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In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017 photo, firefighters battle a brush fire in its second day near South Wenas Road near Selah, Wash. About 150 firefighters from several agencies have been working to contain the fire spanning about 3,000 acres. Officials say the blaze is about 30-percent contained. (Shawn Gust /Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)
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A helicopter drops water on the Lightner Creek Fire on Lightner Creek Road west of Durango, Colo., on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The wildfire in southwestern Colorado has burned at least one home and forced the evacuation of about 140 others, as well as a busy campground. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald via AP)
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In this still frame from video provided by WQOW, a woman searches through debris with a vehicle on the lawn of a home near Martell, Wis., in Pierce County on Thursday, June 29, 2017, after a tornado touched down in western Wisconsin on Wednesday. (WQOW via AP)
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In this June 21, 2017, photo, crews battle a brush fire in Gooding County, Idaho. Fire officials say quick responses by ranchers and others in Idaho to more than 20 wildfires sparked by lightning have kept the small fires from becoming major blazes like those that scorched the region in recent decades. About 10 wildfires remained active Wednesday, June 28, in grass and brush in southern Idaho, with one of the largest just north of the Utah border. (Drew Nash/The Times-News via AP)
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In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017 photo, smoke billows from a brush fire in its second day near South Wenas Road near Selah, Wash. About 150 firefighters from several agencies have been working to contain the fire spanning about 3,000 acres. Officials say the blaze is about 30-percent contained. (Shawn Gust /Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)
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In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017 photo, firefighters work to control a wildfire along Lightner Creek Road west of Durango, Colo. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has declared a disaster emergency to add resources for crews battling a wildfire in the southwest part of the state. (Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald via AP)
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A structure burning on Lightner Creek Road west of Durango, Colo., on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, quickly spread into the surrounding forest, creating the Lightner Creek Fire and burning an estimated 100 acres. (AP Photo/Durango Herald,Jerry McBride)
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In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, Venus Williams answers questions at a press conference following her loss to sister Serena in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. Florida police said Thursday, June 29, 2017, that Williams was in a car crash earlier this month. He said the June 9th crash was under investigation, but declined to give further details. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo, Venus Williams reacts during her match against Kristina Mladenovic at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy-2017 tennis tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia. Florida police said Thursday, June 29, 2017, that Williams was in a car crash earlier this month. He said the June 9th crash was under investigation, but declined to give further details. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
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A woman waits with her umbrella behind a tram station window during heavy rain in Erfurt, Germany, Thursday, June 29, 2017. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather conditions in Germany for the upcoming days. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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People run for shelter during heavy rainfalls in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 29, 2017. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany the next days. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster is brought to the Port Of Los Angeles Wednesday, June 28, 2017 after launching 10 Iridium satellites into orbit Sunday. The booster landed on a SpaceX drone ship off the coast of Mexico. (Daily Breeze/SCNG/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster is brought to the Port Of Los Angeles Wednesday, June 28, 2017 after launching 10 Iridium satellites into orbit Sunday. The booster landed on a SpaceX drone ship off the coast of Mexico. (Daily Breeze/SCNG/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Robert Raines is attended to by medical personnel after being run over in a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina, June 28, 2017. He is charged with felony breaking and entering, larceny and misdemeanor damage to property. (WLOS-13 ABC North Carolina screenshot)
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This June 28, 2017 photo shows Ben Bryant's bean fields shot near Shepherd, Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder said federal officials will conduct a damage assessment with local entities to look at damages and response costs after recent flooding in the state. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Ben Bryant poses for a photo near Shepherd, Mich. He said he has lost some of the soybean plants growing in his fields due to flooding from last week's torrential rains. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Ben Bryant poses for a photo near Shepherd, Mich. He said he has lost some of the soybean plants growing in his fields due to flooding from last week's torrential rains. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)
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Personnel from the Secretary of State's office inspect the damage to the new Ten Commandments monument outside the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday morning, June 28, 2017, after someone crashed into it with a vehicle, less than 24 hours after the privately funded monument was installed on the Capitol grounds. Authorities arrested a male suspect. (AP Photo/Jill Zeman Bleed)
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Kylie Walter holds a sign as she and other kids wait for fire crews to return from fighting a wildfire near the ski town of Brian Head near the town of Panguitch, Utah, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
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This Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2017, photo taken by Tim Roide, Incident Commander, shows an aerial view of burnout areas around Brian Head, Utah. In Utah, firefighters hope Wednesday, June 28, 2017, to douse areas with intense blazes at the Utah fire's southern end so residents can return to homes in the town of Brian Head. Homes there have been evacuated since June 17 since authorities said the fire was started by someone using a torch tool to burn weeds on private land. (Tim Roide/Great Basin Incident Management Type 2 Team, Team 4, via AP)
