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A commercial ship sails across the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) which is on patrol off the disputed South China Sea Friday, March 3, 2017. The U.S. military took journalists Friday to the carrier on routine patrol off the disputed South China Sea, sending a signal to China and American allies of its resolve to ensure freedom of navigation and overflight in one of the world's security hotspots.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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FILE - In this Sept., 30, 2015, file photo released by the U.S. Marines Corps, a tortoise takes its first steps in the wild after being released at the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs-hosted ceremony for the first release of tortoises from the Combat Center's Desert Tortoise Headstart Program, near Twentynine Palms, Calif. Federal authorities have approved a plan to move nearly 1,500 desert tortoises from a Southern California Marine base. The removal could begin at the end of this month or in April 2017 after the reptiles emerge from their underground winter hibernation. (Lauren Kurkimilis/U.S. Marines Corps via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept., 30, 2015 file photo released by the U.S. Marines Corps, Combat Center Chief of Staff, Col. James F. Harp releases a tortoise during the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs-hosted ceremony for the first release of tortoises from the Combat Center's Desert Tortoise Headstart Program, near Twentynine Palms, Cailf. Federal authorities have approved a plan to move nearly 1,500 desert tortoises from a Southern California Marine base. The removal could begin at the end of March or in April 2017, after the reptiles emerge from their underground winter hibernation. (Lauren Kurkimilis/U.S. Marines Corps via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 4, 2008, file photo, U.S. Marines wait for a desert tortoise, endangered and protected from harm or harassment by federal law, to move off the road during an operation by Military Police to stop trespassers from stealing metal ordnance on the grounds of the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. Federal authorities have approved a plan to move nearly 1,500 desert tortoises from a Southern California Marine base. The removal could begin at the end of March or in April 2017, after the reptiles emerge from their underground winter hibernation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008, file photo, an endangered desert tortoise, sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, Calif. Federal authorities have approved a plan to move nearly 1,500 desert tortoises from a Southern California Marine base. The removal could begin at the end of March or in April 2017, after the reptiles emerge from their underground winter hibernation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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FILE--In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo, opponents of coal export projects float a message to Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber over the Willamette River in downtown Portland, Ore. BNSF Railway and seven environmental groups in Washington and Oregon have settled a lawsuit saying that coal spilled from trains polluting the Columbia River and other waterways in the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)
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In this photo provided by Montana Resources, a propane-powered noise cannon sits at the edge of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, on March 3, 2017. The cannon is one of several new measures being taken to keep birds away from the 50 billion gallon toxic pit after 3,000 to 4,000 snow geese died there last fall. (Pete Steilman/Montana Resources, via AP)
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Tape hangs from a pylon on a beach closed due to sewage contaminated waters Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Coronado, Calif. Coronado and Imperial Beach waters remain closed to swimmers and surfers Wednesday after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed north of the border for weeks in February, according to a report. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A sign warns of sewage contaminated ocean waters on a beach in front of the iconic Hotel del Coronado on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Coronado, Calif. Coronado and Imperial Beach waters remain closed to swimmers and surfers Wednesday after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed north of the border for weeks in February, according to a report. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A sign warns of sewage contaminated ocean waters on a beach Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Coronado, Calif. Coronado and Imperial Beach waters remain closed to swimmers and surfers Wednesday after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed north of the border for weeks in February, according to a report. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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FILE - This Jan. 23, 2017 file photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa. Engineers say work to repair a major bridge that links Pennsylvania and New Jersey remains on track for it to reopen in about a month. Officials with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said Friday, March 3, 2017 good weather has helped speed work on the Interstate 276 bridge over the Delaware River. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Injured South Carolina center Alaina Coates ooks on during an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia during the Southeastern Conference tournament on Friday, March 3, 2017, in Greenville, S.C. South Carolina won 72-48. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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FILE - This July 24, 2006 file photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. An appeals court ruled Friday, March 3, 2017, to lift federal protections for gray wolves in Wyoming. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reverses a lower judge who sided with environmental groups and rejected Wyoming's wolf management plan. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 file photo, Steve Gibson, of Pawnee, takes photos of damage to a building in downtown Pawnee, Okla., following a 5.6 magnitude earthquake. An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe, the Pawnee Nation, filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system accusing several oil companies in the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings. (David Bitton/The News Press via AP, File)
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In this Feb. 28, 2017 photo, farm hand Jorge Luis Leon Becerra uses a plow powered by oxen over an area where tobacco plants were recently harvested, at the Martinez tobacco farm in Cuba's western province Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Soaking rains that came too early, followed by drought conditions essentially wiped out last year's crop, following on the heels of bad yields in the previous year. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Debris sits outside of a house where a fatal fire occurred overnight in Baltimore, Friday, March 3, 2017, where officials say two people died and four people were critically injured. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Firefighters try to put out a fire in Ocean Grove, N.J. on Friday, March 3, 2017. The fast-moving fire gutted four homes and damaged three other structures in a historic New Jersey shore community. Flames broke out just after 5 a.m. Friday in a vacant hotel in the Ocean Grove section of Neptune Township, where homes are close together. (James Connolly/The Asbury Park Press via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017 photo, a view of the town of Ayvacik in Turkey's Black Sea region where a tract of land atop a hill overlooking a lake awaits zoning for a planned Arab village. At least four projects to lure visitors from the Gulf region and Arab nations are underway along Turkey's more traditional and conservative Black Sea coastline, where _ unlike Turkey's more popular Mediterranean and Aegean coasts _ residents and visitors opt for full body covering swimsuits and where bars selling alcohol are few and far between. (AP Photo/Neyran Elden)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017 photo, a view of the town of Ayvacik in Turkey's Black Sea region. At least four projects to lure visitors from the Gulf region and Arab nations are underway along Turkey's more traditional and conservative Black Sea coastline, where _ unlike Turkey's more popular Mediterranean and Aegean coasts _ residents and visitors opt for full body covering swimsuits and where bars selling alcohol are few and far between. (AP Photo/Neyran Elden)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017 photo, Hasan Celik, head of the tourism organization, in Turkey's Black Sea region town of Ayvacik, stands near an area where a Saudi investor purchased land. At least four projects to lure visitors from the Gulf region and Arab nations are underway along Turkey's more traditional and conservative Black Sea coastline, where _ unlike Turkey's more popular Mediterranean and Aegean coasts _ residents and visitors opt for full body covering swimsuits and where bars selling alcohol are few and far between. (AP Photo/Neyran Elden)
