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This photo shot through a pane of glass shows a view of the Olympic Park under construction in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 20, 2014. With IOC officials in Rio de Janeiro on to monitor progress on the 2016 Olympics, the city's Mayor Eduardo Paes acknowledged that work on a large cluster of venues is far behind schedule. Paes made his remarks as Nawal El Moutawakel, the head of the inspection committee, reminded Rio officials that the recent Sochi Winter Olympics showcased "meticulous planning." She urged Rio organizers to meet deadlines and to explain clearly to the Brazilian public why it should back the games. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Rio de Janeiro's Eduardo Paes, right, talks with Nawal El Moutawakel, head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission, center, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Director for the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli during a visit to the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 20, 2014. With IOC officials in Rio de Janeiro on to monitor progress on the 2016 Olympics, the city's mayor acknowledged that work on a large cluster of venues is far behind schedule. Paes made his remarks as Nawal El Moutawakel reminded Rio officials that the recent Sochi Winter Olympics showcased "meticulous planning." She urged Rio organizers to meet deadlines and to explain clearly to the Brazilian public why it should back the games. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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This Friday, March 21, 2014 graphic provided by Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), shows an area in the southern Indian Ocean that the AMSA is concentrating its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from a missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority)
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Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein answers questions from the media during the press conference for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370 at a hotel in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes flying deep into the southern Indian Ocean have found nothing so far that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, Australia's acting prime minister said Friday. The planes are part of an international effort to solve the nearly 2-week-old mystery of what happened to Flight 370 with 239 people aboard. They are looking for two large floating objects detected by a satellite off the southwest coast of Australia. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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One of the relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 wipes her tears as she watches a TV news program about the missing flight after a briefing meeting with Malaysian officials in a hotel ballroom in Beijing, China, Friday, March 21, 2014. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from the missing Malaysian airliner. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force copilot Ryutaro Hamahira scans the ocean aboard a C130 aircraft while it flies over the southern search area in the southeastern Indian Ocean, 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) south of Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes scoured a remote patch of the Indian Ocean but came back empty-handed Friday after looking for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, another disappointing day in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Status lights glow on a control panel for a groundwater pump in Hoquiam, Wash. on Monday, March 18, 2014. Most of Hoquiam is in a flood plain, and the mayor says despite the pumps and other measures used to reduce the town's risk of flooding, possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live here. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Jack Durney, mayor of Hoquiam, Wash., stands on a hill on Monday, March 18, 2014, overlooking his city, the Hoquiam River, and Grays Harbor. Because most of Hoquiam lies in the flood plain, Durney says possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live in his town. In the old logging port on an estuarine bay, the great majority of the 8,700 residents live in a flood hazard area. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 photo, Corbin Crawford, 12, is reunited with his mom, Barbara Crawford, after he and his 7-year-old brother had to be rescued from the ice above the Hydroelectric Dam on the Des Moines River near Fort Dodge, Iowa. The boys got stuck on a sheet of ice about 75 feet from the west bank of the river. (AP Photo/The Messenger, Hans Madsen)
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In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 photo, Corbin Crawford, 12, reaches out for a rope tossed to him from shore by a member of the Fort Dodge Fire Department he and his brother, Dylan Crawford, 7, right, became stranded on the ice above the Hydroelectric Dam on the Des Moines River near Fort Dodge, Iowa. The boys got stuck on a sheet of ice about 75 feet from the west bank of the river. (AP Photo/The Messenger, Hans Madsen)
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In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 photo, Corbin Crawford, 12, helps his brother Dylan Crawford, 7, put on a life preserver tossed to them by members of the Fort Dodge Fire Department after the pair became stranded on the ice above the Hydroelectric Dam on the Des Moines River near Fort Dodge, Iowa. The boys got stuck on a sheet of ice about 75 feet from the west bank of the river. (AP Photo/The Messenger, Hans Madsen)
