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IOC President Thomas Bach speaks to the media following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. With Abe, Bach discussed the possibility of staging some Olympic events in the northeastern region of Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. "Baseball and softball were some of the options under discussion," Bach said. (Yoshinobu Shimizu/Kyodo News via AP)
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Capitals goalie Philipp Grubauer taps T.J. Oshie as they leave the ice after the team's 3-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, celebrates his goal with Braden Holtby (70) during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Arizona Dept. of Public Safety officers work at the scene of a seven-vehicle, chain-reaction collision that closed Interstate-10 westbound north of Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (Rick Wiley/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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Aurora Flight Sciences' Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS), is mounted in the co-pilot seat of a Cessena Caravan aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va., Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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This Nov. 5, 2015, photo shows a heavy earth mover building a sea wall on Majuro Atoll, Marshall. Rising seas in the Marshall Islands can be seen on many of the Atolls in the group as more coastline disappears and vegetation is washed away. The US military ignored warnings about rising seas to build a space radar costing nearly a billion dollars on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Space Fence system is considered vital for keeping astronauts and satellites safe by tracking space junk as small as a baseball.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2015, file photo, firefighters work at the scene where a small business jet crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio. The National Transportation Safety Board is scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, to decide the probable cause of a corporate jet crash that killed the two pilots and seven passengers, and occurred within two miles of Akron Fulton International Airport while descending for landing. No one on the ground was injured. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)
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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Orbital ATK's sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station is delivering over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this Oct. 17, 1966 photo, Fire Department of New York firefighters stand at attention as the caskets of fallen firefighters are brought to a New York church for funeral services after a blaze that began on Oct. 17, 1966 in the basement of a business on Manhattan's East 23rd St. killed 12 firefighters. The blaze fifty years ago remained the deadliest day in FDNY's history, until the department lost 343 members on Sept. 11, 2001. (Fire Department of New York via AP)
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley talks about Hurricane Matthew recovery on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in West Columbia, S.C. SCANA Corp. donated to the One SC Fund for hurricane relief. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, left, delivers a speech as director Fisher Stevens looks on as they attend the french premiere of the film 'Before the Flood' in Paris, Monday Oct. 17, 2016. (Christophe Archambault/Pool photo via AP)
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Freddie Mercury born Farrokh Bulsara, September 5, 1946 – November 24,1991. (AP Photo)
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Doctors Without Borders has managed to get aid to a camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, but as many as 75,000 children will die in the next year as families seeking refuge from Boko Haram find famine-like conditions. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the dangers of TPP by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Los Angeles police investigators work the scene of a fatal shooting in the Crenshaw District neighborhood of Los Angeles, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. According to police an early morning argument at a restaurant triggered gunfire. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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CORRECTS LOCATION OF FIRE SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA - Hand crews finish up work on the Emerald Fire along Highway 89, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 on the southwest shores of Lake Tahoe. The blaze that burned about 200 acres northwest of South Lake Tahoe, California was one of three wind-whipped wildfires burning along the Sierra Nevada. The largest one destroyed more than 20 homes in a rural valley between Carson City and Reno, Nevada. (Randall Benton/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1992, file photo, New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd puts pressure on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young during an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car crash in Oklahoma. He was 50. (AP Photo/Bob Strong, File)
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CORRECTS AGE TO 50 - FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, file photo, former New York Jets player Dennis Byrd speaks during a halftime ceremony to retire his number during the second half of an NFL football game between the Jets and the Miami Dolphins, in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car accident. He was 50. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Byrd, a former college player at Tulsa, was killed in a two-vehicle collision on Oklahoma 88, north of Claremore. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1992, file photo, New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd puts pressure on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young during an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car crash in Oklahoma. He was 51. (AP Photo/Bob Strong, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, file photo, former New York Jets player Dennis Byrd speaks during a halftime ceremony to retire his number during the second half of an NFL football game between the Jets and the Miami Dolphins, in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car accident. He was 51. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Byrd, a former college player at Tulsa, was killed in a two-vehicle collision on Oklahoma 88, north of Claremore. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
