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Demonstrators for and against the Keystone XL pipeline gather outside Pershing Auditorium near the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska lawmakers to consider pipeline challenge

Grant Schulte
An aerial view of a ruptured levee near Hamburg, Iowa, Monday, June 13, 2011, which was letting in water from the Missouri river. The rising Missouri River has ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri, sending torrents of floodwaters over rural farmland toward the Iowa town of Hamburg and the Missouri resort town of Big Lake. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) (AP)

Crews racing floodwaters to build up Iowa levee

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