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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2015, file photo, San Diego State coach Steve Fisher talks with guard Jeremy Hemsley during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Kansas in San Diego. Two people with knowledge of the situation said Monday, April 10, 2017, that Fisher is retiring after spending 18 seasons as San Diego State's basketball coach. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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In this March 4, 2017 photograph, UAW president Dennis Williams calls for Nissan auto workers to demand their rights during a speech before thousands gathered at a pro-union rally near Nissan Motor Co.'s Canton, Miss., plant. The National Labor Relations Board on March 31, 2017, leveled new charges that Nissan Motor Co. and a contract worker agency at Nissan's Mississippi plant are violating workers' rights. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks on stage as part of a conversation put on by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Monday, April 10, 2017. (Melanie Maxwell /The Ann Arbor News via AP) ** FILE **
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This Monday, April 3, 2017, file photo, shows the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Commissioners in Palm Beach County are so tired of spending money on President Donald Trump's frequent visits to his Mar-a-Lago resort, some are suggesting a special tax be levied against the property. Trump's visits have cost Palm Beach County taxpayers about $2 million. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, file photo, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Banking Committee. In the results of an investigation released Monday, April 10, 2017, Wells Fargo's board of directors has blamed the bank's most senior management for creating an "aggressive sales culture" at Wells that eventually led to the bank's scandal over millions of unauthorized accounts. The results of the investigation, conducted by the law firm Shearman & Sterling, also called for millions of dollars in compensation to be clawed back from former CEO Stumpf and community bank executive Carrie Tolstedt. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2012, file photo, a Wells Fargo sign is displayed at a branch in New York. In the results of an investigation released Monday, April 10, 2017, Wells Fargo's board of directors has blamed the bank's most senior management for creating an "aggressive sales culture" at Wells that eventually led to the bank's scandal over millions of unauthorized accounts. (AP Photo/CX Matiash, File)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, an interior view of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car shows room for departments to add their own electronics and accessories in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, an interior view of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car shows room for departments to add their own electronics and accessories in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this March 21, 2011, file photo, from left, former President Bill Clinton, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush stand for the National Anthem at the Kennedy Center. Clinton has been spending some time with former President George H. W. Bush and wife Barbara in Houston. In the tweet on Sunday, April 9, 2017, Clinton said they "caught up about kids, grandkids, old times and new times. And socks." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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In this Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, students and faculty from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois work on a home in the Lower 9th Ward that was being built by Habitat for Humanity, in New Orleans. A major rebuilding effort is underway in the New Orleans neighborhood decimated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Officials and some residents hope the houses planned for the Lower 9th Ward will bring in new residents and spur economic development, but others have concerns. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In this Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, students and faculty from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois work on a home in the Lower 9th Ward that was being built by Habitat for Humanity, in New Orleans. A major rebuilding effort is underway in the New Orleans neighborhood decimated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Officials and some residents hope the houses planned for the Lower 9th Ward will bring in new residents and spur economic development, but others have concerns. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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FILE – In this April 4, 2017, file photo, plumes of steam drift from the cooling tower of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in Ohio would pay higher rates under a proposed bailout for the state's two nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio. The aging plants provide jobs and make 14 percent of Ohio's electricity, but face stiff competition from cheaper natural gas plants. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
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In this May 20, 2005, file photo, plumes of steam drift from a cooling tower of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant along Lake Erie in North Perry, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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FILE – In this April 12, 2005, file photo, operator Kevin Holko monitors the control room during a scheduled refueling shutdown at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in Ohio would pay higher rates under a proposed bailout for the state's two nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio. The aging plants provide jobs and make 14 percent of Ohio's electricity, but face stiff competition from cheaper natural gas plants. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2014 file photo, highway repair work causes drivers entering Sacramento on eastbound Highway 50 to come to a near standstill as traffic backs up in West Sacramento, Calif. Improving the nation’s roads and bridges would require $120 billion a year through 2020, according to a recent U.S. Department of Transportation estimate. But annual spending at all levels of government is just $88 billion. And the nation's mass transit systems have over a $90 billion backlog of maintenance and repair needs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - This June 30, 2008 file photo shows the Casicano Memorial Bridge at center and the Manhattan, New York skyline in the background as a passenger airplane lands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Improving the nation’s roads and bridges would require $120 billion a year through 2020, according to a recent U.S. Department of Transportation estimate. But annual spending at all levels of government is just $88 billion. And the nation's mass transit systems have over a $90 billion backlog of maintenance and repair needs. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
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In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, a laser cuts through Baltic birch at Olympus Laser Creations in Rochester, Wash. (Pete Caster/The Chronicle via AP)
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In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Steve Luce, bottom left, and Lance Crummett, owners of Olympus Laser Creations, work in their shop in Rochester, Wash. Luce and Crummett craft wood into elaborate boxes with their laser-guided carving machine. (Pete Caster/The Chronicle via AP)
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In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017 photo, Steve Luce shows off some of the intricate geometric shapes a laser can create at Olympus Laser Creations in Rochester, Wash. (Pete Caster/The Chronicle via AP)
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In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Lance Crummett, left, and Steve Luce, owners of Olympus Laser Creations, look on as a laser cuts through Baltic birch at their shop in Rochester, Wash. Crummett and Luce create intricate wooden shapes using a laser as the carving instrument. (Pete Caster/The Chronicle via AP)
