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Residents evacuate the Elfers Parkway area of Pasco County, Fla., flooded by the overflowing Anclote River, in Elfers, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. The Anclote River northwest of Tampa was forecast to go well into major flood stage on Sunday afternoon. Emergency managers issued mandatory evacuations for some low-lying mobile home parks and apartment buildings. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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Screen capture of map depicting earthquake zone from the 5.6-magnitude earthquake outside of Pawnee, Oklahoma on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 3. Via the U.S. Geological Survey website. [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#map?ShakeMap%20Stations=true&shakemapSource=us&shakemapCode=us10006jxs]

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Residents of the Lake Hills neighborhood in El Dorado Hills, California, are working to overturn a policy outlined in their community agreement that states only white people are allowed to own homes there. (Fox 40)

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Screen captured from an Aug. 30, 2016, Wall Street Journal video about the pilot program Waze is launching for carpooling in San Francisco.

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Drivers move in the rain on Interstate 95 in Miami Tuesday. Expected to move north to Tampa, a tropical storm pushed the Redskins-Buccaneers game to Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Drivers make their way in the rain along Interstate 95, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, in Miami. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could hit northern Florida as a tropical storm later in the week and possibly head toward the Atlantic coast. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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People survey the damage of the Aug. 10 explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, that injured dozens and left seven people dead, including two children. (associated Press)

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Hail as deep as two feet lies in the front yards of home along Logan Avenue between Platte Avenue and Bijou Street after a storm hit Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Colorado Springs has dispatched snow plows to clean up after a powerful storm dumped heavy hail across the city. City spokeswoman Kim Melchor tells The Gazette she does not know how many plows were sent out, but crews are "pretty busy" after Monday afternoon's storm. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)

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Hundreds of people were evaciuated onto the runway at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night amid reports of an active shooter (Twitter / @rossegreenberg)

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Former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's organization Everytown for Gun Safety has directly provided $1.7 million to a campaign to influence a firearms ballot measure in Maine. (Associated Press)

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We've determined what started the massive fires ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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In this Aug. 25, 2016 photo, debris from gutted homes line the streets of Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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Photo of a damaged engine on Southwest Flight #3472 from New Orleans to Orlando, which had to make an emergency landing in Pensacola. Photo originally snapped by Jeremy Martin, accessed via KOCO on August 27, 2016.

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 photo, thousands of dead and decaying fish are washing ashore as they float up Waackaack Creek on the morning tide in Keansburg, N.J. State environmental officials say the scores of dead peanut bunker fish were likely chased into the Raritan Bay by other fish. Once there, they apparently were killed off by low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water. (Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP)