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By BRENDA MONTY - Associated Press

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, comes to the aid of an unidentified man who collapsed in downtown Los Angeles Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. The temperature in downtown Los Angeles shot past 90 degrees early in the day and a spectator collapsed just as Mayor Eric Garcetti was about to start a late-morning ceremony to mark the reopening of the city's historic Angels Flight funicular railroad. The man appeared to recover but was taken away by paramedics. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

The Latest: San Francisco hits record 106 degrees

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Ketchikan?breaks 50-year-old summer rain record

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The Latest: Ketchikan breaks 50-year summer rain record

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Energy officials work to restore power after a tree fell across power lines in Lake Charles, La., Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (Rick Hickman/American Press via AP)

The Latest: Expansion of disaster declaration sought

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Energy officials work to restore power after a tree fell across power lines in Lake Charles, La., Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (Rick Hickman/American Press via AP)

The Latest: Fields, roads flooding in southwest Louisiana

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13th triple-digit high in Reno ties summer-long record

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Jimmie Bradley speaks about the flooding in his neighborhood in Moss Bluff, a Lake Charles, La., suburb in Calcasieu Parish, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Bradley, 78, and his wife Brenda, had stacked sandbags at their doors, but the rising water was lapping at the steps to their back porch and had overtaken their front yard. Virtually every neighbor on Crawford Drive has at least a foot of water in their yards. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The Latest: Floodwaters rise in southwest Louisiana homes

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Antonio Barron, right, looks back to his girlfriend, Melissa Rocha, as they run through the street during a band of heavy rain from Hurricane Harvey Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Palacios, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

The Latest: Water releases begin on Houston-area reservoirs

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People walk on freeway flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, near downtown Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

National Weather Service: Harvey ‘unprecedented,’ impacts ‘unknown’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Julius Verret, 14, floats in street flooding in Lake Charles, La., as the city is receiving heavy rains from Tropical Storm Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. The storm came ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast as a category four hurricane. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Latest: Lafayette Parish under a tornado watch

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Mauro Eligio boards up his home on the Southside of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in preparation of Hurricane Harvey. (Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)

The Latest: Texas cities start assessing hurricane damage

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Extreme heat advisories issued in Oklahoma, Arkansas

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Debris from a farm building was blown into a tree at a farm residence in rural New Sweden Township after a tornado struck the area, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (Jackson Forderer/The Free Press via AP)

Weather service: At least 3 tornadoes hit Minnesota

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City, National Weather Service at odds over new water tower

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This photo shows damage left by a storm Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, Tulsa, Okla. A possible tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)

Rare August tornado sends 30 to hospital in Tulsa; no deaths

By KEN MILLER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 photo, a car sits idle as rain water stalled it out at the border of Flint and Burton, Mich. The storms Wednesday evening brought several inches of rain in places. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Weather Service confirms tornado hit northern Michigan

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A bicyclists heads through downtown past the Salmon Street Springs fountain in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Scorching temperatures are predicted for the Northwest Wednesday and Thursday, with forecasters saying Seattle and Portland could top triple digits and break records. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Temperate Northwest gets blasted with furnace-like heat

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The Latest: High of 104 in Reno shatters 71-year-old record

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Flash flood watch in effect for much of eastern New Mexico

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