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Emergency crews work along a barge that spilled oil after it was struck by a ship near the Texas City Dike, Sunday, March 23, 2014, in Texas City. The barge that once carried some 900,000 gallons of heavy tar-like oil was cleared Sunday of its remaining contents, a day after the vessel collided with a ship in the busy Houston Ship Channel and leaked as much as a quarter of its cargo into the waterway. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 31, 2012 aerial photo, a New York Air National Guard helicopter with Gov. Andrew Cuomo aboard flies over the ocean side community of Breezy Point in the Queens borough of New York to survey the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. While President Barack Obama signed a law Friday, March 21, 2014 that will delay steep increases to flood insurance paid by many, nearly 60,000 policyholders in New York state are among the 1.1 million nationwide who will see their federally subsidized flood insurance premiums rise as part of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, according to a review of federal data by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
