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A man and his dog stand on a bridge and look at the Russian River, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Guerneville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Vineyards remain flooded in the Russian River Valley, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Forestville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this photo, made available by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a fire crew responds Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at the scene of an overturned diesel tanker truck involved in a high wind-related accident, with the tanker spilling about 2000 gallons of diesel, along Interstate 70 near Gypsum, in western Colo. High winds have overturned some large vehicles and damaged buildings in the Colorado Springs area while ice is making travel dangerous in western Colorado. (Randy McIntosh/CDOT via AP)
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The USS Mahan (DDG-72) fired warning shots at Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (U.S. Navy)
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FILE – This Dec. 5, 2015, file photo provided by the Franklin County Jail shows Joel Jenkins, a former Pike County, Ohio, sheriff's deputy indicted in two fatal shootings. Jenkins is set to go on trial Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, on charges linked to a March 2015 high-speed chase that ended with the fatal on-duty shooting of motorist Robert C. Rooker. Jenkins pleaded not guilty in that shooting, and in what he says was the accidental shooting of a neighbor later that year. (Franklin County Jail via AP, File)
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Rosie Salazar stands on Amapola Street after alerting neighbors that a tree had fallen and crushed two cars Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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A vehicle drives past a truck struck on a log Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, near Rancho Murieta, Calif. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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A Santa Clara County Roads and Airport Department worker responds to the scene of downed tree and mudslide on Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group via AP)
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In this Saturday Jan. 7, 2017 photo, City of Reno crews close flood-prone roads and bridges in Northern Nevada late Saturday, including the Lake Street bridge over the Truckee River by the old Reno Arch in downtown Reno, Nevada. The region's worst flooding in a decade is forecast Sunday night into Monday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Boston Bruins' Kevan Miller (86) and Carolina Hurricanes' Brock McGinn (23) collide while chasing the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Traffic crosses the raging Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Sparks firefighters monitor the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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A Sparks firefighter takes a picture of the rising Truckee River, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, where it runs near the Grand Sierra hotel-casino along a line that divides the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Local residents braved the heavy rain to fill sandbags on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, near the Truckee River in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Sandbags line the doors of the Alamo truck stop and casino along U.S. Interstate 80 due to flooding Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in Sparks, Nev. More than 1,000 homes have been evacuated due to overflowing streams and drainage ditches in the area, which remains under a flood warning through Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Semi-trucks line the shoulder of Interstate 5 south of Eugene, Ore. Sunday Jan. 8, 2017 as drivers chain up for the drive north through a winter storm. Snow and sleet are making for treacherous roads in Oregon, with the state police warning that they can't keep up with all the crashes. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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A "closed" sign stands at the entrance of a normally busy ice rink at the Half Dome Village of Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Saturday, Jan 7, 2016. The area has been evacuated ahead of possible flooding of the Merced River from a storm system in Northern California. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
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A city worker removes snow from a crosswalk as a winter storm blankets the area in Carrboro, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
