Tornadoes Rip Through South

Cyerice Martin, right, comforts her sister, Seavia Dixon, left, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 in Akins, Ark., where Dixon's home use to be after a tornado destroyed it Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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Seavia Dixon looks over her tornado damaged home, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 in Akins, Ark. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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Clay and Seavia Dixon pick through the debris of what is left of their tornado damaged home, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 in Akins, Ark. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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Medical personnel set up a make shift triage unit following a tornado that ripped through the Union University campus in Jackson, Tenn. on Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Andrew McMurtrie)
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Rescue personnel attempt to move large sections of a wall to uncover trapped Union University students in the Watter Commons Dormitory following a tornado that ripped through the University campus Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008 in Jackson, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Andrew McMurtrie)
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Union University staff and students search through the rubble of dormitory buildings destroyed when a tornado passed through the campus in Jackson, Tenn. on Tuesday night, Feb. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Amanda Herron)
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A damaged pharmacy at the corner of North Highland Avenue and University Parkway in Jackson, Tenn. is seen after a tornado passed through West Tennessee on Tuesday night, Feb. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Katie Morgan)
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A funnel cloud of the tornado that touched down in Atkins, Ark., is seen at about 5 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008. The photo was taken outside Atkins High School. Tornadoes across four Southern states tore through homes, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses in a rare spasm of violent winter weather that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more. (AP Photo/The Courier, Mike Avery)
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An air-conditioning unit torn off the Hickory Ridge Mall in Memphis, Tenn. landed in the parking lot of the mall after a tornado struck the southeast part of Shelby County, Tenn. Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. No one was seriously injured in the storm, which tore part of a wall off of the Sears store. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)
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Police survey the damage to a Sears store at the Hickory Ridge Mall in Memphis, Tenn. Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. A tornado struck the southeast part of Memphis causing damage to the mall. No one was seriously hurt. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)
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Men play with snow in Amman Jan. 31. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jordan Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation.
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Parliament, Westminster Bridge and the River Thames are enveloped in fog Jan. 28 in London.
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A crowd gathers near the body of a man who was reportedly shot by police in the central Kenyan town of Nakuru Jan. 26. What started as post-election riots rapidly descended into settling of tribal vendettas, with marauding gangs armed with machetes, metal bars, and bows and arrows stalking parts of the west of the country, which until the crisis was seen as a beacon of democracy and stability in the troubled east African region. The death toll from weeks of violence has topped 800 and is rising. Vote for best photo
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Hostages held in a branch of the Banco Provincial in Altagracia de Orituco, in the Venezuelan state of Guarico, plead for help from the window of the bank Jan. 29. Four would-be bank robbers armed with rifles and grenades have been holding up to 50 people hostage for almost 24 hours. Authorities allowed the captors to leave the bank with five hostages being used as human shields. The other hostages were unharmed and the five being used as shields were later released unharmed. Vote for best photo
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A couple check out their reflections on the underside of the 110-ton stainless steel Anish Kapoor sculpture called 'Cloud Gate' and nicknamed 'The Bean' at Millennium Park, Jan. 31, in Chicago.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton greets Sen. Edward Kennedy as her Democrat rival, Sen. Barack Obama, turns away in the moments leading up to President Bush's the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress Jan. 28 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vote for best photo
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South Korean Marines blast their way through snow during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 1. Vote for best photo
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A jet passes above a balloon during the 7th Kaiserwinkel Alpine Ballooning Week in Koessen in the western Austrian province of Tyrol Jan. 29. Balloons from Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, England, Belgium, Luxemburg and Austria participate at the competition.
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Competitors make their way through an obstacle course during the Tough Guy Challenge at South Perton Farm Jan. 27 near Wolverhampton, England.
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A rainbow is visible looking West from Palm Springs, Calif., Jan. 28, next to an array of wind turbines. Southern California has been hit with heavy rainstorms totaling more than 4 inches in some areas over a 24-hour period which has some experts on edge about the possibility of mudslides. Scattered showers remained in the forecast.
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