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(CNN) -- Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in two drive-by shootings, a senior White House official told CNN Sunday.

Two of the victims were an American employee at the consulate and her U.S. citizen husband. Their 1-year-old child, who was in a vehicle with the couple at the time of the shooting, survived the incident, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

The American couple were found dead inside a white Toyota RAV4 with Texas license plates, according to the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.

The woman was shot in the neck and left arm, while the man had a bullet wound near his right eye, officials said.

"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted," Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told CNN, saying a police officer witnessed a car shooting at the Americans' car. "We know they were chasing them. We know they wanted to kill them."

The Americans were identified as Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Enriquez by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, where Redelfs worked as a detention officer.

Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the department, according to Jesse Tovar, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

"On behalf of the men and women of the Sheriff's Office, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family during this difficult time," said Sheriff Richard Wiles. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them."

Authorities retrieved only one shell casing, from a 9 mm weapon.

About 10 minutes before authorities received the call, they were alerted to a body inside a 2003 Honda Pilot. Inside was the husband of the Mexican employee, identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37. Reyes said the victim was a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. consulate.

Two children, 4 and 7, were injured in that shooting and transported to the hospital, the attorney general's office said.

Police recovered two shells at that scene from an assault rifle, authorities said.

"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez," National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in the statement Sunday. "He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice."

In response, the U.S. State Department authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.

"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Sunday night. "They underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of (Mexican) President (Felipe) CalderÃ³n to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico."

The families of employees at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros, are allowed to leave for a period of 30 days "in response to an increase in violence along the Mexican side of its border with the U.S.," State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.

After 30 days, the authorization can be renewed, depending on a review, Lash said, adding that this was not a mandatory evacuation.

The announcement was part of a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico.

The warning urges U.S. citizens to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, because of recent violent attacks. U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of these three states.

The attacks include the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.

"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the warning says. "During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area."

The mayor said the shootings highlight a problem shared by both countries along their border.

"It is not just a Mexican problem -- it's is a U.S.-Mexico problem," Reyes said. "I'm very glad that the U.S. has taken that position."

He said he supported the State Department's authorization to consular families and that "it is important they feel safe."

Mexico on Sunday said that its government was committed to protecting all people, citizens and visitors alike, diplomats or not.

"The Mexican government deeply laments the killings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez," Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement. "The Mexican authorities are working with determination to clear up the facts surrounding the crime scene and put those responsible before the law."

Juarez is one of the front lines in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that operate in its territory. More than 2,600 people were killed in Juarez in 2009.

Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, has become a focal point of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug efforts after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime. The incident sparked outrage across Mexico.

In the western state of Guerrero, at least 25 people were killed in a series of violent acts on Saturday, state officials said.

The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.

In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to carry out search warrants on two locations, Salinas said.

Police in the state were on a heightened security alert, he said.

The government has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost their lives in the war on drugs in 2009. Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.

CNN's Mariano Castillo and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) -- Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags.

Residents surround Lt. Tobey Harrison at a Cedar Rapids checkpoint as they wait to see their homes Sunday.

"We've had the [National Guard] working next to prisoner inmates, sandbagging," said David Jackson, the university's facilities manager. "Students, faculty and staff, leaders of the university, the president of the university -- out sandbagging."

Some 500 to 600 homes were ordered to evacuate and others faced a voluntary evacuation order through the morning, said Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey.

The Iowa River in Iowa City crested at 31.5 feet and was expected to remain at that level until Monday, city and state officials said Sunday.

Classes at the university have been suspended until next Sunday, according to its Web site.

"All of our theaters, our music building, Clapp Recital Hall, our fine arts building [the] new Art Building West designed by Stephen Holl, has taken on significant water as well," said Sally Mason, president of the university. "Fortunately we were able to save all the art," she said.

The art was placed in crates shipped out of state last week.

"We anticipated the worst a week ago." At least 8 feet of water rushed through the campus, officials said. Among the school's 30,000 students, Ann Barber told CNN she has been sandbagging for nearly seven days.

"It's very hard to watch the devastation of our university," she said.

