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Wake Forest's John Collins (20) dunks against Duke during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Duke's Frank Jackson, right, and Wake Forest's Bryant Crawford reach for a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Duke's Frank Jackson (15) collides with Wake Forest's Brandon Childress (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Duke's Jayson Tatum drives to the basket while Wake Forest's Konstantinos Mitoglou (44) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. Duke won 99-94. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Raindrops splash in water, mud and debris in a basin slowly filling up in Duarte, Calif., in a threatened area below a burn area know as the Fish Fire, as a powerful storm moves into Southern California Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. The saturated state faces a new round of wet weather that could trigger flooding and debris flows. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Sandbags border a trailer at Driftwood Mobile Home Park on the Tuolumne river Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, in Modesto, Calif. Fire crews visited the park this morning to ask people to voluntarily evacuate because of rising water. (Joan Barnett Lee /The Modesto Bee via AP)
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Floodwaters from the Tuolumne River have reached the picnic area at Driftwood Mobile Home Park Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 in Modesto, Calif. (Joan Barnett Lee /The Modesto Bee via AP)
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Pacific Coast Highway is reduced to one lane from three at the California Incline due to mud and debris being washed down from the bluffs in Santa Monica, Calif., as a powerful storm moves into Southern California Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. The saturated state faces a new round of wet weather that could trigger flooding and debris flows. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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A section of southbound Interstate 15 just south of Hwy 138 is washed away on Friday, Feb., 17, 2017, in the Cajon Pass, Calif. A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and disrupted hundreds of flights at airports. (David Pardo/The Daily Press via AP) /The Daily Press via AP)
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A section of southbound Interstate 15 just south of Hwy 138 is washed away on Friday, Feb., 17, 2017, in the Cajon Pass, Calif. A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and disrupted hundreds of flights at airports. (David Pardo/The Daily Press via AP) /The Daily Press via AP)
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Two vehicles are swept away into the wash as they tried crossing Hughes Road, at Doris Davies Park in Victorville, Calif., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and disrupted hundreds of flights at airports. (David Pardo/The Daily Press via AP)
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A California Highway Patrol officer investigates the scene near a sink hole that swallowed a tractor trailer and a San Bernardino County Fire Department fire engine on southbound Interstate 15, just south of Highway 138, in the Cajon Pass, Calif., on Friday, Feb., 17, 2017. A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and disrupted hundreds of flights at airports. (David Pardo/The Daily Press via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. MST.-Tony Eichstadt, pointing, and the dozen mountaineers climbing with Eric Swab Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, scramble to the summit of Cap Rock near Palmer Lake, Colo., while on their weekly trek exploring the remote and historic spots in the backcountry of the Pikes Peak region. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)
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A worker starts repair work where trees battered by heavy winds pulled power lines which broke a pole in rural Salinas, Calif., Friday Feb. 17, 2017. (David Royal/The Monterey County Herald via AP)
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Mo Trahan walks while balancing on a downed pine beside Brian Potts while checking trees that were toppled by the heavy winds at Rainforest Farm in rural Salinas, Calif., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. The tree just missed an outbuilding at right and was snagged in another tree. (David Royal/The Monterey County Herald via AP)
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Downed trees and power lines are viewed near a school in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. A major Pacific storm has unleashed downpours and fierce gusts on Southern California, triggering flash flood warnings and other problems. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Jeff Skinner (53) is blocked by Colorado Avalanche goalie Calvin Pickard during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Joakim Nordstrom (42), of Sweden, and Viktor Stalberg (25), of Sweden, chase the puck with Colorado Avalanche's Andreas Martinsen (27), of Norway, during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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A flower sits on a guard rail as people form a symbolic human wall along the Rio Grande, which marks the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Responding to plans by President Donald Trump to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than a thousand people lined the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez Friday, holding hands and carrying flowers.(AP Photo/Christian Torres)
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Mexicans students stand together as they form a symbolic human wall along the Rio Grande, which marks the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Responding to plans by President Donald Trump to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than a thousand people lined the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez Friday, holding hands and carrying flowers.(AP Photo/Christian Torres)
