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FILE- In this June 29, 2016 file photo, boats docked at Central Marine in Stuart, Fla., are surrounded by blue green algae. The 153-mile-long Indian River Lagoon has been plagued by harmful algae blooms. Water quality testing data analyzed by the AP showed the average phosphorous level _ a byproduct of fertilizers and human waste that algae thrive on, rose nearly 75 percent between 2000 and 2016. (Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via AP, File)
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Illustration on America at the precipice of financial disaster by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Officers work at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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An Irving police officer checks his rifle as he arrives at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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People walk out of a building as Irving police officers work at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Students and faculty exit a building with their hands up after a fatal shooting at North Lake College in Irving, Texas, on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Multiple people died in an apparent murder-suicide at the college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves into rooms. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2015 file photo a very large smokestack flare burns off flammable product after an explosion in a processing facility at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, Calif. A federal safety board says the 2015 explosion at the refinery was preventable and is recommending changes to its safety procedures. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released a 73-page report on Wednesday May 3, 2017. (Chuck Bennett /Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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FILE - This Feb. 18, 2015, file photo shows a structure damaged after an explosion in a processing facility at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, Calif. A federal safety board says the 2015 explosion at the refinery was preventable and is recommending changes to its safety procedures. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released a 73-page report on Wednesday May 3, 2017. (Brad Graverson /Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 photo, flood water from the Meramec River streams over a railroad bridge in Valley Park, Mo. River levels are cresting in several Missouri communities as floodwaters slowly drain from the state, although forecasts for more rain could cause another round of damaging high water. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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This still image from video provided by NBC Boston shows wreckage after a vehicle suddenly accelerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass. (NBC Boston via AP)
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This still image from video provided by NBC Boston shows wreckage after a vehicle suddenly accelerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass. (NBC Boston via AP)
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This still image from video provided by NBC Boston, emergency personnel work at the scene after a vehicle suddenly accelerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass. (NBC Boston via AP)
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This still image from video provided by NBC Boston shows wreckage after a vehicle suddenly accelerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass. (NBC Boston via AP)
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This still image from video provided by NBC Boston shows wreckage after a vehicle suddenly accelerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass. (NBC Boston via AP)
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In this April 5, 2017, photo, a sign warns people not to use contaminated water in a sink at Shoshone Fire Station No. 2 in Kellogg, Idaho. (Pat Sutphin/The Times-News via AP)
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An Alton Public Works employee lowers another section of a new plastic flood barrier into place Tuesday May 2, 2017, in Alton, Ill., as a hose pumps water from the basement of a nearby business into the road. Flood warnings remain for large sections of central and southern Illinois after weekend storms brought several inches of rain. (John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
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A woman looks out at the flooded intersection of Interstate 44 and Highway 141, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in this from the top floor of the Drury Inn in Valley Park, Mo.. The flooded Meramec River has shut down all traffic at the intersection. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Workers from the Ardent Mills sandbag the entrance ahead of still rising Mississippi River floodwaters in Alton, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The high water marks of the two worst floods in Alton's history are painted on the side of the door at right. (John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
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Homeowner Tom Bell, 71, left, and his friend Stan Erlinger take a break from sandbagging and flood preparation on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Fenton, Mo. Bell is hoping that he is better prepared than he was in 2015, when the Meramec River did a great deal of damage to his home. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Barb Neels, 78, looks at the rising waters of the Meramec River on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Fenton, Mo. Neels has lived on Riverside Drive next to the Riverside Drive golf course for 55 years and says she has only seen flooding like this once, in the flood in 2015. Behind her is her son, Darryl Davidson. Many neighbor helped build a sandbag wall around her home. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
