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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks alongside Howard Glaser, New York Director of State Operations, left, Tom Prendergast, Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, center left, and John Samuelson, President of the Transit Workers Local 100, right, during a news conference, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in New York. Transit officials and the union representing an estimated 34,000 New York City subway and bus workers have reached a tentative contract deal that includes raises but also higher health insurance payments. Thursday's tentative pact came after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office got involved Wednesday in negotiations. The last contract lapsed more than two years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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From left, Howard Glaser, New York Director of State Operations, left, speaks alongside Tom Prendergast, Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, and John Samuelson, President of the Transit Workers Local 100, right, during a news conference Thursday, April 17, 2014, in New York. Transit officials and the union representing an estimated 34,000 New York City subway and bus workers have reached a tentative contract deal that includes raises but also higher health insurance payments. Thursday's tentative pact came after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office got involved Wednesday in negotiations. The last contract lapsed more than two years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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This artist's rendering provided by NASA on Thursday, April 17, 2014 shows an Earth-sized planet dubbed Kepler-186f orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth. Astronomers say the planet may hold water on its surface and is the best candidate yet of a habitable planet in the ongoing search for an Earth twin. (AP Photo/NASA Ames, SETI Institute, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle)