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Texas' Rio Grande Valley waits for Dolly's wind and rains to pass before assessing damage Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds.

Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.