This month's severe weather has trampled towns from North Dakota to Indiana. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 11 million Midwesterners will be affected by flooding and tornadoes.

Meanwhile, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some of nearly 20,000 displaced residents began to return home Sunday as water there receded.

People lined up for about a block in one part of the city waiting for a special wristband to allow them access to their homes. The flooding there caught many people by surprise.

"We didn't think it would get this high," said Tina Fleischacker, whose Cedar Rapids home was soaked. "We moved everything upstairs and it's gone. It's gone. We left with the clothes on our backs."

About 36,000 Iowans, most in Cedar Rapids, evacuated their homes due to the state-wide flooding. At least 472 people spent Saturday night in 18 shelters set up across the state, according to Dave Miller, the administrator of Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

In Iowa City, the water is expected to drop no more than 3 feet by Saturday, said John Benson, spokesman for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

"There's that moment of 'phew,' but then there's that realization that the water will be going down very slowly," Bailey told reporters.

She urged residents to be careful when returning to their homes and businesses, and asked them to abide by a 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.

"Water flows are still dangerous," she said. "We need people to be patient. We will get them into those homes and businesses as soon as possible."

Iowa has been inundated with heavy rains in recent weeks that have caused several major rivers that feed into the Mississippi -- including the Cedar, Des Moines and Iowa Rivers -- to flood their banks.

The flooding in the Midwest is "some of the worst" to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina inundated the Gulf Coast nearly three years ago, FEMA administrator David Paulison said Sunday on CNN.

The scenarios are much different, but "the aftermath is similar," he said. "The fact [is] that we have a lot of people whose homes have been destroyed."

The agency has received more than 12,000 disaster assistance applications from the hardest-hit states -- Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin.

Starting Tuesday, the American Red Cross will set up kitchens in Iowa to serve up about 100,000 meals to residents each day. The agency, which is housing 720 flood victims in 30 shelters, plans to spend about $15 million on Midwest relief efforts.

Iowans are very concerned about how they will afford to rebuild.

"Most of the people here ... do not have flood insurance," said Steve Doser, director of a shelter in Cedar Rapids.

"A couple people told us ... that they were told they didn't need flood insurance, 'Don't worry about it, you're in a 500-year [plain],' " he said. "Now they don't have anything."

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver estimates agricultural damage could reach $1 billion, exceeding the costs of the big flood in 1993. He praised the strength and resilience of the people of Iowa and vowed to rebuild the state, noting that "will take a long time."

There have been 16 storm-related deaths since May 25 in Iowa, 12 of them from recent tornadoes, Culver said Sunday. Four Boy Scouts were killed last week when a twister touched down at a camp in Iowa.

Culver has declared 83 of the state's 99 counties disaster areas. More than 3,300 Iowa National Guard troops have been deployed to help primarily with sandbagging and staging resources, Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis of the Iowa National Guard said Sunday.

That number is expected to rise to 4,000 by Monday, he said. Of those troops, 750 are stationed in Des Moines helping to shore up levees with sandbags along the Des Moines River amid fears that the historic flooding that has hit other parts of the state could soon take its toll on the Iowa capital.

Early Saturday, rising waters breached a levee on the Des Moines River, prompting emergency officials to evacuate 270 homes in Des Moines' Birdland Park neighborhood, a state emergency official said. A high school in the neighborhood was also flooded.

CNN's Jim Acosta and Julian Cummings contributed to this report.

