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FILE - This undated file photo released by the Rocky Intertidal Lab at the University of California-Santa Cruz shows a starfish suffering from "sea star wasting disease" - it's missing one arm and has tissue damage to another. Marine scientists are finding a large number of dead starfish along the West Coast stricken with the disease that causes the creatures to lose their arms and disintegrate. The affliction causes white lesions to develop, which can spread and turn the animals into "goo," and has killed up to 95 percent of a particular species of sea star in some tide pool populations. (AP Photo/Laura Anderson, Rocky Intertidal Lab UC Santa Cruz)
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Water begins to collect in Lake Oroville at Lime Saddle Marina as rain returned to help with drought conditions Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 in Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Chico Enterprise-Record, Jason Halley)
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Water begins to collect in Lake Oroville at Lime Saddle Marina as rain returned to help with drought conditions Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 in Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Chico Enterprise-Record, Jason Halley)
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Water begins to collect in Lake Oroville at Lime Saddle Marina as rain returned to help with drought conditions Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 in Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Chico Enterprise-Record, Jason Halley)
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A firefighter is silhouetted by the flames that consumed a maintenance building early Sunday Feb. 9, 2014, at the Winchester Ammunition Plant in East Alton, Ill. The first of several high pressure steam pipes which burst in the intense heat, begins to spew, background. Despite the efforts of more than 25 firefighters from as many as seven local fire departments, the building was a total loss. The cause is under investigation. (AP Photo/The Telegraph,John Badman) THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT AND THE POST-DISPATCH OUT
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FILE - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Keansburg, N.J., of residents whose homes in Keansburg, were heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Investigations into whether Christie had a role in causing traffic jams as political retribution could make advancing his agenda a challenge. The Republican governor is finding some Democratic legislators are more likely to push back against his proposals and appointees because they see him as weakened by the scandal. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Jenny Edwards, program manager for Rockingham County with the Dan River Basin Association, scoops coal ash from the banks of the river as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
