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FILE - In this June 26, 2017 file photo, Laurel Krokstrom holds a model of the Earth, while Jamalee Clark, right, uses a flashlight to simulate the sun while Laura Peticolas, center, holds the moon and explains how a total solar eclipse occurs, in Gering, Neb. (Irene North/The Star-Herald via AP)
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In this Monday July 10, 2017, photo provided by Francesca McAndrews, a piglet, who McAndrews named Enzo, lies with a visible hernia, in a pen in Lancaster, Pa. McAndrews, who rescued the piglet that was darting in and out of morning rush hour traffic, is getting help from local businesses to fund a surgery the animal needs to survive. Veterinarians said the animal needs surgery on the hernia it likely developed in a fall from a livestock truck. (Francesca McAndrews via AP)
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In this Friday, July 7, 2017 photo provided by Francesca McAndrews, McAndrews, left, takes a selfie with a piglet, who McAndrews named Enzo and the animal's caretaker Lorrie Dunn in Lancaster, Pa. McAndrews, who rescued the piglet that was darting in and out of morning rush hour traffic, is getting help from local businesses to fund a surgery the animal needs to survive. (Francesca McAndrews via AP)
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FILE - This Jan. 25, 2017 file photo shows the Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. A federal judge on Friday, AUG. 4, 2017 ordered the nation’s largest public utility to dig up its coal ash at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Gallatin Fossil Plant and move it to a lined waste site where it doesn’t risk further polluting the Cumberland River.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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This July 20, 2017 photo, shows Anni Mitchell, FWC wildlife biologist, as she approaches a sick juvenile eagle at a garbage collection center in Lake City, Fla. The eagle is being treated for poisoning and will be released into the wild after rehabilitation. (Karen Parker/FWC via AP)
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This July 20, 2017 photo shows Sarah Helm, left, wildlife assistance biologist, and Anni Mitchell, wildlife biologist, as they put a captured juvenile eagle into a carrier in Lake City, Fla . The eagle is being treated for poisoning and will be released into the wild after rehabilitation. (Karen Parker/FWC via AP)
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This July 20, 2017 photo, shows Anni Mitchell, FWC wildlife biologist, as she holds a sick juvenile eagle at a garbage collection center in Lake City, Fla. The eagle is being treated for poisoning and will be released into the wild after rehabilitation. (Karen Parker/FWC photo by Karen Parker via AP)
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This photo provided by the Wayne Township Fire Department shows a network of large pipes and support structures that collapsed at a Rolls-Royce aircraft-engine assembly plant in Indianapolis, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. A Rolls Royce spokesman said there were no injuries. (Michael D. Pruitt/Wayne Township Fire Department via AP)
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This photo provided by the Wayne Township Fire Department shows a network of large pipes and support structures that collapsed at a Rolls-Royce aircraft-engine assembly plant in Indianapolis, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. A Rolls Royce spokesman said there were no injuries. (Michael D. Pruitt/Wayne Township Fire Department via AP)
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This photo shows one of the dead birds still in a cage as the Inland Valley Humane Society removes animals some alive and dead, from a warehouse Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 in Montclair, Calif. Montclair police stumbled across a trash-strewn industrial building crammed with more than 1,000 snakes, parrots, chickens and other exotic animals when they arrived to serve an arrest warrant on a man there. (Terry Pierson/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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A downed tree just missed an apartment building but took down power lines Friday, Aug 4, 2017, in Phoenix, after violent storms pushed through the metro area on Thursday. The National Weather Service says a tornado formed briefly amid monsoon storms that thrashed metro Phoenix late Thursday but that the tornado itself was very weak and apparently didn't cause any damage other than kicking up dust. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Tree removal workers begin to cut up a tree that damaged two homes Friday, Aug 4, 2017, in Phoenix, after violent storms pushed through the metro area on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Utility workers try to access damage by downed trees Friday, Aug 4, 2017, in Phoenix, after violent storms pushed through the metro area on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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A tree removal worker cuts up a downed tree after it clipped one home and crushed part of another Friday, Aug 4, 2017, in Phoenix, after violent storms pushed through the metro area on Thursday. The National Weather Service says a tornado formed briefly amid monsoon storms that thrashed metro Phoenix late Thursday but that the tornado itself was very weak and apparently didn't cause any damage other than kicking up dust. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 photo provided by Jim Phipps shows children playing in a flooded street with a fallen tree after a storm passed through in Tempe, Ariz. The National Weather Service says a tornado formed briefly amid monsoon storms that thrashed metro Phoenix late Thursday. (Jim Phipps via AP)
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In this Aug. 1, 2017 photo, Jacki O'Connor serves new potatoes at a weekly farm dinner at Valley Dream Farm in Cambridge, Vt., featuring produce from the farm and other Vermont made products. From California to food-loving Vermont, farmers are drawing customers to feast on foods raised in nearby fields.(AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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FILE – In this July 28, 2014, file photo, two meteors, center and lower left, during the annual Perseid meteor shower streak across the sky above a forest on the outskirts of Madrid. The AP reported on Aug. 4, 2017, that the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 11 and 12 won't come close to setting any records. The head of NASA's meteoroid environment office, Bill Cooke, tells AP that astronomers project a slightly higher than normal shower rate with 150 meteors per hour across the Northern Hemisphere, but the brightness of the moon will wash out the finer Perseids. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
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NBA staff, players and their families members, pose for a group photograph after helping out in building houses in Lenasia South of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. As part of the NBA Africa Game, and Habitat for Humanity South Africa, 200 volunteers from the NBA players, families and executives help build 10 homes. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Rondae Hollis-Jefferson of Brooklyn Nets, left, and Kemba Walker of Charlotte Hornets pose for a photograph with a local volunteer whilst helping in building a house in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. As part of the NBA Africa Game, and Habitat for Humanity South Africa, 200 volunteers from the NBA players, families and executives help build 10 homes. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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President Trump's White House said it was preparing a first installment of perhaps $6 billion in emergency aid and will come back later with a bigger relief package to help Houston and other areas damaged by Harvey. Watchdogs, however, say just as important as the price tag is how the money is spent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (Associated Press/File)
