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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Ind., following a tour of a public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017 photo, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Israeli defense officials say Syrian President Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons. The officials delivered the assessment on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 90 people. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker looks on as New Jersey Assemblywoman Teresa Ruiz, D-Newark, speaks during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A protester holds a sign at Newark Penn Station prior to a news conference with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Ras Baraka, left, mayor of Newark, N.J., speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, second from right, and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, listen during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Protesters hold signs as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, right, speaks to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In this artist tendering provided by M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a newly-discovered rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140b. This planet is located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140. The planet weighs about 6.6 times the mass of Earth and is shown passing in front of LHS 1140. Depicted in blue is the atmosphere the planet may have retained. (M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics via AP)
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In this photo taken Friday, March 31, 2017, Ron Stork, senior advisor with the Friends of the River conservation group, discusses the near collapse of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway, in his office in Sacramento, Calif. In 2005 Friends of the River warned officials about the weakness of the Oroville Dams' emergency spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this photo taken Friday, March 31, 2017, Ron Stork, senior advisor with the Friends of the River conservation group, points to a chart showing water releases from the Oroville Dam, in his office in Sacramento, Calif. The chart, which took flow measurements from the Feather River, near Gridley, Calif., shows the dip in water releases as the dam's spillway was turned off to inspect damage and the spike in water outflow when the reservoir neared capacity. In 2005 Friends of the River warned officials about the weakness of the Oroville Dams' emergency spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, Jason Newton, of the Department of Water Resources, takes a picture of water going over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Bill Croyle, acting Director of the California Department of Water Resources, discusses the situation at the Oroville Dam as Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea listens at a news conference in Oroville, Calif. Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash a deadly torrent of water. Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, a helicopter takes off with a bag filled with rock to be dropped in a hole on the lip of the Oroville Dam's emergency spillway in Oroville, Calif. The barrier is being repaired after authorities ordered mass evacuations for everyone living below the lake out of concerns the spillway could fail and send a wall of water roaring downstream. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo evacuees listen to an announcement lifting the evacuation of the Oroville Dam communities, in Chico, Calif. Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash a deadly torrent of water. Sheriff Kory Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down the damaged spillway at Oroville Dam, in Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Kendra Curieo waits in traffic to evacuate Marysville, Calif. Thousands of residents of Marysville and other Northern California communities were told to leave their homes as an emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam could fail at any time unleashing flood waters from Lake Oroville. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, water rushes down the damaged Oroville Dam spillway, in Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, Lt. B. Jean Judney, a member of Haiti's new national military force points directions to his soldiers during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. While Haiti is a long way off from having a real military, efforts to build up a defense force at whatever level excites some and unnerves others. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
