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A fireman helps an elderly woman on a flooded road in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. This flooded street is in Draguignan, France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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A man takes pictures of piled-up cars in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Residents walk past a pile of cars in Trans en Provence, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after floods. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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Residents walk past an overturned car on a street in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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A goose walks through a street of Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Residents salvage belongings along a street in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say at least a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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A woman photographs a camp site in Le Muy, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after floods. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are still missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Residents react in a street in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after floods. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Josette Ranpont cleans up her home in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after floods. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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President Obama speaks during a nationally televised address from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Mr. Obama said the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an urgent call for action to cut U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and vowed that BP PLC will be required to spend whatever is needed to repair damage caused by the company's "recklessness." (Bloomberg News/Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool)

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President Obama is pictured after delivering a televised address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday June 15, 2010. Mr. Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Tony Hayward (left), chief executive officer of BP PLC, arrives at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. As devastation from the worst U.S. oil spill mounts, President Obama vowed that BP will pay for all damage caused by its recklessness and that the government would commit to restoring the Gulf Coast. (Bloomberg News/Andrew Harrer)

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Richard Stavis, CEO of Stavis Seafoods, Inc., poses with 13 - 15 count domestic gulf shrimp at their corporate headquarters in the Seaport District of Boston, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Most of the Gulf of Mexico is still open to fishing despite the oil spill, and crews continue to deliver shrimp and other seafood to the market. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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President Obama (right) and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as Mr. Obama visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Kyrgyz Emergency Situation Ministry soldiers load flour bags on a truck at a grain elevator in Kara-Suu, a small town 14 miles northeast of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, as part of the first delivery of 70 tons of flour to the hungry in Osh on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Rioting has killed at least several hundred people in this Central Asian nation, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was ignited deliberately to undermine the interim government. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers and Oklahoma City firefighters search for people stranded by flood waters in Oklahoma City after heavy rain hit the area on Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

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An Oklahoma City Fire Department rescue crew takes two boys and their dog to high ground in Edmond, Okla., after flood waters inundated a number of homes in the area on Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern)

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President Obama, accompanied by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, left, makes a statement after he meets with local officials on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as he visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)