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Jeri, left, and Jen Nakano, both from Hilo, sit near the ocean Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, in Hilo, Hawaii. Hurricane Ignacio rapidly weakened and moved farther away from the Hawaiian Islands, allowing forecasters to lift the tropical storm watches for the Big Island and Maui. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) ** FILE **

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This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, at 01:00 AM EDT, shows a frontal boundary draped across the Rockies through the southwestern United States, producing showers and thunderstorms. There are two powerful hurricanes currently moving through the Pacific Ocean. In the central Pacific, east of Hawaii, is Hurricane Ignacio, which currently has sustained winds of 115 mph. Hurricane Jimena is to the southeast of Ignacio in the eastern Pacific which maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. (NOAA/Weather Underground via AP)

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This undated photo provided by Lion Heart Autographs shows a letter by one of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic written six months after the disaster, which could fetch $4,000 to $6,000. (Lion Heart Autographs via AP)

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Andy Parker, whose daughter Alison was one of two journalists fatally shot in southwest Virginia, has vowed not to rest "until I see something get done" on gun control. (CNN)

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Jack Beven, senior hurricane specialist, tracks the movement of Tropical Storm Erika as it moves westward towards islands in the eastern Caribbean, at the National Hurricane Center, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Miami. Hurricane Fred is the first to actually pass over the Cape Verde Islands as a hurricane. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Authorities work at WDBJ's Digital Broadcast Center, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Roanoke, Va. Two of the station's journalists were fatally shot while doing an on-air broadcast earlier in the day at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Va. (Erica Yoon/The Roanoke Times via AP)

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Jerry Perez, of Indianapolis, places a flower on the main gate of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a memorial to race driver Justin Wilson, of England, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Indianapolis. Wilson died from a head injury suffered when a piece of debris struck him at Pocono Raceway. He was 37. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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MIAMI 31, NEBRASKA 30. The Cornhuskers scored a touchdown with 48 seconds left in the 1984 Orange Bowl. But rather than settle for the tie, coach Tom Osborne went for the win on a two-point try. Unfortunately for Nebraska, quarterback Turner Gill's pass was tipped, and the Hurricanes claimed the national title.

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OHIO STATE 31, MIAMI 24. Maurice Clarett and the Ohio State Buckeyes stunned the Miami Hurricanes in a 2 OT thriller in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, the BCS championship game.

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Illustration on a remedy for rising food stamp use by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Aug. 24, 2015: Firefighters try to extinguish the flames in a burning house that was planned to be converted into a shelter for asylum seekers in Weissach, southern Germany. ( Friebe/SDMG/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

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A woman lays flowers on the Shoreham Tollbridge that crosses the River Adur near the location where a Hawker Hunter fighter jet crashed on a busy road near Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex, England, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. British police on Sunday said the death toll from an airshow crash is "highly likely" to increase after a fighter jet slammed into a busy main road on Saturday. The initial death toll was seven. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire via AP)

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Water flows through a series of retention ponds built to contain and filter out heavy metals and chemicals from the Gold King Mine chemical accident, outside Silverton, Colorado. (Associated Press)

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Armstrong Williams

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, a man walks by a shrimp boat tossed upon a dock by Hurricane Katrina, in Bayou La Batre, Ala. The storm left dozens of shrimpers atop docks and marshes in the town, where about 75 of homes were damaged or destroyed. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 28, 2015, volunteer Ivette Portela bottle feeds a young fawn at the Kindred Spirits Fawn Rescue in Loomis, Calif. California's historic drought has caused a scarcity of food in the wild that has been blamed for unusual animal activity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, July 15, 2015 file photo, Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe award for courage at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Sheriff's investigators plan to recommend prosecutors file a vehicular manslaughter charge against Jenner for her role in a fatal car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu last February. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says investigators found that Jenner was driving "unsafe for the prevailing road conditions" because her SUV rear-ended a Lexus, pushing it into oncoming traffic. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP,File)

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People gather near the scene where a bomb exploded early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, near a national security building in the Shubra el-Kheima neighborhood of Cairo. For blocks around the blast site in the popular residential neighborhood, glass from blown-out windows could be seen on the street. (AP Photo/Brian Rohan)