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(CNN) -- Some of the worst flooding the mid-South has seen in decades is thought to be responsible for at least 11 deaths in Tennessee, the Nashville and state emergency management offices said Sunday.

Five of the deaths were in Davidson County, which encompasses Nashville, according to the Nashville mayor's Office of Emergency Management.

The rains have closed interstate highways, displaced thousands from their homes, prompted evacuations of hotels and nursing homes and turned city streets and parking lots into raging rivers.

Parts of the state have been drenched with up to 20 inches of rain, with more expected.

iReport: Experiencing the Tennessee floods? Send photos, video

On Sunday night, multiple vehicles were trapped by water on Interstate 40 with water rising around them and with authorities working since the afternoon to get to the cars, according to the Office of Emergency Management.

Authorities have recovered bodies from a flooded house in Nashville and from an upside down vehicle floating on a flooded road, among other places, the mayor's office said in a release Sunday night.

Two young men who'd gone tubing on a flooded creek on Sunday evening were missing, the mayor's office said.

Also on Sunday night, authorities were working to evacuate more than 500 residents from the MetroCenter in north Nashville.

"All of our major creeks and the Cumberland River are near flood level, if not at flood level," Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said at a press conference Sunday, referring to the waterway that bisects Nashville. "The ground is entirely saturated, and the rain continues to fall. There's nowhere for the water to go."

The western two thirds of Tennessee has seen between 6 and 20 inches of rain since Saturday, with flooding spreading to Kentucky on Sunday.

In Nashville alone, more than 600 people were rescued from the water this weekend, Dean said.

Dean said Sunday that more rain has fallen in Nashville in the last 24 hours than has ever been recorded in the city.

Video: Nashville resident captures 'practically a class two rapids' on her neighborhood streets

"We are still at this point in rescue stage and will be until the water begins to subside," he said.

Dean urged residents to stay home Sunday and, if they could, to skip work on Monday, when Nashville schools will be closed and public transportation will be suspended.

Two of the three temporary shelters -- which can each house 200 people -- opened by the Nashville mayor's office had reached capacity by Sunday evening. The Red Cross reported approximately 400 people in 22 shelters throughout Tennessee.

The floods shut down parts of interstates 24, 40 and 65 around Nashville on Saturday and Sunday.

The floods left 36,000 houses around Nashville without power on Sunday, while all Davidson County residents were asked to use water for essential purposes only after flooding closed one of the city's water treatment plants.

Flooding also led to the evacuation of three area nursing homes, affecting more than 250 patients, Dean said.

Opryland Hotel expected to lose power Sunday night and staffers planned to ask their guests to evacuate, according to Janel Lacey, a spokeswoman for the Nashville mayor's office.

While some streams around Nashville were starting to recede on Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was planning to release dammed upstream water Sunday night, which could cause more flooding around Nashville, city emergency management chief Stephen Halford said.

The water needed to be released to keep the Army Corps equipment safe, Halford said.

The National Weather Service issued a civil emergency message Sunday to central and western Tennessee, telling people to stay off roads because too many are closed and people are getting stranded.

The weather service also issued a flood emergency Sunday for much of central Kentucky -- where tens of thousands were trying to get home after this weekend's Kentucky Derby -- and in south central Indiana.

In Louisville, Kentucky, the National Turnpike and Gene Snyder Freeway were closed on Sunday.

In addition to flooding fatalities, one Tennessean died over the weekend in a tornado in Hardeman County, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.

The mayor's Office of Emergency Management in Nashville announced Sunday night that it had confirmed five fatalities in Davidson County -- which encompasses Nashville -- thought to be flood-related.

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(CNN) -- No budget for a new computer in this recession? It's a common malady these days.

A self-admitted tech geek, Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.

But this doesn't mean you have to suffer along with substandard performance from your system just because it's got more dust on its cover and less hard drive space than that shiny floor model you've been drooling over at the local Fry's.

Will an '09 Ford Escort outpace a '67 Mustang in a drag race? If the Mustang's been neglected and allowed to rust away in the back yard for the past decade, then...probably. If it's been babied and protected from the elements, then it's not even a fair contest.

Like any machine, a well-maintained car or computer will surprise you, no matter its age.

