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Rain from Hurricane Matthew falls on the flooded intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Victory Drive Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Savannah, Ga. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP)
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Greece's players celebrate a second goal against Cyprus' during their World Cup Group H qualifying soccer match at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, in Piraeus port, near Athens, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
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Boats are safely stored at Atlantic Marine in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, as Hurricane Matthew moves up the southeast coast. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Cho Tak Wong, chairman of the Fuyao Group, speaks during the grand opening of the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. The Chinese company is ready to show off its completed automotive glass-making plant in Ohio, which serves as its North American hub for recycled glass manufacturing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Cho Tak Wong, chairman of the Fuyao Group, applauds during the grand opening of the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. The Chinese company is ready to show off its completed automotive glass-making plant in Ohio, which serves as its North American hub for recycled glass manufacturing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The Island, situated in the middle of Cove Palisades State Park in central Oregon, is home to the best known, least disturbed example of native juniper and sagebrush in the region. Designated as a National Natural Landmark, The Island is off-limits to the public. (Jamie Hale/The Oregonian via AP)
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US Deputy Secretary of Defence Robert Work, attends a media conference with chief of staff of the Finnish Ministry of Defence Jussi Niinisto, in Helsinki, Finland, Friday Oct. 7, 2016. Finland and the United States have signed a bilateral defense cooperation pact pledging closer military collaboration at the time when the Nordic country is increasingly concerned over Russia's activities in the Baltic Sea region. (Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva via AP) FINLAND OUT - NO SALES
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Preston Payne tires to hold his umbrella as he watches the waves near the Tybee pier as Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the East Coast, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, on Tybee Island, Ga. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surge as the most powerful hurricane to menace the Atlantic Seaboard in over a decade pushed north. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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The Savannah Theater is empty before Hurricane Matthew hits on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Savannah, Ga. As the storm closed in, an estimated 2 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were warned to move inland to escape the fury of the most powerful hurricane to menace the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade. (Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News via AP)
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This Oct. 6, 2016, photo provided by the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park shows a marabou stork in a restroom at the facility in St. Augustine, Fla. The zoo said it moved all of its birds and mammals inside ahead of Hurricane Matthew's arrival. (Gen Anderson/St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park via AP)
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Gunilla Lindberg, the head of IOC’s coordination commission for the 2018 Games, speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Park Young-seo/Yonhap via AP)
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Residents and vehicles avoid a downed tree and power cable along a flooded roadway in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. The head of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Authority, Capt. Stephen Russell, said there were many downed trees and power lines, but no reports of casualties. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
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Residents repair their homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Saint Anne church lays totally destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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This photo taken June 24, 2016, shows workers using a lift to scale the exterior the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope at the summit of Haleakala. Hawaii's Supreme Court on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, affirmed a permit to build a solar telescope on a Maui mountain. The ruling denies a challenge by a group seeking to protect the sacredness of the summit of Haleakala. The University of Hawaii followed proper procedure for an environmental assessment, the Supreme Court also ruled in a separate ruling. (Matthew Thayer/The News via AP)
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Chris Evilia, director of the Waco Metropolitan Planning Organization, walks past the recently completed traffic circle, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in Waco, Texas. Transportation officials say modern traffic circles are becoming more common in new construction because they can reduce wrecks and lower maintenance cost. (Rod Aydelotte /Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY OCT. 9 AND THEREAFTER - In a Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 photo, motorisst make their way around the recently completed traffic circle, in Waco, Texas. Transportation officials say modern traffic circles are becoming more common in new construction because they can reduce wrecks and lower maintenance cost. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2001 file photo, a crop dusting plane from Blair Air Service dusts cotton crops in Lemoore, Calif. California will tighten rules on how much farmers can use a common pesticide listed by the nation's most productive agricultural state as a chemical known to cause cancer. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)
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In this Aug. 27, 2016, photo, a cow eats grasses after getting a medical check-up by the Society for Animal Refugee & Environment post Nuclear Disaster at Komaru Ranch in Namie town, 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) north of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Ranchers who refused a government order to kill their cows continue to feed and tend about 200 of them as part of a study by the researchers. They visit every three months to test the livestock living within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius of the Fukushima plant, where three reactors had core meltdowns after it was swamped by a tsunami in 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
