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Fishermen sail on a boat at Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, photo, store owner Caleb Saunders answers questions in front of his shop, Green Jar in Wasilla, Alaska. Saunders hopes to sell marijuana from the shop and opposes a ballot measure that would ban sales, cultivation, testing of marijuana in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Alaska's fastest-growing municipality will decide Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, whether to ban commercial marijuana enterprises. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
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Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones (11) warms up before the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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Workers set up a board as protection against hurricane Matthew in an hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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A worker hauls a board to use on a storefront window as protection against hurricane Matthew in Kingston, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, several of the piers for the new U.S. 52/IL 64 bridge project are complete over the Mississippi River from Sabula, Iowa to Savanna, Illinois. The current bridge, built in 1932 over the Mississippi River, is "in need of a full replacement according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. At 20 feet wide, it is too narrow to meet current safety standards, and does not accommodate disabled vehicles or bicycle traffic. (Kevin Schmidt Newsroom /Quad City Times via AP)
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North Carolina State wide receiver Stephen Louis (12) tries to escape Wake Forest defensive back Brad Watson (25) after making a reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, a couple takes photos as a wave crashes against a wall along The Battery in Charleston, S.C. Nearly a year after 2 feet of rain fell on South Carolina, hundreds of people are still trying to fix their homes. ( (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Workers harvest marijuana plants in a rural area near Corvallis, Ore., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. On Friday the recreational marijuana regulating body announced that it has approved several licenses for recreational marijuana shops to open as of October 1, 2016, meeting a deadline set by the agency. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this undated photo provided by John Kaia, a yellow-faced bee is shown in Hawaii. Federal authorities added seven yellow-faced bee species, Hawaii’s only native bees, for protection under the Endangered Species Act Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, a first for any bees in the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the listing after years of study by the conservation group Xerces Society. (John Kaia via AP)
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In this March 11, 2016, photo, the bank erosion from the Missouri River at Double Ditch Indian Village, northwest of Bismarck, N.D., on Highway 1804, has expanded to damage a walking path and burial grounds. The process needed to obtain a federal permit for a project to alleviate erosion of native burial grounds at the Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site might delay construction until spring. A state historic preservation official says that would be concerning. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice, right, speaks with members of the media after a roundtable discussion with representatives from various social work and mental health agencies, in Charleston, W.Va. On Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, federal officials announced that they've reached a settlement requiring $5 million in upgrades to prevent further pollution by Appalachian coal mines owned by Justice. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced the settlement with Southern Coal Corporation and 26 affiliates on Friday. (Christian Tyler Randolph/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)
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A model of orbiter Rosetta hangs from the ceiling in a conference room at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Rosetta will be impacted on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Friday, marking the end of the twelve years lasting Rosetta mission. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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In this Sept. 2016 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a glass squid that was found off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island is shown. Federal researchers just returned from an expedition to study the biodiversity and mechanisms of an unusually rich deep-sea ecosystem off the coast of Hawaii. (NOAA via AP)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, NOAA researchers pour a sample of sea water containing a brownish toxic algae into a jar aboard a research vessel off the Washington Coast. A new study finds that unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures helped cause a massive toxic algae bloom last year that closed lucrative fisheries from California to British Columbia and disrupted marine life from seabirds to sea lions, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Scientists linked the patch of warm ocean water, nicknamed the "blob," to the vast ribbon of toxic algae that flourished in 2015. (NOAA Fisheries via AP, File)
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This image, taken Sept. 12, 2016, shows one of the islands on Waldo Lake in Oregon. The islands, large and small, can be visited for day use but visitors cannot camp there. (Zach Urness/Statesman-Journal via AP)
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A map of earthquake faults in part of Southern California is seen as a sample of an earthquake early warning system the state that is under development is displayed on a television monitor in the background, during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Rancho Cordova, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to develop a statewide earthquake early warning system in California, after devoting $10 million to the program in the state budget he signed this year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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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 is moving to ban farmers from spraying pesticides into the air near schools and day care centers under a newly proposed rule that will be among the nation's toughest, regulators told The Associated Press on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)
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FILE - This file frame grab from a cellphone shows an emergency alert along with a news alert on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, about a man wanted in connection with explosions in the New York City metropolitan area. The federal government is beefing up emergency cellphone alerts like the one used in New York to advertise the search for the bombing suspect. The Federal Communications Commission approved a measure Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, that will let messages be up to four times longer than the current 90-character limit, and cellphone companies will have to support Spanish messages under the new rules. The changes will also let officials target messages more narrowly and include links in messages. (AP Photo/File)
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New Jersey Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin, left; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Col. Michael Bliss, center; and Toms River, N.J,. Mayor Thomas Kelaher, right, hold a news conference in Toms River, N.J. on Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 to announce that bids have been solicited for a massive sand dune project to protect the part of the New Jersey shoreline that was hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The work is due to begin in the spring. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
