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A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigator walks out of the fire-damaged multimillion-dollar home in northwest D.C. News reports indicate the family was held captive in the home the night before the fire and that $40,000 in cash was delivered to the residence shortly before the fire was set.

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A pelican covered in oil sits on a beach about a mile west of Refugio State Beach, Calif., Wednesday, May 20, 2015. A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a storm drain and into the ocean for several hours Tuesday before it was shut off. (Kenneth Song/The News-Press via AP)

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On a mission: Gary Sinise, in a heavy understatement, says "it's a busy time" for his efforts to support active-duty service members and military veterans. (Associated Press)

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Ahmed Mohammed, a New York City hot dog vendor at Ground Zero, has caused several fights to break out after charging customers, particularly tourists, as much as $20 and $30 for a hot dog. (NBC New York)

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Army Capt. Steve Voglezon helped pull two people from a burning car crash in Chatham County, North Carolina, on May 17, 2015. (Image: ABC News screenshot)

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FBI special agent David Gomez (left), Snohomish County District 7 Fire Chief Rick Eastman (center) and ATF special agent Kelvin Crenshaw address media members on March 4, 2008, near the scene of where three multimillion dollar homes burned a day earlier in Woodinville, Wash. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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In this May 17, 2015, photo, smoke rises from a Marine Corps Osprey aircraft after making a hard landing near Bellows Air Force Station near Waimanalo, Hawaii. The fatal crash of the Marine Corps' new hybridized airplane-and-helicopter aircraft during a training exercise is renewing safety concerns about the machine. (Zane Dulin via AP)

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Debris rises as a Marine Corps Osprey aircraft makes a hard landing on Bellows Air Force Station near Waimanalo, Hawaii on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Friday, May 15, 2015, file photo, Nepalese army soldiers prepare to leave for a rescue mission to the site where the suspected wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter, that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, was spotted, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of the chopper that was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

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In this May 12, 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Los Angeles County Fire Department urban search and rescue team memebrs work to recover survivors from a four-story building that collapsed in this week’s earthquake in Singati, a mountain village in Nepal. Tuesday’s temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 main Gorkha earthquake that’s killed more than 8,000 people. The Disaster Assistance Response Team included 57 urban search and rescuers each from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Va. (Kashish Das/USAID/via AP)

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In this May 12, 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, a member of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department's team helps rescue a woman from a four-story building that collapsed in this week’s earthquake in Singati, a mountain village in Nepal. Tuesday’s temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 main Gorkha earthquake that’s killed more than 8,000 people. The Disaster Assistance Response Team included urban search and rescuers from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Va. (USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team via AP)

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Southwest Airlines is facing backlash after a Karen Momsen-Evers said flight attendants refused to let her make an emergency call to her husband before he committed suicide. (WTMJ)

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A public viewing was held May 15 at the Stadium Armory in D.C. for Lt. Kevin McRae, a D.C. firefighter who collapsed and died at the scene of an apartment fire. (D.C. Fire and EMS via Twitter)

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A Nepalese army soldier clears rubble from a damaged house at Lele in Lalitpur, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. On April 25, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake killed thousands of people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Then, just as the country was beginning to rebuild, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake battered it again. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

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National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt speaks during a news conference Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Philadelphia. Sumwalt said the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday in Philadelphia sped up for a full minute before it derailed at a sharp curve, killing eight people and injuring more than 200. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Nepalese army men search for the missing U.S. Marine helicopter in the earthquake affected Dolakha District, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. The helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers disappeared Tuesday while delivering aid in the country's northeast, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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National Edition News cover for May 14, 2015 - Train raced over 100 mph into sharp curve: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train wreck, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia. More than 200 people aboard the Washington-to-New York train were injured in the derailment that plunged screaming passengers into darkness and chaos Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Federal investigators are working to determine why an Amtrak train sped up unsafely and jumped the tracks in a Philadelphia neighborhood Tuesday, killing seven and injuring dozens more. (Associated Press)