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Los Angeles firefighters look over a building fire in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The blaze, reported just after 7 a.m., burned so fiercely for a time that firefighters were ordered off the roof and also retreated from the interior, fighting the flames from the outside with streams of water from hoses on ladder trucks. Fire Department spokeswoman Katherine Main says nearly 150 firefighters battled the blaze for more than 90 minutes before it was extinguished. Main says no injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Los Angeles firefighters respond to a fire that engulfed a commercial building in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The blaze, reported just after 7 a.m., burned so fiercely for a time that firefighters were ordered off the roof and also retreated from the interior, fighting the flames from the outside with streams of water from hoses on ladder trucks. Fire Department spokeswoman Katherine Main says nearly 150 firefighters battled the blaze for more than 90 minutes before it was extinguished. Main says no injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, sea water floods the World Trade Center construction site in New York during Superstorm Sandy. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to the National Climate Assessment report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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FILE -- This Aug. 30, 2011 file aerial photograph shows destruction of Route 4 in Killington, Vt., after Tropical Storm Irene passed through New England. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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FILE -- In this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo, a man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

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In this July 16, 2013 file photo, roofer Juan Belis sweats as he works in the midday heat atop a building, in Philadelphia. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment report concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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In this May 1, 2014 file photo, Marine unit police officer Robert Jonah walks through flood waters from the Schuylkill River on Main Street, Thursday, May 1, 2014, in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment report concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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FILE - This Oct. 31, 2012 aerial file photo shows destruction in the wake of Superstorm Sandy in Seaside Heights, N.J. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, a parking lot full of yellow cabs in Hoboken, N.J. is flooded as a result of Superstorm Sandy. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to the National Climate Assessment report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

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California Highway Patrol diverts traffic off of Interstate 15 where a construction site was engulfed in flames on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Hesperia, Calif. The California Highway Patrol's Carlos Juarez says the bridge at Ranchero Road caught fire at about 1:30 p.m. and Interstate 15 was closed soon after because of falling debris. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, David Pardo)

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Southbound Interstate 15 traffic diverts by the Ranchero Overcrossing bridge on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 in Hesperia, Calif. A fire on the bridge, which burned through the night, reduced the bridge's wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below. Crews used heavy equipment to slowly drag collapsed remnants out of lanes. Traffic on the northbound side of Southern California's main connector to Las Vegas could be flowing again by mid-to-late afternoon, said Basem Muallem, District 8 Director for Caltrans. Southbound lanes are expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, he said. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg)

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A contractor cuts steel re-bar as the remains of the Ranchero overcrossing bridge is torn down in Hesperia, Calif., on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. A fire on the bridge, which burned through the night, reduced the bridge's wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below. Crews used heavy equipment to slowly drag collapsed remnants out of lanes. Traffic on the northbound side of Southern California's main connector to Las Vegas could be flowing again by mid-to-late afternoon, said Basem Muallem, District 8 Director for Caltrans. Southbound lanes are expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, he said. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg)

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Firefighters try to contain a fire at a bridge construction site on Interstate 15 in Hesperia, Calif., on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The blaze, which burned through the night, reduced the bridge's wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below. Crews used heavy equipment to slowly drag collapsed remnants out of lanes. Traffic on the northbound side of Southern California's main connector to Las Vegas could be flowing again by mid-to-late afternoon, said Basem Muallem, District 8 Director for Caltrans. Southbound lanes are expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, he said. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg)

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Motorist drive along the emergency lane as traffic on Interstate 15 came to a stop just south the Ranchero Interchange Bridge as it burned on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Hesperia, Calif. The California Highway Patrol's Carlos Juarez says the bridge at Ranchero Road caught fire at about 1:30 p.m. and Interstate 15 was closed soon after because of falling debris. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, David Pardo)

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Debris from the Ranchero Bridge project remains draped over the Interstate 15 on Tuesday May 6 2014 in Hesperia, Calif. A fire on the bridge, which burned through the night, reduced the bridge's wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below. Crews used heavy equipment to slowly drag collapsed remnants out of lanes. Traffic on the northbound side of Southern California's main connector to Las Vegas could be flowing again by mid-to-late afternoon, said Basem Muallem, District 8 Director for Caltrans. Southbound lanes are expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, he said. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg)

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Firefighters try to contain a fire at a bridge construction site on Interstate 15 in Hesperia, Calif., on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The blaze, which burned through the night, reduced the bridge's wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below. Crews used heavy equipment to slowly drag collapsed remnants out of lanes. Traffic on the northbound side of Southern California's main connector to Las Vegas could be flowing again by mid-to-late afternoon, said Basem Muallem, District 8 Director for Caltrans. Southbound lanes are expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, he said. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg)

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Rosie McConnell, 8, of Boston, Mass., sits on her fathers shoulders and listens to police bag pipers play at the conclusion of the the 20th annual Blue Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The annual gathering is held to pray for those in law enforcement and fire safety. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)