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text: University

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text: campus

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text: official

text: called

text: a

text: Herculean

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text: hold

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text: sandbags

text: Residents

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text: Tobey

text: Harrison

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text: a

text: Cedar

text: Rapids

text: checkpoint

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text: they

text: wait

text: to

text: see

text: their

text: homes

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text: 've

text: had

text: the

text: National

text: Guard

text: working

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text: to

text: prisoner

text: inmates

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text: David

text: Jackson

text: the

text: university

text: 's

text: facilities

text: manager

text: Students

text: faculty

text: and

text: staff

text: leaders

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text: university

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text: others

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text: morning

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text: City

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text: Iowa

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text: City

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text: by

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text: week

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text: of

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text: campus

text: officials

text: said

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text: North

text: Dakota

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text: Indiana

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text: Management

text: Agency

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text: be

text: affected

text: by

text: flooding

text: and

text: tornadoes

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text: Cedar

text: Rapids

text: Iowa

text: some

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text: residents

text: began

text: to

text: return

text: home

text: Sunday

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text: water

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text: receded

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text: up

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text: block

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text: homes

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text: clothes

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text: backs

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text: Cedar

text: Rapids

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text: homes

text: due

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text: state

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text: flooding

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text: people

text: spent

text: Saturday

text: night

text: in

text: shelters

text: set

text: up

text: across

text: the

text: state

text: according

text: to

text: Dave

text: Miller

text: the

text: administrator

text: of

text: Iowa

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: and

text: Emergency

text: Management

text: In

text: Iowa

text: City

text: the

text: water

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: drop

text: no

text: more

text: than

text: feet

text: by

text: Saturday

text: said

text: John

text: Benson

text: spokesman

text: for

text: Iowa

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: and

text: Emergency

text: Management

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text: that

text: moment

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text: phew

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text: 's

text: that

text: realization

text: that

text: the

text: water

text: will

text: be

text: going

text: down

text: very

text: slowly

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text: urged

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text: to

text: be

text: careful

text: when

text: returning

text: to

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text: homes

text: and

text: businesses

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text: asked

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text: abide

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text: a.m.

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text: still

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text: said

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text: need

text: people

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text: patient

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text: will

text: get

text: them

text: into

text: those

text: homes

text: and

text: businesses

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text: soon

text: as

text: possible

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text: been

text: inundated

text: with

text: heavy

text: rains

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text: weeks

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text: have

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text: feed

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text: Iowa

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text: States

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text: administrator

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text: Paulison

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text: CNN

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text: much

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text: similar

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text: said

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text: fact

text: is

text: that

text: we

text: have

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: whose

text: homes

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text: been

text: destroyed

text: The

text: agency

text: has

text: received

text: more

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text: assistance

text: applications

text: from

text: the

text: hardest

text: hit

text: states

text: Iowa

text: Indiana

text: and

text: Wisconsin

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text: Tuesday

text: the

text: American

text: Red

text: Cross

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text: set

text: up

text: kitchens

text: in

text: Iowa

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text: about

text: meals

text: to

text: residents

text: each

text: day

text: The

text: agency

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text: housing

text: flood

text: victims

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text: shelters

text: plans

text: to

text: spend

text: about

text: million

text: on

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text: relief

text: efforts

text: Iowans

text: are

text: very

text: concerned

text: about

text: how

text: they

text: will

text: afford

text: to

text: rebuild

text: Most

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: here

text: do

text: not

text: have

text: flood

text: insurance

text: said

text: Steve

text: Doser

text: director

text: of

text: a

text: shelter

text: in

text: Cedar

text: Rapids

text: A

text: couple

text: people

text: told

text: us

text: that

text: they

text: were

text: told

text: they

text: did

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text: worry

text: about

text: it

text: you

text: 're

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text: a

text: plain

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text: said

text: Now

text: they

text: do

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text: have

text: anything

text: Iowa

text: Gov.

text: Chet

text: Culver

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text: agricultural

text: damage

text: could

text: reach

text: billion

text: exceeding

text: the

text: costs

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text: flood

text: in

text: He

text: praised

text: the

text: strength

text: and

text: resilience

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: of

text: Iowa

text: and

text: vowed

text: to

text: rebuild

text: the

text: state

text: noting

text: that

text: will

text: take

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: There

text: have

text: been

text: storm

text: related

text: deaths

text: since

text: May

text: in

text: Iowa

text: of

text: them

text: from

text: recent

text: tornadoes

text: Culver

text: said

text: Sunday

text: Four

text: Boy

text: Scouts

text: were

text: killed

text: last

text: week

text: when

text: a

text: twister

text: touched

text: down

text: at

text: a

text: camp

text: in

text: Iowa

text: Culver

text: has

text: declared

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: 's

text: counties

text: disaster

text: areas

text: More

text: than

text: Iowa

text: National

text: Guard

text: troops

text: have

text: been

text: deployed

text: to

text: help

text: primarily

text: with

text: sandbagging

text: and

text: staging

text: resources

text: Maj

text: Gen.

