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Fire erupts on the side of The Spur on Highway 441 between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. In Gatlinburg, smoke and fire caused the mandatory evacuation of downtown and surrounding areas, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. (Jessica Tezak/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)

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Health officials investigate a chicken farm in Sekikawa village, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, after a highly contagious avian flu strain in poultry was detected, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Japanese health authorities confirmed Tuesday the highly virulent H5 strain was detected in poultry in two prefectures, Niigata and Aomori, with culling of hundreds of thousands of birds starting at the affected farms. (Yukie Nishizawa/Kyodo News via AP)

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The image provided by the European Space Agency ESA on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, shows the Millennium Tower in San Francisco on the base of modified Copernicus Sentinel satellite data. The European Space Agency has released satellite data that shows the skyscraper in San Francisco's financial district continuing to sink at a steady rate, and perhaps faster than previously known. The colored dots represent targets observed by the radar. The colour scale ranges from 40 mm a year away from radar (red) to 40 mm a year towards radar (blue). Green represents stable targets. (ESA SEOM INSARAP study/ESA via AP)

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The truck loading ramp at the Interisland Ferry wharf lays dropped and broken, in Wellington Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, after a major earthquake struck New Zealand's south Island early Monday. The powerful earthquake struck in a mostly rural area close to the city of Christchurch but appeared to be more strongly felt in the capital, Wellington, more than 200 Km (120 miles) away. (Ross Setford/SNPA via AP)

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Crews work the Party Rock Fire near Lake Lure Friday afternoon, Nov. 11, 2016. A forest fire has crossed its containment line, forcing more evacuations in western North Carolina. State and federal fire officials say portions of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure communities are now under evacuation orders due to the Party Rock Fire. (Patrick Sullivan /The Times-News via AP)

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This image made from video shows Antelope Island recovering after a wildfire scorched more than half the island, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (Winston Armani/The Deseret News via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, NOV. 13-14 - This Oct. 27, 2016 photo, shows a Bristlecone pines under Nevad's Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park, Nev. The bristlecone pine is not only the world’s longest-lived organism, but it is also virtually immune to the pine beetle attacks that are decimating conifer forests around the West, according to new research from Utah State University and the U.S. Forest Service. (Brian Maffly/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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Hawaii guard Leland Green cuts under the SIU Edwardsville defense during the first half of the NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

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North Carolina's M.J. Stewart (6) tackles Duke's T.J. Rahming (3) as North Carolina's Andre Smith jumps during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Anaheim Ducks' Corey Perry (10) and Ryan Kesler (17) battle for the puck in front of Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward (30) with Hurricanes' Jaccob Slavin (74) and Ron Hainsey (65) providing support during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

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A protesters unhappy with the presidential election blocks traffic on JFK Blvd. as they march between cars on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Philadelphia. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

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A smoky haze is seen around a weather station on top of the University of Georgia's Geography building in Athens, Ga., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. The smoke is drifting across the state from wildfires in the south (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio.The state of Michigan is designating its section of Lake Erie as an impaired waterway because of damage to fish and other wildlife caused by harmful algal blooms, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

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An aircraft from the US Forestry Service drops fire retardant on a wildfire burning along the Flipper Bend area of Signal Mountain in Hamilton County, Tenn., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Wildfires burning across the South have created a smoky haze over metro Atlanta and prompted a public health advisory in Kentucky, and the forests are expected to continue burning for days as flaming leaves fall to the ground and spread the flames. Other fires were burning in parts of Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee. (Dan Henry/The Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)