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FILE - In this June 24, 2016 file photo, road signs signaling to US 119 along Frame Road in Elkview, W.Va., are surrounded by flood waters. A year after the floods, the owner of the Crossings Mall in Elkview is replacing a washed-out bridge that made the mall inaccessible and forced hundreds to be laid off or displaced, although two anchor stores are returning. A Kroger plans to reopen in August 2017, and Kmart has said it will reopen once the bridge is rebuilt. (Sam Owens/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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FILE - In this June 24, 2016 file photo, Jimmy Scott gets a hug from Anna May Watson, left, as they clean up from severe flooding in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Next Friday, June 23, 2017, on the one-year anniversary of the floods, a memorial wall, museum and series of parks linked by sidewalks will be dedicated in White Sulphur Springs to honor local victims and the community. The floods killed 23 people statewide, including 15 people in Greenbrier County. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 2016 file photo, Lt. Dennis Feazell, of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, watches for debris as he and a co-worker search flooded homes in Rainelle, W. Va. The town of Rainelle, population 1,500, lost five residents and dozens of homes in the June 23, 2016 floods. The Christian ministry Appalachia Service Project is building at least 50 homes and fixing others, while another group is removing sediment from Rainelle’s flood-control channels. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, speaks during a press conference on the status of the damaged USS Fitzgerald and search and rescue efforts for seven missing Fitzgerald sailors at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. The U.S. destroyer collided with a container ship in the busy sea off Japan Saturday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, speaks during a press conference on the status of the damaged USS Fitzgerald, seen behind, and search and rescue efforts for seven missing Fitzgerald sailors at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. The U.S. destroyer collided with a container ship in the busy sea off Japan Saturday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A Japan Coast Guard ship, foreground, navigates the damaged USS Fitzgerald near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Saturday, Junes 17, 2017, photo, the damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen off Yokosuka, near Tokyo, Japan, after the Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship. The U.S. Navy says the bodies of sailors who went missing in the collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship have been found aboard the stricken destroyer. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP, File)
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Northern Rain business owner Bert Martin poses outside his new mobile shower truck in Fairbanks, Alaska on Tuesday June 6, 2017. When firefighting season starts, Martin leaves his roofing job and picks up one of his mobile shower trailers outside his Badger Road-area home and spends his summers driving the trailers to remote firefighting camps. (Sam Friedman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is being towed by a tugboat in the waters near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with the container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with the container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this June 1, 2017 photo, "Ranger Doug" Follett looks over Whitefish Lake, Mont., from his porch. The retired history teacher and decades-long ranger at Glacier National Park built the house himself after buying the land in 1952. His daughter's family now lives in a neighboring home on the land. (Jayme Fraser/The Missoulian via AP)
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The damage of Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal is seen off Izu Oshima, Japan, after it collided with the USS Fitzgerald, Saturday, June 17, 2017. The Japan coast guard said it received an emergency call from a Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal early Saturday that it had collided with the USS Fitzgerald. (Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)
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Alaska Senate President Pete Kelly, right, speaks to reporters next to Sen. Anna MacKinnon during a Senate majority news conference on Friday, June 16, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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A Whole Food Market is shown in Indianapolis, Friday, June 16, 2017. Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $13.7 billion, a strong move to expand its growing reach into groceries. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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CAPTION CORRECTION REMOVES PRESCRIBED FIRE REVISING TO WILDFIRE Fire crews head toward the Jemez Mountains along U.S. 550 in Rio Rancho, N.M., as the smoke plume from a wildfire grows on Thursday, June 15, 2017. Sandoval County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Elder says deputies were initiating the evacuation of a subdivision along State Highway 4. He was unsure of how many homes were in the area. (Zach Bryan via AP)
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Emergency workers search debris that fell at the base of the fire-gutted Grenfell Tower in London, Friday, June 16, 2017, after a fire engulfed the 24-story building Wednesday morning. London firefighters combed through the burned-out public housing tower Thursday in a grim search for missing people as police and the prime minister launched investigations into the deadly inferno, with pressure building on officials to explain the disaster and assure that similar buildings around the country are safe. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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This photo provided by the National Park Service ranger Rachel Post shows a smoke plume from a wildfire in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, north of Jemez Springs, N.M., Thursday, June 15, 2017. The wildfire burning in northern New Mexico prompted the evacuation Thursday of residents and led the governor to activate the state emergency operations center. (Rachel Post/NPS via AP)
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FILE - In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Newly obtained emails underscore just how closely Pruitt coordinated with fossil fuel companies while serving as Oklahoma’s state attorney general, a position in which he frequently sued to block federal efforts to curb planet-warming carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