In our modern consumer culture, it's not surprising that many people are under the impression that newer always means better. Yesterday's top-shelf computer is as disposable as a Taco Bell spork, and what cost $3,000 four years ago is now surpassed by technology that didn't even exist -- for any price then -- for a comparable pittance. We're conditioned to kowtow to the expectations of obsolescence. Why settle for less, manufacturers will ask coyly, when we could have so much more -- interest-free for six months if we just sign up today?

I'm here to tell you that even if you don't have the riches to get your dream setup today, you don't have to settle for less than what yesterday's perfect computer can offer. Here's a list of things that could help keep you and your machine playing nicely together for a while until you can save up enough pennies for tomorrow's offerings.

It may be your software that's slow -- not your computer. Check for driver and version updates either at your computer manufacturer's Web site or through the list of software you use frequently; see if new drivers or versions are available. If you've been using the same programs for a year or two, it's likely that such updates are available, and those updates could result in noticeable performance improvement.

The future of the desktop is on the Web, where there's little (if anything) for you to install to (and slow down) your system. For this reason, I recommend moving as many of your activities to the Web as possible. Many of today's Web sites are built with rich JavaScript frameworks, which enable amazing in-browser experiences for everybody.

If you can, begin accessing and managing your email from the Web rather than the desktop. If you use more than one computer on a regular basis, this is likely what you're doing anyway. A lot of people I know swear by Google's Gmail (especially for its pretty good spam-filtering capabilities), but you have many options -- and most of them are free.

At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs. And sharing the data from these applications for collaboration with friends and coworkers has never been easier.

If you're still using Internet Explorer, stop! Please, stop. It's not fast -- not by today's standards. You're better off with a newer build of Firefox or possibly Google Chrome or Safari (my personal favorite).

External hard drives are a good way of keeping transient data off your computer's core hard drive, which should give your operating system some extra room to do its job more efficiently. Another option takes us back to the Web -- you can often get an online backup plan that will remove your valuable data not only from that main hard drive, but also from your computer's immediate vicinity.

If a calamity (whether human-created or, as insurance companies like to say, an "act of God") befalls your household, your data will be safe in a sanctuary far, far away and not melted on that physical, external hard drive next to that poor old computer we've been trying to save!

Instead of downloading music and storing it indefinitely, consider paying for a music/content subscription service instead. There'll be less data bogging down your computer, less stuff for you to manage, and you'll have access to so much more content.

Comparably minor hardware upgrades like more RAM or better video cards will likely make a major difference in your old system's performance. A second monitor is one way I've found of, if not making my computer more productive, at least making my interaction with the computer more productive.

Doubling your screen real estate is a great way of getting the most out of the information that your computer's giving you without having to switch back and forth between pages on a smaller, single-screen setup. Make sure your video card supports this option; if not, there are USB converters that might help overcome this obstacle.

See? Your old computer, treated with care and respect, can still make that pan-global road trip on the Information Superhighway. It just needs a careful hand on the wheel and a steady toe on the pedal to maximize its potential: That New Computer Smell on an Old Wallet Budget.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, recovering from pancreatic cancer surgery, plans to be back on the bench when the Supreme Court resumes oral arguments in 17 days.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also had surgery for colorectal cancer in September 1999.

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Friday that the 75-year-old justice is expected to be on hand for the next public session February 23, when the court will hear appeals in two cases.

Ginsburg remains hospitalized at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center a day after undergoing surgery for the disease.

Sources close to Ginsburg say that she continues to do well after surgery and that doctors and family remain cautiously optimistic. Those sources said she was resting comfortably and speaking with her staff about the court's upcoming caseload.  Watch friends talk about Ginsburg's resilience Â»

The justice could be released from the hospital next week. A court statement Thursday said she will probably remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, according to her attending surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan.

"Justice Ginsburg had no symptoms prior to the incidental discovery of the lesion during a routine annual check-up in late January at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland," the court said.

The justices are on a month-long recess but return for a closed door conference February 20. There is no word on whether Ginsburg will attend that meeting, among just the nine members of the court, to go over pending appeals.

President Obama was hoping to speak with Ginsburg by phone later Friday, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

Ginsburg underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in September 1999. Court sources said she continued to work on pending cases while in her hospital bed and her subsequent recovery.

Less than a month later, she appeared in public to give a speech and said, "I am still mending but have progressed steadily." She never missed a day on the bench.

The Brooklyn, New York, native has been on the federal bench since 1980, the past 15 on the high court, where she is the he only female justice.

