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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)
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In this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo, emergency personnel work at the scene where the Interstate 35W bridge 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. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP 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)
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In this image made from video provided by David Belmonte, flames engulf the outdoor stage during the "Tomorrowland" electronic music festival in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday night, July 29, 2017. A spectacular fire at the music festival forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers, the regional government says. (David Belmonte via AP)
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In this image made from video provided by David Belmonte, flames engulf the outdoor stage during the "Tomorrowland" electronic music festival in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday night, July 29, 2017. A spectacular fire at the music festival forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers, the regional government says. (David Belmonte via AP)
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In this image made from video provided by David Belmonte, flames engulf the outdoor stage during the "Tomorrowland" electronic music festival in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday night, July 29, 2017. A spectacular fire at the music festival forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers, the regional government says. (David Belmonte via AP)
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In this image made from video provided by David Belmonte, flames engulf the outdoor stage during the "Tomorrowland" electronic music festival in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday night, July 29, 2017. A spectacular fire at the music festival forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers, the regional government says. (David Belmonte via AP)
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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Tony Barnette throws to the Baltimore Orioles in the seventh inning of a baseball game, Saturday, July 29, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Vacationers head north on NC 12 on Hatteras Island on Friday, July 28, 2017. Non-residents are being asked to evacuate the island and neighboring Ocracoke Island due to a loss of electrical power. (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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Passengers ride the ferry back from Ocracoke to Hatteras, N.C. Friday July, 28, 2017. A man-made power outage, not an approaching hurricane, forced 10,000 tourists to flee two North Carolina islands and turned summer vacation into a messy nightmare for many. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)
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Emergency responders investigate the scene of a mobile home fire, Friday, July 28, 2017 in Rapid City, S.D. A fire official says multiple people are unaccounted after a fire destroyed a mobile home in western South Dakota. (Chris Huber/Rapid City Journal via AP)
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FILE - In this June 14, 2017, file photo, the Flint Water Plant tower is seen in Flint, Mich. A federal appeals court on Friday, July 28, 2017, says Flint residents who used lead-contaminated water can pursue constitutional claims against Michigan and city officials. (Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP, File)
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FILE - This Friday, April 14, 2017, file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows the mangled remains of cars involved in a fatal accident on the Northbound Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona transportation officials are moving forward with a first-in-the-nation pilot program that will use thermal camera technology to curb the wrong-way driving problem plaguing the state. The wrong-way detection system will illuminate a sign that notifies the wrong-way driver, and immediately alert the state Department of Public Safety. Arizona Department of Transportation officials will update message boards along the interstate that cautions other drivers of the wrong-way vehicle. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
