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Firefighters take a break Monday, May 8, 2017, outside a church in St. George, Ga., where officials have issued a mandatory evacuation as a vast wildfire burns at the town's edge. The fire started April 6, 2017, in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near the Georgia-Florida state line and has since burned roughly 210 square miles. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning, Monday, May 8, 2017, just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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Gov. Dennis Daugaard, left, and Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen, right, hold a tourism event in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, May 8, 2017. Officials say they're hopeful for a strong summer tourism season even without major anniversaries that have been a big draw for visitors in recent years. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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Bill Dennison, vice president for science application at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, talks about the health of the Chesapeake Bay during the release of a report card on the bay's health after a news conference in Baltimore on Monday, May 8, 2017. Dennison said a few years ago, the bay was in "critical condition," but it's been moved from the critical list to "stable condition," and is showing signs of improvement. The report card gave the nation's largest estuary a "C" grade for overall health. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora flora surrounds a pond at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this undated photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese H-6K bomber patrols the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. China’s state broadcaster showed on Sunday, May 7, 2017, navy fighter bombers taking part in exercises over the South China Sea, including one involving the detection and expulsion of foreign military surveillance aircraft such as those deployed regularly in the area by the U.S. and others. The video shown on CCTV’s military channel shows a squadron of two-seater Xian JH-7 Flying Leopards flying in formation and dropping bombs on targets in the ocean below. (Liu Rui/Xinhua via AP, File)
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In this Saturday, May 6, 2017 photo provided by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge smoke rises from a wildfire east of Fargo, Ga. Firefighters were battling Sunday to prevent the fire from spreading, authorities said. (Ben Palm/Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge via AP)
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In this Tuesday May 2, 2017 photo, Todd Alexander poses at his mobile home in Milton, Vt., that he heats with the help of the Low Income Heating Home Energy Assistance Program. Alexander, who is disabled and living on disability, said the assistance has helped him meet his energy needs and still have money left over to live. Congress overruled a request by President Donald Trump to eliminate the heating assistance program. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Bill Fairgrieve, a fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, checks on a tank housing sablefish at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish as part of a larger effort by NOAA to support marine aquaculture as a possible solution to feed a growing demand worldwide for seafood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Rick Goetz, a program manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, checks on sablefish larvae growing in tanks where they feed on green algae at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Ken Massee, right, and Cort Jensen, left, biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, collect eggs from a sablefish at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. The silvery-black fish prized for their buttery flavor live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their labs cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Bill Fairgrieve, a fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, holds a sablefish at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish as part of a larger effort by NOAA to support marine aquaculture as a possible solution to feed a growing demand worldwide for seafood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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FILE - This July 16, 2004, file photo, shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could find themselves in the cross-hairs of hunters once again. A ruling is expected soon from the same federal appeals court that stripped the wolf of its protection in Wyoming in March 2017. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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PSG's Marco Verratti, left, PSG's Edinson Cavani PSG's PSG's Lucas, center, and PSG's Maxwell celebrate after scoring against Bastia during the French League One soccer match between PSG and Bastia at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
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PSG's Edinson Cavani reacts after missing a chance on goal during the French League One soccer match between PSG and Bastia at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
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FILE - In this Monday, May 1, 2017 file photo, Kevin Pritchard speaks during an NBA basketball news conference in Indianapolis, after Larry Bird resigned from his position as Indiana Pacers team president of basketball operations. Pritchard is assuming Bird's position. Pritchard will improve his new team the only way he knows how, and maybe with more resources than Bird had during his two tenures running the team. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File-
