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A warns motorists to slow down on the Popp's Ferry bridge in Biloxi, Miss., on Monday Jan. 27, 2014. Bridges are expected to ice over on Tuesday and Wednesday during a winter storm in the area. The sign was put out on Friday when another winter storm left ice on area bridges causing multiple auto accidents. (AP Photo/Sun Herald, John Fitzhugh)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, people look at an empty poultry shop with a notice stating it is closed, top left, at a market in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province. Authorities in eastern China said Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, they will ban live poultry sales after an increase in the number of people infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, with the busy Chinese New Year travel period already under way. So far this year, H7N9 has killed 19 people in China and infected 96, Feng Zijian, the deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, according to state media. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, a worker disinfects cages at a closed poultry store in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province. Authorities in eastern China said Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, they will ban live poultry sales after an increase in the number of people infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, with the busy Chinese New Year travel period already under way. So far this year, H7N9 has killed 19 people in China and infected 96, Feng Zijian, the deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, according to state media. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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State Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash, foreground, addresses the Senate Finance Committee during an overview of plans to advance a liquefied natural gas project on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. Pictured alongside Balash are, from left, Mike Pawlowski, a deputy Revenue commissioner, and Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell, center. Shown in the background is Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, one of several legislators who sat in on the presentation. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Joan Kelly of St. Paul, Minn.,was decked out in Winter Carnival Buttons and warm clothes as she visited the ice sculptures in St. Paul's Rice Park as another polar blast brought sub-zero temperatures in the teens with wind chills as high as the minus-40's to much of Minnesota, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
