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Yoleine Casimir stands in her destroyed house caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A woman holds her boy who's suffering cholera in the state hospital after Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Rain from Hurricane Matthew falls on the flooded intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Victory Drive Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Savannah, Ga. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP)
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Jayson Werth struck out three times Friday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers. / AP photo
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, OCT. 10 - In this Sept. 14, 2016 photo, Breast cancer survivor Judy Lawley poses on the Lubbock Christian University campus where she is attending classes in Lubbock, Texas. (Mark Rogers/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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In this Sept. 2, 2016 photo, a light rail train on its way downtown pauses as it passes a tarp fire on the nearby Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh. A contractor didn't obtain a key safety permit before welding caused plastic pipe and a construction tarp to burn on the Liberty Bridge last month, resulting in a 24-day shutdown of a primary artery into downtown Pittsburgh, the city's fire chief said. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Belgium's Eden Hazard, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring against Bosnia during their World Cup Group H qualifying soccer match at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
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In this April 20, 2016 photo, Raymond Haerry is photographed at at West View Nursing & Rehabilitation in West Warwick, R.I. Haerry of the last living crew members on the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. He was 94. His son says Haerry died Sept. 27, 2016 in Rhode Island. (Steve Szydlowski/Providence Journal via AP)
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Preston Payne tires to hold his umbrella as he watches the waves near the Tybee pier as Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the East Coast, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, on Tybee Island, Ga. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surge as the most powerful hurricane to menace the Atlantic Seaboard in over a decade pushed north. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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The Savannah Theater is empty before Hurricane Matthew hits on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Savannah, Ga. As the storm closed in, an estimated 2 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were warned to move inland to escape the fury of the most powerful hurricane to menace the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade. (Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News via AP)
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A barricade and a Georgia State Patrol vehicle block I-16 East at; Exit 39 because of reversed lanes to evacuate the coast from approaching Hurricane Matthew on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, near Dudley, Ga. Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating a shooting that left a man wounded and a state trooper injured after officers tried to break up a street race. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Surf from the Banana River crashes up on a dock at Sunset Grill in Cocoa Beach, Fla., as Hurricane Matthew hits Florida's east coast, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2014, file photo, North Carolina State coach Dave Doeren yells during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Georgia Tech in Raleigh, N.C. Notre Dame (2-3) visits the Wolfpack (3-1) on Saturday in a game that could be affected by the threat of severe weather from Hurricane Matthew. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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Residents and vehicles avoid a downed tree and power cable along a flooded roadway in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. The head of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Authority, Capt. Stephen Russell, said there were many downed trees and power lines, but no reports of casualties. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
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Residents repair their homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Saint Anne church lays totally destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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File - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. U.S. officials have approved a 117 million-ton expansion of a Montana coal mine after concluding that burning the fuel would have a minor impact on the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. Federal mining officials said in documents made public Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, that burning coal from the Spring Creek Mine would generate roughly 160 million tons of carbon dioxide over the next five years. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO THURSDAY, NOT WEDNESDAY - This GOES East satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Matthew moving northwest of Cuba towards the Atlantic coast of southern Florida, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Matthew was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday morning, with top sustained winds of 140 mph. The storm was blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone, and officials in Florida urged residents of the Sunshine State to prepare for what could be widespread and massive damage. (NOAA via AP)
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In this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, Chris Owens stands beside his outhouse-turned-voting booth at Owens Truck Farm in Ashland, N.H. Manikins of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hang outside the booth, while ballots are deposited into side-by-side toilets inside the booth. (Sean Hurley/New Hampshire Public Radio via AP)
