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In this photo taken March 26, 2014, McCook, Nebraska, High School student Keith Helm, a member of the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department’s new junior program, learns to trust his fellow firefighters as he acquires rope rescue and rappelling skills on a cliff at the fire barn Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Thirteen teens have joined the program and are learning how to fight fires and the skills that accompany and complement firefighting. (AP Photo/Daily Gazette, Connie Jo Discoe)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo, snow covers the Montpelier High School baseball field in Montpelier, Vt. The team is scheduled to hold its first scrimmage next week followed by a game several days later. But it's likely to be the end of the month before the field can be used. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo, baseball player Michael Roach takes batting practice in the Montpelier High School gym in Montpelier, Vt. Though the calendar says it's spring, the long-lasting winter has kept many Vermont spring sports teams from venturing outside. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this Jan. 27, 2014 photo provided by Jane Rohman, Ilie Wacs, right, speaks to University of New Haven students gathered at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in New York. The students from the Connecticut college are working on a daunting assignment: Who was the suspected Nazi who protected Wacs and his Jewish family 75 years ago from violence, and warned them to flee Vienna, Austria just before World War II broke out? (AP Photo/Jane Rohman)
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A statue of U.S. District Judge Waites Waring, one of three federal judges to hear a key school desegregation case from Clarendon County, S.C., in 1951, stands outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on April 3, 2014. Waring was the first judge to write an opinion that separate schools are not equal schools since separate but equal became the law of the land in the late 1800s. The statue is being dedicated on April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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An historical marker describing a key school desegregation case from Clarendon County, S.C., is seen outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on April 3, 2014. One of the three judges who heard the case, U.S. District Judge Waites Waring, was the first judge to write an opinion that separate schools are not equal schools since separate but equal became the law of the land in the late 1800s. A statue of Waring is being dedicated outside the courthouse on April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
