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This photo provided by the National Parks Service, shows the Liberty Ridge Area of Mount Rainier as viewed from the Carbon Glacier, Saturday, May 31, 2014, in Washington state. Six climbers missing on Mount Rainier are presumed dead after helicopters detected pings from emergency beacons buried in the snow thousands of feet below their last known location, a national park official said Saturday. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
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Some of the first cars to drive on a newly reopened State Route 530 make their way along the road near Oso, Wash. on Saturday, May 31, 2014. A little more than two months after the Oso mudslide destroyed a neighborhood and killed 43 people, the highway through the heart of the slide reopened to vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Some of the first cars to drive on a newly reopened State Route 530 make their way along the road near Oso, Wash. on Saturday, May 31, 2014. A little more than two months after the Oso mudslide destroyed a neighborhood and killed 43 people, the highway through the heart of the slide reopened to vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Oso, Wash. firefighter Tim Harper leads his wife Jaimie and daughters Cameron, 7, left, and Lyla, 4, to a ridge to look at the Oso debris field on Saturday, May 31, 2014. A little more than two months after the Oso mudslide destroyed a neighborhood and killed 43 people, the highway through the heart of the slide reopened to vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Some of the first cars to drive on a newly reopened State Route 530 make their way along the road near Oso, Wash. on Saturday, May 31, 2014. A little more than two months after the Oso mudslide destroyed a neighborhood and killed 43 people, the highway through the heart of the slide reopened to vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Hundreds of Oso, Darrington and Arlington, Wash. residents walk on State Route 530 near Oso, Wash. on Saturday, May 31, 2014 to pay tribute to those killed before the highway was reopened to cars. A little more than two months after the Oso mudslide destroyed a neighborhood and killed 43 people, the highway through the heart of the slide reopened to vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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FILE - In this April 24, 1996 file photo, traffic reporter Rudy Grande's view from a helicopter shows a snakelike pattern of car congestion on the way to downtown Los Angeles. The average American household now owns fewer than two cars, returning to the levels of the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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FILE - In this April 14, 2014 file photo, commuters wait for an New Jersey Transit train to New York, in Trenton, N.J. Americans took a record 10.7 billion trips on mass transit last year, up 37 percent since 1995, far outpacing population growth. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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In this photo taken on May 28, 2014, Helen Henderson, a project manager for the American Littoral Society, left, and Capt. Walt Nadolny, right, check current pollution reports using a new smart phone app developed for the group that lets people quickly and easily report water pollution or other marine environmental problems to authorities at a marina in Brick, N.J. The project was paid for by a $325,000 federal grant that came from fines levied on water polluters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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In this photo taken on May 28, 2014, Al Wutkowski, the Barnegat Bay Guardian, left, watches Helen Henderson, a project manager for the American Littoral Society, right, demonstrate a new smart phone app developed for the group that lets people quickly and easily report water pollution or other marine environmental problems to authorities at a marina in Brick, N.J. The project was paid for by a $325,000 federal grant that came from fines levied on water polluters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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In this photo taken on May 28, 2014, Helen Henderson, a project manager for the American Littoral Society, demonstrates a new smart phone app developed for the group that lets people quickly and easily report water pollution or other marine environmental problems to authorities at a marina in Brick, N.J. The project was paid for by a $325,000 federal grant that came from fines levied on water polluters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
