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Illustration of American consul Raymond Geist The Washington Times
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Supporters of Nabra Hassanen, who was killed over the weekend in a road rage incident, hand out flowers prior to the start of a vigil in honor of Nabar Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Reston, Va. About 5,000 mourners attended Wednesday's funeral of Nabre, a Muslim girl whose beating death, blamed by police on a motorist's road rage, has some people in her community fearing for their safety. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Supporters of Nabra Hassanen, who was killed over the weekend in a road rage incident, kneel and pray with a rosary prior to the start of a vigil in honor of Nabar on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Reston, Va. About 5,000 mourners attended Wednesday's funeral of Nabre, a Muslim girl whose beating death, blamed by police on a motorist's road rage, has some people in her community fearing for their safety. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Don Noel carries his daughter Alexis, 8, with his wife Lauren, right as they walk through a flooded roadway to check on their boat in the West End section of New Orleans, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Esther Martens walk through a flooded roadway to get to her car in the West End section of New Orleans, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Waves crash against the Okaloosa Island Pier near Fort Walton Beach, Fla, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, as heavy surf brought on by Tropical Storm Cindy kept the waters closed to swimmers. (Michael Snyder/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi plays against the Minnesota Lynx in the first quarter of a WNBA playoff semifinal basketball game, in St. Paul, Minn. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi (3) celebrates late in the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Connecticut Sun, in Phoenix. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi smiles as she speaks during a news conference at the team's basketball media day, in Phoenix. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Jonas Cheramie, left, and his sister Lainey Cheramie, watch storm clouds from Tropical Storm Cindy, as they babysit A.J. Aaron, 5, in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Storm surge, coupled with high tide, leaves a pier on East Beach in Ocean Springs nearly submerged as Tropical Storm Cindy moves onshore in Ocean Springs, Miss., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (Warren Kulo/The Mississippi Press via AP)
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Storm surge and heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Cindy cause flooding in many areas of the Mississippi coast, including this area at the foot of Washington Avenue just off Front Beach in Ocean Springs, Miss., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (Warren Kulo/The Mississippi Press via AP)
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Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm's slow crawl toward land. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert2
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Volunteers put out sand bags due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cindy in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed the storm's slow crawl toward land. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Signage indicates to drivers that The Big Store on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas is out of gas as a storm pushed towards landfall Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the State Operations Center to raise its readiness level. He also activated four Texas Task Force 1 boat squads and two Texas Military Department vehicles squads of five vehicles each to respond to any weather-related emergencies. (Guiseppe Barranco/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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Dustin Shelton fills sandbags at Orange County Precinct 3's maintenance barn in Bridge City, Texas, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in preparation for Tropical Storm Cindy. (Ryan Pelham/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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Vehicles navigate past waves and debris washing over State Highway 87 as Tropical Storm Cindy approaches Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in High Island, Texas. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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CORRECTS YEAR TO 2017 FROM 2007 - In this June 16, 2017, photo, Kaleb Sease, of rural McClusky, N.D., stands by the water delivery truck he drives for the Co-op Elevator of McClusky's chemical sales. He said there isn't much call for herbicide out in the countryside without a crop this year, plus he has the additional stress of maintaining his own and family cows in drought conditions. Nearly one-third of North Dakota is in severe drought, and the National Weather Service said there's no relief on the horizon. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, May 15, 2017 file photo, people are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. health agency and some major partners have agreed on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the impoverished country, which is already facing war and the risk of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, file)