text: Ron

text: Dardis

text: of

text: the

text: Iowa

text: National

text: Guard

text: said

text: Sunday

text: That

text: number

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: rise

text: to

text: by

text: Monday

text: he

text: said

text: Of

text: those

text: troops

text: are

text: stationed

text: in

text: Des

text: Moines

text: helping

text: to

text: shore

text: up

text: levees

text: with

text: sandbags

text: along

text: the

text: Des

text: Moines

text: River

text: amid

text: fears

text: that

text: the

text: historic

text: flooding

text: that

text: has

text: hit

text: other

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: could

text: soon

text: take

text: its

text: toll

text: on

text: the

text: Iowa

text: capital

text: Early

text: Saturday

text: rising

text: waters

text: breached

text: a

text: levee

text: on

text: the

text: Des

text: Moines

text: River

text: prompting

text: emergency

text: officials

text: to

text: evacuate

text: homes

text: in

text: Des

text: Moines

text: Birdland

text: Park

text: neighborhood

text: a

text: state

text: emergency

text: official

text: said

text: A

text: high

text: school

text: in

text: the

text: neighborhood

text: was

text: also

text: flooded

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jim

text: Acosta

text: and

text: Julian

text: Cummings

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Where was the evacuation?

answer: Iowa City

text: Iowa City

question: What reason did the resident leave?

answer: Floodwaters

text: Floodwaters

question: What is the estimated agricultural damage?

answer: $1 billion,

text: $1 billion,

question: What was the estimated damage?

answer: $1 billion,

text: $1 billion,

question: What happened in Iowa City?

answer: Floodwaters inundated

text: Floodwaters inundated

question: Who have been evacuated?

answer: 500 to 600 homes

text: 500 to 600 homes

question: What caused the damage?

answer: Floodwaters

text: Floodwaters

question: Where were they evacuated to?

answer: 18 shelters set up across the state,

text: 18 shelters set up across the state,

question: What was the agricultural damage?

answer: $1 billion,

text: $1 billion,

question: What was the damage to homes?

answer: flooding

text: flooding

question: What happened to the lowans in Cedar Rapids?

answer: evacuated their homes

text: evacuated their homes


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(CNN) -- Digital cameras are now as common and affordable to the average family as the Polaroid of the '60s.

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

Best thing about 'em? You don't even have to take your film in to the corner drugstore to get developed -- because digital cameras don't rely on film to make their pictures "stick." Thanks to technology, the entire process, from clicking the shutter to printing the pictures, is now entirely within the power of the consumer.

Maybe you've taken a picture that's just not as perfect as you'd like it to be. Instead of being at the mercy of a darkroom-shackled photo lackey to improve upon it, you've got more tools than ever to take it upon yourself to edit, store, organize, and share your images with the world.

Here's a roundup of 10 free, and mostly free, online tools for the budding digital photographer:

1. Picnik -- Summed up from the site: "Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames." If you already use Flickr for your photos (here's what I do with mine), you're only a click away from taking a Picnik. That's how I discovered it, and it's worked fairly well for me to this point.

2. Splashup-- Splashup "is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time, and allows you to edit many images at once." You'd wonder how something this extensive could be free - and it all runs within the browser.

3. FotoFlexer -- FotoFlexer bills itself as "the world's most advanced online image editor." With it, you can edit photos from Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and "more places." I'm not quite sure what "more places" means, but last I checked, this does not include a phone booth.

4. Pixlr -- "Pixlr is a free online photo editor; jump in and start: edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!" Alexa says it's the "fastest growing photo editor online." If these resources are starting to look similar to your eye, remember you don't have to use all of them - just pick the one that works best for your needs.

5. flauntR-- flauntR is a suite that includes the ability to edit images, add effects, add text, and print the results on everything from mugs to posters. You might be overwhelmed with the options here, but... isn't that better than being underwhelmed?

