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   CARL QUINTANILLA, anchor: A tense situation in Brazil tonight, a police crackdown on drug gangs. Today armored military vehicles rolled into the slums of Rio de Janeiro backed by hundreds of agents. Live pictures on Brazilian television showed gang members, some with automatic weapons, trying to escape. Thirty have died since the offensive began on Sunday. Brazil is scrambling to clean up Rio , host city for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics .

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