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Mundelein, Ill., resident Jorge Calvillo removes a stray garbage can that floated into driveway Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017, after heavy rains caused flooding in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald via AP)
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Jorge Morales and his son Ariel, try to clear drains in front of his home in Mundelein, Ill., Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017. Flooding hit the Chicago suburb as storms moved through the area. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald via AP)
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A tractor-trailer drives through high water in Franklin, Ind., Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Storms packing heavy rains and strong winds caused road flooding and scattered damage across central Indiana a day after at least two tornadoes hit northern Indiana. (Sarah Stier/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Nials Johnson looks at his submerged Buick Sabre in Franklin, Ind., Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Johnson's car had been stolen the previous week, and he had only had it back for three days before the floods hit. "It's my baby," said Johnson. (Sarah Stier/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Kyle Morgan pumps water out of his front yard in Whiteland, Ind., Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Storms packing heavy rains and strong winds caused road flooding and scattered damage across central Indiana a day after at least two tornadoes hit northern Indiana. (Sarah Stier/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Investigators survey the scene of a multi-vehicle accident that claimed multiple lives on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, on westbound Interstate 70 just west of Bonner Springs, Kans. The crash closed the highway in both directions for about two hours. (Keith Myers/The Kansas City Star via AP)
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A girl carries a bucket filled with water from a well that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The U.N. health agency said Tuesday that plans to ship cholera vaccine to Yemen are likely to be shelved over security, access and logistical challenges in the war-torn country. Yemen's suspected cholera caseload has surged past 313,000, causing over 1,700 deaths in the world's largest outbreak. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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FILE - In this file image taken from Jan 6, 2008, video footage by AP Video, Liu Xiaobo speaks during an interview in his home in Beijing, China. Liu is in life-threatening condition with multiple organ failure and his family has opted against inserting a breathing tube needed to keep him alive, the hospital treating him said Wednesday. (AP Video via AP, File)
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In this file image taken from Jan 6, 2008, video footage by AP Video, Liu Xiaobo speaks during an interview in his home in Beijing, China. Liu is in life-threatening condition with multiple organ failure and his family has opted against inserting a breathing tube needed to keep him alive, the hospital treating him said Wednesday. (AP Video via AP, File)
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Military aircraft sit on the tarmac at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y, Tuesday July 11, 2017. Officials said a Marine Corps refueling plane that crashed and burned on Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing all 16 military members aboard, was based at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh. The victims' identities were not immediately released. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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The "Gift" from North Korea Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - This Sept. 1, 2015 file photo shows volcanic gas rising from the lava lake in Kilauea's Halemaumau Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island. A 38-year-old man has died on Kilauea volcano. Park spokeswoman Jessica Ferracane said Monday, July 10, 2017 that the man was found on the caldera floor about 250 feet below Crater Rim Trail. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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The FBI and local law enforcement conduct a search of a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement complete a search of a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017, file photo, security officer John Christiansen, right, stands on duty as nursing assistant Jared McCullough, left, and clinical nurse leader Nicole McWhorter, center, discuss a patient in the psychiatric hall of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center emergency department in Lebanon, N.H. The emergency department has one security officer assigned to the waiting area, and another assigned to the psychiatric hall with its three patient rooms and a fourth "quiet room." (James M. Patterson/The Valley News via AP)
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Helicopters fly above a military aircraft on the tarmac at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., Tuesday July 11, 2017. Officials said a Marine Corps refueling plane that crashed and burned on Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing all 16 military members aboard, was based at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh. The victims' identities were not immediately released. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In a June 30, 2017 photo, Skagit County Treasurer Katie Jungquist, back to camera, speaks during a public auction Friday, June 30, 2017, for the sale of the Concrete Food Bank building in Concrete, Wash. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, fourth from left, reimbursed the Concrete Food Bank the $11,500 it paid at auction for the building it occupies in Concrete, Wash. Food bank volunteers were worried when the county put the building up for sale, because the organization didn’t have money to buy one and there aren’t any other food banks within about 20 miles. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)
