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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, boats stay at sea with evacuated tourists after after a wild fire broke out near their resort in the Sicilian area of San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, southern Italy. Wildfires fueled by heat and winds have been blazing across much of southern Italy, encroaching on the Amalfi coast and elsewhere. (Ferruccio Donato via AP).
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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, tourists sit at a resort cafe as smoke is seen in the background, before being evacuated by sea after a wild fire approached the resort, in the Sicilian area of San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, southern Italy. Wildfires fueled by heat and winds have been blazing across much of southern Italy, encroaching on the Amalfi coast and elsewhere. (Ferruccio Donato via AP).
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A resident, wishing not to be identified, looks inside a fire ravaged home Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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A fire-ravage hillside is seen, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Firefighters Daniel Lizardo, right, and Victor Velasquez walk in front of a fire-ravaged home Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Firefighters Daniel Lizardo, left, and Victor Velasquez walk in front of a fire-ravaged home Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Firefighters stage in front of a fire ravage property Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this July 19,1994, file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed by the Korea News Service, the vehicle carrying the body of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung passes by the honor guard during his funeral in Pyongyang, North Korea. For nearly 70 years, the three generations of the Kim family have run North Korea with an absolute rule that tolerates no dissent. The ruling family has devoted much of the country's scarce resources to its military but has constantly feared Washington is intent on destroying the authoritarian government. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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In this February 1948 file photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency and distributed by Korea News Service, Kim Il Sung attends the military parade celebrating the creation of the North Korean People's Army. For nearly 70 years, the three generations of the Kim family have run North Korea with an absolute rule that tolerates no dissent. The ruling family has devoted much of the country's scarce resources to its military but has constantly feared Washington is intent on destroying the authoritarian government. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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In this May 25, 2009, photo U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. William Kundrat places a wreath during a Memorial Day ceremony at the FSK Post 11, American Legion in Frederick, Md. Kundrat, 33, who grew up in Frederick, Md., was killed in a plane crash Monday, July 10, 2017, in Mississippi. (Sam Yu/The Frederick News-Post via AP)
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Terry Murray, father of Marines Sgt. Joseph Murray, talks about his son during a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Sgt. Murray was one of the Marines killed in a plane crash Monday in Mississippi. (Bob Mack/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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Military personnel search the fields surrounding the site of a military plane crash near Itta Bena in Leflore County, Miss., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday. (Elijah Baylis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
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Terry Murray hugs his daughter Grace, 18, after speaking on behalf of his family about the loss of his son, Marines Sgt. Joseph Murray, at a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Sgt. Murray was one of the Marines killed in a plane crash Monday in Mississippi. (Bob Mack/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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In this file photo, the United States flag flies at half-staff over the state Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, July 12, 2017, following the death of six Marines and a Navy sailor from Camp Lejeune, who were among the 16 service members killed Monday when their plane crashed in a field in rural Mississippi. The plane was a KC-130T, a tanker from Marine Aerial Refueling and Transport Squadron 452, a Marine Forces Reserve unit based in Fort Stewart, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) **FILE**
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A man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago In this April 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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Jay Miller of the Madison Forestry Department used a chainsaw on a damaged ash tree after a lightning strike destroyed it early Wednesday July 12, 2017, in Madison, Wis. Heavy thunderstorms are flooding roads and low-lying areas in southern Wisconsin. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
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Pittsburgh Penguins NHL hockey player Sidney Crosby, center, laughs with Colorado Avalanche's Nathan MacKinnon, second from right, during an on-ice session at the Sidney Crosby Hockey School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Smoke rises from wild fires burning on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius volcano as the Castel dell'Ovo castle in seen in the foreground, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Firefighters are battling wildfires throughout southern Italy, including along the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Wildfires have been raging for days, and Italy's civil protection agency on Tuesday said it was responding with helicopters to 18 blazes, including four in Campania, the region which includes Naples, and two each in Sicily and Basilicata. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)
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Smoke rises from wild fires burning on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius volcano as the Castel dell'Ovo castle in seen in the foreground, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Firefighters are battling wildfires throughout southern Italy, including along the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Wildfires have been raging for days, and Italy's civil protection agency on Tuesday said it was responding with helicopters to 18 blazes, including four in Campania, the region which includes Naples, and two each in Sicily and Basilicata. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)
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Woodland fires burn near a tourist resort where, according to firefighter reports, some several hundred tourists have been evacuated by land and sea, in the Sicilian town of San Vito lo Capo, southern Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Wildfires have been raging for days and Italian firefighters said Wednesday they were responding to 887 fires throughout Italy, 628 of which regarded vegetation and woodlands. (Italian Firefighters Vigili del Fuoco via AP)