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(CNN) -- A person's risk of stroke is associated with the number of fast-food restaurants near their residence, according to a study presented Thursday at a stroke conference in San Diego, California.

Fast-food restaurants may be associated with stroke risk, a new study says. Some say there's not enough evidence.

Researchers led by Dr. Lewis B. Morgenstern at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor counted 1,247 strokes caused by blood clots in 64 census tracts in Nueces County, Texas, which includes Corpus Christi, from January 2000 through June 2003.

They also mapped the county's 262 fast-food restaurants and then adjusted for socioeconomic status and demographics and found a statistically significant association.

"The association suggested that the risk of stroke in a neighborhood increased by 1 percent for every fast-food restaurant," the authors wrote in a poster presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.

Residents of neighborhoods in the 75th percentile of fast-food restaurants had a 6 percent increased risk of stroke compared with residents of the 25th percentile of such eateries, according to the study, which was paid for by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Morgenstern, director of the University of Michigan's stroke program and professor of neurology and epidemiology, warned that the finding does not prove that proximity to fast-food restaurants caused the increase in strokes of people living nearby.  Watch more on the link between fast food restaurants and stroke Â»

"What we don't know is whether fast food actually increased the risk because of its contents or whether fast-food restaurants are a marker of unhealthy neighborhoods," he said.

Still, he added, "If this association is causal, the findings have large public health importance due to the high prevalence of fast-food restaurants."

A spokeswoman for the National Restaurant Association lambasted that concern as unsupported by the data.

"This article is seriously flawed and by its own admission shows no correlation whatsoever between dining at chain restaurants and incidence of stroke," Beth Johnson said. "Further, it tells us nothing about the eating and exercise habits of the individuals involved. The restaurant industry continues to offer a growing number of healthier offerings, move away from the use of trans fats and provide more nutrition information.

"In fact, the National Restaurant Association strongly supports a national, uniform approach to providing detailed nutrition information in chain restaurants. Constructive and responsive measures like these, and not misleading studies, will help consumers make healthy choices for themselves and their families," she added.

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(CNN) -- "Keep the government's hands off my Medicare." Those words -- quoted by so many TV talking heads -- never seem actually to have been spoken by anyone. It's like that poodle in the microwave story: Everybody has a neighbor who heard it from his cousin.

The town hallers were angry, but they were not crazy, and they were not stupid. They knew perfectly well that Medicare is provided by the government. They also knew that their government is proposing to change Medicare in ways they do not like.

The health care reform plans backed by President Obama would cut hundreds of billions out of the the growth of Medicare spending over the next 10 years. More ominous for seniors than the dollar figure is the plan behind the number.

The president wants to reduce spending on Medicare Advantage, the privately run plans that offer seniors a better deal than conventional Medicare. Over the longer term, the president aspires to shift Medicare patients to teams of health care providers paid by the year, instead of individual doctors charging fees for each particular service -- rather than by the particular medical service they perform.

Meet new CNN contributor David Frum

The changes the president has in mind won't kill Grandma. But they will change medicine in ways Grandma may find uncomfortable. Ten years from now, Grandma probably won't have a personal doctor. Her Medicare will cover less -- and cost more.

Medicare was under pressure even before the election of Obama. The gap between the future revenues and future obligations of Medicare and Social Security is estimated by the Social Security trustees at some $45 trillion. How much is that? Adjusting for inflation, it's the cost of fighting World War II -- 10 times.

Medicare is the single biggest spending commitment of the United States. As Obama stacks enormous new health care spending commitments atop the old, Medicare's already bleak future grows dimmer still.

Who wins as Medicare loses?

The short answer is: the uninsured. The president will use the money squeezed from Medicare to extend some form of coverage to the 35 million to 40 million people estimated to lack health insurance. And who are these people?

About one-quarter of them are foreign-born. Recent immigrants to the United States -- unlike the immigrations who arrived between World War II and 1970 -- have tended to be very low-skilled. Their labor is just not worth enough to their employers to support the high cost of an American health insurance plan: $13,000 a year, on average, for a family of four.

So here's how the world looks to a Medicare enrollee:

Over the opposition of some 80 percent of the American people, your government allowed millions of poor newcomers to enter the country, many of them illegally. (Over the past 10 years, half of all immigrants to the United States have arrived illegally.)

