Kennedy Presidential Library from the family's Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.

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Kennedy, the third-longest serving U.S. senator in history, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May after suffering a seizure at his family home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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Some tours and other programs, including those at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts, are also being canceled.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it is monitoring weather conditions and has not made a decision to close the two main bridges in Massachusetts summer hot spot, Cape Cod.

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Mark Vecchione of Eastham, Massachusetts became the first soldier from Cape Cod to die in combat in Iraq.

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Kadyrbayev first met Tsarnaev in 2011, when they both started at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, south of Boston, near the base of Cape Cod.

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