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A Missouri Department of Transportation salt truck spreads ice melt on Interstate 55 as coated tree branches sway overhead as seen from the Main Street bridge on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 in Festus, Mo. A thick glaze of ice covered roads from Oklahoma to southern Illinois on Friday amid a winter storm that caused numerous wrecks, forced school cancellations, grounded flights and prompted dire warnings for people to stay home. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Traffic is sparse on Interstate 55 as ice hangs from the Main Street bridge on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 in Festus, Mo. A thick glaze of ice covered roads from Oklahoma to southern Illinois on Friday amid a winter storm that caused numerous wrecks, forced school cancellations, grounded flights and prompted dire warnings for people to stay home.(Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Mary Zinser scrapes a thick layer of ice off her windshield, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 in Arnold, Mo. A thick glaze of ice covered roads from Oklahoma to southern Illinois on Friday amid a winter storm that caused numerous wrecks, forced school cancellations, grounded flights and prompted dire warnings for people to stay home. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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This photo made by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency shows him in a selfie photograph with the Earth reflected in his visor, during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Pesquet, a rookie astronaut, became France's first spacewalker in 15 years. He called it "a big day." (Thomas Pesquet via AP)
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A tower from the Golden Gate Bridge is seen over a blanket of fog Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in San Francisco. Sunshine and fog returned to some areas of Northern California after a series of storms which caused flooding in various cities. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Fog enshrouds part of the The Golden Gate Bridge Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in San Francisco. Sunshine and fog returned to some areas of Northern California after a series of storms which caused flooding in various cities. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2016, file photo, actor Leonardo Di Caprio, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, speaks at the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on climate change at U.N. headquarters. DiCaprio's foundation is chipping in to support a new national monument in southern Utah that's been a flashpoint over public land use in the West. His environmental group is one of several donating to create the $1.5 million Bears Ears Community Engagement Fund, which is aimed at supporting local efforts to preserve natural resources and protect the park’s trove of ancient archaeological sites from things like looting. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, Dan Bender, with the La Plata County Sheriff's Office, takes a water sample from the Animas River near Durango, Colo. after the accidental release of an estimated 3 million gallons of waste from the Gold King Mine by a crew led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA said Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 that it won’t pay claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from the spill, saying the law prohibits it. (Jerry McBride /The Durango Herald via AP, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - This Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, photo shows an aerial view of the fly ash landfill at Dominion's Chesapeake Energy Center in Chesapeake, Va. Millions of tons of ash stored at the former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks, according to a report compiled for an environmental group that is seeking to have the ash moved. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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Traffic moves without problems on I-244 westbound just east of Harvard Ave. Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 in Tulsa, Oka. An ice storm is expected to hit the area today. A winter storm that pounded northern California is descending upon the southern Plains, packing crippling ice accumulations and heavy rain that could cause widespread power outages and flooding. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
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Price Tower is seen in downtown Bartlesville, Oka., as icicles form on a street sign, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. An ice storm is expected to hit the area today. A winter storm that pounded northern California is descending upon the southern Plains, packing crippling ice accumulations and heavy rain that could cause widespread power outages and flooding. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
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A pedestrian shields herself from freezing rain in downtown Bartlesville, Okla., Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. An ice storm is expected to hit the area today. A winter storm that pounded northern California is descending upon the southern Plains, packing crippling ice accumulations and heavy rain that could cause widespread power outages and flooding. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
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North Carolina's Tony Bradley (5) is fouled by Wake Forest's Doral Moore (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2017, file photo, the GAC Motors EnSpirit, an electronic hybrid conceptual car, is displayed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The EnSpirit concept is a small four-door SUV with a retractable cloth roof. Inside are light wood accents and a long center stack that features a little bonsai tree in the rear. The EnSpirit is a plug-in hybrid, and GAC says it can go around 60 miles in electric mode before the small gas engine kicks in. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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North Carolina's Justin Jackson, left, drives past Wake Forest's Konstantinos Mitoglou, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. North Carolina won 93-87. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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This still image taken from video provided by NASA shows U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a space walk outside the International Space Station, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. The astronauts are taking another spacewalk to plug in new and better batteries outside the space station. It's the same type of job conducted last Friday. Pesquet is the first French spacewalker in 15 years. (NASA via AP)
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In this Nov. 30, 2016, photo, Stephen Swanson shows a bowl of frozen crickets at Tomorrow's Harvest cricket farm in Williston, Vt. Farmers are raising the alternative livestock they claim is more ecologically sound than meat, but is sure to bug some people out: crickets. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo provided by Sherman Hiatt, people work to put out a wildfire triggered when a pile of chicken manure caught fire in a barn as it threatens property near Charleston, Ark. Agriculture experts are warning farmers to make sure their waste piles don't grow too high because the can catch fire through spontaneous combustion. (AP Photo/Sherman Hiatt)
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In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo provided by Sherman Hiatt, a wildfire triggered when a pile of chicken manure caught fire in a barn threatens property near Charleston, Ark. Agriculture experts are warning farmers to make sure their waste piles don't grow too high because the can catch fire through spontaneous combustion. (AP Photo/Sherman Hiatt)
