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In this photo provided by the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department, it shows a small plane that crashed Wednesday, April 12, 2017 in Hartsville, Ind. The pilot was killed in the crash. (Bartholomew Sheriff's Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015 file photo, a message covers the side window of a sports utility vehicle about the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old woman by Denver Police Department officers while mourners visit the site of the shooting in an alleyway in northeast Denver. The woman, Jessica Hernandez, died when she allegedly drove a stolen vehicle at officers in the alleyway. On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, Denver officials agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the family of Hernandez. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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CORRECTS DESCRIPTION OF CABIN - In this photo taken March 30, 2017, skis rest against the side of the Onion Valley snow survey cabin in Inyo National Forest, near Independence, Calif. where members of a California Cooperative Snow Survey team spent the night. The cabin built in the 1980s to replace one destroyed by an avalanche provides bare necessities, including a wood-burning stove, a sleeping loft and two lockers stocked with canned and packaged food. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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FILE- In this Aug. 16, 2015 file photo, investigators examine the scene where one person died and another was injured in the crash of a single-engine plane on Long Island Rail Road tracks on the line between Bethpage and Hicksville, NY. As a result of this crash, the Federal Aviation Administration now regularly check the accuracy of its radar video maps after an air traffic controller directed the pilot with engine trouble to a closed airport moments before the plane went down. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the San Bernardino City Unified School District shows Jonathan Martinez, who was killed in a San Bernardino special-education classroom on Monday, April 10, 2017. Martinez died at a hospital after being shot Monday in his classroom by the estranged husband of his teacher, Karen Smith, who also was killed. The gunman, Cedric Anderson, then fatally shot himself. (Courtesy of San Bernardino City Unified School District via AP)
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FILE - This undated photo provided by TOTE Maritime shows the cargo ship, El Faro. On Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said a search team using sophisticated scanning sonar has found the wreckage of a vessel believed to be the ship which went missing with 33 crewmembers on Oct. 1 during Hurricane Joaquin. (TOTE Maritime via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, Charles Baird, former second mate of the El Faro, left, and Mike Kucharski with the National Transportation Safety Board discuss route options available to the El Faro when dealing with the approaching hurricane during a hearing investigating the ship's sinking in October 2015 in Jacksonville, Fla. Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane, according to testimony given by Baird Thursday. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 file photo shows a case containing the electronic components of the S-VDR, voyage data recorder from the freighter El Faro at Mayport Naval Station, in Jacksonville, Fla. The 790-foot El Faro sank Oct. 1 after losing propulsion and getting caught in the hurricane while traveling between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico. All 33 crew members died. (Bob Mack/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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This April 11, 2017 photo provided by the NTSB shows investigator Brian Young at an undisclosed location. Young is the chief investigator for the NTSB into the sinking of the freighter El Faro in the Bahamas on Oct. 1, 2015. The 790- foot ship sank after losing propulsion in Hurricane Joaquin. The bodies of the 33 crew members were never found. (NTSB via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm, the widow of El Faro crew member Frank Hamm, wipes her eyes during an interview at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. After losing her husband in a maritime accident, she is pressing for what she calls Hamm Alert, a new safety system that would keep ships in port during major storms - similar to air traffic control for planes. An online petition has collected more than 11,000 signatures in support. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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Rochelle Hamm speaks during an interview at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Since her husband died after the freighter El Faro sank in a hurricane, Rochelle has been on a mission to make ships safer. Hamm says she was motivated in part by her terrified husband’s last words, which were recorded and stored on the ship’s date recorder as the vessel sank. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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Frank Hamm, a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, is shown in a framed photograph at the home of his widow, Rochelle Hamm, in Jacksonville, Fla., on March 14, 2017. As the cargo freighter went down in a hurricane on Oct. 1, 2015, the ship's data recorder captured his final words. "My feet are slipping! I’m goin’ down!” he cries after the crew is ordered to abandon ship. “I’M A GONER!” he shouts. (Courtesy Rochelle Hamm via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm holds the hard hat of her husband, Frank, at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Frank Hamm was a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, that sank in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015. All 33 crew members were killed. Hamm's helmet was found on Ormond Beach, Fla., on December 2015. The helmet, found by a couple cleaning trash off a Florida beach, washed ashore two months after he disappeared. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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This image released by the NTSB on Dec. 13, 2016, indicates the location of the El Faro on Oct. 1, 2015, at about 2 a.m., and the path of Hurricane Joaquin. The El Faro sank Oct. 1, 2015, and all 33 crew members perished in the accident. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm holds the hard hat of her husband, Frank, at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Frank Hamm was a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, that sank in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015. All 33 crew members were killed. Hamm's helmet was found on Ormond Beach, Fla., on December 2015. The helmet, found by a couple cleaning trash off a Florida beach, washed ashore two months after he disappeared. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2017 file photo, family members of El Faro crew members stand with photographs of their loved ones during a break in a U.S. Coast Guard investigative hearing in Jacksonville, Fla. The 790-foot freighter heading from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto Rico sailed into the eye of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas on Oct. 1, 2015 and sank, killing all 33 crew members. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP, File)
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In this image made from a video released by the National Transportation Safety Board on April 26, 2016 shows the top of El Faro navigation bridge structure with missing voyage data recorder, mast and support structures at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas. Amid howling winds, blinding squalls and massive waves, the freighter El Faro and its crew struggled for survival, unaware that their course was taking them directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. All 33 crew members were killed. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)
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This March 21, 2010 photo provided by William Van Dorp shows the El Faro cargo ship docked in Baltimore. The story of the ship's final hours was reconstructed using thousands of pages of public documents, hours of testimony before the U.S. Coast Guard's investigative board and interviews with crew family members and maritime experts. The El Faro went down on Oct. 1, 2015, as it sailed in Hurricane Joaquin near San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. (Will Van Dorp via AP)
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FILE - This undated image made from a video released April 26, 2016, by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the stern of the sunken ship El Faro. Amid howling winds, blinding squalls and massive waves, the freighter El Faro and its crew struggled for survival _ unaware that their course was taking them directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. All 33 crew members were killed. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)
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In this photo taken April 1, 2017, Kevin Klinefelter, left, prepares to fry Spam on a griddle as John Dittli, right, looks on as they spend the night in a snow survey cabin near Bishop Pass in the Inyo National Forest near Bishop, Calif. Crews stay out as long as two weeks in alpine wilderness, battling the elements, skirting avalanche terrain and plodding through deep powder to gather the data, a practice that has endured even as new technology tries to gauge the state's expected water supply from snowmelt. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
