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**FILE** The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, is seen here on Aug. 20, 2013. Scientists have crowd-sourced a volunteer network to monitor radiation moving across the Pacific Ocean since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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FILE - In this April 8, 2011 file photo, a welcome sign for Fargo, N.D., sits in the rising floodwaters of the Red River as a flood engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at left, inspects the levee protecting the downtown area. The Red River Diversion Authority is meeting Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Fargo for the first time since President Obama left the project out of his budget plans. The $2 billion channel would move water around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., which has prepared for major floods in four of the last five years. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

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Malaysia's Minister of Transport Hishamuddin Hussein, center, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation, left and Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, right, listen to questions from the media during a press conference regarding missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded westward Friday toward the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan, left, listens as Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper introduces him to members of the media on the state Capitol steps, in Denver, Friday, March 14, 2014. Secretary Donovan announced Friday that Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September's historic floods. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, walks down the state Capitol steps with Secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan, right, and U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, in Denver, Friday, March 14, 2014. Secretary Donovan announced Friday that Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September's historic floods. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan speaks to members of the media, flanked at left by Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper, far left, and U.S. Senator Mark Udall, and backed by several Colorado mayors, on the state Capitol steps in Denver, Friday, March 14, 2014. Secretary Donovan announced Friday that Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September's historic floods. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)