These people cut the lawns of your more affluent neighbors, tended their babies, cleared their tables after their restaurant meals.

If you were not so affluent, they reduced your wages and crowded your schools, highways and hospital emergency rooms.

Now you are being told that your old age will be made less comfortable to accommodate them. Unsurprisingly, you don't like it.

The debate about immigration and health care has centered on whether immigrants who are here illegally might qualify for coverage under the Democrats' reforms. Theoretically, they will not be eligible, but since Democrats have so far voted against enforcement measures, some illegal immigrants will no doubt slip through.

But the debate over illegal immigrants is a proxy for something larger and more unsettling to older Americans. The problem is not illegal immigration, it is all low-skilled immigration, legal and illegal. By importing tens of millions of people who earn too little to pay for their own health insurance, we have made this supremely difficult social problem radically more difficult than it ever needed to be. With "Obamacare," the bill for four decades of permissive immigration has at last come due.

Since the 1930s, the United States has run two different kinds of government social programs.

One kind of program is sustained by contributions from the very same people who will benefit from the program in future: Social Security, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation. These programs have never been controversial.

The other kind of program taxes some for the benefit of others: Medicaid, social housing, the old welfare programs for the poor. These programs have always been intensely resented.

Medicare was the first kind of program: social insurance. Obama's public option will be the second kind of program: income transfer.

That's the explanation for the resistance the president is encountering. And it's the emotion that explains the actual quote -- not the bogus quote -- we heard from so many town hall protesters this summer: "Fix old. No new."

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum.

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(CNN) -- President Barack Obama used the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to renew his pitch for alternative energy Wednesday, arguing that the unfolding environmental disaster "gives you a sense of where we're going" without comprehensive reform.

The federal government is "going to bring every resource necessary to put a stop" to the spill, the president said during a visit to a solar panel manufacturing facility in Fremont, California.  "We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired, and the cleanup is complete."

But, he added, "a lot of damage has been done already. The spill in the Gulf, which is just heartbreaking, only underscores the necessity" of seeking alternative fuel sources.

A failure to enact comprehensive energy reform, he argued, would pose a threat to national security and the economy, as well as the environment.

Obama's remarks came two weeks after Sens. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, introduced a sweeping energy and climate change bill intended to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while reshaping the energy sector.

The House passed its own energy bill last year, and Obama has said he backs the efforts by Kerry and Lieberman to move the issue forward in the Senate. The president asked for Senate GOP cooperation on the issue during a closed-door meeting Tuesday with Republicans on Capitol Hill.

However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has indicated he wants immigration reform to take priority, and the politics of midterm congressional elections in November raises questions about the the possibility of gaining final approval this year of such major legislation as energy reform.

Reid's position caused a potential Republican co-sponsor, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to drop out of the talks with Lieberman and Kerry on drafting the proposal.

The proposal addresses a range of energy issues, including expanded nuclear power production, incentives for the coal industry to seek cleaner methods, money to develop alternative energy sources and programs to help U.S. industry in the transition to a low-carbon system.

On climate change, the measure seeks escalating reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades that match the levels set as goals by the Obama administration and contained in the House bill. Among other things, the proposal calls for emissions reductions from 2005 levels of 17 percent by 2020, 42 percent by 2030 and 83 percent by 2050.

The Senate proposal includes expanded offshore oil drilling as part of a strategy to increase domestic production. However, provisions strengthening the ability of states to prevent more drilling off their coasts were added in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

CNN's Tom Cohen and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report.

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question: What was Obama promoting in California?

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question: What did key senetors introduce?

answer: a sweeping energy and climate change bill

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question: What did Reid's emphasis on immigration reform do?

answer: caused a potential Republican co-sponsor, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to drop out of the talks

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(CNN) -- Somali pirates demanded a $7 million ransom for a British couple kidnapped aboard their yacht last week, a British agency said Friday.

The British government says it won't pay.

"The government will not make substantive concessions for hostage takers, including the payments of ransom," the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were snatched last week from their yacht in the Indian Ocean, had been held aboard a Singaporean cargo ship hijacked by pirates.

They have been moved to a hijacked Spanish ship that pirates have stocked with more supplies and armed men, a local journalist in contact with the pirates said Friday.

