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Firefighters stand near the scene of a fire in Passaic, N.J., Monday, July 24, 2017. Bruno’s Pizzeria is destroyed and several other businesses are damaged after a massive inferno broke out Sunday night, officials say. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Firefighters and others stand near the scene of a fire in Passaic, N.J., Monday, July 24, 2017. Bruno’s Pizzeria is destroyed and several other businesses are damaged after a massive inferno broke out Sunday night, officials say. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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The window of opportunity to try to save Charlie Gard has closed. (Associated Press/File)
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This frame from video by WUSA-TV shows homes Monday, July 24, 2017, destroyed by severe weather in Queen Anne's County, Md. Officials on Maryland's Eastern Shore are asking residents to shelter in place after severe weather overnight caused extensive damage and knocked out power to thousands. (WUSA-TV via AP)
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FILE - In this June 17, 2017, file photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald off Japan earlier in the day, is berthed at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo. Japanese authorities said Monday, July 24, 2017, they’re wrapping up their investigation into the collision of the freighter and the USS Fitzgerald without any verdict into what caused the accident, which left seven Navy sailors dead. The ACX Crystal and most of its crew were allowed to leave Japan for Thailand on Sunday, July 23 after repairs were finished. Coast guard officials said they don’t expect charges to be filed. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP, File)
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In this photo provided by DC Fire and EMS, emergency personnel respond to a call from a man who was stuck in a trash chute, early Sunday, July 23, 2017, in Washington. Spokesman Vito Maggiolo says the man was throwing out trash at the apartment building when he thought he dropped a cellphone in the chute. Maggiolo says the man leaned in to check and fell inside. (Vito Maggiolo/DC Fire and EMS Department via AP)
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Firefighters pour water on the destroyed remains of an under-construction apartment complex, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in Waltham, Mass. Waltham Fire Chief Paul Ciccone says the complex's five buildings collapsed in an early Sunday fire. No injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Firefighters pause near the destroyed remains of an under-construction apartment complex, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in Waltham, Mass. Waltham Fire Chief Paul Ciccone says the complex's five buildings collapsed in an early Sunday fire. No injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Lieutenant Thomas, left, and Sheriff Brad Swain, right, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department, look over the wreck of a minivan, in which one man and two women were killed, and passenger bus after a crash involving five vehicles on North State Road 37 just north of Bayles Road in Bloomington, Ind., Saturday, July 22, 2017. (Alex McIntyre/The Herald-Times via AP)
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The wreckage of a minivan, in which one man and two women were killed, sits in front of a wrecked passenger bus after a crash involving five vehicles on North State Road 37 Business just north of Bayles Road in Bloomington, Ind. Saturday, July 22, 2017. (Alex McIntyre/The Herald-Times via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, a blanket of fog is seen over the city skyline in San Francisco. Across the United States, there is a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that weren't required when the towers were first built. Many cities _ including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco _ still have high-rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited, but after the deadly July 14 fire in Honolulu, many question if the economics outweigh the potential for tragedy. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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FILE - In this March 24, 2009 file photo, lights shine from high-rise buildings in New York. Across the United States, there is a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that weren't required when the towers were first built. Many cities _ including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco _ still have high-rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited, but after the deadly July 14 fire in Honolulu, many question if the economics outweigh the potential for tragedy. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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FILE - In this July 15, 2017 file photo provided by KITV, fire damage from a blaze that killed three people and left 12 injured in the Marco Polo building in Honolulu is shown. Across the United States, there is a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that weren't required when the towers were first built. Many cities _ including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco _ still have high-rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited, but after the deadly blaze in Honolulu, many question if the economics outweigh the potential for tragedy. (Brenton Awa/KITV via AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 14, 2017 file photo, firefighters on several balconies spray water upwards while trying to contain a fire at the Marco Polo apartment complex in Honolulu. Across the United States, there is a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that weren't required when the towers were first built. Many cities _ including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco _ still have high-rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited, but after the deadly blaze in Honolulu, many question if the economics outweigh the potential for tragedy. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
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FILE - In this July 15, 2017 file photo the Marco Polo building is shown after a fire the day before gutted several of the top floors of the residential high-rise in Honolulu. Across the United States, there is a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that weren't required when the towers were first built. Many cities _ including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco _ still have high-rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited, but after the deadly blaze in Honolulu, many question if the economics outweigh the potential for tragedy. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
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A tourist shelters from the sun near the Colosseum in Rome, Sunday, July 23, 2017. Italy is gripped by drought as the summer heat continues with no sign of rain. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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A tourist walks past a damaged structure outside a mosque after an earthquake at the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A marble part of a column is seen on the ground outside a mosque after an earthquake at the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017.Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A woman feeds puppies next to rubble, following an earthquake at the port of Kos island, Greece, on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Ancient columns lie on the ground following an earthquake at the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of residents and tourists on the eastern Greek island of Kos spent the night sleeping outdoors, on beach lounge-chairs, in parks and olive groves or in their cars, a night after a powerful earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region, in Greece and Turkey. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
