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Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop at the the Rossford Recreation Center in Rossford, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Nick Thomas/The Blade via AP)
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Coral Springs, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Illustration on a National Park Service land grab in Maine by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Flight 93 Heading for Disaster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Flight 93 Heading for Disaster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A man walks across a road damaged by floodwaters caused by rain from Hurricane Matthew in Fayetteville, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. Hurricane Matthew's torrential rains triggered severe flooding in North Carolina on Sunday as the deteriorating storm made its exit to the sea, and thousands of people had to be rescued from their homes and cars. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 photo, a tugboat and barge travel south on the Hudson River in Stuyvesant, N.Y. A group of citizens, lawmakers and environmentalists is fighting a proposal to establish more than 40 commercial anchorages at locations along a stretch of the Hudson River running north from New York City. Shipping industry officials said they need safe places to anchor, sometimes for days, barges hauling North Dakota crude oil to East Coast refineries and export terminals. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Residents clean a street muddied by the heavy rains brought by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Matthew hit Cuba's lightly populated eastern tip Tuesday night, damaging hundreds of homes in the easternmost city of Baracoa but there were no reports of deaths. Water and electricity were restored to much of the town Friday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A vehicle is submerged after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding on Saturday Oct. 8, 2016 in Charleston, S.C. Matthew continued its march along the Atlantic coast Saturday, lashing two of the South's most historic cities and some of its most popular resort islands, flattening trees, swamping streets and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. (Michael Pronzato/The Post And Courier via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Mystic Aquarium, shows a manatee getting rescued off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. Connecticut's Mystic Aquarium has been rehabilitating the manatee and has gotten permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow public viewing of the marine animal Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 and Sunday during regular hours. (Mystic Aquarium via AP)
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Rainier Rodriguez, 42, hangs his ties to dry on a makeshift clothes-line inside his home damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in Baracoa, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Matthew hit Cuba's lightly populated eastern tip Tuesday night, damaging hundreds of homes in the easternmost city of Baracoa but there were no reports of deaths. Nearly 380,000 people were evacuated and measures were taken to protect infrastructure. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, a woman fills a plastic bag with potatoes at a Chinatown produce stand in San Francisco. California voters are considering a November referendum that would uphold or overturn a statewide ban on single-use plastic carryout bags, and another ballot initiative that would require fees collected from retail customers for alternative bags be put in an environmental fund. In 2007, San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags, setting off a movement that’s led to nearly half the state and its biggest cities to do the same. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In a photo from Oct. 5, 2016, Kyle Wright, a senior at Kennedy High School in Taylor, Mich., stands outside a greenhouse at the school that will get a makeover with a $30,000 state grant. The greenhouse has been in disrepair for years, and Wright hopes to revive it to grow vegetables for needy families. (AP Photo/Ed White)
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FILE - This Aug. 20, 2008 file photo shows Dino Cortopassi, a wealthy farmer who raises crops in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, with his dog "Tank," at his Black Hole Habitat near Thornton, Calif. Cortopassi is a backer of Proposition 53 on the November ballot, in which voters would be required to approve any projects that would require more than $2 billion in state revenue bonds to fund, an idea that could complicate the future of two of Gov. Jerry Brown’s favored projects; a plan to build two giant twin tunnels to ship Northern California water south and to build a high-speed rail system. Critics say it could also jeopardize dozens of smaller, local projects. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016 file photo, a truck carries a load at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. Voters in Washington state will weigh in on Initiative 732 in the 2016 election as they consider whether to approve the nation’s first direct carbon tax on the burning of fossil fuels. The plant is among those likely to be affected if the carbon tax is passed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)
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FILE - In this April 2, 2010, file photo, a Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, is shown in Anacortes, Wash. after a fatal overnight fire and explosion. Voters in Washington state will weigh in on Initiative 732 in the 2016 election as they consider whether to approve the nation’s first direct carbon tax on the burning of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Yoleine Casimir stands in her destroyed house caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A woman holds her boy who's suffering cholera in the state hospital after Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND Oct. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, lettering and an eagle carving are displayed on the side of the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. For the past four decades, the center has worked to preserve Native totem poles and artifacts from around Southeast Alaska. The center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was founded after a group of Native elders started talking in the 1960s and expressed concern about the state of totem poles in the region. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OCT. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 28, 2016 photo, a platform for light-penetrating stairs sits atop the river bank on the south side of the Kenai River and Russian River confluence near Cooper Landing, Alaska. Work to restore the riverbank along a section of the confluence of the Kenai and Russian rivers is in full swing. Vegetation and light-penetrating stairways are being installed downstream on the Kenai River’s south shore to provide anglers access to the water in a less damaging way. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion via AP)
