside in Alaska, killing the longtime senator and a number of others, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rachel D'oro)
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National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman, center, details the aviation accident on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 in Anchorage. The plane crash took the lives of five people including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens on August 9, 2010 near Dillingham, Alaska. With Hersman are from left, McHugh Pierre of the State of Alaska Department of Military and Veteran Affairs, Colonel Audie Holloway of the Alaska State Troopers and NTSB Investigator Clint Johnson. ( AP Photo/Michael DInneen)
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In this April 7, 2009 file photo, former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens stands with his daughters, from left, Beth Stevens, Lily Stevens and Susan Covich as he leaves federal court in Washington. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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This image provided by the Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe that crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside during a fishing trip, killing Mr. Stevens and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight. The plane hit the ground with so much force that it left a 300-foot gash on the slope, federal investigators said. (AP Photo/Alaska State Troopers)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of an Emergency Ministry Beriev Be-200 amphibian multirole jet flying a water drop over forest fires in Russia's Ryazan region, some 111 miles southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)
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Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, talks to supporters in 2008 at a rally welcoming him home. Stevens, a senator from 1968 to 2009, died in a plane crash outside Dillingham, Alaska, on Monday at the age of 86. (Associated Press)
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In this Jan. 25, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan is flanked by Congressional leaders during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill; Chief of Staff James Baker, partly obscured; Attorney General Nominee Edwin Meese; President Reagan; Majority Leader Howard Baker; and Majority Whip Ted Stevens of Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
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In this undated photo, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, left, and President Jimmy Carter discuss the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, File)
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In this 1973 photo, President Gerald Ford stands beside Ted Stevens at Stevens' 50th birthday in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News)
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In this Dec. 1978 photo, authorities examine the wreckage of a plane crash at Anchorage International Airport that killed Sen. Ted Stevens' first wife, Ann. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, File)
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This April 29, 2005 photo released by John Olafson, shows an aircraft with tail number N455A, leaving Vernon, British Columbia, Canada and headed to Alaska. The National Transportation Safety Board reports that at about 8:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, a DeHavilland DHC-3T with tail number N455A crashed 10 miles northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. (AP Photo/John Olafson)
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In this April 7, 2009 file photo, former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens stands with his daughters, from left, Beth Stevens, Lily Stevens and Susan Covich as he leaves federal court in Washington. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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In this Oct. 30, 2008 file photo, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska , right, answers a question from Democrat candidate Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich during a congressional debate in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
