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Australian golfer Jason Day comments to journalists at Royal Melbourne golf course in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Day has confirmed that eight of his relatives died in Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, including his grandmother. (AP Photo/Dennis Passa)
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A resident of Washington, Ill., surveys the damage to her home and neighbors after a tornado and severe thunderstorms swept through a portion of the town on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Peoria Journal Star, Ron Johnson)
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A man stands near a pickup that belonged to farmer Curt Zehr after a tornado blew through Zehr's farm on Sunday, Nov. 17. 2013. The farm destroyed Zehr's home just outside Washington, Ill., and caused extensive damage in the town. Zehr's wife and son were at home at the time but were not injured. Dozens of Zehr's friends and neighbors helped look through the rubble. (AP Photo/David Mercer)
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Analysts say the lower-than-expected traffic on the 495 Express Lanes, built through a private-public partnership, could be a result of changing transit patterns, an indication that drivers lack familiarity with the lanes or that predictions in early planning stages were overly optimistic. (Associated Press)
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US Army National Guard Master Sergeant Katie Williams of Altamont, center, walks to a destroyed home of Barb and John Evans in the Devonshire Subdivision in Washington, Illinois as relatives rescue belongings after a tornado destroyed several homes on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/The Pantagraph, Steve Smedley)
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A Deputy Sergeant with the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department walks gingerly through debris in the Devonshire Subdivision in Washington, Illinois following a tornado that severely damaged many homes in the town east of Peoria on Sunday, Nov. 17,2013. (AP Photo/The Pantagraph, Steve Smedley)
