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President Barack Obama visits Alaska aiming to shine a spotlight on how the United States is being affected by warming temperatures and rising oceans.
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President Barack Obama (R) holds a salmon as he meets conventional anglers on the shore of the Nushagak River in Dillingham, Alaska September 2, 2015. In the wake of meeting tribal pioneers and anglers in Dillingham, home to the world's biggest sockeye salmon fishery, Obama will fly into Kotzebue, an Arctic town of around 3,000 that is rising so as to engage waterfront disintegration brought on oceans. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Obama performs a customary Yup'ik move at a school in Dillingham, Alaska September 2, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Obama perspectives Bear Glacier on a watercraft voyage through Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Obama welcomes neighborhood inhabitants in an airplane terminal shelter in the wake of touching base on board Air Force One in Dillingham, Alaska September 2, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Obama watches conventional salmon safeguarding with anglers on the shore of the Nushagak River in Dillingham, Alaska September 2, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel watches close-by as President Obama takes a watercraft voyage through Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A restaurant patron holds up his baby to greet President Obama in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama stops to make comments to columnists as he treks to the Exit Glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015. President Barack Obama proposed a quicker timetable for purchasing another substantial icebreaker for the U.S. Cold, where rapidly liquefying ocean ice has impelled more sea movement and the United States has fallen a long ways behind Russian assets. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Denali (R), once in the past known as Mount McKinley, can be seen under the wing of Air Force One as President Barack Obama touches base in Anchorage, Alaska August 31, 2015. Obama authoritatively restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, agreeing with the condition of Alaska in consummation a 40-year fight over what to call a crest that has been known as Mount McKinley.REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama makes a cake request at Snow City Cafe in Anchorage, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama arrives aboard the Marine One helicopter in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama conveys comments before taking a watercraft voyage through Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama climbs with National Park Service staffs to the Exit Glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015.REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A general perspective of the Exit Glacier is seen at Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama welcomes individuals at Snow City Cafe in Anchorage, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Security personnel wait for President Barack Obama to arrive aboard the Marine One helicopter in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama makes a choice at the Sweet Darlings frozen yogurt shop before taking a watercraft voyage through Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Establishing individual from the Fairbanks Native Association Poldine Carlo (C) wipes away a tear subsequent to meeting President Barack Obama after he touched base on board Air Force One at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama and Alaska Governor Bill Walker (top) arrive aboard Air Force One at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Barack Obama welcomes kindred clients at the Sweet Darlings frozen yogurt shop before taking a vessel voyage through Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst