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Pallbearers Newark police Officer Patrick Smith, left, and Alameda County Sheriff Deputy Ed Smith, right, brothers of police Sgt. Tom Smith Jr. carry Smith's casket out of the Neighborhood Church of Castro Valley following a funeral service in Castro Valley, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Smith was fatally shot in the line of duty on Jan. 21, by a fellow Bay Area Rapid Transit officer during the search of suspect's apartment in Dublin, Calif. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Anda Chu) MANDATORY CREDIT.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer Kellie Smith carriers her daughter Summer, 6, after funeral services for her husband, BART police Sgt. Tom Smith Jr. at the Neighborhood Church on Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014, in Castro Valley, Calif. Smith, 42, died last week after being shot by fellow BART officer Michael Maes during an apartment search in Dublin, Calif. (AP Photo/Bay Area New Group, Aric Crabb) MANDATORY CREDIT
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FILE - In this March 13, 2005 file photo, Monarch butterflies gather on a tree at the El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary near Angangueo, Mexico. The number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico has plunged to its lowest level since studies began in 1993. A report released on Jan. 29, 2014 by the World Wildlife Fund, Mexico’s Environment Department and the Natural Protected Areas Commission blames the dramatic decline on the insect’s loss of habitat due to illegal logging in Mexico’s mountaintop forests and the massive displacement of its food source, the milkweed plant. (AP Photo/Kirsten Luce, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011 file photo, a Monarch butterfly perches on a tree at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state. The number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico has plunged to its lowest level since studies began in 1993. A report released on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 by the World Wildlife Fund, Mexico’s Environment Department and the Natural Protected Areas Commission blames the dramatic decline on the insect's loss of habitat due to illegal logging in Mexico’s mountaintop forests and the massive displacement of its food source, the milkweed plant. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
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State Sen. Berta Gardner, D-Anchorage, speaks to reporters during a Senate Minority news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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A pedestrian walks along the Calvin S. Hamilton Pedway in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014. Mayors from 10 U.S. cities on Wednesday, promised to make their buildings more energy efficient as part of an effort to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 459 at US highway 280 as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles Wednesday January 29, 2014 in Birmingham, Ala. The winter storm that hit Alabama on Tuesday was wider and more severe than many officials expected. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)
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File - In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, Hugh Beggs of Santa Rosa, Calif., searches for coins in the middle of the Russian River at Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach in Healdsburg, Calif., taking advantage of the way below normal river flow. Seventeen rural communities in drought-stricken California are in danger of running out of water within four months, according to a list compiled by state officials. Wells are running dry or reservoirs are nearly empty in some communities. Others have long-running problems that predate the drought. The communities range from the area covered by the tiny Lompico County Water District in Santa Cruz County to the cities of Healdsburg and Cloverdale in Sonoma County. (AP Photo/ Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Kent Porter, File)
