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Washington Earthquake Recovery

NPR

Published March 1, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that President Bush has declared parts of Washington state a federal disaster area. Damage from Wednesday's earthquake is estimated at around 2-billion dollars.