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A medic runs to the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. A massive explosion rocked a high security diplomatic area of Kabul Wednesday morning, causing casualties and sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)
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Security forces inspect near the site of an explosion 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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Security forces inspect near the site of an explosion 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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Washington Nationals' Michael Taylor hits a two RBI single off San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Bryan Morris in the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this Monday, May 29, 2017, photo, a crew works on electrical lines after a weekend storm knocked out power to thousands of Tennessee residents in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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In this Monday, May 29, 2017, handout photograph suppled by the Summit County Rescue Group, a rescuer looks on as a hiker is pulled up by an Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter from Quandary Peak near Breckenridge, Colo., after becoming stranded below the summit of the peak the day before because of snow. Two people had to be rescued by the helicopter because dangerous conditions. (Helen Rowe/Summit County Rescue Group via AP)
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FILE- In this Saturday, May 27, 2017, file photo, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler speak at a news conference after a man fatally stabbed two men Friday on a light-rail train when they tried to stop him from yelling anti-Muslim slurs at two young women, in Portland, Ore. Wheeler on Monday urged U.S. officials and organizers to cancel a "Trump Free Speech Rally" and other similar events, saying they are inappropriate and could be dangerous after the fatal stabbing. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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Airport staff inform passengers at the entrance to the Casablanca - New York flight checkpoint at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport on Thursday, March 29, 2017. The U.S. and British governments, citing unspecified threats, are barring passengers on some international flights from mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, tablets, electronic games and other devices on board in carry-on bags. (AP Photo/ Abdeljalil Bounhar)
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This May 22, 2017 file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK TO SUNDAY, NOT SATURDAY - Indiana State Police investigate a one-vehicle accident on Sunday, May 28, 2017, along the Muncie Bypass where a child was killed. Police say a man punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. (Corey Ohlenkamp/The Star Press via AP)
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CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK TO SUNDAY, NOT SATURDAY - Indiana State Police investigate a one-vehicle accident on Sunday, May 28, 2017, along the Muncie Bypass where a child was killed. Police say a man punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. (Corey Ohlenkamp/The Star Press via AP)
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This May 28, 2017 photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Muncie, Ind., shows Nathaniel Jordan. Police say Jordan punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway Sunday, May 28, 2017, causing a single-car crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter. Jordan faces preliminary neglect, criminal recklessness and other charges. (Delaware County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This May 22, 2017 file photo shows the turbine deck at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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This May 22, 2017 file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - This March 30, 1979, file photo shows an aerial view of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, 2017 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
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A Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo shows cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, said Monday, May 29, 2017 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - This is a Wednesday, April 5, 2017, file photo of Adel Bol, 20, cradles as she her 10-month-old daughter Akir Mayen at a food distribution site in Malualkuel in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. The head of the U.N.'s food and agriculture agency warned Tuesday May 30, 2017 that conflict in South Sudan could undermine hopes of avoiding a new famine next year. (AP Photo/File)
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In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo Marty Mozzo poses in his backyard in Ocean City N.J. on the edge of a back bay wetlands. When he and his wife were considering buying the house, they looked at a small trickle of water in the distance and wondered if the property would flood, deciding the water was too far away to pose a danger. Within weeks, their house was surrounded by floodwaters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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FILE - In this May 28, 2017 file photo, the bodies of Indian climbers, that were retrieved from Mount Everest by a rescue team of eight sherpas, lay on the ground in Kathmandu, Nepal. A high-risk expedition to retrieve bodies from Mount Everest has led some to question if risk is acceptable. Bringing bodies down from the mountain gives the families of the deceased closure. But some mountaineers say death is a well-known risk in climbing Everest, and it's not worth endangering more lives to bring down those who are already lost. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
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Investigators work outside a Bogue Chitto, Miss., house Sunday, May 28, 2017, where several people were fatally killed during a house-to-house shooting rampage Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss. A man was arrested Sunday in the shooting rampage that left several people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)