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FILE- This May 9, 2016, file photo, shows an air traffic control tower at their gates at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. With a broken throttle Cathy Lewan, the pilot of a small plane, found herself over the world’s busiest airport and facing calamity, but air traffic controllers guided her to a safe landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Feb. 14, 2016. On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Lewan had a reunion with the Atlanta air traffic controllers who were her lifeline. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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Washington's famed cherry blossoms are covered in ice during a late winter storm in Washington, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, looking toward the Washington Monument. The National Park Service is concerned about the impact of cold weather on the blossoms. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This photo supplied by the Environmental Protection Agency shows oil trapped by a berm and siphon dam in a dry ravine where the oil from a Chevron spill was stopped March 7, 2017, near Rangely, Colo. Chevron Corp. says its crews are cleaning up about 4,800 gallons of oil that spilled from a failed pipeline into an intermittent stream on public land in northwestern Colorado. State officials said Tuesday, March 14, 2017, that the oil travelled about 2 miles downstream along an unnamed tributary of Stinking Water Creek in Rio Blanco County. (Environmental Protection Agency via AP)
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Pond hockey players attempt to shovel snow faster than it can fall during a storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Yarmouth, Maine. About one foot of snow is expected in the area. A blustery late-season storm is hitting the Northeast, closing schools and prompting dire warnings to stay off the roads. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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A pedestrian walks near a plow on Hamilton Street in downtown Allentown on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, as a Nor'easter hit the Lehigh Valley. The heaviest snow in Pennsylvania fell in a swath from the Gettysburg area near the Maryland line in the south, straight north to New York, and northeast to the Pocono Mountains, the Lehigh Valley and the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre region. (April Bartholomew /The Morning Call via AP)
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A man walks on Wyoming Avenue on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Scranton, Pa., during a severe winter storm. ( Butch Comegys / The Times & Tribune via AP)
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A pedestrian walks in the middle of the road during a severe blizzard on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Scranton, Pa. ( Butch Comegys / The Times & Tribune via AP)
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A Pennsylvania State Police Patrolman hold's road flares to be placed after a tractor- trailer accident jackknifed along Interstate 81 in Pittston Township, Pa. early Tuesday, March 14, 2017 during a severe blizzard. ( Butch Comegys / The Times & Tribune via AP)
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A pedestrian walks with an umbrella during a severe blizzard on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Scranton, Pa. ( Butch Comegys / The Times & Tribune via AP)
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(Laura Kelly/The Washington Times) Few cartons of eggs to be found at a Giant supermarket in Northeast D.C.
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(Laura Kelly/The Washington Times) In Northeast D.C., residents took it upon themselves to clear sidewalks — or not.
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FILE - In this April 18, 2013 aerial file photo, the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The Trump administration is delaying a new rule tightening safety requirements for companies that store large quantities of dangerous chemicals. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has delayed the effective date of the Obama-era rule until June. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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A woman is seen through frosted glass while drinking a hot beverage in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during a snowstorm Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A woman walks down a plowed section of Buena Vista Avenue during a snow storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency Tuesday for all of New York's 62 counties, including New York City's five boroughs. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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A man digs his car out along William Street during a snow storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency Tuesday for all of New York's 62 counties, including New York City's five boroughs. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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A store employee clears snow from the front of a deli during a snow storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Yonkers, N.Y. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency Tuesday for all of New York's 62 counties, including New York City's five boroughs. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Men walk along a sidewalk on South Broadway in a snow storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Yonkers, N.Y. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency Tuesday for all of New York's 62 counties, including New York City's five boroughs. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Snow plows work to keep the grounds clear at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. A storm pounded the Northeast with more than a foot of snow in places Tuesday, paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a remarkably mild February had lulled people into thinking the worst of winter was over. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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A member of the Staten Island ferry crew clears the deck as the ferry approaches the terminal during a snowstorm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A towing service collects a stranded car along Route 140 near Reese, Md., at 6:50 a.m. on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (Ken Koons/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
