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Agriculture Secretary Secretary Sonny Perdue pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at the Agriculture Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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This April 15, 2017 photo provided by the New York Botanical Garden shows Macchia Forest which is part of the Chihuly exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden in New York. The show, titled simply "Chihuly," reveals the evolution of Dale Chihuly's work from 1980 to the present. (New York Botanical Garden via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 photo, flood water from the Meramec River streams over a railroad bridge in Valley Park, Mo. River levels are cresting in several Missouri communities as floodwaters slowly drain from the state, although forecasts for more rain could cause another round of damaging high water. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen. (Image: https://www.dni.gov/)
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In this April 19, 2017 photo, Canyon County Mosquito Abatement larvicide technician Scott Arbon and Jaron Lakey collect a sample of mosquito larvae at Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge near Lake Lowell near Nampa, Idaho. Due to flooding from the Boise River that have left pools of standing water, many tracts of the county have become prime habitat for mosquito larvae, and larvicide technicians like Arbon and Lakey are canvassing the county in hopes of keeping a looming mosquito threat at bay. (Ryan Thorne/The Idaho Press-Tribune via AP)
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino gives a press conference at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, April 29, 2017. Infantino is in Haiti for a one day visit, and will travel to Cuba in the evening. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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An Alton Public Works employee lowers another section of a new plastic flood barrier into place Tuesday May 2, 2017, in Alton, Ill., as a hose pumps water from the basement of a nearby business into the road. Flood warnings remain for large sections of central and southern Illinois after weekend storms brought several inches of rain. (John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
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A woman looks out at the flooded intersection of Interstate 44 and Highway 141, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in this from the top floor of the Drury Inn in Valley Park, Mo.. The flooded Meramec River has shut down all traffic at the intersection. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Workers from the Ardent Mills sandbag the entrance ahead of still rising Mississippi River floodwaters in Alton, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The high water marks of the two worst floods in Alton's history are painted on the side of the door at right. (John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
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Barb Neels, 78, looks at the rising waters of the Meramec River on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Fenton, Mo. Neels has lived on Riverside Drive next to the Riverside Drive golf course for 55 years and says she has only seen flooding like this once, in the flood in 2015. Behind her is her son, Darryl Davidson. Many neighbor helped build a sandbag wall around her home. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Waters flood the intersection of Interstate 44 and Highway 141, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in this from the top floor of the Drury Inn in Valley Park, Mo.. The flooded Meramec River has shut down all traffic at the intersection. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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The Meramec River continues to rise and push flood waters higher around businesses, such as this scrap metal business at the intersection of Interstate 44 at Highway 141, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Valley Park, Mo. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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In this May 2, 2017, photo, Nepalese revelers attend the Rato Machindranath Chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this May 2, 2017, photo, Nepalese members of the Newar community pull the Rato Machindranath Chariot in Lalitpur, Nepal. The legend says that around the 7th century there was massive drought in the Kathmandu valley. It was believed that the arrival of the red deity would end the drought and bring back the rainfall. Hence then King Narendra Dev along with a priest and farmer travelled to what is now the Assam state in India and brought back Karunamaya, the god of compassion. It is popularly now known as Rato Machindranath. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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FILE- In this Dec. 31, 2015, file photo, Florida State defensive back Derwin James (3) celebrates a tackle during the second half of the Peach Bowl NCAA college football game, in Atlanta. James is part of the reason why the Seminoles have national title hopes. At 6-foot-3 and 211 pounds, he is the prototype for that combo defensive back-linebacker hybrid that has become such a vital piece in defending spread offenses. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2017, file photo, investigators stand by as debris is removed from a house that was destroyed in a deadly explosion in Firestone, Colo. The home explosion that killed two people was caused by unrefined natural gas that was leaking from a small abandoned pipeline from a nearby well, fire officials said Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (Matthew Jonas /The Daily Times Call via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, the Yellowstone River flows over the Intake Diversion Dam, a rock structure that captures water for agriculture, northeast of Glendive, Mont., near the North Dakota border. A federal agency targeted by President Donald Trump for budget cuts next year has only about half the money needed to build a new Yellowstone River dam and bypass channel meant to save an endangered fish, but it plans to begin construction, anyway. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2003 file photo a pallid sturgeon is held by David Hendrix, manager of the Neosho National Fish Hatchery, at Franklin Island, Mo. A federal agency targeted by President Donald Trump for budget cuts next year has only about half the money needed to build a new Yellowstone River dam and bypass channel meant to save an endangered fish, but it plans to begin construction, anyway. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File)
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In this Feb. 21, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2015, file photo, Joe Bowling, supervisor for the Englewood Solar Project, looks over solar panels on the roof of the Englewood Christian Church in Indianapolis. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb faces a Tuesday, May 2, 2017, deadline to take action on a bill that would sharply curtail the benefit available to those who install solar panels. Indiana's utilities lobbied for the measure during the legislative session. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Mike Fender File)
