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Robert Koonce, left, and Mayo Best Jr., both of Kinston, N.C., pose for a photo as they attend a rally Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Raleigh, before legislators debate weather to approve hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up from Hurricane Florence and help the storm's victims. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio)
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North Carolina lawmakers weigh $400M in Florence spending
Robert Koonce, left, and Mayo Best Jr., both of Kinston, N.C., pose for a photo as they attend a rally Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Raleigh, before legislators debate weather to approve hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up from Hurricane Florence and help the storm's victims. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio)
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  • Robert Koonce, left, and Mayo Best Jr., both of Kinston, N.C., pose for a photo as they attend a rally Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Raleigh, before legislators debate weather to approve hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up from Hurricane Florence and help the storm's victims. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio)
  • A person in a hazmat suit appears to be handling a letter that is enclosed in a plastic bag in Bangor, Maine, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. A hazardous materials team was called Monday to investigate a suspicious letter sent to the home of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, officials said. Law enforcement officials were analyzing the contents of the letter. An FBI spokeswoman said Monday evening that preliminary tests on the envelope indicated there was no threat to the public. (Gabor Degre/The Bangor Daily News via AP)
  • Anthony Weldon, 11, pulls a cart with his family's belongings as they relocate from their uninhabitable damaged home to stay at their landlord's place in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Springfield, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • FILE - In this July 23, 2018, file photo, a duck boat that sank during a thunderstorm on July 19, killing 17 people on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised from the bottom of the lake. A company facing multiple lawsuits over the summer tourist boat accident in Missouri has invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to limit their legal damages as it also seeks settlement negotiations with victims' family members. Attorneys for Ripley Entertainment Inc., based in Orlando, Fla., cited an old federal law in a filing Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in federal court in western Missouri. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)
  • Detroit Police vehicles are parked outside of the Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Police said an anonymously written letter led inspectors to find the decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of the shuttered funeral home. (Junfu Han/Detroit Free Press via AP)
  • John Sweeney speaks to reporters Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, during a news conference at his lawyer's office in Boston. Sweeney says in a lawsuit filed against the Fessenden School that he was drugged and raped in his dorm room by the assistant headmaster when he was 11 years old. (AP Photo/Alanna Durkin Richer)
  • Maya Little uses a microphone to address several dozen supporters before her trial Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Hillsborough, N.C., on a charge that she poured red ink on a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina that was later torn down by protesters. Little has been charged with a count of misdemeanor defacing of a public monument for her action last April at the statue known as "Silent Sam," which was torn down by protesters in August. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew)
  • Cars sit in traffic outside buildings that lost their facades during Hurricane Michael on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, in Marianna, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
  • Roderick Talley, center, accompanied by his lawyers speaks at a news conference in Little Rock, Ark. on Monday, Talley said the explosion of his apartment door during a drug raid conducted by the Little Rock Police Department left him fearing for his life. Talley and his lawyers allege police lied to obtain a so-called "no-knock" warrant which violated Talley's fourth amendment rights. (AP Photo/Hannah Grabenstein)
  • Chuan Milford, left, cries while she thanks Florida National Guard soldiers for loading up her car with food and water at an aid distribution point in the wake of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Milford and her husband, John, right, lost their home to the storm. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • FILE - This combination of photos shows West Virginia state Supreme Court justices, from left, Robin Davis on Oct. 3, 2012, Allen Loughry on Oct. 3, 2012, Beth Walker on March 16, 2016, and Margaret Workman on Dec. 29, 2008. The four justices were impeached by the House of Delegates in August 2017. The cases targeted spending, including renovations to the justices' offices, and also raised questions about corruption, incompetence and neglect of duty. Walker's trial is set to start Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in the state Senate. (Courtesy of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and The Daily Mail via AP, File)
  • A sign for a Sears department store is displayed in Willow Grove, Pa., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, officials in Georgia works at the scene where dozens of cows escaped when a tractor-trailer transporting them overturned on a busy junction north of Atlanta. Officials say a cow who managed to hoof it for two weeks on the lam after the tractor-trailer overturned on a busy interstate junction north of Atlanta has been caught. (John Spink /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle down the Charles River past the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against Asian American applicants in Harvard's admissions process is heading to trial in Boston's federal court on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Harvard denies any discrimination, saying it considers race as one of many factors when considering applicants. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
