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Firefighters load an injured person into an ambulance during a fire on the west side of Manhattan in New York, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. About a dozen people, including a few firefighters, have been injured in the fire at a high-rise building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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In this April 24, 2016, photo, Golden State Warriors fan Helen Brooks, better known as Sweetie, smiles as she watches an NBA playoff basketball game between the Warriors and the Houston Rockets on television in Castro Valley, Calif. Brooks, a 107-year-old Northern California woman who gained fame very late in life as an avid and gregarious fan of the Warriors, died Thursday Dec. 22, 2016. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group via AP) /San Jose Mercury News via AP)
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North Dakota Department of Transportation bridge engineer John Ketterling, center, watches while a work crew pulls a concrete core sample from the Backwater Bridge over Cantapeta Creek Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D, to determine if repairs are needed after a vehicle was burned on the bridge during Dakota Access Pipeline protest activities. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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In this Dec. 11, 2016 photo, Austin and Christian Smith lug a freshly cut pine tree back to the house in Bondurant, Wyo. Police chief invites friends and family to cut conifers to make his cabin fire-safe. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported the trees need to be felled to create a defensible space around the building in case of wildfire. (Rugile Kaladyte/The Times-News via AP)
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In this Dec. 11, 2016 photo, Anna Faicco and John Faicco inspect their freshly cut pine tree on Jackson Chief of Police Todd Smith's property in Bondurant, Wyo. Police chief invites friends and family to cut conifers to make his cabin fire-safe. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported the trees need to be felled to create a defensible space around the building in case of wildfire. (Rugile Kaladyte /The Times-News via AP)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, photo, Dane Smith entertains himself on a snowmobile while adults chat in Bondurant, Wyo. Police chief invites friends and family to cut conifers to make his cabin fire-safe. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported the trees need to be felled to create a defensible space around the building in case of wildfire. (Rugile Kaladyte/The Times-News via AP)
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In this Dec. 11, 2016 photo, Katie Faicco carries her daughter, Anna, after the family cut their family Christmas tree on Jackson Police Chief Todd Smith's property near Bondurant, Wyo. Police chief invites friends and family to cut conifers to make his cabin fire-safe. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported the trees need to be felled to create a defensible space around the building in case of wildfire. (Rugile Kaladyte/The Times-News via AP)
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In this Dec. 11, 2016 photo, a freshly cut pine tree sits in the back of a snowcat near Bondurant, Wyo. Police chief invites friends and family to cut conifers to make his cabin fire-safe. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports the trees need to be felled to create a defensible space around the building in case of wildfire. (Rugile Kaladyte/The Times-News via AP)
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In this Oct. 25, 2016 photo, Sandra Smith, left, Tasha Hart, center, and Domonique McNeil, right, attend a news conference in Egg Harbor Township N.J., about the drowning deaths of relatives at a beach in North Wildwood N.J. A New Jersey town being sued for the drowning death of a man swept out to sea when the sand collapsed underneath him says it is immune from lawsuits due to a state law governing unimproved public property. North Wildwood claims the law puts the risk for use of such property on the user. The lawyer for one of the victims' family says the town was negligent in its supervision of a public recreational facility.(AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Construction continues on the new Tappan Zee Bridge near Tarrytown, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. The new bridge about 25 miles north of New York City stands next to the 61-year-old Tappan Zee that has been falling apart for years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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FILE – This Oct. 1, 2016, file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board shows damage from a Sept. 29, 2016, commuter train crash that killed a woman and injured more than 100 people at the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, N.J. The track was equipped with a rusting steel-and-concrete barrier, called a bumper or bumping post, installed about 110 years ago. In contrast, Atlantic City Terminal is configured with newer bumping posts that use hydraulics for more shock absorption. (Chris O'Neil/National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)
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This Dec. 20, 2016 photo shows safety barriers called "bumping posts" at the end of the tracks at the Atlantic City, N.J., NJ Transit train station. The bumping posts at NJ Transit's Hoboken Terminal, site of a fatal crash in September, haven't been replaced in more than 100 years. NJ Transit tells The Associated Press it is in the process of hiring a consultant to help determine whether the barriers need to be replaced. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This Dec. 20, 2016 photo shows safety barriers called "bumping posts" at the end of the tracks at the Atlantic City, N.J., NJ Transit train station. The bumping posts at NJ Transit's Hoboken Terminal, site of a fatal crash in September, haven't been replaced in more than 100 years. NJ Transit tells The Associated Press it is in the process of hiring a consultant to help determine whether the barriers need to be replaced. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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In this Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016 photo provided by Ministry for Primary Industries, Bella, a 4-year-old pet cat belonging to a Canadian woman who authorities say managed to hide her in a handbag during a flight across the Pacific Ocean sits in a cage in New Zealand's Auckland Airport. The woman was refused entry into the New Zealand and was forced to catch the next flight home with her cat after she tried to smuggle it across the border. (Ministry for Primary Industries via AP)
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A coffin with a body of killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov is carried for a religious service inside the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. Karlov was fatally shot by a Turkish policeman Monday in a gathering in Ankara, Turkey. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A coffin with a body of killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov is carried out of the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. Karlov was fatally shot by a Turkish policeman Monday in a gathering in Ankara, Turkey. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool photo via AP)
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A coffin with a body of killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov is carried out of the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. Karlov was fatally shot by a Turkish policeman Monday in a gathering in Ankara, Turkey. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool photo via AP)
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This Dec. 19, 2016 photo shows a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall at an underground music club known as known as Purple 33 in a Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Authorities searching the drab, two-story building found an illegally constructed dance floor, paired with a bar and DJ booth. Haphazard wiring snaked through walls, and an outdoor staircase capped by a bamboo canopy was flagged as a fire threat. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)
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This Nov. 1, 2016, photo provided by David Coons shows a fire dance performance in an underground music club known as known as Purple 33 in a Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. (David Coons via AP)
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This is a Mississippi Department of Public Safety provided undated state driver's license photograph of Andrew McClinton, of Leland, Miss., who was arrested by the Greenville Police Department, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 in Greenville , Miss., in connection with the Nov. 1, 2016 fire at Greenville's Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. McClinton, 45, has been charged with one count of first degree arson of a place of worship and is being held in the Washington County Detention Center, pending an initial appearance before the municipal court. (Mississippi Department of Public Safety via AP,)
