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Cars are stranded after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the city's pump stations, contributing to flooding, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 in New Orleans. (Brett Duke/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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Patrons emerge from a flooded club on Orleans Ave. after a torrential downpour flooded city streets, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 in New Orleans. Officials in New Orleans say heavy rainfall overwhelmed the city's pump stations, contributing to flooding in some areas. (Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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Philana Crite of Cleveland in town for a family reunion, steps of the curb into flood waters at O'Keefe Avenue at Poydras Street Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, after a deluge in the New Orleans area caused widespread flash flooding. (Scott Threlkeld/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 photo provided by Lugoff Fire/Rescue, derailed freight cars sit near Lugoff northeast of Columbia, S.C. The derailment damaged the track, delaying a nearby passenger train. (Lugoff Fire/Rescue via AP)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 photo provided by Lugoff Fire/Rescue, derailed freight cars sit near Lugoff northeast of Columbia, S.C. The derailment damaged the track, delaying a nearby passenger train. (Lugoff Fire/Rescue via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 file photo shows a large sinkhole in the Lake Padgett Estates community in Land O' Lakes, Fla. Florida officials have condemned two more homes due to a Florida sinkhole, bringing the total to six homes that are now unlivable. Authorities said in a news release Sunday that the two additional homes were being condemned. Two homes were condemned Saturday and two were destroyed when the ground caved in on July 14. (Luis Santana Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)
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A man stands near a damaged building after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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Debris from a storm covers a street in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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A man stands outside a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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This photo shows damage to a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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A damaged Petsmart sign hangs after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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This photo shows damage left by a storm Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, Tulsa, Okla. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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FILE- In this Wednesday, Aug 3, 2016 file photo, a damaged Boeing 777 is seen at the Dubai airport after it crash-landed, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Investigators said Sunday no mechanical issues affected an Emirates flight before it crash landed in Dubai and burst into flames last year, as their probe continues to look at "human performance factors" around the inciden. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, file)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, AUG. 6 - In this Monday, July 31, 2017 photo, Zaiden Cochran, 10, poses for a photograph in Centralia, Wash. Cochran credits a helmet he'd only had for a short time with saving his life and allowing him to recover so quickly from a catastrophic bike crash in Marysville, Wash., on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Matt Baide/The Chronicle via AP)
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Alaina Browning, left, and Amanda Anderson load Browning's pickup struck with donated food and water to help those still working on the Lodgepole Complex Fire burning in Garfield and Petroleum Counties. As of Thursday the fire was 62 percent contained after burning 270,200 acres. (Rion Sanders/Great Falls Tribune via AP)
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People pass by debris near the wash behind The Linq Hotel after thunderstorms passed through in Las Vegas on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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A woman walks near The Linq Hotel where several people were rescued from flooding after thunderstorms passed through in Las Vegas on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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This image from video provided by KABC-TV, shows an aerial view of a traffic collision on Interstate 10 in Fontana, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Two adults and two children were killed in a highway crash outside of Los Angeles on Friday after one car smashed into another vehicle that had overheated, the California Highway Patrol said. (KABC-TV via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident in the spillway about a quarter mile downstream from the mine outside Silverton, Colo. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Aug. 4, 2017 that he will consider paying for economic damages from the spill, something the EPA previously said it could not do because of laws protecting the government from lawsuits. His comments came during a tour of the mine on the eve of the second anniversary of the spill. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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New York Giants strong safety Landon Collins, back, applies a hard hit causing tight end Rhett Ellison to fumble during NFL football training camp, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
