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Safety jackets are thrown to migrants on a rubber dinghy rescued by the vessel Responder, run by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and the Italian Red Cross, in the Mediterranean sea, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. According to MOAS 147 people, of which 20 women, were rescued. (Francesco Malavolta/MOAS via AP)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Uber employees test a self-driving Ford Fusion hybrid car, in Pittsburgh. After taking millions of factory jobs, robots could be coming for a new class of worker: people who drive for a living. (AP Photo/Jared Wickerham, File)
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A sculpture that is part of a new public art installation Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska. The exhibit opening Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, features 43 of the statues, which were damaged by tides and high winds last year in another installation at a local beach and have since been restored. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)
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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 1995, file photo, a wolf leaps across a road into the wilds of Central Idaho. Three of four wolves fitted with tracking collars in a central Idaho wilderness area last winter by Idaho officials, despite not having federal authorization to do, so are still alive heading into this winter. (AP Photo/Douglas Pizac, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012 file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands beyond parts of a brick walkway damaged in Superstorm Sandy on Liberty Island in New York. The Associated Press asked 21 risk experts to analyze the presidential campaign and to list what they consider the five biggest threats to the world. Climate change topped the list with 17 mentions, often as the top threat. It was followed by use of nuclear weapons, pandemics, cyberattacks and problems with high technology. Neither Trump’s signature issues of immigration and terrorism nor Clinton’s major concerns, financial insecurity and gun violence, made the list. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, participants in a "tree hugging ceremony" gather around an elm tree, believed to be the largest of its kind in New England, before it is cut down in Charlotte, Vt., after the tree died of Dutch elm disease, a fungus that killed millions of elm trees after it arrived in North America in the last century. The wood from the tree will be turned into furniture and other items. The funds will be used to help The Nature Conservancy replant disease resistant elm trees. (Tai Dinnan/Vermont Tree Goods via AP)
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike listens to a report during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and canoeing site for the Tokyo Games to temporary quality, or moving the events to an existing site in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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FILE - This June 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Debra Hill weighing a New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, which was trapped during survey efforts on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, N.M. Biologists who spent weeks in three New Mexico national forests searching for signs of the elusive, endangered mouse that looks somewhat like a tiny kangaroo have found what they call irrefutable evidence that it still lives in the state for which it is named. U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Beth Humphrey said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, confirming the rodent's existence provides hope that the species can recover over time. (Stacey Stanford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)
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A squirrel with a piebald coat perches on a limb while eating in Salina, Kan., Monday Oct. 31, 2016. (Tom Dorsey/Salina Journal, via AP)
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FILE - This July 2, 2015 file photo shows a sign encouraging residents to save water Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Amid a wet start to California's rainy season, and some mending of Californians' backsliding ways on water conservation, the advice of the state's drought czar: Relax and enjoy the rain. For now. The board will release Californians' latest monthly water-use figures Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, under the state's nearly three-year drought emergency. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
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FILE - This combination of two file photos shows, top, the cracked and dry bed of the Almaden Reservoir on Feb. 7, 2014, in San Jose, Calif., and, below, the same reservoir full of water on March 14, 2016. Amid a wet start to California's rainy season, and some mending of Californians' backsliding ways on water conservation, the advice of the state's drought czar: Relax and enjoy the rain. For now. The board will release Californians' latest monthly water-use figures Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, under the state's nearly three-year drought emergency. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the New Jersey National Guard's annual Military Review Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, in Sea Girt, N.J. Christie talked about the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and praised the guard's response to the storm that devastated parts the Jersey Shore. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) ** FILE **
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FILE – In this Sept. 2, 2016, file photo, Grant Kimberley checks soybean plants on his farm near Maxwell, Iowa. Ohio farmers are dealing with low commodity prices caused by record-setting harvests in other Midwest states. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Illustration on the U.S. space program under a Trump administration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Delivered to Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters on Monday, a blistering letter signed by more than 25 interdenominational black bishops and pastors finds fault with her commitment to religious liberty and support for abortion rights. (Associated Press)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Cynthia Furse, Associate Vice President for Research and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, holds a chunk of coal and a carbon-fiber prosthetic leg to illustrate the carbon-friendly methods of turning coal-derived pitch into carbon-fiber composite material. Engineers from the University of Utah are launching a $1.6 million project to research cost-effective ways to help revitalize coal communities threatened by a decline in production and turning coal into carbon-fiber with less impact on the environment is being championed as a viable solution. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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In this Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 photo, a goat grazes after being released into a 3-acre enclosure in Cottage Grove, Minn. A herd of 20 goats are grazing on invasive plants at Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park for a week or two, kicking off the county’s efforts to use a non chemical approach to a buckthorn infestation. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 photo, a yard sign opposing an industrial wind project sits at the side of the road in Grafton, Vt. Voters in Grafton and Windham are going to cast ballots Nov. 8 on whether to go forward with a plan for 24 turbines in the two communities. Developer Iberdrola Renewables is offering residents of the two towns direct payments if the project is built. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this Oct. 19, 2016 photo, Owen Shiozaki, USDA supervisor of the pest inspection team, use a long-handled mirror to look under the chassis of a semi-truck for signs of pests and invasive species near Bow, Wash., that he hopes to keep out of the United States. "It's not just a Washington problem," he said. "We're trying to prevent them from spreading all over the country." (Brandy Shreve/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)
