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Sparks firefighters monitor the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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A Sparks firefighter takes a picture of the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Local residents braved the heavy rain to fill sandbags on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, near the Truckee River in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Sandbags line the doors of the Alamo truck stop and casino along U.S. Interstate 80 due to flooding Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Semi-trucks line the shoulder of Interstate 5 south of Eugene, Ore. Sunday Jan. 8, 2017 as drivers chain up for the drive north through a winter storm. Snow and sleet are making for treacherous roads in Oregon, with the state police warning that they can't keep up with all the crashes. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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A "closed" sign stands at the entrance of a normally busy ice rink at the Half Dome Village of Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Saturday, Jan 7, 2016. The area has been evacuated ahead of possible flooding of the Merced River from a storm system in Northern California. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
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A city worker removes snow from a crosswalk as a winter storm blankets the area in Carrboro, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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A pedestrian walks during a snowstorm on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. Saturday Jan. 7 2017. Snow continues to fall across most of New Jersey as a winter storm makes its way up the coast. The heaviest snows are expected along the southern New Jersey coast, where a winter storm warning remains in effect. (Ben Fogletto/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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As traffic creeps past on the New Jersey Turnpike, drivers work on cars stuck in the snow Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, near New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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FILE -This Oct. 24, 2015 FILE image taken from video shows the scene in Stillwater, Okla. as a car crashes into spectators at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade. The trial for the driver, Adacia Chambers who is charged with four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of felony assault begins Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 in Stillwater. (Connor J. Greco via AP, File)
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Chinese men wearing masks to filter the pollution walk on a bridge near building shrouded by fog and pollution in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. China has long faced some of the worst air pollution in the world, blamed on its reliance of coal for energy and factory production, as well as a surplus of older, less efficient cars on its roads. Inadequate controls on industry and lax enforcement of standards have worsened the pollution problem. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Zeno Windley, 4, smiles as he waits for a push from his dad, Paul, while sledding at Miller Park, after 6-8 inches of snow fell across the Triad, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Much of North Carolina is under a winter storm warning until 7 p.m. Saturday and southeast Virginia was under a blizzard warning. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
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A person crosses the pedestrian bridge in the Public Garden during a winter storm in Boston, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Icicles cling to a street sign in downtown Creswell, Ore. after a storm moved through the Willamette Valley Saturday Jan. 7, 2017. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)
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Chris Guyot, 13, Kayleigh, 10, and their mom, Tricia, and the rest of the family, Evan Guyot, and Tyler, 19, (not pictured) of Orange, Calif., pack up their belongings after being told to evacuate the Yosemite Valley Lodge, in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Friday Jan. 6, 2017. A massive storm bearing down on Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and topple trees, prompting rangers at Yosemite National Park to close roads to the valley floor. Other parts of the park remain open, but rangers warn visitors to watch out for ice and falling debris. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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A car drives through flooded water on Green Valley Road in Graton, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A man walks in the rain past a covered storefront in San Anselmo, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A van drives through flooded water on Green Valley Road in Graton, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Gracie McKeowen carries her dog Rocky as she walks in the rain in Guerneville, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
