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In this February 2013 file photo, a Key deer forages for food in the National Key Deer Refuge in the Florida Keys. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File) **FILE**

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Farmer Tom Marston, of Pittsfield, N.H., listens during the Milk Producers Emergency Relief Fund Board meeting, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Concord, N.H. The board is trying to see what can be done quickly as farmers struggle with low milk prices and drought conditions. Nineteen of the state's 120 dairies have closed in recent months. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2016, file photo, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury claps after Jonathan Giles scored a touchdown against Stephen F. Austin during an NCAA college football game in Lubbock, Texas. It's time for Big 12 teams to get better prepared to see opposing backup quarterbacks. Texas Tech coach Kingsbury said Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, that the status of FBS total offense leader Patrick Mahomes is day-to-day. Mahomes left last week's 55-game against Kansas after going down hard on his right (throwing) shoulder. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP, File)

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In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, Chuck Clairmont, North Dakota Safety Council executive director, looks over an artis rendering of the new NDSC building in Bismarck, N.D. (Will Kincaid/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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The 2016 Dodge Durango has family written all over it. Quite utilitarian, the Durango has a big boy, assertive attitude and one trim even has a V8 engine to back it up. Of course, there is a V6 standard too. This year, a stop-start mechanism has been added to the base trim and higher trim levels have had some impressive standard features added. (Courtesy of Dodge).

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A woman shutters a window of her house before the arrival of Hurricane Matthew in Santiago, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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People arrive with their belongings at a shelter prior the arrival of the Hurricane Matthew in Santiago, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Firefighters work to put out a massive fire that damaged a substantial number" of buses a terminal of Dousman Transport in Hartland on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

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San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold, left, quarterback Colin Kaepernick, center, and safety Eric Reid kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Fishermen sail on a boat at Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Workers set up a board as protection against hurricane Matthew in an hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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A worker hauls a board to use on a storefront window as protection against hurricane Matthew in Kingston, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 photo, pilots, crew members and spectators gather at the airfield for the Great Prosser Balloon Rally in Prosser, Wash. McKenna Secrist’s 16th birthday in July came with a hot air balloon pilot’s license instead of a driver’s license. Secrist joined more than a dozen hot air balloon pilots at the Great Prosser Balloon Rally, where they fired up their colorful conveyances at the Prosser Airport. (Shawn Gust/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

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Louisiana-Monroe safety Tre' Hunter (4) tries to stop Auburn running back Kerryon Johnson (21) as he dives for the goal line but he comes up short during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 in Auburn, Al. (AP Photo/ Hal Yeager)

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Auburn players mob Auburn defensive lineman Gary Walker (97) in the final seconds of the second half of Auburn's 58-7 win over Louisiana-Monroe in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 in Auburn, Al. Walker Sacked Louisiana-Monroe quarterback Garrett Smith in the end zone for a safety. (AP Photo/ Hal Yeager)

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As his family follows behind, pallbearers carry the casket of New York Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Fahy at Annunciation Church in Yonkers, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Fahy died while fighting a fire at suspected marijuana grow house in the Bronx borough of New York on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News via AP)

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Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph (2) dives between Texas safety Dylan Haines (14) and safety Jason Hall (31) to score in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, a couple takes photos as a wave crashes against a wall along The Battery in Charleston, S.C. Nearly a year after 2 feet of rain fell on South Carolina, hundreds of people are still trying to fix their homes. ( (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016 file photo, emergency service personnel work at the scene of a house explosion in the Bronx borough of New York. The explosion that destroyed a New York City house and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in some states _ but can also be lethal. Authorities are investigating whether the people who set up an indoor marijuana farm in the house tampered with gas lines or mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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In this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo, in the Staten Island borough of New York, with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff, It took Reginella six months to execute his multi-layered project that includes the faux memorial, a sophisticated website complete with a documentary, a mocked-up newspaper articles and glossy fliers directing tourists to a phantom Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum with small pieces of the wreckage on display _ some with "strange suction-cup-shaped marks." (AP Photo/ Ula Ilnytzky )