(AP) – Firefighters try to extinguish a fire as people remove costumes and props for Carnival from a warehouse, in Samba City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Amassive fire is consuming the warehouses where Rio de Janeiro’s samba groups store the props and costumes for Brazil’s largest Carnival parade. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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(AP) – In this frame grab from video is seen an aerial view of a mudslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential rain tore through Rio de Janeiro’s mountains, killing at least 64 people in 24 hours, the state’s emergency rescue office said Wednesday. The death toll is expected to rise as firefighters reach remote valleys and steep mountainsides where neighborhoods were destroyed by mudslides and flooding, said Jorge Mario Sedlacek, the mayor of Teresopolis, a mountain town just north of Rio where at least 54 people died. About 1,000 there were left homeless. (AP Photo/TV Globo, Agencia O Globo)

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(AP) – Police stand guard at the Intercontinental hotel after it was invaded by gunmen who took hostages in the Sao Conrado neighborhood near the Rocinha Slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. A police spokeswoman said after about three hours, the hostages were freed and the suspects surrendered. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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