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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2015 file photo, water flows through a series of retention ponds built to contain and filter out heavy metals and chemicals from the Gold King mine chemical accident, in the spillway about 1/4 mile downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. The massive mine waste spill in southwestern Colorado contributed to water quality problems for up to nine months, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Contamination from the August 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine may also have caused pollution problems last year when annual spring snowmelt swelled rivers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. The massive mine waste spill in southwestern Colorado contributed to water quality problems for up to nine months, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Contamination from the August 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine may also have caused pollution problems last year when annual spring snowmelt swelled rivers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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Crews pile sandbags in front of a warehouse in the Sparks Industrial Park, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 in Sparks, Nev., a half-mile away from the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. According to NASA, IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. According to NASA, IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 photo, reactor containment domes of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. rise above homes just north of the town of Verplanck, N.Y. as seen from the Stony Point Historic Site. The aging facility just north of New York City will close by April 2021 under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has long argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Traffic creeps along on an ice coated Lomas Blvd. as a winter storm brought more ice than snow to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (Marla Brose/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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Traffic backs up on a hill on Irving Blvd. in Albuquerque as cars slide on the ice, after a winter storm brought more ice than snow to New Mexico, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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Ordained minister Suzanne Watson, 54, seen in a Wake Forest medical library Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, is following a lifelong dream and studying medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, with the goal of becoming a psychiatrist. People most regret never having tried something they wanted to do in life, she said. (David Rolfe/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
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File - In this May 16, 2005, file photo, mountaineering shop worker Chris Stewart bicycles down a flooded Chapel Straight in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Al Golub, File)
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File - In this Jan. 5, 1997 file photo, Bill Stamps of Fresno, Calif., steps out of a washed-out section of roadway near Happy Isles Nature Center in Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (AP Photo/Scott Anger, File)
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In this Jan. 19, 1997 photo, a 150-foot section of Highway 140 at El Portal, west of Yosemite National Park, Calif., is washed out by the Merced River. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park.(John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)
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File - In this Jan. 3, 1997, file photo, the Merced River appears to form a lake in Yosemite Valley from heavy rains which melted the snow pack in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (Mark Crosse/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)
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In this still image taken from video provided by NASA, astronaut Peggy Whitson takes a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 6, 2016. Whitson and Commander Shane Kimbrough went spacewalking to hook up fancy new batteries on the International Space Station's sprawling power grid.(NASA via AP)
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Georgia guard Juwan Parker (3) attempts to block South Carolina Gamecocks guard Sindarius Thornwell (00) during an NCAA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Athens, Ga. South Carolina defeated Georgia 67-61. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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In this Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, a diver swims near a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
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In this Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, a diver swims amongst a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
