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FILE - In this June 12, 2003, file photo, a Mormon cricket feasts on a dead cricket killed by a car on a rural road north of Reno, Nev. Farmers in the U.S. West face a creepy scourge every eight years or so: Swarms of ravenous insects that can decimate crops and cause slippery, bug-slick car crashes as they march across highways and roads. The 2017 swarms are affecting Idaho, Oregon, and other Western states. (AP Photo/Debra Reid, File)
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FILE - In this June 10, 2003, file photo, Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, holds a female Mormon cricket north of Reno, Nev. Farmers in the U.S. West face a creepy scourge every eight years or so: Swarms of ravenous insects that can decimate crops and cause slippery, bug-slick car crashes as they march across highways and roads. The 2017 swarms are affecting Idaho, Oregon, and other Western states. (AP Photo/Debra Reid, File)
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The Apollo 13 Flown Flight Plan, with extensive annotations by the crew, to be offered at auction at Sotheby's, is displayed in New York, Thursday, July 13, 2017. It is estimated at $30,000 to $40,000. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Supporters hold American flags on the side of Airport Road in Jackson, Mississippi, Thursday, July 13, 2017, as hearses carry the remains of the 16 service members who died in a plane crash in Leflore County, Mississippi Monday to the Air National Guard base for their final flights home. (Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
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Supporters hold American flags on the side of Airport Road in Jackson, Mississippi, Thursday, July 13, 2017, as hearses carry the remains of the 16 service members who died in a plane crash in Leflore County, Mississippi Monday to the Air National Guard base for their final flights home. (Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
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Supporters hold American flags on the side of Airport Road in Jackson, Mississippi, Thursday, July 13, 2017, as hearses carry the remains of the 16 service members who died in a plane crash in Leflore County, Mississippi Monday to the Air National Guard base for their final flights home. (Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014 file photo, a sample glass of Lake Erie water is photographed near the City of Toledo water intake crib on Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Scientists are predicting a "significant" algae bloom will form this summer on western Lake Erie, a continuing health hazard in a region where algae toxins forced a temporary tap water shutdown in 2014. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, an algae bloom covers Lake Erie near the City of Toledo water intake crib off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Scientists are predicting a "significant" algae bloom will form this summer on western Lake Erie, a continuing health hazard in a region where algae toxins forced a temporary tap water shutdown in 2014. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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Members of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., and Somers, Wis., Fire Departments assist Mary Knoebel from her trailer during flooding in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Flooding has forced the evacuation of the mobile home park in southeastern Wisconsin. (Bill Siel/The Kenosha News via AP)
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Tyler Schindler, 7, wades through the flooded street in Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017. Heavy thunderstorms are causing travel difficulties around southern Wisconsin because of flooding. Numerous municipalities are dealing with impassable streets. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP)
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The newly renovated Washington Park Velodrome with only the top of bleachers visible is filled with water from nearby Pike Creek after a heavy rain storm Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017. Heavy thunderstorms are causing travel difficulties around southern Wisconsin because of flooding. Numerous municipalities are dealing with impassable streets. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP)
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Passerbys look at a flooded intersection in Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017. Heavy thunderstorms are causing travel difficulties around southern Wisconsin because of flooding. Numerous municipalities are dealing with impassable streets. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP)
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Motorists make their way along flooded portions of County Highway K in Bristol, Wis., Wednesday afternoon, July 12, 2017. Heavy thunderstorms are causing travel difficulties around southern Wisconsin because of flooding. Numerous municipalities are dealing with impassable streets. (Bill Siel/The Kenosha News via AP)
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The newly renovated Washington Park Velodrome filled with water from nearby Pike Creek after a heavy rain storm Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017. Heavy thunderstorms are causing travel difficulties around southern Wisconsin because of flooding. Numerous municipalities are dealing with impassable streets. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP)
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An Airbus A330 landing at Princess Julianna International Airport in St. Maarten. Photo by Aldo Baldini via Wikimedia Commons. In July 2017, a New Zealand woman sustained a fatal head injury after she was swept off an airport fence by the jet blast of a departing airplane at the airport. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maho_Beach#/media/File:Corsair_Airbus_A330_at_SXM_Bidini.jpg]
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, a memorial for Whittaker, a wild turkey who lived near the intersection of Whittaker and Textile roads sits in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. The Humane Society of Huron Valley said the turkey known as Whittaker was accidentally hit on July 3 and was euthanized due to severe injuries. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, a memorial for Whittaker, a wild turkey who lived near the intersection of Whittaker and Textile roads sits in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. The Humane Society of Huron Valley said the turkey known as Whittaker was accidentally hit on July 3 and was euthanized due to severe injuries. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, tourists on a boat turn around to look at a wild fire after being evacuated from their resort in the Sicilian area of San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, southern Italy. Wildfires fueled by heat and winds have been blazing across much of southern Italy, encroaching on the Amalfi coast and elsewhere. (Ferruccio Donato via AP).
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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, tourists on a beach are evacuated with boats after a wild fire broke out near their resort in the Sicilian area of San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, southern Italy. Wildfires fueled by heat and winds have been blazing across much of southern Italy, encroaching on the Amalfi coast and elsewhere. (Ferruccio Donato via AP).
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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, boats with evacuated tourists from a beach stay at sea after a wild fire broke out near their resort in the Sicilian area of San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, southern Italy. Wildfires fueled by heat and winds have been blazing across much of southern Italy, encroaching on the Amalfi coast and elsewhere. (Ferruccio Donato via AP).
