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Trey Cocking, the city manager of Atchison, Kan., addresses the media after a chemical incident occurred at the MPG Ingredients plant on Friday Oct. 21, 2016, in Atchison, Kan. The Kansas Department of Emergency Management said multiple people who suffered respiratory problems because of the noxious cloud that formed were taken to hospitals. (Dougal Brownlie/The St. Joseph News-Press via AP)
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This image provided by the U.S. Navy, taken Oct. 17, 2016, shows the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur, right, pulling into position behind the Military Sealift Command USNS Matthew Perry, during a replenishment-at-sea, seen from the bridge of the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance, in the South China Sea. The Defense Department says a U.S. Navy warship has conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, where China and five other countries have competing territorial claims. A department spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Gary Ross, said the destroyer ship USS Decatur conducted the transit operation Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, near the Paracel Islands. (U.S. Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Will Gaskill via AP)
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A man carries a girl brave the wind on the waterfront of Victoria Habour as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Typhoon Haima churned toward southern China on Friday after smashing into the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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A man braves the wind on the waterfront of Victoria Habour as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Typhoon Haima churned toward southern China on Friday after smashing into the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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A resident carries a sack of rice after Super Typhoon Haima destroyed his home and caused flooding at Vigan township, Ilocos Sur province in northern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A man wades through a flooded highway at the height of Super Typhoon Haima that lashes Narvacan township, Ilocos Sur province in northern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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FILE - This Oct. 1, 2016, file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board shows damage done to the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, N.J., after the Sept. 29 commuter train crash. Lawmakers investigating New Jersey Transit are expected to focus on the role modern safety technology could have played in preventing last month's deadly crash. Friday's hearing on Oct. 21, 2016, in Trenton comes after an Associated Press report found that NJ Transit had more accidents and paid more safety fines than any other commuter railroad since 2011. (Chris O'Neil/NTSB photo via AP, File)
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This Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, photo shows coal ash floating on the Neuse River in Goldsboro, N.C. Conservationists and regulators are at odds over how much coal ash was swept away by flooding during Hurricane Matthew - state inspectors say it would fit in the bed of a pickup truck while Waterkeeper Alliance, a watchdog group, argues it's a much larger spill. (Peter Harrison/Waterkeeper Alliance via AP)
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Bao Bao will leave the Smithsonian's National Zoo, where she has been charming visitors since her birth on Aug. 23, 2013. As one of fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, she will enter a breeding program in China. (Associated Press)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, Father Ryan Higdon, right, and co-owner of New Republic Brewing John Januskey pose during a portrait session, at New Republic Brewing in College Station, Texas. (Timothy Hurst /College Station Eagle via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF OCT. 22-23 AND THEREAFTER - Cow Elk emerge from cottonwoods in this undated photo along the Missouri River at Slippery Ann Elk viewing area in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge near Lewiston, Mont. The Refuge spans more than a million acres along the Missouri River in central and northeast Montana. Each autumn, when the cottonwoods along the "Big Muddy" turn yellow in this crisp fall air, the elk of the Missouri River Breaks put on a show. (Ben Pierce/The Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)
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The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md., is seen here on June 6, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti stands inside a section of a tunnel boring machine before workers lower it into a 45-foot deep pit, during a ceremonial naming and lowering for the Regional Connector Transit Project in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. The $1.55 billion Regional Connector Transit Project is a 1.9-mile underground light-rail tunnel that will connect the Blue, Expo, and Gold lines in downtown Los Angeles and will include three new stations. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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A helicopter brings a 700-pound sack of car parts to a trash bin on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. More than 2,000 cars were dumped over a bluff above a wildlife refuge after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, and a clean up effort to remove about 100 of those cars imbedded in the bluff has been going on for nine years. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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This undated artist's rendering shows NASA's Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. NASA said Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, that the Juno spacecraft circling Jupiter went into safe mode, turning off its camera and instruments. The space agency said the Juno craft is healthy as engineers try to figure out what went wrong. (NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, vehicles remain at the scene of a traffic accident along Interstate 40 on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in northern Arizona near Parks, Ariz. Smoke from a prescribed burn closed part of highway and caused numerous accidents. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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A firefighter battles a blaze after a gas explosion in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. A powerful natural gas explosion that neighbors said felt like an earthquake rocked the busy injuring two firefighters and two civilians. One building in the popular shopping district was reduced to rubble and the exterior of one side of another building had been ripped off, its windows blown out. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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In this Tuesday Oct. 18, 2016 photo, Eva Radel plants tulip bulbs, during a Guinness World Record attempt for "most people planting flower bulbs simultaneously" put together by the Lee County Economic Development Group, GROW Lee, at the Heron Bend Conservation Center in Montrose, Iowa. About 1,700 students and community members turned out for Lee County's world record attempt, roughly doubling the previous record. (John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye via AP)
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An employee stands in the control center of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt, Germany, Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016. ESA and its Russian partner Roskosmos hope for the first successful landing on Mars. Their landing modul Schiaparelli will enter the martian atmosphere at an altitude of about 121 km and a speed of nearly 21 000 km/h. Less than six minutes later it will have landed on Mars. The probe will take images of Mars and conduct scientific measurements on the surface, but its main purpose is to test technology for a future European Mars rover. Schiaparelli's mother ship ,TGO, will remain in orbit to analyze gases in the Martian atmosphere to help answer whether there is or was life on Mars, (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)
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File - In this March 21, 2006, file photo, David Schwartz, geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), walks along the Hayward Fault in a parking lot in Hayward, Calif. New research published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, found that the Hayward Fault may be linked to another fault. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
