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In a Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 photo, a house in the 100 block of Mountain Spring Road in Clay Township, Lancaster, Pa., is severely damaged by a fallen tree during a storm. The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in northeastern Pennsylvania as storms swept through the region over the weekend, but other damage in central Pennsylvania was due to straight-line winds. (Blaine Shahan/LNP via AP)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, center, accompanied by fellow governors, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, following a meeting with President Donald Trump inside. From left are, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Walker, and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, following a meeting with President Donald Trump inside. From left are, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Bevin, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, center, gestures as he speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, following a meeting with President Donald Trump inside. From left are, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Walker, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Damaged headstones rest on the ground at Mount Carmel Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Damaged headstones are seen at Mount Carmel cemetery Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Illustration on Taiwan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Fishermen take part in the 14th World Ice Fishing Championship on a frozen lake in Baltezers, Latvia, Sunday, Feb. 26 2017. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
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Fishermen take part in the 14th World Ice Fishing Championship on a frozen lake in Baltezers, Latvia, Sunday, Feb. 26 2017. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
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FILE - In this July 16, 2004, file photo, a gray wolf is seen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Pressure is building in Congress to take gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and Wyoming off the endangered list _ and to prevent the courts from reversing that decision again. Representatives from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Wyoming wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, urging a fast floor vote before calving and lambing season begins in earnest. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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A reveler spreads grass on his mud-covered body during the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest smeared themselves with mud to discourage mosquitoes and then wandered through Paraty. The party grew year after year, but revelers eventually were banned from parading in the colonial downtown after shopkeepers complained pristine white walls were stained with the hard-to-remove mud. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)
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Two men beer toast while wading in mud during the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest smeared themselves with mud to discourage mosquitoes and then wandered through Paraty. The party grew year after year, but revelers eventually were banned from parading in the colonial downtown after shopkeepers complained pristine white walls were stained with the hard-to-remove mud. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)
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Revelers celebrate at the end of the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest smeared themselves with mud to discourage mosquitoes and then wandered through Paraty. The party grew year after year, but revelers eventually were banned from parading in the colonial downtown after shopkeepers complained pristine white walls were stained with the hard-to-remove mud. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)
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A mud-covered partygoer strikes a pose during the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest smeared themselves with mud to discourage mosquitoes and then wandered through Paraty. The party grew year after year, but revelers eventually were banned from parading in the colonial downtown after shopkeepers complained pristine white walls were stained with the hard-to-remove mud. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)
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A boy jumps into a pool of mud during the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest smeared themselves with mud to discourage mosquitoes and then wandered through Paraty. The party grew year after year, but revelers eventually were banned from parading in the colonial downtown after shopkeepers complained pristine white walls were stained with the hard-to-remove mud. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)
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A severe storm hit along Route 897 and Hickey Road in Denver, Pa., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Emergency management officials say a severe thunderstorm with strong winds has downed trees and power lines in Lancaster County. Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency Director Randy Gockley tells LNP newspaper that the storm hit Clay, Elizabeth and West Cocalico townships the hardest on Saturday, but other communities also had electrical wires down. He says some farm buildings collapsed and homes were damaged. (AP Photo/Kirk Neidermyer)
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FILE - This undated photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a thorny skate, a bottom-dwelling fish whose habitat in the In the north Atlantic Ocean ranges from Greenland to South Carolina. The federal government says the thorny skate will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups argued that the thorny skate's decline in the northwest Atlantic Ocean was considerable enough to afford it protections set aside for endangered animals. But the National Marine Fisheries Service says it disagrees.(T. Curtis/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via AP)
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FILE - In this April 12, 2012, file photo, the Tijuana River flows near Dairy Mart Road in San Ysidro, Calif. Officials in California are crying foul after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed into the U.S. for more than two weeks. A report released Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, by the International Boundary and Water Commission says the spill was caused Feb. 2 by an apparent rupture in a sewage collector pipe and wasn't contained until Thursday. (Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2007, file photo, the beaches adjacent to the Tijuana Estuary are posted with signs declaring them unsafe due to pollution that flows through the estuary after feeding in from Tijuana, Mexico in Imperial Beach, Calif. Officials in California are crying foul after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed into the U.S. for more than two weeks. A report released Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, by the International Boundary and Water Commission says the spill was caused Feb. 2 by an apparent rupture in a sewage collector pipe and wasn't contained until Thursday. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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Engineers surveying the damage after a landslide near the Bosnian town of Kakanj, 50 kms north of Sarajevo on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. More than 150 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in central Bosnia due to a major landslide at a nearby open pit coal mine that has threatened to bury their villages. ( AP Photo/Amel Emric)
