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Brooklyn Nets players and coaches, including head coach Kenny Atkinson, front, pose for a picture with children after teaching them basketball skills in an NBA Cares event at the Maestro Miguel A. Quintana Primary School in Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. The Brooklyn Nets will play two regular season games in Mexico City, facing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, Dec. 7 and the Miami Heat on Saturday, Dec. 9. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Westbrook is ready to face Mexico City’s altitude

By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Brooklyn Nets forward DeMarre Carroll (9) shoots over Atlanta Hawks forward Ersan Ilyasova (7) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

LeVert, Hollis-Jefferson pace Nets’ win over Hawks

By GEORGE HENRY - Associated Press

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) passes against the Oakland Raiders during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

NFL Today, Week 11

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills (10), free safety Michael Thomas (31) and tight end Julius Thomas (89), kneel during the National Anthem behind their teammates before an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

The Latest: Eagles lose kicker to injury, plan to go for 2

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady practices at Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The Patriots are practicing at Air Force to get acclimated to playing at a higher elevation for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders in Mexico City. (Doug Brownlie/The Gazette via AP)

Raiders return to Mexico City to take on Patriots

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady practices at Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The Patriots are practicing at Air Force to get acclimated to playing at a higher elevation for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders in Mexico City. (Doug Brownlie/The Gazette via AP)

Patriots strengthen team bond while practicing in Colorado

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

New England Patriots offensive tackles Cameron Fleming, left, and Nate Solder ride on a golf cart to a waiting bus on the ramp leading out of Falcon Stadium as the Patriots head to a nearby field for practice Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, on the campus of the Air Force Academy in Air Force Academy, Colo. The Patriots are practicing at Air Force, which is located at an elevation of 7,200 feet, to prepare to face the Oakland Raiders during an NFL football game Sunday in Mexico City, which sits at an elevation of almost 7,400 feet above sea level. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Patriots acclimating to altitude at Air Force this week

By ARNIE STAPLETON - Associated Press

"We need to establish a relationship of respect, expressing desires for cooperation and setting aside propaganda," said Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican presidential front-runner who casts himself as the ultimate political outsider. (Associated Press/File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s front-runner for president, challenges establishment

By Paul Imison - Special to The Washington Times

Conrad Vazquez Martinez, 67, recuperates after falling from a tree and being buried under rubble in last week's earthquake, at the Magdalena de las Salinas trauma hospital, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. A tree branch saved Vazquez Martinez from the collapsing building where a dozen co-workers died during Mexico’s Sept. 19 earthquake. A slap across the face brought a dazed father back to his senses, spurring him to carry his critically injured daughter to safety. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Mexico, survivors recount amazing escapes from quake

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

People who work inside an office of the Secretary of Public Security organize in the street as they collectively refuse to return to work inside the building which they say suffered internal damage in last week's 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. They are demanding independent inspectors confirm the building is safe before returning to work inside after the Sept. 19 quake. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Latest: Mexico death toll rises to 325

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Rescue workers gesture as they work removing rubble in hopes of reaching dozens of people believed to be trapped inside a collapsed office building since a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, just after midnight Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. Search teams are still digging in dangerous piles of rubble hoping against the odds to find survivors at collapsed buildings. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Searchers dig as Mexico City reopens just 1 percent of schools

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

In this Sept. 12, 2017 photo, Roberto Shimizu leafs through pages of an El Santo comic book at the Old Toy Museum in Mexico City. The comic books fed from the stories sent from fans that wanted El Santo to fight characters like mummies, lady vampires or nazis. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras)

Mexico honors its greatest wrestler, El Santo, at centennial

By GUSTAVO MARTINEZ CONTRERAS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo, a family stands around the body of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, who died in a fireworks explosion, inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Earthquake-hit Mexico City plans archery world championships

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Rescue personnel work on the rescue of a trapped child at the collapsed Enrique Rebsamen primary schoool in Mexico City, Sept. 20, 2017. A wing of the school collapsed after a powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, killing scores of children and trapping others. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico quake rescuers struggle to free girl, other survivors

By Christopher Sherman, Maria Verza and Christine Armario - Associated Press

Search and rescue efforts continue at the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 200 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexican navy official: No missing child in collapsed school after earthquake

By Maria Verza and Christine Armario and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

A Marine directs movement of supplies during rescue efforts at the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Search and rescue teams worked through night and rain in an effort to rescue children trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

The Latest: Death toll in Mexican quake rises to 273

Associated Press

Emergency personnel search for survivors in a collapsed building in Mexico City, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico dealing a devastating amount of damage to buildings in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

Mexico quake rescuers struggle to free girl from school

By Christopher Sherman, Maria Verza and Christine Armario - Associated Press

Rescue workers search for children trapped inside the collapsed Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. The earthquake stunned central Mexico, killing more than 100 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Carlos Cisneros)

7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico is deadliest since 1985

By Mark Stevenson, Christopher Sherman and Peter Orsi - Associated Press

Powerful 7.1 earthquake jolts Mexico, sways buildings in capital

Associated Press

In this June 13, 2017, file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon's budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Amid US-Mexico tension, defense chief aims to be calm voice

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press