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Texas Tech coach Chris Beard argues a call during the team's NCAA college basketball game against TCU, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Lubbock, Texas. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Texas Tech's Aaron Ross (15) takes the rebound away from TCU's Vladimir Brodziansky (10) during an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Lubbock, Texas. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Radio soccer announcer Rafael Henzel speaks during a interview in Chapeco, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Henzel is one of the six passengers that survived in the Chapecoense air crash, which killed 71 people, including 19 players of the Chapecoense soccer team, on Nov.28. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, rescue workers search at the wreckage site of a chartered airplane that crashed outside Medellin, Colombia. Three players survived and 19 players perished in the air crash almost two months ago in Colombia. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides, File)
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Radio soccer announcer Rafael Henzel speaks during a interview in Chapeco, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Henzel is one of the six passengers that survived in the Chapecoense air crash, which killed 71 people, including 19 players of the Chapecoense soccer team, on Nov.28. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Phillip Rivers, left, speaks to the media after an NFL football news conference to introduce the Los Angeles Chargers to the Los Angeles area, in Inglewood, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Kelvin Kuo)
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Texas Power Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Contractors work on a sinkhole Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Orinda, Calif. The city council of Orinda declared a State of Emergency Tuesday night because of the large sinkhole caused by last week's wet weather, which ruptured sewer lines. Repairs will take weeks, as the San Francisco Bay Area is being hit with a new series of rain storms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Contractors survey a 72-inch sinkhole Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Orinda, Calif. The city council of Orinda declared a State of Emergency Tuesday night because of a large sinkhole caused by last week's wet weather. Repairs will take at least four weeks, as the San Francisco Bay Area is being hit with a new series of rain storms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Contractors survey a 72-inch sinkhole Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Orinda, Calif. The city council of Orinda declared a State of Emergency Tuesday night because of a large sinkhole caused by last week's wet weather. Repairs will take at least four weeks, as the San Francisco Bay Area is being hit with a new series of rain storms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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A 72-inch deep sinkhole is seen Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Orinda, Calif. The city council of Orinda declared a State of Emergency Tuesday night because of a large sinkhole caused by last week's wet weather, which ruptured two sewer lines. Repairs will take at least four weeks, as the San Francisco Bay Area is being hit with a new series of rain storms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Tow truck driver Donny Callahan prepares to pull a semi truck out of a ditch in Troutdale, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Trucks and other traffic is diverted off of eastbound Interstate 90 before Snoqualmie Pass, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in North Bend, Wash. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places. In Washington state, I-90, the main highway connecting western and eastern Washington, was to remain closed over Snoqualmie Pass because of hazardous winter conditions. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A truck remains partially covered with ice and parked after being forced to turn around on Snoqualmie Pass when Interstate 90 closed earlier Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in North Bend, Wash. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places. In Washington state, I-90, the main highway connecting western and eastern Washington, was to remain closed over Snoqualmie Pass because of hazardous winter conditions. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Local traffic passes trucks parked on the shoulder and waiting for eastbound Interstate 90 to open, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in North Bend, Wash. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places. In Washington state, I-90, the main highway connecting western and eastern Washington, was to remain closed over Snoqualmie Pass because of hazardous winter conditions. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Manager Levi Lenz uses a snow shovel while trying to locate a clogged storm drain in the parking lot outside Anytime Fitness on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho. The region was hit with an ice storm overnight, and is now under a flood watch because of rain and melting snow. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
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Icicles hang from a street sign at the University of Idaho, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho. The region was hit with an ice storm overnight, and is now under a flood watch because of rain and melting snow. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
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A pedestrian walks into the street to get around an icy sidewalk and a large puddle along Sixth Street on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho. The region was hit with an ice storm overnight, and is now under a flood watch because of rain and melting snow. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
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A traffic sign alerts drivers on Interstate 84 in Troutdale, Ore., of road closures, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Truck driver Brad Cottle, left, from Florida, surveys the situation with his truck stuck in a ditch with tow truck driver Donny Callahan in Troutdale, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice coating the ground in some places.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)