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FILE - In this April 22, 2015 file photo, a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey comes in for a landing at Miami International Airport before a presidential visit, in Miami. Search and rescue operations were underway for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 while trying to land. Twenty-three of 26 personnel aboard the aircraft have been rescued, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, an American flag flies next to a containment unit for unit two of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C., during a media tour of the facility. South Carolina’s utilities are abandoning two partly-built nuclear reactors. And they want permission to charge customers another $5 billion to cover their costs. An environmentalist says that money could have gone to renewable energy. Others say nuclear is key to cooling the planet and won’t exist if the federal government doesn’t finance it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Unit one of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C., is shown during a media tour of the facility. South Carolina’s utilities are abandoning two partly-built nuclear reactors. And they want permission to charge customers another $5 billion to cover their costs. An environmentalist says that money could have gone to renewable energy. Others say nuclear is key to cooling the planet and won’t exist if the federal government doesn’t finance it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, parts of a containment building for the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station is shown near Jenkinsville, S.C., during a media tour of the facility. South Carolina’s utilities are abandoning two partly-built nuclear reactors. And they want permission to charge customers another $5 billion to cover their costs. An environmentalist says that money could have gone to renewable energy. Others say nuclear is key to cooling the planet and won’t exist if the federal government doesn’t finance it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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FILe - In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, a cap for a containment building for the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station is shown near Jenkinsville, S.C., during a media tour of the facility. South Carolina’s utilities are abandoning two partly-built nuclear reactors. And they want permission to charge customers another $5 billion to cover their costs. An environmentalist says that money could have gone to renewable energy. Others say nuclear is key to cooling the planet and won’t exist if the federal government doesn’t finance it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, a discarded sofa is seen in the polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games a year ago, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, a discarded doll lays amid scattered garbage in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In it's Olympic bid, Rio promised to clean up the bay and up its treatment of sewage, promises that were not kept. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this , July 31, 2017 photo, discarded sofas litter the shore of Guanabara bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, shows Rio das Pedras neighborhood on the shores of the heavily polluted Jacarepagua lagoog, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In it's Olympic bid, Rio promised to clean up the bay and up its treatment of sewage, promises that were not kept. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, a discarded doll lays amid scattered garbage on the shores of Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In it's Olympic bid, Rio promised to clean up the bay and up its treatment of sewage, promises that were not kept. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo Biologist Mario Moscatelli speaks during an interview with the AP on the shores of Guanabara bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. A study commissioned by The Associated Press showed dangerously high levels of contamination. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, a trash barrier hold back the surface filth at the heavily polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In tis July 31, 2017 photo, residents of Rio das Pedras neighborhood leave their boat moored on the polluted shore of Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, a trash barrier hold back the surface filth of the heavily polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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In this July 31, 2017 photo, men transport their belongings on a boat over the polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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This July 31, 2017 photo, shows the heavily the polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio pledged in its Olympic bid to treat 80 percent of its water waste before the start of the Games, but it failed to deliver on that promise. A study commissioned by The Associated Press shows dangerously high levels of contamination. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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This July 31, 2017 photo, shows the heavily polluted Jacarepagua lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In it's Olympic bid, Rio promised to clean up the bay and up its treatment of sewage, promises that were not kept. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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ADVANCED FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017 Herpetologist Dennis Ferraro walks along a fence that helps steer turtles into a pipe so they can safely cross Highway 83 at the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Valentine, Neb. (Matt Dixon/The World-Herald via AP)

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ADVANCED FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017 Herpetologist Dennis Ferraro with a Blandings turtle at Valentine National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, June 6th, 2017, in Valentine, Neb. (Matt Dixon/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

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Cardboard frames for solar eclipse glasses are stacked in the American Paper Optics factory in Bartlett, Tenn., on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The company is one of many businesses _ hotels, campgrounds and stores _ taking advantage of the total solar eclipse _ when the moon passes between Earth and the sun. The moon's shadow will fall in a diagonal ribbon across the U.S., from Oregon to South Carolina. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)