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A firefighting plane drops fire retardant over a forest near La Londe-les-Maures on the French Riviera, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Authorities ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people as fires hopscotched around the Riviera for a third day Wednesday, tearing through the forest of La Londe-les-Maures. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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A firefighting plane drops fire retardant over a forest near La Londe-les-Maures on the French Riviera, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Authorities ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people as fires hopscotched around the Riviera for a third day Wednesday, tearing through the forest of La Londe-les-Maures. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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Smoke rises above a forest as a fire burns near La Londe-les-Maures on the French Riviera, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Authorities ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people as fires hopscotched around the Riviera for a third day Wednesday, tearing through the forest of La Londe-les-Maures. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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Water floods the historical old town of Goslar, Germany, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Heavy rain in Germany has led to flooding in some areas, with people in one northern city piling sand bags in front of their homes to protect themselves against a swollen river. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
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A street is flooded by the river Nette in Rhuden, Germany, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Continuous rains have lead to floodings in several cities in southern Lower Saxony. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
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A street is flooded by the river Nette in Rhuden, Germany, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Continuous rains have lead to floodings in several cities in southern Lower Saxony. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
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A car of the red cross passes in front of a forest fire near Seillons-Source- d'Argent, southern France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes fanned by high winds in more than a dozen zones in the Riviera region of southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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A forest fire burns near Seillons-Source- d'Argent, southern France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes fanned by high winds in more than a dozen zones in the Riviera region of southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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People kook at a forest fire near Seillons-Source- d'Argent, southern France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes fanned by high winds in more than a dozen zones in the Riviera region of southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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This handout image provided Tuesday, July 25, 2017, from the U.S. Navy purports to show an Iranian vessel making a close approach to a U.S. coastal patrol ship USS Thunderbolt, right. The U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots near the Iranian vessel that American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf. Iran's Revolutionary Guard later blamed the American ship for provoking the situation. (U.S. Navy via AP)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2013 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference to announce the increase in penalties for texting while driving in New York. New York state is set to study the use of a device known as the “textalyzer” that would allow police to determine whether a motorist involved in a serious crash was texting while driving. Cuomo announced Wednesday, July 26, 2017, that he would direct the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee to examine the technology, as well as the privacy and constitutional questions it could raise. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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Texas Rangers' Adrian Beltre jogs to first after earning a walk from Miami Marlins relief pitcher Hunter Cervenka, rear, during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Hearses carrying family members who were killed in a flash flood leave St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Hearses carrying family members who were killed in a flash flood leave St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Hearses carrying family members who were killed in a flash flood leave St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Devin Goldring, left, girlfriend of Cpl. Dan Baldassare, a Marine killed in a military plane crash in Mississippi, speaks during funeral services for Baldassare at the Colts Neck High School football field, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Colts Neck, N.J. Baldassare had graduated from the school in 2015 and played on its football team for four years. Baldassare was among 15 Marines and a Navy sailor who died when their military transport plane slammed into soybean fields in the Mississippi Delta on July 10. He was stationed at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
