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People hug after a tornado tore through the eastern part of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The National Weather Service says at least three confirmed tornadoes have touched down, including one inside the New Orleans city limits. Buildings have been damaged and power lines are down. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A man looks at a destroyed home after a tornado tore through the eastern part of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The National Weather Service says at least three confirmed tornadoes have touched down, including one inside the New Orleans city limits. Buildings have been damaged and power lines are down. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Lisa Carruth hugs her granddaughter Juayonna Carruth after a tornado tore through the eastern part of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The National Weather Service says at least three confirmed tornadoes have touched down, including one inside the New Orleans city limits. Buildings have been damaged and power lines are down. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Artie Chaney reacts to her damaged home after a tornado struck while she and family members took cover inside, in the eastern part of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The National Weather Service says at least three confirmed tornadoes have touched down, including one inside the New Orleans city limits. Buildings have been damaged and power lines are down. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A woman carries an umbrella as she crosses a street in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Flash flood watches are in place for parts of Northern California down through the Central Coast as heavy rains swamp roads and threaten to overtop rivers and creeks. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A woman carries an umbrella as she crosses a street with children in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Flash flood watches are in place for parts of Northern California down through the Central Coast as heavy rains swamp roads and threaten to overtop rivers and creeks. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Linda Pierre, left, and April Williams look around the east New Orleans neighborhood after a tornado touchdown, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. At least three tornados touchdown causing damage to buildings. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Illustration on infrastructure construction and environmental regulations by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, right, gestures as she sees Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, left, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency director nominee, as she arrives for her annual State of the State address in Oklahoma City, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Local young Sami people welcome Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, left, and his wife Jenni Haukio in front of the Sami Museum Siida in Inari, Finnish Lapland, Monday Feb. 6, 2017. The indigenous people of Europe's Arctic north, formerly nomadic reindeer herders in Lapland, are celebrating their national day with hundreds of events across Nordic lands. (Otto Ponto/Lehtikuva via AP)
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A boat goes by cranes being used for the preparation work to relocate a U.S. Marine base to Henoko to dump large concrete blocks into sea along the shore in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Japan's government has started offshore construction work on relocating a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa. Monday's step marks the beginning of the main construction to move Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, a less populated area on the island. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
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Veterans make up about 19 percent of the corn ethanol workforce, according to federal Energy Department figures — the largest percentage of veterans in any energy subsector of the U.S. economy. (Associated Press/File)
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In this June 21, 2008, file photo provided by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, a whitetip shark swims off Cat Island in the Bahamas. (Neil Hammerschlag/University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science via AP) ** FILE **
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Ava Geske auditions for the Youth America Grand Prix regional semi-finals at Dominican University Performing Arts Center, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in River Forest, Ill. Chicago is one of the 12 cities in North America selecting dancers who will compete in New York in April. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Wake Forest center Doral Moore (4), Georgia Tech forward Sylvester Ogbonda, and Wake Forest guard Mitchell Wilbekin, right, vie for the ball during an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
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Calgary Flames' Dennis Wideman sends ice shavings toward a person standing near the ice rink at Central Park in New York on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. The Flames were practicing at the rink the day before an NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers. (AP Photo/Howie Rumberg)
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A homemade ice machine re-surfaces a rink at the New England Pond Hockey Festival, Saturday, Feb 4, 2017, in Rangeley, Maine. Tim McGuiness, a truck driver from Auburn, Maine, welded together a water tank and ice scraper to make the ice machine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Alberto Diaz and his son Javier Diaz ride their bikes through a mountainous landscape scorched by wildfires in Chile's Cauquenes community, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Strong winds are continuing to stoke the flames of raging wildfires in Chile. Firefighters and residents continue to fight the fast-spreading blazes on the ground while a Russian supertanker plane and a Brazilian Hercules dump thousands of gallons of water on the area southeast of the Chilean capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Eliazar Enriquez holds dead bees at his apiary affected by wildfires in Chile's Quebrada del Maule community. About 63 million bees died in the area and some 240 million bees are at high risk, said forestry engineer and beekeeper consultant Carlos Correa. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
