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CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK TO SUNDAY, NOT SATURDAY - Indiana State Police investigate a one-vehicle accident on Sunday, May 28, 2017, along the Muncie Bypass where a child was killed. Police say a man punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. (Corey Ohlenkamp/The Star Press via AP)

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CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK TO SUNDAY, NOT SATURDAY - Indiana State Police investigate a one-vehicle accident on Sunday, May 28, 2017, along the Muncie Bypass where a child was killed. Police say a man punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. (Corey Ohlenkamp/The Star Press via AP)

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This May 28, 2017 photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Muncie, Ind., shows Nathaniel Jordan. Police say Jordan punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway Sunday, May 28, 2017, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. Jordan faces preliminary neglect, criminal recklessness and other charges. (Delaware County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This May 22, 2017 file photo shows the turbine deck at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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This May 22, 2017 file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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FILE - This March 30, 1979, file photo shows an aerial view of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, 2017 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)

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A Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo shows cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, 2017 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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FILE - This is a Wednesday, April 5, 2017, file photo of Adel Bol, 20, cradles as she her 10-month-old daughter Akir Mayen at a food distribution site in Malualkuel in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. The head of the U.N.'s food and agriculture agency warned Tuesday May 30, 2017 that conflict in South Sudan could undermine hopes of avoiding a new famine next year. (AP Photo/File)

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In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo Marty Mozzo poses in his backyard in Ocean City N.J. on the edge of a back bay wetlands. When he and his wife were considering buying the house, they looked at a small trickle of water in the distance and wondered if the property would flood, deciding the water was too far away to pose a danger. Within weeks, their house was surrounded by floodwaters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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FILE - In this May 28, 2017 file photo, the bodies of Indian climbers, that were retrieved from Mount Everest by a rescue team of eight sherpas, lay on the ground in Kathmandu, Nepal. A high-risk expedition to retrieve bodies from Mount Everest has led some to question if risk is acceptable. Bringing bodies down from the mountain gives the families of the deceased closure. But some mountaineers say death is a well-known risk in climbing Everest, and it's not worth endangering more lives to bring down those who are already lost. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

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Investigators work outside a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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An investigator enters a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead at multiple locations, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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In this April 26, 2017, photo Jim O'Neill walks across a makeshift boardwalk he built in his back yard in Manahawkin N.J., because the property is almost always under water, even on sunny days. He lives in a low-lying area near the Jersey shore, and is often affected by back bay flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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This March 14, 2017, photo shows Jim and Maryann O'Neill's home in a back bay neighborhood of Manahawkin N.J., surrounded by water after a moderate storm. Back bay flooding is a type of recurring nuisance flooding that affects millions of Americans and which experts agree has not been as widely addressed as oceanfront flooding, in part because potential solutions are much more difficult. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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This April 26, 2017 photo shows a garage door on a home in Ocean City on the edge of a back bay that floods regularly, and has rusted the metal door. Scientists and people living in back-bay areas behind barrier islands say flooding is increasing, even as the problem gets less attention and money than flooding along the ocean. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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This March 14, 2017, photo shows the flooded streets of a back bay neighborhood in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. Scientists and people living in back-bay areas behind barrier islands say flooding is increasing, even as the problem gets less attention and money than flooding along the ocean. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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In this April 26, 2017, photo Jim O'Neill walks through a flooded street in front of his home in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. He lives in a low-lying area near the Jersey shore, and is often affected by back bay flooding, a type of recurring nuisance flooding that's affecting millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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In this Sunday, May 28, 2017 photo, U.S. Coast Guard rescue a U.S. Navy Seal who fell into the Hudson River after his parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week demonstration over the river in Jersey City, N.J. The Navy said the parachutist was pronounced dead at Jersey City Medical Center. (Joe Shine/The Jersey Journal via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2016, file photo, retired Fire Department of New York firefighter and Sept. 11 first responder Ray Pfeifer, left, holds the key to the city he was given at New York's City Hall, and is applauded by Jon Stewart. Pfeifer, who spent months at the World Trade Center site digging through debris and then fought for health care for first responders even when wracked with late-stage cancer, died Sunday, May 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2016, file photo, retired Fire Department of New York firefighter and Sept. 11 first responder Ray Pfeifer attends ceremonies where he received the key to the city at New York's City Hall. Pfeifer, who spent months at the World Trade Center site digging through debris and then fought for health care for first responders even when wracked with late-stage cancer, died Sunday, May 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)