The pirates moved them to the Spanish vessel after elders in the Somali town of Haradhere refused a pirate request to allow the Chandlers ashore, the journalist said. The journalist's identity is not being disclosed for security reasons.

After hours of negotiation, the couple spoke with Rachel Chandler's brother, Stephen Collett, on Friday -- a phone conversation that was videotaped by CNN's British affiliate ITN. In the conversation, Rachel Chandler confirmed only that they had been moved from the Singaporean cargo ship, but not their current location, the network reported.

"We're managing. They tell us that we're safe and that we shouldn't worry and that if we want anything, they will provide it in terms of food and, you know, water," an emotional Rachel Chandler told Collett. "They're very hospitable people, so don't worry. ... Physically we're fine; physically, we're healthy."

Paul Chandler spoke slowly and carefully in the interview:

"Rachel and I are here. We are fine," he told Collett. "We know nothing here. It is nice to speak to you. I can only say we are well and that's as far as I can say."

Collett read a message to the captors, asking them to release his sister and her husband to show "your compassionate nature."

ITN reporter Angus Walker noted that Paul Chandler's tone sounded more strained than during their conversation Thursday, when he laughed at one point and sounded more relaxed. In their Thursday conversation, Chandler told ITN that men with guns had boarded the couple's yacht, demanding money and taking everything of value.

Paul Chandler spoke later with the BBC's Somali Service, reportedly saying, "We are well and being looked after OK." He said they were being fed and "food is OK at the moment."

The pirates abandoned the Chandlers' yacht, the 38-foot Lynn Rival, which the British Royal Navy found drifting in international waters Thursday.

The Chandlers set off from the Seychelles islands on October 21 bound for Tanzania, according to their blog. A distress beacon was activated on October 23, according to naval officials.

Britain's Foreign Office said it has been in close contact with the couple's family.

Pirates have been very active off the east coast of Africa in the past several years, operating out of lawless Somalia.

Two vessels were attacked the day after the Chandlers set sail. One of them -- a cargo ship -- was successfully boarded and seized off the Seychelles, while the other fought off its attackers near the Kenyan coast.

Thursday, pirates attacked and boarded a Thai-flagged fishing vessel about 200 miles north of the Seychelles, according to the European Union Naval Force.

Attacks in the region have significantly increased this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crimes. But successful attacks have gone down as a result of a strong presence of international monitors.

The first nine months of this year has seen more pirate attacks than all of last year, the bureau reported October 21.

From January 1 through September 30, pirates worldwide mounted 306 attacks, compared with 293 in all of 2008, it said. More than half of this year's attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates off the east coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, a major shipping route between Yemen and Somalia.

Out of those attacks, Somali pirates successfully hijacked 32 vessels and took 533 hostages. Eight people were wounded, four were killed and one is missing, the bureau said.

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text: coast

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text: Gulf

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text: Somalia

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text: wounded

text: four

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text: is

text: missing

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text: bureau

text: said

question: when did they leave the Seychelles

answer: October 21

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question: who has been kidnapped

answer: Paul and Rachel Chandler,

text: Paul and Rachel Chandler,

question: Where did the couple leave for Tanzania?

answer: Seychelles islands on October 21 bound

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question: What type of weapons do they have?

answer: guns

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question: What will the British government not do?

answer: it won't pay.

text: it won't pay.

question: where did they move them from?

answer: a Singaporean cargo ship hijacked by pirates.

text: a Singaporean cargo ship hijacked by pirates.

question: what the government say

answer: it won't pay.

text: it won't pay.

question: Who kidnapped a British couple?

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(CNN) -- Pirates have released a Greek-owned vessel and its crew of 22, months after hijacking it off Somalia, authorities said.

The MV Filitsa was released Monday after the shipping company that owned it paid a ransom, said Michael Battzoglou, a security officer and spokesman for the owner, Order Shipping Co. He did not say how much had been paid.

"All are well and safe," he added.

The Greek coast guard also said no one had been killed or injured on the vessel.

The European Union's anti-piracy task force NAVFOR issued a statement confirming that the ransom had been paid and the ship freed. It did not say how much money changed hands.

The Filitsa was en route to Mombasa, Kenya, where it and its crew were to be checked over, then will continue to Durban, South Africa, Battzoglou said. Its progress will be monitored by NAVFOR, the task force said

The bulk carrier was hijacked on November 11 off Somalia, near the islands of Seychelles, and was held at the pirate stronghold of Hobyo, on the Somali coast, the EU said.

