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Washington Air National Guardsmen methodically make their way through the mud and wreckage left behind by Saturday's mudslide near Oso, Wash., Friday, March 28, 2014. More than 70 guardsmen have been activated to support the search and rescue efforts.(AP Photo/Washington National Guard, Spc. Matthew Sissel, 122D PAOC)

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This photo provided by the U.S. Naval Academy shows Navy midshipman Hans Loewen, 20 of Hampstead, N.C., died Saturday, March 29, 2014, after a skateboarding accident last weekend. Loewen died while in a coma at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with his family by his side. Loewen was injured in a skateboarding accident March 22 while on a camping trip with other midshipmen at Assateague State Park. (AP Photo/U.S. Naval Academy)

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Debris is scattered after a tractor-trailer and a truck crashed into a Kansas Turnpike tollbooth on westbound Interstate 70 on Saturday, March 29, 2014. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports two men were in the truck that hit the tollbooth at highway speeds, never slowing down before crashing. The truck’s cab is wrapped around the tollbooth and the engine landed about 50 yards from the tollbooth. The patrol doesn’t know whether the driver or a passenger died in the crash. The tollbooths are unmanned at night. No one was in the booth at the time of the crash, the patrol said. (AP Photo/The Lawrence Journal-World, Richard Gwin)

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Debris is scattered after a tractor-trailer and a truck crashed into a Kansas Turnpike tollbooth on westbound Interstate 70 on Saturday, March 29, 2014. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports two men were in the truck that hit the tollbooth at highway speeds, never slowing down before crashing. The truck’s cab is wrapped around the tollbooth and the engine landed about 50 yards from the tollbooth. The patrol doesn’t know whether the driver or a passenger died in the crash. The tollbooths are unmanned at night. No one was in the booth at the time of the crash, the patrol said. (AP Photo/The Lawrence Journal-World, Richard Gwin)

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In this photo taken July 18, 2008, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, Lindsay Shirk, at the time a student at Delaware Valley College, collects soil in Wyoming. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

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In this photo taken June 2, 2010, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, Jazelle Mondeau, at the time a student at University of Arizona, collects soil in the Texas Panhandle. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

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In this photo taken Sept. 11, 2008, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, geologist Helen Folger of the U.S. Geological Survey collects soil in West Virginia. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

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In this photo taken April 16, 2008, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, geologist Jim Kilburn, now retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, collects soil from Kansas. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)