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Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin in Washington are damaged following a storm, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This Wednesday, April 5, 2017, image captured by a Southern Nevada Conservancy remote camera as part of the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, shows a desert tortoise known as Mojave Max outside a burrow at Red Rock National Conservation Area near Las Vegas. Local officials say they see a sign of spring with the emergence of a desert tortoise from a winter burrow in an enclosure at a federal preserve in southern Nevada. (Southern Nevada Conservancy/Clark County Desert Conservation Program via AP)
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The home page of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In a not-so-subtle message about its policy priorities, the Trump administration has updated the home page for the federal agency that oversees public lands to showcase a large photo of an open-pit coal mine. (BLM via AP)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Fishermen take advantage of the high parking lot adjacent to the Ross Barnett Reservoir spill way to fish the discharge Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Brandon, Miss. Pearl River Valley Water Supply District officials decided to keep the discharge at 43,000 cubic feet per second for another 24 hours, as they continue to deal with the runoff of storm rains from earlier in the week. Although the popular fishing and picnicking site was underwater, only the Madison County side had to be closed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Fishermen take advantage of the high parking lot adjacent to the Ross Barnett Reservoir spill way to fish the discharge Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Brandon, Miss. Pearl River Valley Water Supply District officials decided to keep the discharge at 43,000 cubic feet per second for another 24 hours, as they continue to deal with the runoff of storm rains from earlier in the week. Although the popular fishing and picnicking site was underwater, only the Madison County side had to be closed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Firefighters work to cut pieces of damaged tin roof down after high winds damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Buildings in the Washington area were damaged as rough weather moved through. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Newspaper bins lie on the ground as firefighters work to cut pieces of damaged tin roof down after high winds damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Buildings were damaged in the Washington area as rough weather moved through. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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This May 6, 2009, photo provided by the Nature Conservancy shows scientist Maurice Hall on the Amargosa River in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Scientists will fan out across a California desert valley to take an inventory of everything that lives there, including birds, bats, toads, crickets, coyotes and native plants. (Bill Christian/The Nature Conservancy via AP)
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In this frame from video rescue crews evacuate animals at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Gilbert, Ariz., on Thursday, April 6, 2017. The hospital was evacuated after the staff reported an odor that they thought might be a gas leak. Southwest Gas Corp. determined there was no gas leak but hazardous-material crews determined there was some type of problem. (ABC15 Arizona/abc15.com via AP)
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This Monday, April 3, 2017 photo from video by KMOV shows damage to the roof of a box company in St. Louis after a boiler exploded and flew before crashing through the roof of a nearby laundry business. Authorities said several people were killed as a result of the explosion. (KMOV via AP)
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A tree lies fallen at the Bay City State Park in Bangor Township, Mich., on Thursday, April 6, 2017. A mix of snow and rain across much of Michigan is causing hazardous driving conditions and bringing the threat of flooding in places. (Jacob Hamilton /The Bay City Times via AP)
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The sun is rising in the morning sky above a landscape with a wind energy park near Jacobsdorf, Germany, in this Dec. 31, 2016, file photo. U.N.-backed report says global investments in renewable energy fell by almost a quarter last year amid a drop in prices and lower spending in some markets. The United Nations Environment Program said Thursday, April 6, 2017, that overall investments reached $241.6 billion last year, down from $312.2 billion in 2015. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP,file)
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An Atlanta Public Works crew got caught in the Peachtree Creek overflow onto the flooded Woodward Way as they were delivering Road Block equipment and had to be rescued by the Atlanta Fire Rescue's Swift Water Dive Team in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Severe storms raking the Southeast unleashed one large tornado and more than a half dozen apparent twisters Wednesday, toppling trees, roughing up South Carolina's 'peach capital' and raining out golfers warming up for the Masters. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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An Atlanta Public Works crew is caught in the Peachtree Creek overflow onto the flooded Woodward Way as they were delivering Road Block equipment and had to be rescued by the Atlanta Fire Rescue's Swift Water Dive Team in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Severe storms raking the Southeast unleashed one large tornado and more than a half dozen apparent twisters Wednesday, toppling trees, roughing up South Carolina's "peach capital" and raining out golfers warming up for the Masters. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Lightning runs through cloud over Blount Cultural Park in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, April 5, 2017, as a thunderstorm moves through southern Montgomery County. A powerful tornado toppled trees and downed power lines in rural Georgia and similar scenes played out in spots around Alabama and South Carolina amid drenching rain, high winds and scattered hail - some as big as baseballs. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
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In this picture taken on Tuesday April 4, 2017, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday as activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site of the harrowing assault, one of the deadliest in Syria's civil war. (Alaa Alyousef via AP)
