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A farmer works in a field, Monday, May 5, 2014, near De Soto, Iowa. Despite getting a late start to planting, farmers are optimistic they’ll get their crops planted during the optimum period. Due to rain and cold, it will just be toward the mid to later part of that period. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Greg Broadbent plants corn in a field, Monday, May 5, 2014, near De Soto, Iowa. Despite getting a late start to planting, farmers are optimistic they’ll get their crops planted during the optimum period. Due to rain and cold, it will just be toward the mid to later part of that period. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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The charred remains of two cars are left on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Guthrie, Okla., the day after a wildfire tore through the area. Firefighters worked through the night and into early Monday to battle the large wildfire that destroyed at least six homes and left at least one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control in central Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
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In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 photo, William Saum stands near his front porch in Clarksburg, W. Va. In March 2013, a truck carrying drilling water overturned onto a car carrying his wife and two young sons. Both children, 7-year-old Nicholas Mazzei-Saum and 8-year-old Alexander, were killed. An analysis of traffic fatalities in the busiest new oil and gas-producing counties in the U.S. shows a sharp rise in deaths that experts say is related to the drilling boom. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Pakistani girl Amina shows her thumb being marked after receiving polio vaccine in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 5, 2014. For the first time ever, the World Health Organization on Monday declared the spread of polio an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
