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A man stands near a damaged building after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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Debris from a storm covers a street in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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A man stands outside a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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This photo shows damage to a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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A damaged Petsmart sign hangs after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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This photo shows damage left by a storm Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, Tulsa, Okla. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)
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This Thursday, Aug 3, 2017, photo provided by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division taken in Bangor, Maine, shows the tooth that is extracted from bears that are harvested by hunters in Maine. The growth of the bear population in the United States has provided scientists with a windfall of teeth, which are helpful for studying the health of bears. (Jennifer Vashon/Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division via AP)
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This Thursday, Aug 3, 2017, photo provided by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division taken in Bangor, Maine, shows the tooth that is extracted from bears that are harvested by hunters in Maine. The growth of the bear population in the United States has provided scientists with a windfall of teeth, which are helpful for studying the health of bears. (Jennifer Vashon/Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division via AP)
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This Thursday, Aug 3, 2017, photo provided by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division taken in Bangor, Maine, shows the tooth that is extracted from bears that are harvested by hunters in Maine. The growth of the bear population in the United States has provided scientists with a windfall of teeth, which are helpful for studying the health of bears. (Jennifer Vashon/Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Division via AP)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, sailors man small boats as an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 flies overhead to recover personnel near the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20) following an aviation mishap of an MV-22 Osprey, which caused the aircraft to enter the water off the coast of Australia. U.S. military officials called off the search and rescue operation on Sunday, Aug. 6, for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia while trying to land. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sarah Villegas/U.S. Navy via AP)
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FILE - This March 18, 2003 file photo shows the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Conn. Owners of the facility said they still want more than a study of the facility's future economic viability to ensure the plant remains open and continues providing more than half of Connecticut's electricity. They contend state lawmakers, who have been meeting behind closed doors during the summer of 2017 to hammer out a budget deal, must take prompt action. (AP Photo/Steve Miller, File)
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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)
