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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, rescue workers walk past the Northridge Meadows Apartments that collapsed during the Northridge earthquake early that morning, killing 16 people. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, gas from a ruptured supply line burns as water from broken water main floods Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles Monday morning, Jan. 17, 1994. The fire from the gas main destroyed two homes, right. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. ( AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, the Santa Monica Freeway has split and collapsed over La Cienega Boulevard following the Northridge quake in the predawn hours. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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In this Jan. 8, 2014 photo, Jonathan Stewart, chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, poses at the reconstructed La Cienega Boulevard overpass of the Santa Monica Freeway, that was destroyed in the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - This January 1994 file photo, provided by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, shows a collapsed freeway support pylon at the La Cienega Boulevard overpass following the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.)
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File - In this April 11, 2013 file photo, the Contract Fabricators Inc. facility in Kemper County near De Kalb, Miss. is severely damaged after a tornado ripped through the area. A man who was working at the site was killed. The Storm Prediction Center plans to broaden its days-in-advance warning system for severe weather after finding the days labeled with a “Slight Risk” tag turned out to have storms that were fairly stout _ and even deadly. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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File - In this April 11, 2013 file photo, Shuqualak, Miss. residents begin cleanup of debris from homes after a tornado plowed through rural sections of eastern Mississippi, killing at least one person and causing widespread damage and power outages, officials said. The Storm Prediction Center plans to broaden its days-in-advance warning system for severe weather after finding the days labeled with a “Slight Risk” tag turned out to have storms that were fairly stout _ and even deadly. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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In this Jan. 13, 2014, photo, Al Jones of the West Virginia department of General Services tests the water as he flushes the faucet and opens a rest room on the first floor of the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation’s waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies for decades, spoiling private wells, shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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In this Jan. 13, 2014, photo, workers, left, inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W.Va. The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation’s waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies for decades, spoiling private wells, shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Sarah Bergstrom poses for a photo with her son Blake, 4, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in her home in Charleston, W.Va. The 29-year-old nurse who is 4 months pregnant with her second child was devastated when she learned after a ban on tap water was lifted days after a chemical leak that health officials urged pregnant women not to drink tap water until the chemical is entirely undetectable. (AP Photo/John Raby)
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This photo combo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows Marine Capt. Matthew P. Manoukian, left, and Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote who will both posthumously receive the Navy Cross for actions while deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. The awards will be received by the families of the two during a ceremony Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/US Marine Corps)
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Traffic passes along the 10 freeway as thick smoke passes over downtown Los Angeles from a wildfire burning in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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A firefighting helicopter passes over the hills behind homes as a wildfire burns just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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A helicopter drops water on a fire burning near homes on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Azusa, Calif. A wildfire burned out of control near homes in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains early Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into neighborhoods in the city below, igniting trees. Evacuations were ordered for houses at the edge of the fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
