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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)
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Waters flood the 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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The Meramec River continues to rise and push flood waters higher around businesses, such as this scrap metal business at the intersection of Interstate 44 at Highway 141, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Valley Park, Mo. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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In this April 17, 2017 photo, a Hindu priest performs rituals in front of a wheel that will be part of the Rato Machindranath Chariot in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this April 22, 2017, photo, paint and brushes sit at the feet of the statue of Rato Machindranath as it is painted in time for the Rato Machindranath festival, in Machindra Bahal in Lalitpur, Nepal. Legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this April 27, 2017, photo, Hindu priests carry the Rato machindranath deity to its seat inside a 15-meter (48-foot) tall wooden chariot to be taken around Patan city during an annual festival in Lalitpur, Nepal. Legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this May 2, 2017, photo, Nepalese gather to watch the Rato Machindranath Chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this May 2, 2017, photo, Nepalese revelers attend the Rato Machindranath Chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this May 2, 2017, photo, Nepalese members of the Newar community pull the Rato Machindranath Chariot in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2017, file photo, investigators stand by as debris is removed from a house that was destroyed in a deadly explosion in Firestone, Colo. The home explosion that killed two people was caused by unrefined natural gas that was leaking from a small abandoned pipeline from a nearby well, fire officials said Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (Matthew Jonas /The Daily Times Call via AP)
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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Keone Kela reacts after giving up a grand slam to Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez tosses his bat after hitting a grand slam off Texas Rangers relief pitcher Keone Kela, right, during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