  • Detroit Police vehicles are parked outside of the Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Police said an anonymously written letter led inspectors to find the decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of the shuttered funeral home. (Junfu Han/Detroit Free Press via AP)
  • New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks to reporters in Newark, N.J., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. A New Jersey state employee said Sunday she was sexually assaulted by a man who went on to work in Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's administration and tried for a year to get authorities to take action but with no result. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • FILE- In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, dead fish lie washed up along the shoreline at Bayfront Park in Sarasota, Fla. Experts say Hurricane Michael failed to break up a patchy and toxic algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. That means the red tide could continue to cause problems in the weeks ahead. (Mike Lang/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP, File)
  • FILE - In a Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008 file photo, Lam Luong is escorted into Mobile County District Court Judge Charles McKnight's court room at Mobile Government Plaza in Mobile, Ala. Lam Luong, convicted of killing four children by throwing them off a bridge, had his death sentence reduced by a judge Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 to life imprisonment, after tests showed he had an IQ of 51. (Bill Starling/Press-Register via AP)
  • File - In this Oct. 24, 2017, file photo, a Black Bear eats a Kokanee salmon it caught in the Taylor Creek in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. A judge has issued a temporary protective order to keep a Lake Tahoe activist Carolyn Stark away from state bear biologist Heather Reich, who says Stark stalked her during a long-running dispute over the capture of nuisance bears. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
  • File-This undated file photo provided by the Richland County Jail, SC., shows James Kester. A judge has sentenced Kester to 80 years in prison for driving his car into mourners at a South Carolina cemetery as part of a grudge against the state agency where the dead woman worked. The State newspaper reports Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman called the 66-year-old Kester a terrorist for injuring 11 people at the end of the July 2017 funeral in Columbia. (Richland County Jail via AP, File)
  • FILE - This March 1, 1959, file photo shows a Sears building in downtown Houston. Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. The company once dominated the American landscape, but whether a smaller Sears can be viable remains in question. (Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
  • The security runs around the clock at all but one of those VA-operated cemeteries.
  • In this Oct. 13, 2018 photo, Clinton Moseley who lives with his mother, reacts as he surveys a large tree that fell on the home in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla. An enormous tree crashed through the roof above one of the bedrooms of the house that’s been in his family for a century. Water gushed in, but he said they’re staying. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Three people are dead Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, after a house fire in the 600 block of East Seminole Place in north Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa Fire Department says the state medical examiner's office has not yet determined the causes of death. (Stetson Payne/Tulsa World via AP)
  • Police vehicles are parked outside an apartment complex in East Lansing, Mich., on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Police said a shooting during a fight at the off-campus residences left a Michigan State University student dead (Kara Berg/Lansing State Journal via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2018, file photo, downed trees are seen from the air on Tyndall Air Force Base in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael near Mexico Beach, Fla. It was once argued that the trees would help save Florida’s Panhandle from the fury of a hurricane, as the acres of forests in the region would provide a natural barrier to savage winds that accompany the deadly storms. It’s part of the reason that tighter building codes, mandatory in places such as South Florida, were not put in place for most of this region until just 11 years ago. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2017 file photo, firefighters walk through rubble following a house explosion in Lincoln, Neb. A man fatally injured in a natural gas explosion at the house in Lincoln intentionally caused the blast so he could kill his wife, Lincoln police said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Amber Baesler /Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)
  • In this April 15, 2018 photo, Dawoud Suleiman plays with a doll as his sisters Dawlat, left, and Omaima, sit with him in their tent at Dakuk Camp, near Kirkuk, Iraq. Traumatized by a series of tragedies suffered during three years of fighting in Iraq, the children live under an additional burden: Their father and other family members belonged to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, a worker repairs a sign outside the Sears Grand store in Solon, Ohio. Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. The company once dominated the American landscape, but whether a smaller Sears can be viable remains in question. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1972 file photo, The Right Rev. Paul Moore Jr. arrives at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York to be installed as the 13th Episcopal bishop of New York. The Episcopal Church is acknowledging the power of the #MeToo movement by officially lamenting its past role in sexual exploitation. The church’s self-examination, which included a session at which first-person accounts of clergy abuse were read aloud by bishops, has been particularly dramatic in the Diocese of New York; it is now describing its most famous bishop, the late Paul Moore Jr., as a "serial predator." (AP Photo)
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