6. Photoshop Express-- Adobe's Photoshop was really the first image editor of its kind to herald in the age of digital photography, though it was designed for professionals and its endless options could be daunting (and bank- breakingly expensive) for the layman. Now, Photoshop.com is on the Web to help that very same layman -- for free or plus levels of membership -- edit, store, and share his photos. Lots of helpful tutorials promise to guide the casual user through editing pickles.

7. PiZap-- PiZap's tagline is "fun with photos made easy." It's another flavor of photo editor/storage center that, like flauntR, allows you to print the results to mugs, bags, and t-shirts. PiZap invites developers to check out its API for more personalization options (which is usually a good thing).

8. Aviary-- Aviary lets you: "edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a Web browser." This particular brand looks to be the one to beat, as they have several different tools in development. I'm guessing that within five years, this one is going to be at the top of every person's list of Web-based image editors.

9. DrPic-- DrPic says it's "the easiest free online picture editor" and that it has "processed over five million pictures." I say they're easy enough, but not necessarily THE easiest. Everything's relative, no?

10. Cameroid -- Cameroid lets you "take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight from your browser." I featured this one in a CNN.com live video a while ago, and it certainly deserves to be mentioned again. If you're looking for something else to do with your webcam, give it a cameroid (which isn't as painful as it might sound).

As you can see, there are plenty of options for photo editing, storing, and sharing out there. Some are going to fit your personal workflow more neatly than others, so it's worth it to try a few and see what works best for your needs.

Or maybe you swear by something that I totally missed? Don't be a miser - share it with the rest of the class! We'd love to know about it.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- An evacuation order was lifted Wednesday morning for more than 500 California homes on hillsides vulnerable to mudslides, authorities said.

With the sun shining over much of Los Angeles, officials told people who live in the foothill areas of La Crescenta, La Canada Flintridge and Acton that they could return to their homes at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET).

Officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for those residents Tuesday morning as a precaution when heavy rains were predicted.

The dangerous mudslides did not develop, but this area was especially hit hard after a downpour Saturday unleashed a river of mud that damaged dozens of homes.

Several of the homes were declared uninhabitable.

A massive wildfire in the Angeles National Forest last summer burned hillsides where these homes are located.

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question: What has damaged dozens of Southern California houses?

answer: a river of mud

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question: What were people made to do because of the heavy rain?

answer: mandatory evacuation

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question: what was issued as a precaution?

answer: a mandatory evacuation

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question: How many homes can people return to in foothill?

answer: 500

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answer: Tuesday morning

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Smolensk, Russia (CNN) -- When I found the first piece of fuselage, I was shocked. It was flimsy, the thin metal easily twisted back on itself.

Gray on one side, some yellow on the other, it sat in a small puddle of mud a few feet from the road. I was half a mile from the runway, the tall silver birch trees nearby broken like so many matchsticks.

Somehow I thought planes were supposed to be stronger than this, but what I was confronted with was an object lesson on the precarious nature of flying. The evidence of what had happened was clear. The plane struck the trees, at first just grazing their uppermost branches and then their slender boughs and trunks. It was enough to rip the plane apart.

What feels almost invincible as it powers through takeoff and thrusts upward through the skies at hundreds of miles an hour had been reduced to shreds of metal, little more than a discarded tin can.

These are the thoughts that flashed through my mind in those first moments of discovery.

And that's when the horror of it sinks in. The last tragic moments for all aboard; it's impossible to imagine the awfulness of those final seconds. I am swept by another emotion, sadness for the families, and I feel captured by an undefined grief. I knew no one aboard, but to see how their lives ended is to know a tiny fraction of the pain their loved ones must bear.

But I have come to work, to tell the story of what happened, to piece together the small bits of information we'll get, to make some sense of our corner of this huge tragedy. So that is what my team and I do.

Tommy Evans, my producer, and Luis Grahame-Yool, our cameraman, get to work and set up the first live shot. It's cold in Smolensk -- there are still piles of snow here and there. None of us have had much sleep. Luis arrived 12 hours ahead of us, Tommy and I flew in from Macedonia. All of us took the 400-kilometer drive from Moscow to get here. Each of us intent on our job, each of us grappling with the enormity of the day.

