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In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017, photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald in the waters off the Izu Peninsula on Saturday, June 17, is berthed at the Yokohama port near Tokyo. Japanese authorities said Thursday, June 22, they have obtained a data recording device from a container ship to help determine why it collided with a U.S. destroyer, killing seven American sailors. Japanese transport safety officials said they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's "black box," from the Philippine-flagged container ship, which is currently docked in Yokohama. (Haruna Usui/Kyodo News via AP)
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Dark clouds obscure the sky above Elbstorf, Germany, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Philipp Schulze/dpa via AP)
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In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, photo, the damaged Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal, right, cruises past another container ship off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald off Japan earlier in the day, that killed seven U.S. sailors. The site of a fatal collision between the two vessels off Japan’s coast is notorious for congested sea traffic, particularly during the night when merchant ships are trying to reach Tokyo’s port by daybreak. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Los Angeles Sheriff department transit deputies show a cache of illegal arms found on a suspect's duffle bag after arresting him for urinating in public, during a news conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. On him they found a loaded handgun that is restricted for law enforcement use, another loaded, high-powered firearm that resembles a rifle, two loaded, high-capacity magazines, a silencer, and a large survival knife that was nearly as long as a sword. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Los Angeles Sheriff department transit deputies show a cache of illegal arms found on a suspect's duffle bag after arresting him for urinating in public, during a news conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The Sheriff's Department said that on him they found a loaded handgun that is restricted for law enforcement use, another loaded, high-powered firearm that resembles a rifle, two loaded, high-capacity magazines, a silencer, and a large survival knife that was nearly as long as a sword. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Esther Martens walk through a flooded roadway to get to her car in the West End section of New Orleans, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 file photo, Jeremy Boak, director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Boak says the number of quakes larger than 4.0 magnitude has dropped dramatically so far this year, but it's still not clear what caused several large quakes last year that were above 5.0 magnitude. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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This cover image released by Blue Limestone shows "Land of Doubt," a release by sam Baker. (Blue Limestone via AP)
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Storm surge, coupled with high tide, leaves a pier on East Beach in Ocean Springs nearly submerged as Tropical Storm Cindy moves onshore in Ocean Springs, Miss., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (Warren Kulo/The Mississippi Press via AP)
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Storm surge and heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Cindy cause flooding in many areas of the Mississippi coast, including this area at the foot of Washington Avenue just off Front Beach in Ocean Springs, Miss., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (Warren Kulo/The Mississippi Press via AP)
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Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm's slow crawl toward land. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert2
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Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm's slow crawl toward land. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Sydney Schultz takes photos of waves crashing next to Rollover Pass as Tropical Storm Cindy approaches the coast Wednesday, June 21, 2017 on the Bolivar Peninsula. (Michael Ciaglo /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Vehicles navigate past waves and debris washing over State Highway 87 as Tropical Storm Cindy approaches Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in High Island, Texas. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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CORRECTS YEAR TO 2017 FROM 2007 - In this June 16, 2017, photo, Kaleb Sease, of rural McClusky, N.D., stands by the water delivery truck he drives for the Co-op Elevator of McClusky's chemical sales. He said there isn't much call for herbicide out in the countryside without a crop this year, plus he has the additional stress of maintaining his own and family cows in drought conditions. Nearly one-third of North Dakota is in severe drought, and the National Weather Service said there's no relief on the horizon. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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A tree and power pole are consumed by a wildfire near Big Bear, Calif., Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Mandatory evacuations have been called for homes as a wildfire burns in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm's slow crawl toward land. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A television news crew reports from the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as weather from Tropical Storm Cindy, in the Gulf of Mexico, impacts the region in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
