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A crack is seen on the ground as a man walks in front of a Greek flag at the port of the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of residents and tourists on the eastern Greek island of Kos spent the night sleeping outdoors, on beach lounge-chairs, in parks and olive groves or in their cars, a night after a powerful earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region, in Greece and Turkey. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A man walks past a car crushed under rubble near the port of the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of residents and tourists on the eastern Greek island of Kos spent the night sleeping outdoors, on beach lounge-chairs, in parks and olive groves or in their cars, a night after a powerful earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region, in Greece and Turkey. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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British tourists sleep on sun beds of a hotel following an earthquake in the Mediterranean island of Kos, Greece, late Friday, July 21, 2017. Causing panic but little serious damage, a powerful earthquake shook vacation resorts in Greece and Turkey, hurting nearly 500 people and killing two tourists who were crushed when a building collapsed on a popular bar in the Greek island of Kos. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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People sleep on the ground following an earthquake in the Mediterranean island of Kos, Greece, late Friday, July 21, 2017. Causing panic but little serious damage, a powerful earthquake shook vacation resorts in Greece and Turkey, hurting nearly 500 people and killing two tourists who were crushed when a building collapsed on a popular bar in the Greek island of Kos.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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People sleep at a playground early Saturday, July 22, 2017 following an earthquake in the Mediterranean island of Kos, Greece. Causing panic but little serious damage, a powerful earthquake shook Friday vacation resorts in Greece and Turkey, hurting nearly 500 people and killing two tourists who were crushed when a building collapsed on a popular bar in the Greek island of Kos.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Bette Zirkelbach of the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital nudges "Argus," a juvenile green sea turtle, into the Atlantic Ocean Friday, July 21, 2017, in Marathon, Fla. The rehabilitated turtle is one of 20 satellite-tagged reptiles that are to be tracked online during the Tour de Turtles, a three-month race beginning Aug. 1, organized by the Sea Turtle Conservancy. (Bob Care/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, a woman speaks to U.N. peacekeepers during a food distribution at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following a powerful earthquake on Jan. 12. Top U.N. official for Haiti, Sandra Honore, said on Thursday, July 20, 2017 peacekeepers have accomplished their mission of stabilizing the Western hemisphere's poorest nation. Honore said Haiti today "is far different" than it was in 2004, when the U.N. deployed peacekeeping troops following a rebellion that left the country on the brink of collapse. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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FILE - This July 4, 2017 file photo, distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in North Korea. Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile threat from North Korea. The state's Emergency Management Agency on Friday, July 21, 2017 announced a public education campaign. Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi says because it would take a missile about 15 minutes to arrive, there won't be much time to prepare. He says that's why instructions are simple: "Get inside, stay inside and stay tuned." (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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Jeffrey Wong, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's current operations officer, shows computer screens monitoring hazards at the agency's headquarters in Honolulu on Friday, July 21, 2017. Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi, left, and Toby Clairmont, the agency's executive officer, discuss a new public education campaign about the missile threat from North Korea in Honolulu on Friday, July 21, 2017. Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi, left, and Toby Clairmont, the agency's executive officer, show new informational materials to a reporter in Honolulu on Friday, July 21, 2017. Hawaii announced a new public education campaign to prepare for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Toby Clairmont, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's executive officer, shows new informational materials to a reporter in Honolulu on Friday, July 21, 2017. Hawaii announced a new public education campaign to prepare for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Members of the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service search a back road at Wharton State Forest Friday, July 21, 2017, near Washington Township, N.J. About 50 firefighters from the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service and local fire departments were fighting the blaze Friday (Craig Matthews/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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Smoke rises above the tree line as a fire burns at Wharton State Forest, Friday, July 21, 2017, near Washington Township, N.J. About 50 firefighters from the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service and local fire departments were fighting the blaze Friday (Craig Matthews/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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Members of the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service search a back road at Wharton State Forest Friday, July 21, 2017, near Washington Township, N.J. About 50 firefighters from the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service and local fire departments were fighting the blaze Friday (Craig Matthews/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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FILE - In this March 28, 2017, file photo, a dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyo. According to preliminary counts by federal mine regulators, coal production in Wyoming dropped in the Spring of 2017 after a surge of coal production at the state's mines through fall and winter. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)
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First officer Jukka Alhoke sits at the controls of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sets sail off the coast of Canada toward the Bering Strait, Thursday, July 6, 2017. The MSV Nordica is setting course to traverse the Northwest Passage, a route once considered impassible, from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic via the Arctic. The icebreaker, which is returning to its home port of Helsinki, is carrying researchers studying the impact of the Arctic's melting sea ice on the fragile social and ecological balance in the region, and observers from the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Sandbags arev ready to be deployed on La Fox River Drive in Algonquin, Ill., Thursday, July 20, 2017. Flood levels along two northern Illinois rivers looked to be falling after flooding this week but another round of rain has them rising again. (Rick West /Daily Herald via AP)
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People gather around a partially destroyed mosque after an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake sent a building crashing down on tourists at a bar on the Greek holiday island of Kos and struck panic on the nearby shores of Turkey early Friday, killing two people and injuring some 200 people. (AP Photo/Nikiforos Pittaras)
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A damaged structure sits on the ground after an earthquake in Kos on the island of Kos, Greece Friday, July 21, 2017. Greek authorities said the two tourists who were killed in that house in the overnight quake are from Turkey and Sweden.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)
