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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)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 photo, residents attend a Mass during the 7th anniversary of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many Haitians lit candles and offered prayers Thursday to remember relatives and neighbors who died in a catastrophic earthquake that struck near the Caribbean nation's capital seven years ago.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Yankton Sioux tribal Chairman Robert Flying Hawk waits to give a State of the Tribes address to the state Legislature in Pierre, S.D., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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"We are on a rescue mission to prevent Obamacare from making things even worse," said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, a grizzly bear cub searches for fallen fruit beneath an apple tree a few miles from the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. Grizzly bears once roamed the rugged landscape of the North Cascades in Washington state but few have been sighted in recent decades. Federal officials want to restore the population, and on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, released a draft plan with four options, ranging from taking no action to varying efforts to capture bears from other locations and transplant them to 9,800 square miles of mostly public land surrounding North Cascades National Park. (Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
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FILE - This July 6, 2011, file photo shows a grizzly bear roaming near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Grizzly bears once roamed the rugged landscape of the North Cascades in Washington state but few have been sighted in recent decades. Federal officials want to restore the population, and on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, released a draft plan with four options, ranging from taking no action to varying efforts to capture bears from other locations and transplant them to 9,800 square miles of mostly public land surrounding North Cascades National Park. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)
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Early morning rush hour traffic crawls along the Hollywood Freeway on it's way toward downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Flooded roads and freeways along with low fog and clouds made for a hazardous commute Thursday as another round of heavy rain moved through Southern California, raising fresh fears of possible mudslides in wildfire burn areas.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Early morning rush hour traffic crawls along the Hollywood Freeway on it's way toward downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Flooded roads and freeways along with low fog and clouds made for a hazardous commute Thursday as another round of heavy rain moved through Southern California, raising fresh fears of possible mudslides in wildfire burn areas.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Early morning rush hour traffic crawls along the Hollywood Freeway near downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Flooded roads and freeways along with low fog and clouds made for a hazardous commute Thursday as another round of heavy rain moved through Southern California, raising fresh fears of possible mudslides in wildfire burn areas. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Early morning traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 5 headed into town as a semi truck and cars block the off ramp to Highway 217 above in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. A major snowstorm spread through Portland and parts of Washington state overnight, toppling trees, closing schools and cutting power to thousands.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
