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In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, photo, the exhibition of an abstract-video installation called "Rain" by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández is projected inside a former water reservoir dubbed the "Cistern" in Houston. Once eyed for demolition, the former water reservoir built in 1926 has now found new life as a public space that's also serving as an unusual canvas for art. The reservoir's rebirth is the latest example of efforts by cities around the country to reuse and repurpose abandoned and dilapidated pieces of infrastructure as public spaces. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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A man walks along the ice covered pier at the South Haven Lighthouse on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, in South Haven, Mich. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)
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This Thursday Aug. 4, 2016 shows cliffs near Daalo in the Cal Madow mountains in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 photo, a woman sorts raw frankincense gum in Burao, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Saturday Aug. 6, 2016, photo, women sort raw frankincense gum in Burao, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. These last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices have shot up in recent years with the global appetite for essential oils, and overharvesting has led to the trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Saturday Aug. 6, 2016, photo, a man holds up two large tears of maydi, the large, most expensive chunks of frankincense resin, in Burao, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. These last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices have shot up in recent years with the global appetite for essential oils, and overharvesting has led to the trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk.(AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Thursday Aug. 4, 2016, photo, Mohamed Ahmed Ali wounds a frankincense tree near Mader Moge, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia . These last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices have shot up in recent years with the global appetite for essential oils, and overharvesting has led to the trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 photo, a frankinsence tapper wears cloth wrapped on his feet to keep sticky resin from his skin and shoes near Gudmo, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. These last intact wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices have shot up in recent years with the global appetite for essential oils, and overharvesting has led to the trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 photo, frankincense tapper Musse Ismail Hassan rests in a cave in a canyon near Gudmo, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 photo, a frankincense trader holds a handful of raw gum near Gudmo, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. These last intact wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices have shot up in recent years with the global appetite for essential oils, and overharvesting has led to the trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 photo, frankincense tree tappers sit in a canyon with their scrapers and baskets near Gudmo, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 photo, sap runs out of a frankincense tree near Mader Moge, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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Television crews stand outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, where actress Carrie Fisher has reportedly been transported after suffering a severe medical emergency on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Rick Taber)
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Television crews stand under the rain outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, where actress Carrie Fisher has reportedly been transported after suffering a severe medical emergency on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized Friday afternoon. (AP Photo Rick Taber)
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Minnesota Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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FILE- In this Oct. 20, 2016, file, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, Leonardo Dicaprio, second from left, Piers Sellers and Fisher Stevens, from left, attend the premiere of National Geographic Channel's "Before The Flood," at the United Nations headquarters. Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut died Friday, Dec. 23. He was 61. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 17, 2006 photo, British born U.S. Astronaut Piers Sellers talks with reporters following the safe return the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut died Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. He was 61. (AP Photo/Pete Cosgrove, File)
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Jaden Smith After Earth, The Karate Kid, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Pursuit of Happiness (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2015, file photo, clamps hold probes in the tailpipes of a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, a Volkswagen Touareg diesel is tested in the Environmental Protection Agency's cold temperature test facility in Ann Arbor, Mich. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
