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Hattiesburg High students Tremaine Berry, left, and Shannadoah Sadifer clean up debris after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
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A rescue worker searches inside a mobile home Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Big Pine Estates that was damaged by a tornado, in Albany, Ga. Fire and rescue crews were searching through the debris Monday, looking for people who might have become trapped when the storm came through. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
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Strong northeast winds drive waves onto the seawall along Hereford Inlet in the Anglesea section of North Wildwood, N.J., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Winds with wind gusts of up to 50mph hit Southern New Jersey with coastal flooding expected during high tides. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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A rescue worker enters a hole in the back of a mobile home Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Big Pine Estates that was damaged by a tornado, in Albany, Ga. Fire and rescue crews were searching through the debris, looking for people who might have become trapped when the deadly storm came through. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
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This photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of drivers are being told to expect "extreme" delays for weeks because the bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey had to be shut down over a cracked steel truss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A road passing beneath the Delaware River Bridge is barricaded in Bristol, Pa., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of drivers are being told to expect "extreme" delays for weeks because the bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey had to be shut down over a cracked steel truss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of drivers are being told to expect "extreme" delays for weeks because the bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey had to be shut down over a cracked steel truss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of drivers are being told to expect "extreme" delays for weeks because the bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey had to be shut down over a cracked steel truss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of drivers are being told to expect "extreme" delays for weeks because the bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey had to be shut down over a cracked steel truss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) **FILE**
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A member of the media walks near a truck that was damaged by an apparent tornado, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Albany, Ga. A vast storm system kicked up apparent tornadoes, shredded mobile homes and left other destruction scattered around the Southeast over the weekend. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
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Hattiesburg, Miss., volunteers Brenda Dillion and Vanessa Molden put together boxes of food to give out to tornado victims, law enforcement and others in need of food after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
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Hattiesburg volunteers Jasmine Fortson, left, Savannah Beans clean up debris after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
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Flooded properties are seen flooded in Paradise Park in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2017. Fast-moving floodwaters swept through mountain communities and residents fled homes below hillsides scarred by wildfires as the third and largest in the latest series of storms brought powerful rain Sunday and warnings about damaging mudslides. (Ryan Masters/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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Flooded properties are seen in Paradise Park in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2017. Fast-moving floodwaters swept through mountain communities and residents fled homes below hillsides scarred by wildfires as the third and largest in the latest series of storms brought powerful rain Sunday and warnings about damaging mudslides. (Ryan Masters/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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Floods are seen in Paradise Park in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2017. Fast-moving floodwaters swept through mountain communities and residents fled homes below hillsides scarred by wildfires as the third and largest in the latest series of storms brought powerful rain Sunday and warnings about damaging mudslides. (Ryan Masters/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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In this Dec. 14, 2016, photo the Horseshoe Bend Treatment Plant is seen at the far shore of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. Federal officials plan to pump the toxic water into the plant starting in 2023 to keep it below a critical level and prevent it from escaping the pit. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)
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In this 1891 photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Penobscot Bay fishermen clean mackerel near their saltwater farm off the Maine coast. Scientists with the University of Massachusetts and other institutions made the findings while conducting research about a long-ago climate calamity in New England that was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815. (NOAA/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via AP)
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People stop to take a photo of a gas station damaged by an apparent tornado, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Albany, Ga. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Cook, that have suffered deaths, injuries and severe damage from weekend storms. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
