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A security guard wears a mask during duty in Beijing, China, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. China's capital and other northern cities have banned half of all vehicles from city streets and ordered factories, schools and construction sites closed in response to a five-day smog red alert. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Electric bike riders wearing mask to protect themselves from exhaust gas wait at a traffic lights junction during a heavily polluted day in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016. China's capital and other northern cities have banned half of all vehicles from city streets and ordered factories, schools and construction sites closed in response to a five-day smog red alert. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Unidentified men check pipes where Corpus Christi's city-owned water main connects with an asphalt plant where a suspected chemical leak led to a city-wide ban on tapwater use, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ban was been gradually eased and city officials expect the results of EPA tests on Sunday to determine it can be fully lifted. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)
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Unidentified men check pipes where Corpus Christi's city-owned water main connects with an asphalt plant where a suspected chemical leak led to a city-wide ban on tapwater use, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ban was been gradually eased and city officials expect the results of EPA tests on Sunday to determine it can be fully lifted. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)
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In this Dec. 6, 2016 photo, Lilian Matallana, a researcher at North Carolina State University, holds Fraser fir branches in her lab where she studies needle retention in Christmas trees, in Raleigh, N.C. Matallana is part of a multi-university study about Christmas trees and needle retention, which the National Christmas Tree Association said is a top complaint that consumers have about real Christmas trees. (AP Photo/Martha Waggoner)
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FILE - This June 1, 2016, file photo shows piles of wood chips sitting near the RockTenn paper mill in Tacoma, Wash. Though Washington voters rejected a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels, Gov. Jay Inslee is hoping to convince state lawmakers to support his own version of the tax as a way to pay for basic education, clean energy and other projects. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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In this Dec. 14, 2016 file photo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters about his proposed budget in Olympia, Wash. Inslee will try to convince lawmakers to do something voters wouldn’t last month, approve a new tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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This image released by Aleppo 24, shows residents of eastern Aleppo arriving in western rural Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, as part of an evacuation deal. The evacuation of eastern Aleppo stalled Friday after an eruption of gunfire, as the Syrian government and rebels threw accusations at each other, raising fears that a peaceful surrender of the opposition enclave could fall apart with thousands of people believed to be still inside. (Aleppo 24 via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 17 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 photograph, Kevin Scannel, a fishing guide at Devil's Thumb Ranch near Tabernash, Colo., looks over bugs taken from the Fraser River. Some conservationists and environmental groups are crying foul while others are willing to compromise as Denver Water looks to exercise its water rights on the Fraser River. (Nathaniel Minor/Colorado Public Radio via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 17 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, photograph, Kirk Klancke, president of the Colorado River Headwaters Chapter of Trout Unlimited, smiles as he fly fishes on the Colorado River near Kremmling, Colo. Some conservationists and environmental groups are crying foul while others are willing to compromise as Denver Water looks to exercise its water rights in the north-central part of the state. (Nathaniel Minor/Colorado Public Radio via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 17 - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 photo, Kirk Klancke, president of the Colorado River Headwaters Chapter of Trout Unlimited, fly fishes along the Colorado River near Kremmling, Colo. Some conservationists and environmental groups are crying foul while others are willing to compromise as Denver Water looks to exercise its water rights in the north-central part of the state. (Nathaniel Minor/Colorado Public Radio via AP)
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The Eiffel tower is seen as Paris suffers a pollution spike, in Paris, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Paris city hall has barred half of all cars from traveling and made public transportation free. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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A sedan is stuck in mud and debris that flowed down slopes previously denuded by wildfires in Duarte, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. A late fall storm has drenched California, causing some mud flows, roadway flooding and traffic snarls as it takes parting shots at the south end of the state. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Heavy machinery is used to remove mud and debris that flowed down slopes previously denuded by wildfires in Duarte, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. A late fall storm has drenched California, causing some mud flows, roadway flooding and traffic snarls as it takes parting shots at the south end of the state. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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In this photo provided by John Gaps III, a car burns after a collision on rain-slick Interstate 15 just north of San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. A late fall storm has drenched California, causing some mud flows, roadway flooding and traffic snarls. (John Gaps III via AP)
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A car heads eastbound towards Fontana on Lytle Creek Road in the San Bernardino National Forest near Lytle Creek, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. A pre-winter storm drenched California with rain and dumped nearly three feet of snow. (Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via AP)
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A rainbow stretches across Interstate 15 in Cajon Pass, Calif. on Friday Dec. 16, 2016. A pre-winter storm drenched California with rain and dumped nearly three feet of snow to help bolster the vital Sierra Nevada snowpack but also triggered mud flows, street flooding and the dramatic rescue Friday of two homeless women and 10 dogs from a flooded river island near Los Angeles.(James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Brice Stella holds one of the puppies he and other county helicopter crew members rescued from an island in the rain-swollen San Gabriel River in El Monte, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Flying in stormy conditions, the crew rescued two women, six puppies and four grown dogs from the small island. Stella, a tactical medic, brought each woman up by hoist and then returned for the dogs. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Brice Stella shows the bag of puppies he and other county helicopter crew members rescued from an island in the rain-swollen San Gabriel River in El Monte, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Flying in stormy conditions, the crew rescued two women, six puppies and four grown dogs from the small island. Stella, a tactical medic, brought each woman up by hoist and then returned for the dogs. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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In a Dec. 11, 2016 photo, Riders decorate a tree with snacks for wildlife during a "Cowboy Christmas" horse ride in Bedford, Va. On Sunday, 17 riders came to the 300-acre farm to take a trail ride, each on a rescued horse, for a “Cowboy Christmas” — a tradition Ron Gore and Gore and Kathleen Donovan have hosted for about five years now. Horses that were mistreated, misused or neglected are now in the caring hands of Gore and Kathleen Donovan, his wife, who operate the Bedford County farm on Reba Farm Lane. (Jay Westcott/News & Daily Advance via AP)
