As the power outage on Sept. 8, 2011 went into the night, residents in San Diego relied on candlelight.

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Firefighters get the doors open to help a woman who was trapped in an elevator downtown when the blackout occurred on Sept. 8, 2011.

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SDFD work on getting the woman out of the elevator on Sept. 8, 2011.

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Traffic on 1st Ave. in downtown San Diego right after the blackout at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 8, 2011.

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Downtown at City Hall, Sherri Lightner and staff helped a woman who was stuck in elevator when the power went out on Sept. 8, 2011.

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People waited out traffic during the blackout at Downtown Johnny Brown's on Sept. 8, 2011.

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Cars were all leaving downtown during the blackout.

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Traffic in downtown San Diego around rush hour during the outage on Sept. 8, 2011.

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Power outages throughout San Diego County as of 9 p.m. Thursday.

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An elevator rescue in downtown San Diego after the entire county lost power Thursday afternoon.

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Nevada's upgraded licenses have over a dozen security features which make them harder to counterfeit, including micro-printing that is only visible under a magnifying glass, laser etchings, ghost images and holograms.

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A Nevada DMV officer compares reporter Jude Joffe-Block's photo against the agency's database of photos using facial recognition software. The program has helped state law enforcement prosecute dozens of people for identity fraud since 2008.

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Stephanie Crowe

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A brush fire on West Rancho Bernardo Road near Interstate 15 on Sept. 8, 2011.

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Title graphic for Envision San Diego's television documentary, "How 9/11 Changed San Diego."

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Patchogue community portrait on the two-year anniversary of Marcelo Lucero's death.

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FBI agent Ali H. Soufan, left, interrogated some of the highest ranking Al Qaeda operatives around the world. This picture was taken in Kabul in 2002, outside a presumed hideout for Osama bin Laden.

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Jean Lowe's "Expect Miracles" price sign hung above supermarket-inspired works at "Discount Barn" (Enamel on cardboard, wood, 2011).

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"Red Hot Specials..." a large-scale painting by Jean Lowe was on view at "Discount Barn" (Enamel on wood panel, 2011).

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Defective BRCA1 causes aberrant expression of non-coding satellite RNA that leads to genomic instability, thereby promoting cancer development. The image shows that over-production of satellite RNA leads to abnormal number of centrosomes in a normal human epithelial cell. Centrosomes are pictured in red, tublin in green and chromosomes in blue. The "mirrored" image in the Sputnik satellite is a confocal microscopic image. Center: a mathematical reconstruction of the confocal image to resolve the tubulin fibers and the individual chromosomes.

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From left, Andy Watt of NCAR joins Ralph Keeling and Jonathan Bent of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, on board the G-V.

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President Barack Obama delivers a speech during a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council on September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan.

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