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Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and their families line up to enter the funeral of Lt. D. Heath Meyer in Norman, Okla., Monday, July 31, 2017. Meyer was struck by another trooper's patrol car during a chase July 14, 2017, and died July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Indianapolis Colts free safety Darius Butler (20) comes over a blocking dummy during practice at the NFL team's football training camp in Indianapolis, Monday, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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This photo provided by the Pima County Sheriff's office shows hikers stranded by flash flooding in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Park in the outskirts of Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, July 30, 2017. A police helicopter rescued approximately 35 hikers stranded by the flooding a week after 17 people rescued after flash flooding through a different canyon several miles away and 15 days after 10 people died in flash flooding elsewhere in Arizona. (Pima County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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FILE - In this March 31, 2016, a Lyft ride-hailing service logo is displayed on a vehicle at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Ride-hailing service Lyft carried more passengers through June 2017 than it did in all of 2016 as it capitalized on missteps at Uber. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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An official looks into a van that plowed into a group of people on a Los Angeles sidewalk on Sunday, July 30, 2017. A witness to the crash told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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An official looks at a van that plowed into a group of people on a Los Angeles sidewalk Sunday, July 30, 2017. A witness to the crash told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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A Los Angeles police investigator interviews a witness, at left, after a van plowed into a group of people on a Los Angeles sidewalk on Sunday, July 30, 2017. A witness to the crash told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Broken restaurant tables and chairs are seen under a van that plowed into a group of people dining on a Los Angeles sidewalk injuring several Sunday, July 30, 2017. A witness to the crash told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Accident witness Courtney Crump, right, stands with his girlfriend Nicole Gotoy on the scene after Crump witnessed a van that plowed into a group of people dining on a Los Angeles sidewalk inuring several people on Sunday, July 30, 2017. Crumpm told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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An official walks by a van that plowed into a group of people injuring several on a Los Angeles sidewalk on Sunday, July 30, 2017. A witness to the crash told The Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the city's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Detroit Lions free safety Glover Quin works out during NFL football training camp in Allen Park, Mich., Sunday, July 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Indianapolis Colts safety Malik Hooker (29) makes a catch during a drill at the NFL team's football training camp in Indianapolis, Sunday, July 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, right, stretches with strong safety Kam Chancellor, center, and free safety Earl Thomas, left, during NFL football training camp, Sunday, July 30, 2017, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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FILE - This June 29, 1967, file photo shows the mangled car that actress Jayne Mansfield died in after colliding with a truck, on Route 90 outside of New Orleans. Fifty years after Mansfield car slammed underneath a tractor-trailer, auto safety advocates say hundreds of similar deaths annually could be prevented by guard rails mounted beneath trucks. New York Sen. Charles Schumer has called on federal regulators to require truck underride guards after two cars skidded under a jackknifed milk tanker in northern New York earlier this month. (AP Photo/File)

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Scott Haase, a farmer in Blue Earth, Minn., looks out at a field where he planted cover crops between rows of corn on July 5, 2017. Miles from the farmers markets, craft breweries and farm-to-table restaurants of the Twin Cities, more traditional farmers are thriving in the Midwest. Corn and soybean farmers face heightened expectations for environmental stewardship and want to build healthy soils that can withstand heat, drought and heavy rain. (Elizabeth Dunbar /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

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FILE – This Sept. 1, 2015, file photo shows a warning sign for algal toxins on a beach in Maumee Bay State Park, located on Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio. Researchers are working on creating an early warning system that can spot when algae begins showing up on hundreds of lakes across the U.S., using real-time data from satellites that already monitor harmful algae hotspots on Lake Erie in Ohio and on the Chesapeake Bay along the East Coast. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

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FILE – In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the water intake crib for the city of Toledo, Ohio, is surrounded by an algae bloom on Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Researchers are working on creating an early warning system that can spot when algae begins showing up on hundreds of lakes across the U.S., using real-time data from satellites that already monitor harmful algae hotspots on Lake Erie in Ohio and on the Chesapeake Bay along the East Coast. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

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This July 28, 2017 photo shows one of the failed gusset plates blamed for the Aug. 1, 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W Bridge in downtown Minneapolis. The gusset is on display at the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. Many leaders saw it as a wake-up call about the country's deteriorating infrastructure. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

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In this Aug. 5, 2007 photo, vehicles are strewn amongst the wreckage of Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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In this Aug. 5, 2007 photo, vehicles are strewn amongst the wreckage of Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)