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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2008 file photo, a person is vaccinated against yellow fever at a public hospital in Brasilia, Brazil. Brazil’s Health Ministry has ordered millions of doses of yellow fever vaccines to reinforce its stockpiles amid the largest outbreak of the disease the country has seen since 2000, the ministry said Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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This undated photo made available by NASA shows the Apollo 1 crew, from left, Edward H. White II, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. On Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside their capsule during a countdown rehearsal, with the astronauts atop the rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 34. All three were killed. (NASA via AP)
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FILE - This 1967 file photo shows the charred interior of the Apollo I spacecraft after a fire which killed astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Virgil Grissom on Jan. 27, 1967. A NASA official said the rehearsal had reached 10 minutes away from a simulated blastoff, one of many tests that was to precede the planned flight in the next month. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 1967 file photo, guards stand at the Saturn 1 launch pad area the day after a flash fire killed the Apollo 1 crew at Cape Kennedy, Fla. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil Grissom; Lt. Col Edward H. White, and Lt. Commander Roger Chafee were killed when a fire erupted in their capsule on the launch pad during a preflight test for the Apollo 1, AS-204 mission. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 1967 file photo, technicians and officials inspect the aluminum covered Apollo 1 spacecraft after it was lowered from its booster at pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Fla. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a flash fire erupted in the spacecraft on January 27. (AP Photo/Jim Kerlin, Pool)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 1967 file photo, the Apollo 1 capsule, with black smudge marks visible on the heat shield, is lowered from its Saturn 1 booster at Cape Kennedy, Fla. During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside the craft killing the three Apollo crew members aboard. (AP Photo/Jim Kerlin, Pool)
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In this 1967 photo made available by NASA, the Apollo spacecraft is hoisted to the top of the gantry at Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Fla., for the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside the capsule killing the three Apollo crew members. (NASA via AP)
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In this 1967 photo made available by NASA, the Apollo Command/Service Module in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is prepared for the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside the capsule killing Apollo crew members Roger Chaffee, Edward White II, and Virgil Grissom. (NASA via AP)
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In this June 1966 photo made available by NASA, the Apollo 1 crew practices water evacuation procedures with a full scale model of the spacecraft at Ellington AFB, near the then-Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. In the rafts at right are astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee, foreground. In a raft near the spacecraft is astronaut Virgil Grissom. (NASA via AP)
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In this 1966 photo made available by NASA, technicians work on the Spacecraft 012 Command Module at Cape Kennedy, Fla., for the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside the capsule killing three Apollo crew members. (NASA via AP)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fiery multi-vehicle crash along westbound Interstate 70, at the intersection of Interstate 270, Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, 2017, in Frederick, Md. Maryland State Police spokeswoman Elena Russo said the multiple-vehicle crash, which claimed at least one life, occurred as state police were assisting U.S. Capitol Police with a motorcade traveling from Washington, D.C., to West Virginia. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fiery multi-vehicle crash along westbound Interstate 70, at the intersection of Interstate 270, Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, 2017, in Frederick, Md. Maryland State Police spokeswoman Elena Russo said the multiple-vehicle crash, which claimed at least one life, occurred as state police were assisting U.S. Capitol Police with a motorcade traveling from Washington, D.C., to West Virginia. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP)
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Firefighters extinguish a car that caught fire after a multi-vehicle crash along westbound Interstate 70, at the intersection of Interstate 270, Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, 2017, in Frederick, Md. Maryland State Police spokeswoman Elena Russo said the multiple-vehicle crash, which claimed at least one life, occurred as state police were assisting U.S. Capitol Police with a motorcade traveling from Washington, D.C., to West Virginia. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP)
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A pickup truck dangles over the edge of a sinkhole the swallowed parts of two residential yards Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, 2017, in the Philadelphia suburb of Glenside, Pa. Officials in Cheltenham Township say the hole, which appears to be about 20 feet deep, opened up about 4 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say nobody's been hurt and there was no obvious, immediate cause for the sinkhole to develop. (Emily Casher Loomis via AP)
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Illustration on hidden dangers of Obama's spending legacy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Dennis Rogers stands next to a flooded trail along Los Gatos Creek after a series of storms Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Los Gatos, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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A shovel prepares to dump a load of coal into a 320-ton truck at the Arch Coal Inc.-owned Black Thunder mine in Wright, Wyo., on April 30, 2007. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, explains during his recounting how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way" during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, talks about his efforts of how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way" during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
