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copter Monday over the Big Thompson River, and fields and reservoirs swollen with muddy brown water.
• Biden stood with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and member of the state congressional delegation to tell Coloradans not to fear that budget problems in Washington could stall aid.
• "It's probably going to scare the living devil out of you," Biden said about debt ceiling negotiations in Congress. Biden insisted the "dysfunction" in Washington won't affect emergency spending.
• "They will not shut down even if the Congress doesn't fund the federal government," Biden said, pointing to federal emergency relief workers behind him.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2013. There are 98 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 24, 1976, former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.
• On this date:
• In 1789, Congress passed a Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
• In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as Black Friday after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
• In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.
• In 1948, Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist "Axis Sally," pleaded not guilty in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. Gillars, later convicted, ended up serving 12 years in prison.
• In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
• In 1961, "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" premiered on NBC.
• In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limit (Continued on page 37)
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