It happened at his home on the Bush Road between Ballymoney and Dervock at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Merrill said the demolition of the Bush home could take a few days.
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Before he gets home, Mr Bush's itinerary takes him to Lithuania and Romania to meet the leaders of some of NATO's new members.
Merrill said residents on either side of the Bush home were allowed to go into their houses a short time to retrieve what they could.
Here at home, Presidents Bush and Clinton will help the American people to do their part, because responding to a disaster must be the work of all of us.
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The Garcias' neighbor, Steve McEndree, saw cars lined up for a mile or more by gas stations as he made the drive from his Humble home to George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport before dawn Tuesday.
"In the short run, the American economy will continue to rely largely on oil, and that means we need to increase supply here at home, " Bush said, adding that there is no more pressing issue for many Americans than gas prices.
But if Bush stayed home and didn't open the door, he didn't slam it either.
Rourke added that she would continue to oversee the Bush theatre's move into its new home at the old Shepherd's Bush Library before joining the Donmar.
Bush's other brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, stayed home to tend to official business.
It is not just Mr Putin's illiberal actions at home that have upset Mr Bush but his foreign policies too.
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Bush said it's in the interest of home builders and real estate agents to encourage such a program, Bush said, urging lenders to make capital available and calling for tax credits.
"Members of Congress are enjoying the holiday week at home with their families, " Bush said.
Today Barbara Bush lives in a home she and her husband built in Houston, Texas, where she enjoys being part of the community.
On the home turf of Governor George W. Bush, the Republican front-runner, Mr Buchanan's message drew rousing applause.
He has brought the doubters home, just as Vice-President Bush did in 1988.
The report notes that in Texas and Tennessee, home to presidential candidates George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, African Americans lag behind Caucasians by some of the widest margins.
Bush also pushed for more home-ownership, especially for minorities.
In a ruling that set Mr Bush at loggerheads with his home state, the president had ordered Texas to comply with an ICJ ruling made in 2004 that all the convicted men should get new hearings.
The Bush administration often stipulates that the home countries incarcerate the detainees, prosecute them or monitor them once they are sent back.
"I hope that President Bush recognizes that our needs at home deserve at least the same attention as those we pay for abroad, " Reid said after the vote.
And Mr. Bush must expect that his critics at home and abroad will gleefully pile on.
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Gus has since returned to the family home in Frampton Mansell and, according to Mrs Bush, is recovering well.
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Critics of the president, both at home and abroad, see the shadow of Mr Bush senior on American foreign policy as well.
The women who sell wrinkle cream and recruit others to sell it tend to be women who stay home to raise their children and are seeking an outside-the-home identity as much as income, says Lori Bush, the company's president and chief executive.
Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.
The move appears designed to show unity in the Bush administration's efforts to protect the home front.
Mr Bush wants to continue a radical transformation at home and abroad.
Bush said 20, 000 troops were coming home and would not be replaced, but that further withdrawals would await the judgment of commanders in the field.
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