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Emergency workers search debris that fell at the base of the fire-gutted Grenfell Tower in London, Friday, June 16, 2017, after a fire engulfed the 24-story building Wednesday morning. London firefighters combed through the burned-out public housing tower Thursday in a grim search for missing people as police and the prime minister launched investigations into the deadly inferno, with pressure building on officials to explain the disaster and assure that similar buildings around the country are safe. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Flowers are left at the UPS facility in San Francisco, Thursday, June 15, 2017. Officials say UPS employee Jimmy Lam shot and killed three fellow UPS drivers Wednesday before fatally shooting himself in the head in front of police officers. (AP Photo/Paul Elias)
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This photo provided by the National Park Service ranger Rachel Post shows a smoke plume from a wildfire in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, north of Jemez Springs, N.M., Thursday, June 15, 2017. The wildfire burning in northern New Mexico prompted the evacuation Thursday of residents and led the governor to activate the state emergency operations center. (Rachel Post/NPS via AP)
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In this Sept., 2016, photo provided by Abbie Chin, Benson Louie holds a trophy after his volleyball team wins the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament in Los Angeles, Calif. 50-year-old Louie was killed Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif., with two other UPS drivers. (Abbie Chin via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2017, file photo, people gather ahead of the sunrise on the summit of Haleakala volcano in Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui. The National Park Service is studying whether to keep its new system requiring reservations to drive up to Haleakala's summit to see the sunrise. The agency said Thursday, June 15 it will conduct an environmental assessment for the program, which was implemented on an emergency basis earlier this year to address overcrowding. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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A water tower is seen in Flint, Mich., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Five people, including the head of Michigan's health department, were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint's lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man who had Legionnaires' disease. (Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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Fire crews head toward the Jemez Mountains along U.S. 550 in Rio Rancho, N.M., as the smoke plume from a prescribed fire grows on Thursday, June 15, 2017. Sandoval County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Elder says deputies were initiating the evacuation of a subdivision along State Highway 4. He was unsure of how many homes were in the area. (Zach Bryan via AP)
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A man shows a piece of golf ball size hail that caused some damage in the area in Odessa, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP)
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A man rides his motorcycle down Muskingum Avenue despite high levels of flooding in Odessa, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP)
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FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, Tim Borrens yells at police after a man was fatally shot in Tulsa, Okla. Police in Oklahoma say an officer involved in the fatal shooting of a black man turned on his body camera seconds after shots were fired. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)
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FILE - In this undated photo provided by the family on Saturday, June 10, 2017, Joshua Barre, who was fatally shot by two Tulsa County, Okla. deputies and a police officer on Friday, June 9, 2017, is pictured. Police in Oklahoma say an officer involved in the fatal shooting of Barre turned on his body camera seconds after shots were fired. (Nyesha Barre via AP, File)
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FILE- This Feb. 13, 2017, file aerial photo shows a site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the pipeline, ruling Wednesday June 14, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River. (Tom Stromme /The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)
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ADDS CONDITION OF THE PILOT - A blimp crashes during the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament Thursday, June 15, 2017, near Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. An official with the company operating the advertising blimp at the U.S. Open said the pilot is "OK" after the craft crashed but that he was taken to a hospital. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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FILE - In this April 1, 2013, file photo, crews work to clean up oil in a Mayflower, Ark., neighborhood after an oil pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. A settlement has been reached for families affected by the 2013 Exxon Mobil oil spill in central Arkansas. Attorneys for the residents and homeowners announced the settlement Thursday, June 15, 2017. They say terms will remain confidential. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss, File)
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A blimp crashes during the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament Thursday, June 15, 2017, near Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. An official with the company operating the advertising blimp at the U.S. Open said the pilot is "OK" after the craft crashed but that he was taken to a hospital. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017 photo, Arslan Mamiliyev, who was training to become a commercial pilot at the American Flight Academy in Hartford, Conn., stands outside the building where the school was located. He and other international students are suing the school, saying they lost thousands of dollars and are being forced to leave the country after the school closed following two fatal plane crashes. Federal authorities are investigating the crashes and have seized records from the school. (AP Photo/Dave Collins)
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In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017 photo, Arslan Mamiliyev, who was training to become a commercial pilot at the American Flight Academy in Hartford, Conn., stands outside the building where the school was located. He and other international students are suing the school, saying they lost thousands of dollars and are being forced to leave the country after the school closed following two fatal plane crashes. Federal authorities are investigating the crashes and have seized records from the school. (AP Photo/Dave Collins)
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In this June 21, 2013 photo, Comstock Fire Chief Wally Culver, left, trains his replacement Edward Switalski at the Comstock Fire Department east station in Comstock Township, Mich. Switalski has died after he was struck by an out-of-control vehicle as he responded to another crash on Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan, authorities said Thursday June 15, 2017. (Steph Anderson Chambers /Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, in group left, arrives at Grenfield Tower, right, in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017, following a deadly fire in the apartment block. A massive fire raced through the 24-storey high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday, and London fire commissioner says it will take weeks for the building to be searched and 'cleared'.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, June 6, 2017, a section of the guard rail damaged by this year's snowpack, lies along Highway 120 near Yosemite National Park, Calif. Nearly a 1,000 yards of railing, that serve as the only barrier between he road and precipitous drop that in some places is over 1,000 feet, needs to be replaced before the roadway can be reopened. This year's heavy snowfall has crews working to clear Highway 120 as summer approaches, the only road through Yosemite that connects the Central Valley on the west side with the Owens Valley on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
