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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)
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Artist impression of the Schiaparelli module on the surface of Mars provided by the European Space Agency, ESA. . On Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016 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. (ESA/ATG-medialab via AP)
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This Sept. 27, 2016 photo shows wildlflowers growing near a sign for the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin, in the northern unit area for the Kettle Moraine State Forest. The Kettle Moraine is a geological formation created thousands of years ago by the movement of glaciers. Today visitors can follow the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive through rural farming areas and rustic woodlands, and hike a variety of trails to experience landscapes that range from prairie to wetlands to forests. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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Employees sit in the contol center of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt, Germany, Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016. ESA and its Russian partner Roscosmos hope for a successful landing of the joint space probe of mission ExoMars on Mars. (Uwe Ansspach/dpa via AP)
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IOC President Thomas Bach speaks to the media following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. With Abe, Bach discussed the possibility of staging some Olympic events in the northeastern region of Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. "Baseball and softball were some of the options under discussion," Bach said. (Yoshinobu Shimizu/Kyodo News via AP)
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A sweeper cleans a road inside the closed premises of the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. The zoo has been closed temporarily after nine birds died from suspected bird flu last week, according to a zoo official. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, is welcomed by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike during a meeting at the Tokyo Metropolitan government building in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach expressed willingness Tuesday to work with Tokyo officials to try to reduce spiraling cost estimates for the 2020 Summer Games. Bach arrived in Japan amid growing tension between Olympic organizers and recently elected Tokyo Gov. Koike’s push to cuts costs. He declined to discuss specific proposals, saying he only knew about them so far from media reports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach attends a meeting with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike at the Tokyo Metropolitan government building in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach expressed willingness Tuesday to work with Tokyo officials to try to reduce spiraling cost estimates for the 2020 Summer Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 photo, an Illinois Department of Emergency Management sign is above the entrance to their office in Springfield, Ill. A video posted by an Illinois state agency on YouTube may have connected hundreds of people to pornography. Emails obtained by the AP show the Illinois Department of Emergency Management director was aware of the problem after someone complained, and ordered it removed. An agency spokeswoman blames YouTube for a technical glitch, but how the two got linked raises questions. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The pace of operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces began pushing toward larger villages and encountering civilian populations on the second day of a massive operation to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo)
