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A woman walks under blacked out traffic lights during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency officer directs traffic during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem and there was no immediate estimate for restoration of electricity. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A fire truck at top left and other traffic try to make their way around a pair of idled cablecars on California Street after a large power outage Friday, April 21, 2017, in San Francisco. Pacific Gas & Electric says about 90,000 customers have been affected by the outage. The outage includes the Financial District and other areas. One downtown commuter rail station has been shut down. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this undated photo provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, analysts at work in the space debris facility located at ESA's ESOC mission control centre, Darmstadt, Germany. Decades' worth of man-made junk is cluttering up Earth's orbit, posing a threat to spaceflight and the satellites we rely on for weather reports, air travel and global communications. More than 750,000 fragments larger than a centimeter are already thought to orbit Earth, and each one could badly damage or even destroy a satellite. (Roberto Palmari/ESA via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, actress Carrie Fisher attends a special screening of, "Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds," at Alice Tully Hall in New York. The creators of Amazon's "Catastrophe," which stars Fisher in one of her final roles, said news of her death Dec. 27, 2016, was "utterly shocking." "We had no idea. I don't think she had any idea," said series star and co-creator Rob Delaney of possible warning signs or health concerns for the 60-year-old actress. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
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The car belonging to an attacker is towed away from the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, after a fatal shooting in which a police officer was killed along with the attacker, Friday, April 21, 2017. An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Dario Alvarez celebrates getting Kansas City Royals' Alex Gordon to ground out in the 13th inning of a baseball game in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2017. The Rangers won 1-0. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo, taxis await ferry passengers arriving in New Shoreham, R.I. on Block Island. Two taxis operate on the island all year, but more than 30 are licensed to operate during the summer tourist season. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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A Seattle police officer, right, puts an arm around the wife of another officer as they walk near the emergency entrance while helping provide food and other supplies to other officers at Harborview Medical Center, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Seattle. Several officers were shot while responding to a robbery in Saattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this undated photo provided by the New York City Fire Department firefighter William Tolley is shown. Tolley, 42, a 14-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department, died after falling from a roof while fighting a fire in the Queens borough of New York on Thursday, April 20, 2017. He leaves behind a wife and 8-year-old daughter. (New York City Fire Department via AP)
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A view of a fire-damaged campaign sign along Carole Lane in Princess Anne, Md., Saturday, April 15, 2017. Officials have charged two women from the Baltimore area in connection with the burning of a billboard promoting President Donald Trump. (Deborah Gates/The Daily Times via AP)
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This Monday, April 17, 2017 photo shows a charging station for electric cars in Guilderland, N.Y For drivers of electric cars in remote areas, "range anxiety" can be more pronounced when the nearest charging station is dozens of miles away over winding roads. Cold winters take a bite out of battery power, as do steep hills. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)
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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2016 file photo, a U.S. Air Force Hazmat team inspects the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane that crashed in the Sutter Butte mountains near Yuba City, Calif. The U.S. Air Force says pilot error forced two airmen to eject from a U2 spy plane while on a training mission from a Northern California base in September, killing one of them. The Air Force released findings of its probe of the crash near Sutter, Calif., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Residents of East Chicago, Ind., and supporters rally near a public-housing complex Wednesday, April 19, 2017, ahead of a visit by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt was scheduled to to tour the complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Ind., following a tour of a public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Eddis Marie Loving, of East Chicago, Ind., holds a sign as supporters and residents of East Chicago, Ind., rally near a public-housing complex Wednesday, April 19, 2017, ahead of a visit by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt was scheduled to to tour the complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Ind., following a tour of a public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2015 file still frame from surveillance video at Denver's Downtown Detention Center, released by the Denver Department of Safety via the law firm Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP, 50-year-old homeless man Michael Marshall is placed into a restraint chair by Denver sheriff's deputies during a psychotic episode. He later died. Denver announced Wednesday, April 19, 2017, that two deputies and a supervisor were being disciplined in Marshall's death. (Denver Department of Safety/Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP via AP, File)
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The charred remains of the interior of the historic Philip Craft house, Wednesday, April 18, 2017, in Pittsylvania County, Va. The cause of the fire, which started the night before, is under investigation. The home was designated a national historic landmark in 2001. (Matt Bell/The Register & Bee via AP)
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A sign, designating the Philip Craft house an historic landmark, hangs on the home's facade, Wednesday, April 18, 2017, in Pittsylvania County, Va. The home, which was designated a national historic landmark in 2001, was destroyed by a fire the night before. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (Matt Bell/The Register & Bee via AP)
