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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 )
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FILE - In this July 25, 2013, file photo, a United Airlines plane takes off from Newark Liberty International Airport, in Newark, N.J. United Airlines let is club liquor license lapse in Newark, leading to two days, Wednesday, Sept. 28 and Thursday, Sept. 29, without alcohol. The membership club offers free drinks to frequent fliers. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Las Vegas Metro Police investigate a fatal accident on Highway 95 northbound near the Boulder Highway exit in Las Vegas Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. A man sought for questioning by police in a shooting case that left a man wounded last week was struck and killed Thursday by a tractor-trailer when he tried to run across a Las Vegas freeway, police said. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2014, file photo, a Jeep Grand Cherokee sits on the lot at Bill DeLuca's dealerships in Haverhill, Mass. U.S. safety regulators have closed an investigation into the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s automatic braking system without seeking a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began the probe in June 2015 after getting complaints that the system braked for no reason, increasing the risk of rear crashes. The investigation covered just over 95,000 SUVs from the 2014 and 2015 model years. The agency says tests found that the braking reduced the SUV speeds by less than 3 mph. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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In this photo taken Sept. 27, 2016 in the flooded Hranicka Propast, or Hranice Abyss, in the Czech Republic Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski, left, and Bartlomiej Grynda, right, are reading images from a remotely-operated underwater robot, or ROV, that went to the record depth of 404 meters ,1,325 feet, revealing the limestone abyss to be the world's deepest flooded cave, during the 'Hranicka Propast - step beyond 400m' expedition led by Starnawski and partly funded by the National Geographic. (AP Photo/ Marcin Jamkowski)
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Demonstrators yell, "No to the plebiscite," to protest the government's peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has been involved in a half-century of warfare that has caused more than 200,000 casualties. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, NOAA researchers pour a sample of sea water containing a brownish toxic algae into a jar aboard a research vessel off the Washington Coast. A new study finds that unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures helped cause a massive toxic algae bloom last year that closed lucrative fisheries from California to British Columbia and disrupted marine life from seabirds to sea lions, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Scientists linked the patch of warm ocean water, nicknamed the "blob," to the vast ribbon of toxic algae that flourished in 2015. (NOAA Fisheries via AP, File)
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Emergency personnel respond to the Hoboken train station, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 in Hoboken, N.J. A rush-hour commuter train crashed through a barrier at the busy Hoboken station and lurched across the waiting area Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others in a grisly wreck that renewed questions about whether long-delayed automated safety technology could have prevented tragedy. (Tariq Zehawi/The Record via AP)
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Pallbearers wearing Miami Marlins jerseys carry the casket of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, after a memorial service at St. Brendan's Catholic Church, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Miami. Fernandez was killed in a boating accident Sunday along with two friends. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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This Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 photo provided by a passenger who was on the train when it crashed shows wreckage at the Hoboken, N.J. rail station. The commuter train barreled into the station during the morning rush hour, coming to a halt in a covered area between the station's indoor waiting area and the platform. (AP Photo)
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This Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 photo provided by a passenger who was on the train when it crashed shows wreckage at the Hoboken, N.J. rail station. The commuter train barreled into the station during the morning rush hour, coming to a halt in a covered area between the station's indoor waiting area and the platform. (AP Photo)
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A map of earthquake faults in part of Southern California is seen as a sample of an earthquake early warning system the state that is under development is displayed on a television monitor in the background, during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Rancho Cordova, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to develop a statewide earthquake early warning system in California, after devoting $10 million to the program in the state budget he signed this year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Attorney Jason Downs speaks to reporters in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, about the fatal shooting of Terrence Sterling by a District of Columbia police officer. (AP Photo/Ben Nuckols)
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FILE - This file frame grab from a cellphone shows an emergency alert along with a news alert on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, about a man wanted in connection with explosions in the New York City metropolitan area. The federal government is beefing up emergency cellphone alerts like the one used in New York to advertise the search for the bombing suspect. The Federal Communications Commission approved a measure Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, that will let messages be up to four times longer than the current 90-character limit, and cellphone companies will have to support Spanish messages under the new rules. The changes will also let officials target messages more narrowly and include links in messages. (AP Photo/File)
