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Los Angeles fire department firefighters arrive at the scene of a car crash in front of a fast food restaurant near downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. The traffic accident left a vehicle overturned on a sidewalk and another smashed-up car in the drive-thru lane of a fast-food restaurant. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Josh Sweat, a butcher at the BiLo grocery store, moves a shopping cart return rack during storm preparations for Hurricane Matthew, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Darien, Ga. The hurricane picked up steam as it closed in, growing from a Category 3 to a Category 4 storm by late morning. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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A heavily damaged duplex home is seen after an explosion Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Trenton, N.J. Authorities say an apparent explosion damaged the duplex home, but it's not yet clear what caused the blast. Authorities say two people were taken to a hospital for evaluations, but further details on their conditions were not immediately available. The blast came one day after a similar incident in Paterson, N.J. Two multifamily houses were destroyed in that explosion, which officials say may have been caused by a gas leak. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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In this Sept. 28, 2016 photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, the lava lake atop Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii’s Big Island. Federal officials have released new high definition video of the lava lake atop the active volcano, providing a rare close-up glimpse of the powerful summit eruption. (USGS via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, hurricane specialist Eric Blake monitors the path of Hurricane Matthew at the National Hurricane Center, in Miami. Travelers along the East Coast are preparing for delays and cancellations as Hurricane Matthew heads toward the U.S. Airlines are preparing to suspend flights from Florida up through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, depending on where the hurricane hits land. Cruise lines are shuffling ship itineraries and many frantic vacationers are looking at insurance policies to see if they are covered. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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In this Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 photo, grapes are ready for harvesting at Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery in Berlin, Vt. The dry summer weather was ideal for growing grapes in some spots in the Northeast, but the drought in southern New England and parts of New York may have decreased the crop. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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A structure is seen burned by a wildfire east of Pueblo, Colo., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. (Mark Reis/The Gazette via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009, file photo debris lies along the Passaic River near the stadium for the MLS New York Red Bulls soccer team in Harrison, N.J. The Environmental Protection Agency has secured a $165 million agreement with Occidental Chemical to start the cleanup of one of the nation's most seriously contaminated bodies of water. The deal announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, covers the lower 8 miles of New Jersey's Passaic River, where the sediment contains dioxin, PCBs, heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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South Carolina National Guard vehicles head east on U.S. Highway 378 after leaving their headquarters on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, near Columbia, S.C. Guard units are helping with traffic and other preparations for Hurricane Matthew. South Carolina authorities are preparing to evacuate more than 1 million people, or about a quarter of the state's population, from low-lying coastal areas as Hurricane Matthew threatens. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Farmer Jeremy Cannon checks his combine as he gets ready to rush the harvest of his soybean crop on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, at his farm in Turbeville, S.C. Cannon and other farmers are worried Hurricane Matthew could flood fields and knock down crops. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Two boys float in an old wooden box in an area flooded by heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew, in La Puya slum, in the Arroyo Hondo creek in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew roared into the southwestern coast of the island of Hispaniola with devastating storm conditions as it headed north toward Cuba and the eastern coast of Florida. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)
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Gov. Nikki Haley announces that she plans to call for the evacuation of about 1 million people from South Carolina's coast as Hurricane Matthew threatens on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at the South Carolina Emergency Management Division headquarters in Pine Ridge, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Shoppers look for items amid the generators, cases of water and gas cans at Lowe's in Oakland Park, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Anxious Florida residents raided grocery store shelves and North Carolina called for the evacuation of three barrier islands as Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a about decade, threatened to rake a large swath of the East Coast in the coming days. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) ** FILE **
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Danny Delarocca, of Boca Raton, loads plywood onto his brother's car at the Home Depot in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Anxious Florida residents raided grocery store shelves and North Carolina called for the evacuation of three barrier islands as Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a about decade, threatened to rake a large swath of the East Coast in the coming days. (Maria Lorenzino/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
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Residents wade through flood waters in Leogane, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti's southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds Tuesday, tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2015, file photo, Arkansas NCAA college football coach Bret Bielema addresses members of the press during the team's annual media day event in Fayetteville, Ark. After high school football star Kyler Williams died in a car crash, Bielema retweeted a photo Williams had posted on Twitter three weeks earlier following a tour of Arkansas’ campus. Then he started worrying about what he’d just done. (AP Photo/Samantha Baker, File)
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The GOES East satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and taken Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at 9:15 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Matthew about 220 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Matthew roared across the southwestern tip of Haiti with 145 mph winds Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as the storm headed north toward Cuba and the east coast of Florida. (NOAA via AP)
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Hollywood actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio appears with President Obama in the trailer for his upcoming climate change documentary "Before the Flood." (YouTube, National Geographic)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, file photo, vehicles are reflected on the logo of the Nissan Motors Co. at a showroom in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The government is investigating complaints that side air bags on some Nissan Versa small cars can inflate if the driver or passenger doors are slammed too hard. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, that the probe covers about 155,000 cars from the 2012 model year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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FILE - In this March 13, 2015, file photo, a worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the company's Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. U.S. safety regulators are investigating whether a recall of Ford F-150 pickup trucks for brake failures should be expanded to more model years. The probe covers about 282,000 pickups with 3.5-liter six-cylinder engines from 2015 and 2016. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
