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Tree workers remove a tree that had fallen on a rooftop in Aptos, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Dan Coyro/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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In this image provided by Wolfgang Forstmeier via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, a male pectoral sandpiper, right, courting a female on the tundra near Barrow, Alaska. (Wolfgang Forstmeier/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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In this image provided by Katharina Kapetanopoulos via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, two male pectoral sandpipers in a competitive, territorial display flight in Barrow, Alaska, in June 2012. (Katharina Kapetanopoulos/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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In this image provided by Bart Kempenaers via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, an ale pectoral sandpiper on the tundra near Barrow, Alaska, calling to attract a female. (Bart Kempenaers/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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Then-Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a conference on climate change and innovation in clean energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this Sept. 21, 2015, file photo, a Volkswagen logo is seen on car offered for sale at New Century Volkswagen dealership in Glendale, Calif. The Volkswagen executive, Oliver Schmidt, who once was in charge of complying with U.S. emissions regulations has been arrested in connection with the company’s emissions-cheating scandal, a person briefed on the matter said Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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This Jan. 4, 2017, image provided by the U.S. Energy Department and its contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership shows workers moving waste underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The repository, the federal government's only underground spot for disposing of low-level nuclear waste, had been shuttered for nearly three years since a 2014 radiation release. (Sam Christensen/Nuclear Waste Partnership via U.S. Energy Department)
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Rosie Salazar stands on Amapola Street after alerting neighbors that a tree had fallen and crushed two cars Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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In this Saturday Jan. 7, 2017 photo, City of Reno crews close flood-prone roads and bridges in Northern Nevada late Saturday, including the Lake Street bridge over the Truckee River by the old Reno Arch in downtown Reno, Nevada. The region's worst flooding in a decade is forecast Sunday night into Monday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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FILE - In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning berths in a port of China. China says it was routine combat drills, yet the deployment of the aircraft carrier Liaoning’s battle group in the Western Pacific and into the South China Sea has made neighbors jittery about Beijing’s flexing its muscles. (Li Tang/Xinhua via AP, File)
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Traffic crosses the raging Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Sparks firefighters monitor the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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A Sparks firefighter takes a picture of the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Local residents braved the heavy rain to fill sandbags on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, near the Truckee River in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Sandbags line the doors of the Alamo truck stop and casino along U.S. Interstate 80 due to flooding Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo Inc., the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, introduces a Chrysler Pacifica hybrid outfitted with Waymo's own suite of sensors and radar at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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A Chrysler Pacifica hybrid outfitted with Waymo's suite of sensors and radar is shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Waymo is the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, Alphabet. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, Alphabet introduces a Chrysler Pacifica hybrid outfitted with Waymo's own suite of sensors and radar at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2016 file photo, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a news conference in Austin, Texas. Patrick, a key player in setting the legislative agenda, wants Texas to ban transgender people from using public bathrooms of their choice. (Laura Skelding/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
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This photo taken Dec. 21, 2016 and provided by Lynda Lybeck Robinson shows the Bogoslof Volcano erupting in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The active Alaska volcano, which has erupted 10 times since mid-December and is located about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted again Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, this time sending a cloud of ash and ice 35,000 feet in the air. (Lynda Lybeck Robinson via AP)
