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A ball boy holds tennis balls during the men's singles match between Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland and Kyle Edmund of Britain in the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Buckley Miller paddles a canoe past a flooded water treatment plant in downtown Lumberton after Hurricane Matthew caused downed trees, power outages and massive flooding along the Lumber River Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 in Lumberton, NC. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
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FILE - In this September 2013 photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, walruses gather to rest on the shores of the Chukchi Sea near the coastal village of Point Lay, Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has obtained a $140,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to help Point Lay tell the world that walrus are vulnerable to stampedes and to stay away when they’re on shore. (Ryan Kingsbery/United States Geological Survey via AP, file)
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FILE- In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, wind turbines line the hillside at First Wind's project in Sheffield, Vt. Government officials in Vermont, Canada and Australia have dismissed concerns about the health effects of noise from wind power turbines, but don’t tell that to people living near them. Now a Vermont home abandoned by a family who said they were made ill by nearby turbines will be used for sound-monitoring research. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration biologist Benjamin Richards talks about an upcoming study of seven species of Hawaii’s deep-water bottom fish during a news conference on Ford Island near Honolulu, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The first-ever comprehensive survey will bring local commercial fishermen and scientists together to get a count of several species of grouper and snapper, which are popular table fare. NOAA has developed a camera system, foreground, to help capture the data. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration biologist Benjamin Richards talks about an upcoming study of seven species of Hawaii’s deep-water bottom fish during a news conference on Ford Island near Honolulu, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The first-ever comprehensive survey will bring local commercial fishermen and scientists together to get a count of several species of grouper and snapper, which are popular table fare. NOAA has developed a camera system, foreground, to help capture the data. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, left, talks to Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. Johnson said during his visit to Mexico City, some flights to Haiti have been suspended due to Hurricane Matthew. He said Tuesday that U.S. officials will have to "be sympathetic to the plight of the people of Haiti as a result." But after conditions change, "we intend to resume the policy." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Natalie McDowell, left, speaks with Rawlings LaMotte as she walks to her flooded home on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, in Nichols, S.C. About 150 people were rescued by boats from flooding in the riverside village of Nichols on Monday. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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Germany’s Sami Khedira, right, heads for the ball in front of Northern Ireland’s Lee Hodson, center, and Germany’s Mario Goetze, left, during the World Cup Group C qualifying soccer match between Germany and Northern Ireland in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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FILE--In this June 30, 2016, file photo, firefighters respond to a wildfire near the Morningside Heights neighborhood near Table Rock in east Boise, Idaho. A new study on Western forest fires confirms what is already apparent — wildfire seasons are getting longer and more destructive. But researchers with the University of Idaho and Columbia University also say humans are to blame for much of that increase. (Joe Jaszewski//Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
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Former Vice President Al Gore is interviewed by The Associated Press in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 9, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, gas company workers stand where a building once stood, which was leveled by an explosion in downtown Springfield, Mass. New or replaced gas service lines for apartments and small businesses across the United States must be equipped with inexpensive safety valves starting next year following deadly fires and explosions over decades that could have been avoided, the Obama administration announced Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (Don Treeger/The Republican via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 photo, an American flag waves from a makeshift flag pole in front of a concrete slab that once was a house in Louisville, Miss. The April 28 tornado that destroyed the house, also heavily damaged the particle board and plywood industries in the background. The federal government says the city of Louisville should repay a $25.4 million grant awarded for recovery from a 2014 tornado. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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In this Oct. 10, 2016 photo, Rhonda Williams of Cudjoe Key, Fla., has her Yorkie named Riley examined by Natalie Wendling, a veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, at a roadside checkpoint in Key Largo, Fla. Agriculture officials are checking all animals exiting the keys for signs of New World screwworm. The parasite has killed dozens of endangered deer in the Florida Keys and officials hope to stop screwworm from spreading to livestock and pets on the mainland. (AP Photo/ Jennifer Kay)
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Al Gore is campaigning for Hillary Clinton to push for action on climate change, but he also may touch on his 2000 campaign loss, analysts say. (Associated Press)
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A fire worker works to contain a wildfire that broke out on Bone Dry Road in Kimberly, Ala., on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Forestry officials are banning outside burning across most of Alabama because of fast-spreading wildfires. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In a Sept. 27, 2016 photo, Rob Mies, executive director of the Organization for Bat Conservation at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, holds "Tess," a female Big Brown Bat, next to his i-Pad with an attached bat detector, right, which detects echo location or high-pitched sound waves that bats use to fly and navigate at night. Mies says there are certain species of bats in Michigan that are being threatened by white-nose syndrome, a fungus that affects and kills bats in the cold environments where they hibernate. Massive wind turbines and the huge loss of bat’s habitat are also threatening the winged animals. (Todd McInturf, The Detroit News via AP)
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop at the the Rossford Recreation Center in Rossford, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Nick Thomas/The Blade via AP)