No day is ever normal at CNN, but this defies even that logic. A president, his wife, many of the country's top military, political and religious leaders killed in a country that's not their own. The implications could be huge.

As the day wore on and more details emerged, it seemed clear Russia wanted to make it known it was not at fault. Evidence pointed toward the pilots rather than a mechanical error.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is leading Russia's investigation, was on course to lay blame at Poland's door. He has a reputation as a tough autocrat, and it seemed to me that's what we are seeing here.

But we got to see another face of Putin, too: The stony-faced solemn friend of Poland. There seemed little doubting his grief and seriousness as he stood at the foot of the Polish president's casket during the long sombre repatriation ceremony we witnessed that afternoon.

Having stood among the wreckage and broken trees as he has, it is not hard to imagine that this iron man of Russian politics was moved by what he saw. For who among us, however familiar with tragedy, could fail to be touched by the scale and nature of Poland's loss.

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question: What suggests airplane hit them and disintegrated?

answer: trees,

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question: Where was the air crash?

answer: Smolensk, Russia

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question: What was broken?

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(CNN) -- The coming summer and fall could be an "active to extremely active" hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted.

There is a 70 percent chance that three to seven major hurricanes will swirl in the Atlantic in the six months following the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

"If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record," said Jane Lubchenco, the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, and NOAA's administrator.

The forecast predicts between 14 and 23 storms with top winds of 39 mph or higher, the threshold for tropical storm status.

It predicts eight to 14 of those will become named hurricanes, with winds topping 74 mph or higher, and three to seven of those will become major ones, meaning Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Category 3 storms have sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

Forecasters have said that El Nino conditions will dissipate by summer and that unusually warm tropical Atlantic surface temperatures will persist, leading to favorable conditions for hurricanes to develop and intensify.

A report released in April by Colorado State University's forecasters William Gray and Phil Klotzbach also said that this year's hurricane season could be difficult, but they predicted only 15 named storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes.

Gray and Klotzbach will issue a revised forecast next Wednesday.

A typical season has 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, according to NOAA. The hurricane season ends November 30, although later storms have been known to happen.

Last year's hurricane season was below average, with only nine named tropical storms, three of which were hurricanes. The National Hurricane Center said it was the lowest number of tropical storms for the Atlantic basin since 1997.

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(CNN) -- U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III plans to emulate the decision of his Presidents Cup counterpart Fred Couples and select former world number one Tiger Woods for next year's contest with Europe.

Woods, a 14-time major winner, has struggled with form and fitness since problems in his personal life emerged two years ago. The American has slipped to 50th in golf's world rankings, having not won a tournament since the Australian Masters in November 2009.

But the 35-year-old's recent slump has not prevented Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, from selecting Woods as a wildcard pick for November's Presidents Cup clash with the International team in Australia.

"Well I've been asked that a lot, what would I do if I was in Fred's situation," Love, himself a former major champion, told a press conference at Medina Golf and Country Club in Chicago, the venue for the 2012 Ryder Cup.

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"You certainly want one of the best players ever in the game, you want him on your team. I'm hoping, for Tiger's sake, that he has a full healthy season next year and we are not in this situation. That he's back to his form and he's ready to go.

"I would love to play as Tiger Woods' partner in a Presidents Cup or a Ryder Cup. So I would probably have to go with exactly what Fred did."

Woods has played in six Ryder Cups since 1997, but his only experience of team victory came at Brookline, Massachusetts in 1999 after missing out due to injury three years ago.

He had planned to take the rest of this year off, but his Presidents Cup selection persuaded him to enter the Frys.com Open starting October 6, when he will be partnered by new caddy Joe LaCava -- who carried Couples' bag for more than 20 years.

LaCava left Couples this year when the 51-year-old decided to reduce his playing schedule, and worked with 2010 Ryder Cup player Dustin Johnson until the end of the PGA Tour's recent FedEx Cup playoffs.

