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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment near Casselton, N.D. The end of the line may be in sight for a North Dakota safety program aimed at lowering the risk of disastrous railroad derailments involving the state's crude oil. The pilot program, which includes two rail safety inspectors and a manager to supplement inspections by the Federal Railroad Administration, is halfway through its four-year run this month and likely will be scrapped in two years. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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A firefighter works at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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A U.S. Forest Service fire fighter carries a rescued deer fawn away form a spreading blaze in the dense Prescott National Forest Friday, June 30, 2017 near Prescott Valley, Ariz. The U.S. Forest Service posted photos and a video on Facebook showing the Friday night rescue, where Hotshots rounded up two deer fawns. (Stephen Rhine/ U.S. Forest Service via AP)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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In this frame from video, emergency personnel work at the scene where police say a driver of a taxi struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (NBC Boston via AP)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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An official photographs the scene where police say a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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In this frame from video, emergency personnel work at the scene where police say a driver of a taxi struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston. A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" in which the driver stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. (NBC Boston via AP)
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Emergency crews attend to injured pedestrians on Monday, July 3, 2017, in East Boston. A 56-year-old cab driver's vehicle plowed into the group near Logan Airport. (CNN screenshot)
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Crews put a derailed Amtrak locomotive back on the tracks Monday, July 3, 2017, in Steilacoom next to the bridge over Chambers Creek, Wash. There were only minor injuries when the locomotive and baggage car of the Amtrak Cascades train carrying 267 passengers derailed on Sunday. (Peter Haley/The News Tribune via AP)
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Police experts work on the burned out shell of the travel bus at the place of the accident on the motorway A9. near Muenchberg, Germany, Monday, July 3, 2017. Several people are feared dead after a bus carrying a group of German senior citizens crashed into a truck on a highway in Bavaria early Monday and burst into flames, police said. (Nicolas Armer/dpa via AP)
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Emergency crews respond to the scene of a train derailment near Chambers Bay on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Tacoma, Wash. There appear to be only minor injuries from the waterfront derailment of the Amtrak Cascades train near the town of Steilacoom, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter. The train runs between Vancouver, Canada, and Eugene-Springfield, Oregon. (Joshua Bessex/The News Tribune via AP)
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Emergency crews respond to the scene of a train derailment near Chambers Bay on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Tacoma, Wash. There appear to be only minor injuries from the waterfront derailment of the Amtrak Cascades train near the town of Steilacoom, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter. The train runs between Vancouver, Canada, and Eugene-Springfield, Oregon. (Joshua Bessex/The News Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, hurricane specialist branch chief James Franklin, left, talks with administrative officer Jannette Perez at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Franklin, a retiring chief of the hurricane specialist unit at the National Hurricane Center in Miami says further cuts to tropical weather research threaten to undermine recent improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
