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Officials from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office, Fire Department and ATF talk outside the Daarus Salaam Mosque in Thonotosassa, Fla., after an arson there early Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. (James Borchuck/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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Mayor Joe Ganim, second from left, and investigators remain at the scene of a homicide at a home in Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Police said a young Connecticut girl has been found in Pennsylvania after a high-speed chase and crash involving a car driven by her father, who is suspected in her mother's killing at the home. (Cathy Zuraw/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)
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Captain Brian Fitzgerald, left, Chief Armando Perez, center, and Mayor Joe Ganim address the press at the scene of a homicide at a home on in Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Police said a young Connecticut girl has been found in Pennsylvania after a high-speed chase and crash involving a car driven by her father, who is suspected in her mother's killing. (Cathy Zuraw/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)
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Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January. (Associated Press/File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2017 AT 1 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER-In this Jan. 23, 2015 photo provided by Rachael Bryant, Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley holds the newborn infant of one of her congregants in a hospital in Shelby, N.C. Word of Faith Fellowship has been scrutinized on numerous occasions by law enforcement, social services agencies and the news media since the early 1990s_ all without significant impact, mostly because followers refused to cooperate. (Rachael Bryant via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2017 AT 1 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER-In this 2014 photo provided by a former member of the church, Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley holds the newborn baby of a congregant of her church in Spindale, N.C. Word of Faith Fellowship has been scrutinized on numerous occasions by law enforcement, social services agencies and the news media since the early 1990s_ all without significant impact, mostly because followers refused to cooperate. (AP Photo)
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Governors stand on line to greet Vice President Mike Pence as they arrive for a luncheon with other governors at the Naval Observatory Washington, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen Pence, left, and daughter Charlotte Pence, wait to greet governors to the Naval Observatory Washington, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 file photo, Bill Cosby leaves after a hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. A judge on Feb. 24 told prosecutors he would permit them to call one woman who claims she too was victimized by Mr. Cosby. They had asked for the court to allow 13 such witnesses to describe their alleged sexual assaults at the hands of Mr. Cosby. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) **FILE**
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FILE--This file photo from Nov. 2, 2016, shows Bill Cosby, center, as he leaves following a hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill will let only one other accuser testify at Cosby's sexual assault trial to bolster charges that the actor drugged and molested a woman at his estate near Philadelphia. The judges ruling made on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, means prosecutors cannot call 12 other women to try to show that the 79-year-old comedian has a history of similar "bad acts." Cosby is set to go on trial in June over the 2005 complaint by a former Temple University employee. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, FILE)
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FILE--In this file photo from Nov. 2, 2016, Bill Cosby arrives for a hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill will let only one other accuser testify at Cosby's sexual assault trial to bolster charges that the actor drugged and molested a woman at his estate near Philadelphia. The judges ruling made on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, means prosecutors cannot call 12 other women to try to show that the 79-year-old comedian has a history of similar "bad acts." Cosby is set to go on trial in June over the 2005 complaint by a former Temple University employee. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, FILE)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boards a plane to depart at Benito Juarez international Airport in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Pool Image via AP)
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Nydia Tisdale stands for a photo, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Atlanta. As local media struggle with reduced staff and dwindling resources, Tisdale is stepping in and acting as the public's eyes and ears in a sliver of Georgia. A north Georgia mayor once had her ejected from a city council meeting, though the courts found that he had violated the state’s open meetings law. But charges filed after she was expelled from a 2014 Republican campaign rally could land her in prison. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Jaganmohan Reddy, father of Alok Madasani, an engineer who was injured in the shooting Wednesday nighti n a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, speaks to the media at his residence in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. The shooting of two Indians in the crowded suburban Kansas City bar has sent shock waves through their hometowns, and India's government is rushing diplomats to monitor progress in investigation into the crime. The suspect, Adam Purinton, has been taken into custody and charged on Thursday with murder and attempted murder. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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A man shows a picture of Alok Madasani, an engineer who was injured in the shooting Wednesday night in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, on a mobile phone as Madasani's father Jaganmohan Reddy talks to the media at his residence in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. The shooting of two Indians in the crowded suburban Kansas City bar has sent shock waves through their hometowns, and India's government is rushing diplomats to monitor progress in investigation into the crime. The suspect, Adam Purinton, has been taken into custody and charged on Thursday with murder and attempted murder. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Michael Peterson speaks to a reporter in Martha Waggoner, N.C. Peterson says he’s agreed to accept an Alford plea in the 2001 death of his wife Kathleen, whose body was found at the bottom of a staircase. That means he agrees the prosecution has the evidence to convict him though he still maintains his innocence. (AP Photo/Martha Waggoner)
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FILE- In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, file aerial photo, a supply vessel moves near Black Elk Energy's oil platform damaged by an explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico about 17 miles from Grand Isle, La. An oil industry services company will pay $9.5 million in penalties for Gulf of Mexico safety violations and for pollution from the 2012 offshore platform fire that killed three workers. The penalties against Houston-based Wood Group PSN were announced Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington and U.S. attorneys in New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana, where civil and criminal cases have been playing out. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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An elderly woman is escorted to a transport van after being arrested by law enforcement at the Oceti Sakowin camp as part of the final sweep of the Dakota Access pipeline protesters on Thursday in Morton County near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (Associated Press photographs)
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Activists and protesters with the National Center for Transgender Equality rally in front of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Washington, after the Department of Education and the Justice Department announced plans to overturn the school guidance on protecting transgender students. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self-driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Francisco. A self-driving car company founded by Google is accusing a former top engineer of stealing pivotal technology that is propelling Uber's effort to assemble a fleet of automated vehicles for its popular ride-hailing service. The complaint cites evidence that Levandowski, a former manager in Google's self-driving car project, loaded 14,000 confidential files on a laptop before leaving to start his own company in 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
