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Gov. Jay Inslee, right, speaks with Heather Kelly, deputy manager of the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center as he visits the center Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Everett, Wash. Authorities believe at least 24 people have been killed so far in the mudslide in nearby Oso, Wash., and scores of others are still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Comfort dog Sumi, an Akita, shakes a paw with a worker at the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Everett, Wash. Authorities believe at least 24 people have been killed so far in the mudslide in nearby Oso, Wash., and scores of others are still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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People work in view of a map of the mudslide in nearby Oso, Wash., in the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Everett, Wash. Authorities believe at least 24 people have been killed so far in the mudslide in Oso and scores of others are still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Remote Alaskan villages, including King Cove, rely on air travel for access to major hospitals. (Associated Press/File)

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Gov. Jay Inslee speaks on the phone with a family member of a mudslide victim as he flies to the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center in Everett, Wash., Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but authorities believe at least 24 people were killed. And scores of others are still unaccounted for, although many of those names were believed to be duplicates or people who escaped safely. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)