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Emergency officials and CSX personnel gather near the site of a freight train derailment, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Hyndman, Pa. A freight train carrying hazardous materials partly derailed early Wednesday, setting train cars and a garage on fire and prompting emergency officials to evacuate hundreds of nearby residents. (Steve Bittner/Cumberland Times-News via AP)
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Emergency officials and CSX personnel gather near the site of a freight train derailment, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Hyndman, Pa. A freight train carrying hazardous materials partly derailed early Wednesday, setting train cars and a garage on fire and prompting emergency officials to evacuate nearby residents. (Steve Bittner/The Cumberland Times-News via AP)
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In this microscope photo provided by Oregon Health & Science University, human embryos grow in a laboratory for a few days after researchers used gene editing technology to successfully repair a heart disease-causing genetic mutation. The work, a scientific first led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, marks a step toward one day preventing babies from inheriting diseases that run in the family. (Oregon Health & Science University via AP)
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Emergency personnel move away as a gas fire continues to burn following an explosion at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Minneapolis. Several people are unaccounted for after an explosion and partial building collapse Wednesday at a Minneapolis school, fire officials said. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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Greenpeace activists protest with a banner reading: "Your diesel cartel makes us sick" in front of the Federal Transportation Ministry in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. German auto bosses, ministers and state governors are considering how to reduce diesel emissions as drivers face the threat of possible bans on driving older diesel cars in some cities. A meeting Wednesday is to bring together leading politicians with bosses from Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Opel and Ford. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
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A protestor wears a breathing protection mask to protest against a planed meeting of leading politicians with bosses from German car makers in front of the German Transport Ministry in Berlin, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. The meeting was short-term move to the Interior Ministry, where German auto bosses, ministers and state governors are considering how to reduce diesel emissions as drivers face the threat of possible bans on driving older diesel cars in some cities. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 10, 2017 photo, Peruvian Elvis Garcia watches over 450 nanny goats and their kids that have been employed to help control invasive species of weeds at the Yellowtail Wildlife Management area south of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area east of Lovell, Wyo. Garcia has a wife and 6-year-old daughter back in Peru. (Mark Davis/The Powell Tribune via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 10, 2017 photo, Peruvian Elvis Garcia watches over 450 nanny goats and their kids that have been employed to help control invasive species of weeds at the Yellowtail Wildlife Management area south of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area near Lovell, Wyo. Out in the heat, amongst rattlesnakes and more skeeters than most people can stand, a Peruvian man named Elvis and his constant companion, a Welsh collie named Pepsi, tend to 450 nannies and their kids (Mark Davis/The Powell Tribune via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 10, 2017 photo, Elvis Garcia's border collie, Pepsi, rolls over for a tummy rub as the two watch over 450 nanny goats and their kids that have been employed to help control invasive species of weeds on the Wyoming state managed land at the Yellowtail Wildlife Management area south of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area near Lovell, Wyo. (Mark Davis/The Powell Tribune via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 10, 2017 photo, more than 450 nanny goats and their kids that have been employed to help control invasive species of weeds on state-managed land at the Yellowtail Wildlife Management area south of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area near Lovell, Wyo. (Mark Davis/The Powell Tribune via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, an Amazon employee sorts items brought to him by robotic shelves at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J. Amazon is holding a giant job fair Wednesday, Aug. 2, and plans to make thousands of job offers on the spot at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, an Amazon employee pulls a dolly at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J. Amazon is holding a giant job fair Wednesday, Aug. 2, and plans to make thousands of job offers on the spot at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun speaks at Tokyo American Club in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. The U.S. Olympic team will be based at the Tokyo American Club during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, USOC officials announced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this April 21, 2017, file photo, former Vice President Al Gore participates in the "Unlocking Financing For Climate Action" session during the G20 at the 2017 World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington. Tangier Island mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge, an enthusiastic Trump supporter who is mayor of a Virginia island that's sinking into the Chesapeake Bay, will debate Gore on climate change during a CNN town hall that airs Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 9 p.m. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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In this May 27, 2017, file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks at a news conference in Portland, Ore. Gov. Brown is authorizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy soldiers to help deal with an influx of tourists during August's total solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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In this Saturday, July 29, 2017, photo provided by Kyuk Public Media, a gray whale killed in the Kuskokwim River is butchered and the meat and blubber distributed in Napaskiak, Alaska. Local residents in boats chased the massive animal, peppering it with gunfire and harpoons before it died and sunk to the bottom of the river, where it was later retrieved and cut up for distribution among Alaska Native villages. Federal officials are investigating what they say appears to be the unauthorized harvest of a gray whale. (Katie Basile/ KYUK Public Media via AP)
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In this Saturday, July 29, 2017, photo provided by Kyuk Public Media, a gray whale killed in the Kuskokwim River is butchered and the meat and blubber distributed in Napaskiak, Alaska. Local residents in boats chased the massive animal, peppering it with gunfire and harpoons before it died and sunk to the bottom of the river, where it was later retrieved and cut up for distribution among Alaska Native villages. Federal officials are investigating what they say appears to be the unauthorized harvest of a gray whale. (Katie Basile/ KYUK Public Media via AP)
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Bishop Terrell, of Little Rock, Ark., works on a highway sign at the Arkansas Department of Transportation's maintenance area in Little Rock on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Legislators authorized 75 mph speed limits under a state law that took effect Tuesday, but highway officials say engineers must study road designs and traffic patterns before allowing speeds above 70 mph. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
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Arkansas Department of Transportation spokesman Danny Straessle props up a 70 mph sign inside the agency's sign shop in Little Rock on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Legislators authorized 75 mph speed limits under a state law that took effect Tuesday, but highway officials say engineers must study road designs and traffic patterns before allowing speeds above 70 mph. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