It was en route from Shuaiba in Kuwait to Dubai when it was hijacked.

It flies a Marshall Island flag and is crewed by 19 Filipinos and three Greeks, the EU added.

The EU mission's main tasks are to escort merchant vessels carrying humanitarian aid for the World Food Programme, to protect vulnerable ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean and to deter and disrupt piracy.

The coast off lawless Somalia has become a hub for piracy in the past several years. Three ships have been attacked in the region this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau. There were dozens there last year, the agency said.

The pirates normally seek payment to release the ships.

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text: Pirates

text: have

text: released

text: a

text: Greek

text: owned

text: vessel

text: and

text: its

text: crew

text: of

text: months

text: after

text: hijacking

text: it

text: off

text: Somalia

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text: said

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text: MV

text: Filitsa

text: was

text: released

text: Monday

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text: shipping

text: company

text: that

text: owned

text: it

text: paid

text: a

text: ransom

text: said

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text: a

text: security

text: officer

text: and

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: owner

text: Order

text: Shipping

text: Co.

text: He

text: did

text: not

text: say

text: how

text: much

text: had

text: been

text: paid

text: All

text: are

text: well

text: and

text: safe

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text: added

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text: Greek

text: coast

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text: vessel

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text: Union

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text: force

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text: ransom

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text: been

text: paid

text: and

text: the

text: ship

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text: much

text: money

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text: en

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text: and

text: its

text: crew

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text: to

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text: South

text: Africa

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text: said

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text: will

text: be

text: monitored

text: by

text: NAVFOR

text: the

text: task

text: force

text: said

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text: bulk

text: carrier

text: was

text: hijacked

text: on

text: November

text: off

text: Somalia

text: near

text: the

text: islands

text: of

text: Seychelles

text: and

text: was

text: held

text: at

text: the

text: pirate

text: stronghold

text: of

text: Hobyo

text: on

text: the

text: Somali

text: coast

text: the

text: EU

text: said

text: It

text: was

text: en

text: route

text: from

text: Shuaiba

text: in

text: Kuwait

text: to

text: Dubai

text: when

text: it

text: was

text: hijacked

text: It

text: flies

text: a

text: Marshall

text: Island

text: flag

text: and

text: is

text: crewed

text: by

text: Filipinos

text: and

text: three

text: Greeks

text: the

text: EU

text: added

text: The

text: EU

text: mission

text: 's

text: main

text: tasks

text: are

text: to

text: escort

text: merchant

text: vessels

text: carrying

text: humanitarian

text: aid

text: for

text: the

text: World

text: Food

text: Programme

text: to

text: protect

text: vulnerable

text: ships

text: in

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Aden

text: and

text: Indian

text: Ocean

text: and

text: to

text: deter

text: and

text: disrupt

text: piracy

text: The

text: coast

text: off

text: lawless

text: Somalia

text: has

text: become

text: a

text: hub

text: for

text: piracy

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: several

text: years

text: Three

text: ships

text: have

text: been

text: attacked

text: in

text: the

text: region

text: this

text: year

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: International

text: Maritime

text: Bureau

text: There

text: were

text: dozens

text: there

text: last

text: year

text: the

text: agency

text: said

text: The

text: pirates

text: normally

text: seek

text: payment

text: to

text: release

text: the

text: ships

question: What is the anti-piracy force called?

answer: NAVFOR

text: NAVFOR

question: Where was the ship seized?

answer: Somalia,

text: Somalia,

question: What did the pirates release?

answer: Greek-owned vessel and its crew of 22,

text: Greek-owned vessel and its crew of 22,

question: Who confirmed the ransom had been paid?

answer: NAVFOR

text: NAVFOR

question: What company owned ship?

answer: Order Shipping Co.

text: Order Shipping Co.

question: Where was the ship siezed?

answer: off Somalia, near the islands of Seychelles,

text: off Somalia, near the islands of Seychelles,

question: Where were the pirates released from?

answer: Somalia,

text: Somalia,

question: Where was the ship seized from?

answer: Somalia,

text: Somalia,


text:
(CNN) -- One person was killed and four critically injured Tuesday in a series of highway pileups triggered by a dense dust storm on Interstate 10 in central Arizona, a state law enforcement official said.

