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Karen Wofford, left, of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Linda Purviance of Anchorage, bird watch at Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Purviance said she felt sorry for the families of two people who were mauled to death in Alaska this week by black bears, but said the bear attacks wouldn't stop her from spending time in the Alaska outdoors. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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A helicopter drops water as U.S. Forest Service firefighters and several other departments battle the a wildfire fire near Big Bear, Calif., on Tuesday June20, 2017. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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A helicopter drops water as U.S. Forest Service firefighters and several other departments battle a wildfire near Big Bear, Calif., on Tuesday June 20, 2017. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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U.S. Forest Service firefighters watch a wildfire near Big Bear, Calif., as they refill a water tank on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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A fire continues to burn along Highway 143 Tuesday, June 20, 2017, near Brian Head, Utah. A wildfire that destroyed one home and damaged another while forcing hundreds of people to evacuate a Utah ski town was started by somebody using a torch to kill weeds, Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Herbert, who toured the fire-damaged area around Brian Head, tweeted that experts told him the weed torch was used in dry conditions. He urged people to be extra careful during hot, dry days. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum & Daily News, via AP)
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert talks to reporters about the fire outside the Giant Steps Lodge Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Brian Head, Utah. A wildfire that destroyed one home and damaged another while forcing hundreds of people to evacuate a Utah ski town was started by somebody using a torch to kill weeds, Gov. Gary Herbert said. Herbert, who toured the fire-damaged area around Brian Head, tweeted that experts told him the weed torch was used in dry conditions. He urged people to be extra careful during hot, dry days. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum & Daily News, via AP)
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A fire continues to burn along Highway 143 Tuesday, June 20, 2017, near Brian Head, Utah. A wildfire that destroyed one home and damaged another while forcing hundreds of people to evacuate a Utah ski town was started by somebody using a torch to kill weeds, Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Herbert, who toured the fire-damaged area around Brian Head, tweeted that experts told him the weed torch was used in dry conditions. He urged people to be extra careful during hot, dry days. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum & Daily News, via AP)
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A jogger runs across the Sterling Highway from the Bird Creek access point, near a trail head that's closed on Monday, June 19, 2017, after a fatal bear mauling at Bird Ridge Trail in Anchorage, Alaska. Authorities say a black bear killed a 16-year-old runner while he was competing in an Alaska race on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Julio Ruiz of J.R.R. Roofing pauses in the heat while he and his crew remove old roofing on a house, as the temperature pushes 115-degrees in Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Ruiz said they had been working since 5:30am and had to finish putting down a layer of felt in case of monsoon rain. The Tucson area is under an excessive heat warning for the remainder of the week. (Rick Wiley/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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This satellite image taken Tuesday, June 20, 2017, and released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a tropical storm over the Gulf of Mexico approaching the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Cindy hovered over the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana on Tuesday, churning tides and spinning bands of rain over the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (NOAA via AP)
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Baskets of sand line Bayou Des Allemands as South Louisiana prepares for heavy rain on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Brett Duke/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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Workers fill baskets with sand along Bayou Des Allemands as South Louisiana prepares for heavy rain on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Brett Duke/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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Fisherman Thiet Tran said he was coming in early from Lake Borgne because of the bad weather. He looks up at the clouds while docked in Bayou Bienvenue as Tropical Storm Cindy heads toward Louisiana on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Chris Granger/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
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Heat waves ripple across the tarmac at Sky Harbor International Airport as downtown Phoenix stands in the background as an airplane lands, Tuesday, June 20, 2017 in Phoenix. Phoenix hit a high of 118 on Monday with an excessive heat warning in place until Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Dana Wheeler, a civil engineer with Integra Engineering, wraps a wet headband around his head to combat the heat, Tuesday, June 20, 2017 in Tempe, Ariz. Phoenix hit a high of 118 on Monday with an excessive heat warning in place until Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Executive Director Lee Smithson, warns of a serious threat of flooding along the Gulf Coast from heavy rain bands predicted to fall out from Tropical Storm Cindy, Tuesday afternoon, June 20, 2017, at MEMA headquarters in Pearl, Miss. A number of Mississippi communities are handing out sandbags as rain threatened low-lying areas along rivers and bayous. Flash flooding in low lying areas throughout the southern counties as well as long term flooding along some of the coastal rivers is expected. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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A brightly hued rainfall map provide the background as Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Executive Director Lee Smithson, warns of a serious threat of flooding along the Gulf Coast from heavy rain bands predicted to fall out from Tropical Storm Cindy, Tuesday afternoon, June 20, 2017, at MEMA headquarters in Pearl, Miss. A number of Mississippi communities are handing out sandbags as rain threatened low-lying areas along rivers and bayous. Flash flooding in low lying areas throughout the southern counties as well as long term flooding along some of the coastal rivers is expected. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Executive Director Lee Smithson, warns of a serious threat of flooding along the Gulf Coast from heavy rain bands predicted to fall out from Tropical Storm Cindy, Tuesday, June 20, 2017, at MEMA headquarters in Pearl, Miss. A number of Mississippi communities are handing out sandbags as rain threatened low-lying areas along rivers and bayous. Flash flooding in low lying areas throughout the southern counties as well as long term flooding along some of the coastal rivers is expected. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Bill and Leslie O'Brien of Vancleave, Miss., fill sandbags on Monday, June 19, 2017, at the Harrison County Road Department in Gulfport, Miss., for a friend in preparation for expected heavy rains later this week from a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico. (John Fitzhugh/The Sun Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2016 file photo, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer talks to reporters near the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, N.J. Zimmer announced on Tuesday, June 20, 2017, she’ll focus on climate change rather than running for a third term in office because of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
