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FILE- In this May 26, 2015 file photo, cars remain stranded along a flooded section of Interstate 45 after heavy rains overnight in Houston. Despite public service announcements, signs at hundreds of low-water crossings around the country, electronic billboards and constant reminders from elected officials and travel experts, dozens of Americans die each hear when their cars, trucks, vans and SUVs venture onto flooded roads. Exasperated authorities aren't sure what else they can do to convince people to stay off flooded roads. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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In this undated photo provided by his daughter Christina Thompson, William Floyd is seen. Floyd died in April 2017 when his car was swept away as he tried to drive through water over a gravel road near Salem, Mo. About 61 percent of flood-related deaths in the U.S., since 2011 have involved people in vehicles. (Courtesy of Christina Thompson via AP)
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People hug as emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Law enforcement officials gather outside the scene of a shooting outside the Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Law enforcement officials, including Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp, center, walk toward a news conference regarding a shooting at a nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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CORRECTS BYLINE TO DORAL CHENOWETH III- A person is removed from the Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Authorities investigate the scene of a three-alarm fire that killed multiple people and damaged three residences in south Montgomery County Friday, May 12, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A firefighter with The Woodlands Fire Department works the scene of a two-story house fire that left multiple people dead Friday, May 12, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 photo, the Clio Area Fire Department responds after an oil sheen was found on the Pine Run creek in Clio, Mich. There was no immediate estimate of how much oil was in the creek, which eventually flows into the Flint River. The source of the oil was under investigation. (Mac Snyder/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 photo, absorbent pads sit in Pine Run creek as Clio Area Fire Department responded after an oil sheen was found the creek in Clio, Mich. There was no immediate estimate of how much oil was in the creek, which eventually flows into the Flint River. The source of the oil was under investigation. (Mac Snyder/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 photo, absorbent pads sit in Pine Run creek as Clio Area Fire Department responded after an oil sheen was found the creek in Clio, Mich. There was no immediate estimate of how much oil was in the creek, which eventually flows into the Flint River. The source of the oil was under investigation. (Mac Snyder/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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This is screengrab taken from the website of the East and North Hertfordshire NHS trust as Britain's National Health Service is investigating "an issue with IT" Friday May 12, 2017. Several British hospitals say they are having major computer problems Hospitals in London, northwest England and other parts of the country are reporting problems with their computer systems as the result of an apparent cyberattack,.(PA via AP)
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Victoria Allen grieves the loss of a friend as authorities investigate the scene of a three-alarm fire that killed multiple people and damaged residences in south Montgomery County Friday, May 12, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. ( Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, May 2, 2017, a roadside shrine stands near the sea at Cape Sounion, southeast of Athens. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed on Friday, April 28, 2017, a car passes a roadside shrine near the village of Efyra, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. The shrine marks the spot where at dusk on Oct. 18, 2009, 19-year-old Nikos Staikopoulos lost control of his speeding car, crashed and died. Tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FILE - In this July 25, 2013, file photo, a United Airlines plane takes off from Newark Liberty International Airport, in Newark, N.J. United Airlines told KHOU-TV in Houston that a flight from Houston to Ecuador was delayed on May 11, 2017, after a scorpion was reported aboard the plane. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Bob McKee, of Owasso, sits in a chair from his recreational vehicle among the remains of his shed after taking storm damage in Owasso, Okla., Thursday, May 11, 2017. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down in the Tulsa suburb of Owasso Thursday and a possible tornado struck near Perkins, about 45 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Damage was reported to roofs and trees, but there are no reports of injuries. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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A tree lies damaged from a storm in Owasso, Okla, Thursday, May 11, 2017. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down in the Tulsa suburb of Owasso Thursday and a possible tornado struck near Perkins, about 45 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Damage was reported to roofs and trees, but there are no reports of injuries. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