The dust storm moved through the Pichacho Peak area, about 40 miles north of Tucson, at about 12:15 p.m. (3:15 p.m. ET) and caused "minimal visibility" on a stretch of Interstate 10 there, said Bart Graves, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

"We have two chain reaction crashes in the westbound lanes," Graves said. "All involve commercial vehicles and passenger cars. There is one confirmed fatality and two additional victims with life-threatening injuries."

Graves said 16 vehicles were involved in the chain reaction accidents at Pichacho Peak.

"We closed the eastbound lanes to allow emergency responders access to the scene," he said. "Due to the poor visibility, all patients were transported by ground ambulance to Tucson area hospitals."

"The dust continues to cause a major hindrance to DPS officers and other rescue personnel," Graves said.

Another pileup, this one involving eight vehicles, occurred about an hour and a half later, 20 miles to the south on I-10, Graves said.

Two people were critically injured in that incident, which occurred on the eastbound lanes of I-10.

Graves said he could not estimate when the interstate would reopen in either direction.

CNN's Tina Burnside contributed to this report.

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text: One

text: person

text: was

text: killed

text: and

text: four

text: critically

text: injured

text: Tuesday

text: in

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: highway

text: pileups

text: triggered

text: by

text: a

text: dense

text: dust

text: storm

text: on

text: Interstate

text: in

text: central

text: Arizona

text: a

text: state

text: law

text: enforcement

text: official

text: said

text: The

text: dust

text: storm

text: moved

text: through

text: the

text: Pichacho

text: Peak

text: area

text: about

text: miles

text: north

text: of

text: Tucson

text: at

text: about

text: p.m.

text: p.m.

text: ET

text: and

text: caused

text: minimal

text: visibility

text: on

text: a

text: stretch

text: of

text: Interstate

text: there

text: said

text: Bart

text: Graves

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: Arizona

text: Department

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: We

text: have

text: two

text: chain

text: reaction

text: crashes

text: in

text: the

text: westbound

text: lanes

text: Graves

text: said

text: All

text: involve

text: commercial

text: vehicles

text: and

text: passenger

text: cars

text: There

text: is

text: one

text: confirmed

text: fatality

text: and

text: two

text: additional

text: victims

text: with

text: life

text: threatening

text: injuries

text: Graves

text: said

text: vehicles

text: were

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: chain

text: reaction

text: accidents

text: at

text: Pichacho

text: Peak

text: We

text: closed

text: the

text: eastbound

text: lanes

text: to

text: allow

text: emergency

text: responders

text: access

text: to

text: the

text: scene

text: he

text: said

text: Due

text: to

text: the

text: poor

text: visibility

text: all

text: patients

text: were

text: transported

text: by

text: ground

text: ambulance

text: to

text: Tucson

text: area

text: hospitals

text: The

text: dust

text: continues

text: to

text: cause

text: a

text: major

text: hindrance

text: to

text: DPS

text: officers

text: and

text: other

text: rescue

text: personnel

text: Graves

text: said

text: Another

text: pileup

text: this

text: one

text: involving

text: eight

text: vehicles

text: occurred

text: about

text: an

text: hour

text: and

text: a

text: half

text: later

text: miles

text: to

text: the

text: south

text: on

text: Graves

text: said

text: Two

text: people

text: were

text: critically

text: injured

text: in

text: that

text: incident

text: which

text: occurred

text: on

text: the

text: eastbound

text: lanes

text: of

text: Graves

text: said

text: he

text: could

text: not

text: estimate

text: when

text: the

text: interstate

text: would

text: reopen

text: in

text: either

text: direction

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Tina

text: Burnside

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: how many were injured

answer: four

text: four

question: what caused the chain reaction

answer: dust storm

text: dust storm

question: what did the storm cause

answer: "minimal visibility"

text: "minimal visibility"

question: How many people died  in the Pichacho Peak incident?

answer: One

text: One

question: The storm caused "minimal visibility" along which Interstate north of Tucson?

answer: 10

question: what did the The storm cause

answer: a series of highway pileups

text: a series of highway pileups

question: where did  Two suffered critical injuries in chain-reaction incident

answer: Interstate 10 in central Arizona,

text: Interstate 10 in central Arizona,

question: How many suffered critical injuries in chain-reaction incident 20 miles north of Tucson?

answer: four

text: four