"Joe is an outstanding caddy," Woods told his official website on Sunday. "I have known him for many years. I've personally seen the great job he did for Freddie. I'm anxious for us to be working together."

LaCava added: "I'm excited to be working with Tiger. I contacted Tiger and Mark (Steinberg, Woods' agent) because this is a unique opportunity to be part of something very special.

"Tiger and I have been friends for a very long time, and I know what he can do."

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answer: Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III

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question: Who picked Woods as a wildcard?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor breaks ground for Hispanics, she is poised to add an exclamation point to another historic demographic shift: the move to a Catholic court.

If confirmed, Sonia Sotomayor would be the sixth Catholic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sotomayor was raised Catholic and if she is confirmed, six out of nine, or two-thirds of the justices on the court will be from the faith. Catholics make up about one-quarter of the U.S. population.

"It's most unusual," said Barbara Perry, a government professor at Sweetbriar College who was already writing a book about Catholics on the Supreme Court when Sotomayor was named as the next nominee.

"Presidents used to reserve a Catholic seat and a Jewish seat on the Supreme Court," Perry told CNN Radio. "Now we've moved from a Catholic seat on the court to a Catholic court."

Of the 110 people who have served on the Supreme Court, 11 have been Catholic. Five of those justices -- Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts -- are currently on the court.

"It is more than a random selection process that yielded the current five Catholics on the bench," Perry said.

The five current Catholic justices were appointed by Republican presidents, which Perry notes may be a key reason why so many Catholics have joined the high court in recent years.

"It's their tie to conservative Catholicism which made them agreeable to (Republican) presidents' ideology," she said.

Perry sees Catholics as swing voters with a base of socially conservative principles, and therefore naturally attractive for Republican presidents.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue goes further, hypothesizing that Catholics have conservative credentials on issues such as abortion, without the political baggage of terms such as the "religious right" or "evangelicals."

"Is it safer to nominate a Catholic as opposed to an evangelical to get votes? I think the answer is decidedly yes," Donohue said.

Donohue also suggests the vigorous education in Catholic schools during the 20th century produced sharp legal minds.

"I think there might be a certain kind of Catholic edge, so to speak, as a residual property of a Catholic education," he said.

Roberts, Scalia and Thomas attended Catholic school as children, as did Sotomayor.  Watch more about Sotomayor's personal history Â»

Underlying causes aside, Perry sees the fast shift as a sign that centuries of American concern about Catholics are over.

In 1985, a lone Catholic justice, William J. Brennan, Jr., sat on the court. A generation later, that number is poised to become six.

"What that tells is that in our politics, religion doesn't matter anymore," Perry said. Then she added: "I don't think our politics are ready for an Islamic justice at this point."

The current court is composed of two Jewish members -- Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If Sotomayor joins the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens would be the solitary Protestant on a court once dominated by white Protestant men.  Learn about the other Supreme Court justices Â»

Court observers wonder what, if anything, six Catholic justices would mean for Supreme Court decisions.

The five Catholics currently on the bench concurred in a 2007 decision, Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld a state ban on late-term abortions.

Sotomayor has faced few abortion cases, and no tests on issues such gay rights or the death penalty. However, Donohue expects a Justice Sotomayor to lean more left than her fellow Catholics on the court.  Read about Sotomayor's record Â»

"I think she's more reliably liberal," Donohue said.

Donohue said he still would like to see Sotomayor join the bench.

"Even though I'm a conservative and she is not, there's still a certain way that you do root for the home team," he said.

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question: Who appointed the current Catholic justices?

answer: Republican presidents,

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question: What religion is Sonia Sotomayor?

answer: Catholic

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question: Who, if confirmed would be the supreme court's sixth catholic?

answer: Sonia Sotomayor

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question: How many  current Catholic justices were appointed by Republican presidents ?

answer: five

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question: Who said Sotomayor would lean more left than other justices?

answer: , Donohu

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question: How many current Catholic justices were appointed by Republican presidents?

answer: five

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question: What directino was Sotomayor lean?

answer: n more lef

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question: Who says Sotomayor would lean more left than other justices ?

answer: , Donohu

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