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Authorities were trying to determine Friday why a FedEx truck roared across the grassy median of a Northern California freeway and slammed into a charter bus, causing a fiery explosion that left 10 people dead and dozens more injured. The National Transportation Safety Board sent an investigative "go team" from Washington to the scene on Interstate 5 near the town of Orland, about 100 miles north of Sacramento. The crash killed the drivers of the truck and bus, five students and three chaperones. The bus passengers were high school seniors on their way to visit the campus of Humboldt State