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General Manager Steven Hainline walks near a row of burnt Cadillac Escalades at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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A row of burnt Cadillac Escalades sit at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2010 file photo, water diverted from East Maui runs down a ditch toward sugar cane fields at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. plantation in Puunene, Hawaii. Sugar plantations began diverting water from the streams running through the lush hills and valleys of East Maui in 1876. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013, file photo, sandbags are piled up in front of properties damaged by severe beach erosion in the Rocky Point neighborhood of Oahu's North Shore in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. In Hawaii, rising sea levels are expected to push salt water into aquifers that store the state's drinking water. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File) (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2005, file photo, Inupiat hunter Karlin Itchoak coils the rope of a subsistence net after pulling in a beluga whale at Cape Nome near Nome, Alaska, at sunset. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded. (AP Photo/Laurent Dick, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013, file photo, inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2010, file photo, a slurry bomber drops fire retardant on a burning ridge as the sun sets behind it as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, Colo. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, center, pours the ceremonial first footing for the reconstruction of the state office complex Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Waterbury, Vt. The state office complex was largely abandoned after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene inundated the area in August 2011. The new $125 million reconstruction is the largest capital construction project in state history. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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A portion of the Vermont state office complex sits unoccupied in Waterbury, Vt., Tuesday May 6 2014. Most of the complex was abandoned due to flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. After months of demolition and site work, Gov. Peter Shumlin poured concrete for the ceremonial first footing on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this Monday, May 5, 2014 photo, contractors work at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). An ongoing, multibillion-dollar renovation at the nation's third-busiest airport that has mostly been behind the scenes will soon start affecting passengers in ways large and small. LAX officials began warning the public about the coming inconveniences that will stretch over the next few years and affect traffic around the terminals and passenger movements inside them. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )
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In this Monday, May 5, 2014 photo, construction crews work at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). An ongoing, multibillion-dollar renovation at the nation's third-busiest airport that has mostly been behind the scenes will soon start affecting passengers in ways large and small. LAX officials began warning the public about the coming inconveniences that will stretch over the next few years and affect traffic around the terminals and passenger movements inside them. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )
