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Firefighters stand a the top of the hillside as mop up operations continue from a four-alarm grass fire that scorched approximately 40 acres Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Vallejo, Calif. Firefighters have brought a grass fire near Interstate Highway 80 under control after the blaze damaged several properties nearby. The blaze in Vallejo caused major backups on I-80 where three out of five lanes were still closed several hours after the blaze started, according to California Highway Patrol. (Joel Rosenbaum/The Vacaville Reporter via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Hilda Heine, President of Marshall Islands, speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2015, file photo, representatives of NGOs display a banner in front of a reproduction of the Eiffel towerat the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget north of Paris. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, a boat lies wrecked and stuck on a sea wall after it crashed into the back of Foreign Minister Tony de Brum's house on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, file)
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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2015, file photo, a large pile of rubbish made up of wrecked cars, washing machines and old fridges are stacked high to form a make-shift sea wall on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2015 file, aerial photo a small uninhabited island that has slipped beneath the water line only showing a small pile of rocks at low tide on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
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FILE--In this June 28, 2016 photo, members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light gather under a tarp at their campsite in Mount Tabor, Vt. Concern is growing in a conservative, remote corner of Oregon as people start arriving in a national forest for this year's Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering, a counter-culture get-together expected to draw thousands. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, file)
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FILE--In this June 28, 2016 file photo, members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light gather under a tarp at their campsite in Mount Tabor, Vt. Concern is growing in a conservative, remote corner of Oregon as people start arriving in a national forest for this year's Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering, a counter-culture get-together expected to draw thousands. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, file)
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Water levels rise after a combination of high tide and the rain from Tropical Storm Cindy in Lake Charles, La., Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Rick Hickman/American Press via AP)
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Water levels rise after a combination of high tide and the rain from Tropical Storm Cindy in Lake Charles, La., Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Rick Hickman/American Press via AP)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2005, file photo, thousands of white pelicans and their nests are visible on two small islands in the middle of Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, in N.D. As abnormally dry weather bedevils North Dakota farmers and ranchers, drought-like conditions may be benefiting American white pelicans' nesting grounds at the island in the central part of the state known as North America's largest refuge for the big-billed birds. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)
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Smoke billows into the sky near the southern Utah ski town of Brian Head, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Fires are burning throughout the southwest, including one in Utah that forced the evacuation of several hundreds of people and shut down part of a state highway. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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A wildfire burns near the southern Utah ski town of Brian Head, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Fires are burning throughout the southwest, including one in Utah that forced the evacuation of more than 700 people and shut down part of a state highway. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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A wildfire burns near the southern Utah ski town of Brian Head, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Fires are burning throughout the southwest, including one in Utah that forced the evacuation of more than 700 people and shut down part of a state highway. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows deep-sea spiral coral during a dive on the New England Seamount chain in the North Atlantic Ocean. A federal panel is considering new protections Thursday, June 22, 2017, for deep-sea corals in the Atlantic Ocean that would impact commercial fishing interests off New England. Environmental organizations have come out in support of one of the proposed options, while fishing groups have opposed it, citing a host of regulations they already face. (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 21, 2015, file photo, author John Green attends the premiere of "Paper Towns" in New York. The author of the million-selling “The Fault in Our Stars” has a new novel coming Oct. 10, Dutton Books announced Thursday, June 22, 2017. The book is called “Turtles All the Way Down” and tells of a 16-year girl in search of a missing billionaire as she struggles with mental illness. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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Crews work to clear sand and debris from State Highway 87 after Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall earlier Thursday, June 22, 2017 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. ( Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)( Michael Ciaglo / Houston Chronicle )
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Debris covers State Highway 87 after Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall earlier Thursday, June 22, 2017 on the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas. ( Michael Ciaglo / Houston Chronicle )
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In this image taken from video, Erin West walks down a flooded street in her neighborhood after Tropical Storm Cindy, Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Ocean Springs, Miss. Persistent drainage problems frustrate residents, some of whom couldn't drive to work because of the storm, West said, and others are worried about the possibility of alligators coming into their yards in the floodwaters. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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A house alongside State Highway 87 sits on a small island after Tropical Storm Cindy brought high tides as it made landfall earlier Thursday, June 22, 2017 on the Bolivar Peninsula. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
