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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2017, AT 9:00 A.M. EST.- Pastor Tom McCracken enters the home where he became involved in the case of a man who died alone in his Salem home without any friends or family. "We can do better than that," McCracken said in a video. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP)

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FILE - This June 11, 2015, file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Shiloh Heavenly Quine. The 57-year-old convicted killer has become the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex reassignment surgery. Shiloh Heavenly Quine has been living as a woman in a California men's prison. The surgery was scheduled for Thursday, and her attorneys told The Associated Press on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, that it was performed. California prison officials agreed in 2015 to pay for the surgery for Quine. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, File)

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FILE - In this March 25, 2007, file photo, two sage grouse roosters challenge each other for hens in Rockland, Idaho. A judge has rejected Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's lawsuit contending the Obama administration acted illegally by imposing federal land-use restrictions intended to protect the sage grouse in Idaho and southwestern Montana. (Bill Schaefer/The Idaho State Journal via AP, File)

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An injured woman is taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities say a lone shooter opened fire at the airport Friday afternoon, killing "multiple" people before he was taken into custody. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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A shooting victim is taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities said multiple people have died after a lone suspect opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, international airport. (Taimy Alvarez /South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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A shooting victim is unloaded from an emergency vehicle and taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities said multiple people have died after a lone suspect opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, international airport. (Taimy Alvarez /South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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A shooting victim arrives at Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities say a lone shooter opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, international airport Friday, killing "multiple" people before he was taken into custody. The airport suspended operations as law enforcement authorities rushed to the scene. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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An injured woman is taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities say a lone shooter opened fire at the airport Friday afternoon, killing "multiple" people before he was taken into custody. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND USE JAN. 7-8, 2017, AND THEREAFTER - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Dave Park poses for a portrait at his home in Casper, Wyo. Park, a retired judge, and longtime friend Nick Murdock, a Casper-based attorney, teach a University of Wyoming-Casper course on politics and the judicial system. They decided to decline their salaries to avoid a possible confict of interest. (Dale Bohren/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)

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Chicago Police Officer Mike Donnelly, accompanied by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Chicago. Johnson said four black people have been charged with hate crimes in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed an assault on a mentally disabled white man. Donnelly was one of the first officers on the scene. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

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Family spokesman David Boyd, right, and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)

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National police patrol outside a radio station after the arrest of Guy Philippe in Petion-Ville, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The former rebel leader who is wanted on U.S. drug charges, and was recently elected to the Haitian Senate, was arrested Thursday as he appeared on a live radio talk show, a witness said. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, suspected terrorist Pola Roupa and alleged member of the Revolutionary Struggle group, wears handcuffs as she arrives for a trial at the maximum security Korydallos prison, western Athens. Greek police on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 recaptured the convicted far-left militant wanted for more than four years after she absconded during her trial on domestic terrorism charges. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

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Lyle Menendez looks up during testimony in his and brother Erik's retrial for the shotgun slayings of their parents in Los Angeles, in this Oct. 20, 1995, file photo. With Lyle is his attorney Terri Towery. Menendez told ABC News in a phone interview from a California prison released Jan. 5, 2017, that he maintains a close bond with his brother, even though he is being housed at a separate facility. (Steve Grayson/UPI via AP, Pool, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2016, file pool photo, real estate heir and documentary star Robert Durst sits during his arraignment at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles. Los Angeles prosecutors say Durst is a danger to witnesses in his murder case. Prosecutors will ask a judge Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, to let them preserve testimony from several witnesses in case they get killed before any trial. (AP Photo/Reuters, Kevork Djansezian, Pool, File)

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Family spokesman David Boyd and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)

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A family member of a victim of toxic humidifier disinfectants weeps during a press conference against court's sentence at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. A South Korean court has sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison after the company's disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Victims and their families of toxic humidifier disinfectants hold a press conference against a court's sentence at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. A South Korean court has sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison after the company's disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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FILE – This undated photo provided by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in Columbus, Ohio, shows Aaron Travis Daniels. Ohio resident Aaron T. Daniels, accused of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group, was taken into custody Nov. 7, 2016, at John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, and has pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges. In a Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, court filing, federal prosecutors asked a judge to appoint a security officer to handle classified information filings in Daniels' case. (Franklin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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Northwestern forward Vic Law reacts after hitting a 3-point shot against Minnesota during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Evanston, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)