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Rescuers hold three puppies that were found alive in the rubble of the avalanche-hit Hotel Rigopiano, near Farindola, central Italy, Monday, Jan. 22, 2017. Emergency crews digging into an avalanche-slammed hotel were cheered Monday by the discovery of three puppies who had survived for days under tons of snow, giving them new hope for the 23 people still missing in the disaster. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP)
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An Italian Forestry Corp officer officer holds one of three puppies that were found alive in the rubble of the avalanche-hit Hotel Rigopiano, near Farindola, central Italy, Monday, Jan. 22, 2017. Emergency crews digging into an avalanche-slammed hotel were cheered Monday by the discovery of three puppies who had survived for days under tons of snow, giving them new hope for the 23 people still missing in the disaster. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP)
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This book cover image released by Atria shows, "Fatal," the latest novel by John Lescroart. (Atria via AP)
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Avalanche survivor Giorgia Galassi, wearing black at right, smiles with her parents mother Isa Toccotelli, center, and Tomasso Galassi, at their home in Giulianova, Italy, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Galassi and her boyfriend Vincenzo Forti were at the Hotel Rigopiano when the avalanche buried the hotel on Jan. 18 and were rescued three days later. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)
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Italian Mountain Rescue Corps "Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico" Soccorso Alpino volunteers and rescuers work in the area of the avalanche-struck Hotel Rigopiano, near in Farindola, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico/ANSA via AP)
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Italian Mountain Rescue Corps "Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico" Soccorso Alpino volunteers and rescuers work in the area of the avalanche-struck Hotel Rigopiano, near in Farindola, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Rescue crews are considering whether to start using heavy equipment to speed up the search for 23 people still buried under the ruins of a central Italy hotel crushed by an avalanche. (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico/ANSA via AP)
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Alessio Feniello, right, the father of Stefano, one of the 23 missing persons of the Hotel Rigopiano, talks to journalists outside the Pescara hospital, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2017. Rescue crews are considering whether to start using heavy equipment to speed up the search for 23 people still buried under the ruins of a central Italy hotel crushed by an avalanche. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Alessio Feniello, center, the father of Stefano, one of the 23 missing persons of the hotel Rigopiano, is escorted by Finance police officers as he is mobbed by journalists outside the Pescara hospital, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2017. Rescue crews are considering whether to start using heavy equipment to speed up the search for 23 people still buried under the ruins of a central Italy hotel crushed by an avalanche. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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This frame made from a video released by the Italian Firefighters (Vigili del Fuoco) shows a firefighter passing through an opening in the snow during the rescue operations on the Hotel Rigopiano, near Farindola, central Italy, early Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Rescue crews are considering whether to start using heavy equipment to speed up the search for 23 people still buried under the ruins of a central Italy hotel crushed by an avalanche on Jan. 18. (Vigili del Fuoco/ANSA via AP)
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Italian Mountain Rescue Corps "Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico" shows Soccorso Alpino volunteers and rescuers at work in the area of the avalanche-struck Hotel Rigopiano, near in Farindola, central Italy, late Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico/ANSA via AP)
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Italian Mountain Rescue Corps "Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico" Soccorso Alpino volunteers and rescuers work in the area of the avalanche-struck Hotel Rigopiano, near in Farindola, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico/ANSA via AP)
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Avalanche survivor Giorgia Galassi, wearing black at right, smiles with her parents mother Isa Toccotelli, center, and Tomasso Galassi, at their home in Giulianova, Italy, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Galassi and her boyfriend Vincenzo Forti were at the Hotel Rigopiano when the avalanche buried the hotel on Jan. 18 and were rescued three days later. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)
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A member of the media walks near a truck that was damaged by an apparent tornado, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Albany, Ga. A vast storm system kicked up apparent tornadoes, shredded mobile homes and left other destruction scattered around the Southeast over the weekend. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
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This frame made from a video released by the Italian Firefighters (Vigili del Fuoco) shows a firefighter passing through an opening in the snow during the rescue operations on the Hotel Rigopiano, near Farindola, central Italy, early Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Rescue crews are considering whether to start using heavy equipment to speed up the search for 23 people still buried under the ruins of a central Italy hotel crushed by an avalanche on Jan. 18. (Vigili del Fuoco/ANSA via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, a United Airlines passenger plane lands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. United Airlines says an "IT issue" on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, affecting its domestic fleet forced the cancellation of six flights and delayed 200 more. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Hattiesburg, Miss., volunteers Brenda Dillion and Vanessa Molden put together boxes of food to give out to tornado victims, law enforcement and others in need of food after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
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Hattiesburg volunteers Jasmine Fortson, left, Savannah Beans clean up debris after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
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Flooded properties are seen flooded in Paradise Park in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2017. Fast-moving floodwaters swept through mountain communities and residents fled homes below hillsides scarred by wildfires as the third and largest in the latest series of storms brought powerful rain Sunday and warnings about damaging mudslides. (Ryan Masters/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
