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Students leave The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, Wash., after a threat prompted a student alert and evacuation on Thursday, June 1, 2017. (Lisa Pemberton/The Olympian via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, floodwaters run down a street in Worland, Wyo. Relatively minor flooding occurred in Wyoming during May from melting snow, but water experts caution residents along rivers and streams not to become complacent because the mountain snowpack remains exceptionally deep in many places and the main runoff is expected to be prolonged this year. (Karla Pomeroy/Northern Wyoming Daily News via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, ice that began to break up overnight shows the clearing on the Bighorn river near Worland, Wyo. Relatively minor flooding occurred in Wyoming during May from melting snow, but water experts caution residents along rivers and streams not to become complacent because the mountain snowpack remains exceptionally deep in many places and the main runoff is expected to be prolonged this year. (Karla Pomeroy/Northern Wyoming Daily News via AP, File)
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FILE -In this Saturday Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, People talk at a sandbagged entrance of the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant, which is situated next to the Schuylkill river, as the establishment prepares for Hurricane Irene in Philadelphia. The National Hurricane Center will start issuing advisories giving deadlines for when communities should complete their storm preparations. The experimental advisories will show when tropical-storm force winds may hit particular communities to help them understand when it's too late to put up storm shutters or evacuate. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
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FILE- In this Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 file photo, Home Depot employees, Richard Howell, left, and Farid Elattar, right, load up emergency generators for Virginia Beach residents in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Virginia Beach, Va. The National Hurricane Center will start issuing advisories giving deadlines for when communities should complete their storm preparations. The experimental advisories will show when tropical-storm force winds may hit particular communities to help them understand when it's too late to put up storm shutters or evacuate. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2015 file photo, a taxi driver transports a car full of passengers in Havana, Cuba. The state has promised special access to gas and car parts to taxi drivers who comply with widely flouted government caps on fares. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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An accident resulted in large fuel fire on northbound Interstate 25 between Orchard Road and Bellevue Ave. Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Denver. Both directions of I-25 were shut down while fire fighters battled the blaze. (Steve Nehf/The Denver Post via AP)
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An accident resulted in large fuel fire on northbound Interstate 25 between Orchard Road and Bellevue Ave. Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Both directions of I-25 were shut down while fire fighters battled the blaze. (Steve Nehf/The Denver Post via AP)
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A mansion is seen under construction on Strada Vecchia Road in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Mohamed Hadid, a developer of luxury homes, has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of this Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A 30,000-square-foot structure is seen unfinished in Los Angeles Wednesday, May. 31, 2017. Mohamed Hadid, a developer of luxury homes has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of this Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved. City officials ordered work on the gigantic home stopped three years ago amid claims by neighbors below that the hillside above their homes had been destabilized. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A mansion is seen under construction on Strada Vecchia Road in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Mohamed Hadid, a developer of luxury homes, has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of this Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A 30,000-square-foot structure is seen unfinished in Los Angeles Wednesday, May. 31, 2017. Mohamed Hadid, a developer of luxury homes has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of this Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved. City officials ordered work on the gigantic home stopped three years ago amid claims by neighbors below that the hillside above their homes had been destabilized. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A 30,000-square-foot structure is seen unfinished in Los Angeles Wednesday, May. 31, 2017. Mohamed Hadid, a developer of luxury homes has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of this Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved. City officials ordered work on the gigantic home stopped three years ago amid claims by neighbors below that the hillside above their homes had been destabilized. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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People carry an injured man after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. A massive explosion rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, causing casualties and sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. (AP Photos/Rahmat Gul)
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California Highway Patrol officers conduct an investigation at a shooting scene in the Walmart parking lot in Hesperia, Calif., Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Fire officials say two people have been taken to the hospital after being injured in a shooting outside of a Walmart store in California. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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Hesperia Sheriff's Station deputies begin an investigation after a shooting which happened at the Walmart in Hesperia, Calif., Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Fire officials say two people have been taken to the hospital after being injured in a shooting outside of a Walmart store in California. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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A car involved in a shooting remains open at the Walmart in Hesperia, Calif., Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Fire officials say two people have been taken to the hospital after being injured in a shooting outside of a Walmart store in California. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)
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In this image provided by the Pentagon, a leaflet the U.S. dropped in Syria warning the forces to leave the area. A Pentagon spokesman said the leaflets told the pro-government forces to leave the established protected zone, which is about 55 kilometers around an area where U.S. and coalition forces have been operating. (Pentagon via AP)
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In this Thursday, May 25, 2017, photo, a pedestrian walks on the pedestrian mall in New York's Times Square as traffic makes it's way down Seventh Avenue. The attack that killed an 18-year-old woman and injured 20 other people in Times Square is spurring calls to ban cars from the famed "crossroads of the world." Eight years after Broadway became a pedestrian-only zone at Times Square, some city officials and others say the vehicle restrictions should be expanded to include Seventh Avenue. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Security forces carry the wreckage of car near the site of a suicide attack where German Embassy is located in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. A massive explosion rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, causing casualties and sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. (AP Photos/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **