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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who said he paid "an arm and a leg" for his Super Bowl tickets, wasn't at the game. Crist was in central Florida assessing damage caused by three tornadoes that killed 20 people and caused an estimated $68 million in damage. He skipped the game and returned to the state capitol, Tallahassee, to watch the game with firefighters.

Ketut Untung Yoga Ana, a Jakarta police spokesman, said 29 people had been killed, mostly electrocuted or drowned, while others died of sickness. "In Jakarta, Bekasi and Tangerang, 340,000 people have been displaced," Rustam Pakaya, a health ministry official said by telephone, referring to two areas around the capital. Newspaper editorials questioned on Monday why more had not been done to prevent flooding in the low-lying city originally built on swampland after severe flooding five years ago. Jakarta governor Sutiyoso told Elshinta radio that people in areas in danger of flooding must evacuate. He also brushed aside criticism of his administration's handling of the crisis. "This is a natural phenomenon that happens once every five years, like in 2002, and may happen again five years from now. What is important is how we minimize the losses."

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