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This undated photo provided by Michael Hutton, shows Michael Hutton of Kasilof, Alaska. Hutton, who explored getting health insurance under Obamacare. Hutton is among scores who go without health insurance because they can't afford it in Alaska, which has some of the highest health care costs in the nation. (Michael Hutton via AP)
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Fatimah Farooq is shown, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Farooq counsels refugees from places like Iraq and Syria, who have been victims of trauma, torture or sex trafficking. Personally, she tries to help relatives from Sudan, some of whom have faced barriers resettling in the United States as her parents did right before she was born. In between, she is trying to navigate being black, Muslim and a daughter of immigrants.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Fatimah Farooq is shown, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Farooq counsels refugees from places like Iraq and Syria, who have been victims of trauma, torture or sex trafficking. Personally, she tries to help relatives from Sudan, some of whom have faced barriers resettling in the United States as her parents did right before she was born. In between, she is trying to navigate being black, Muslim and a daughter of immigrants.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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In this April 2017 photo, Rachel Wilson, of the Butterfly Ranch in Silver Lake, Ore., makes the morning rounds feeding an assortment of rescued animals being rehabilitated for eventual re-adoption. (Kurt Liedtke /The Herald And News via AP)
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San Bernardino City Unified School District Superintendent Dale Marsden applauds Rod Smith Jr., son of North Park Elementary School shooting victim Karen Smith, after singing an emotion tribute "Give Me Jesus," in honor of Smith's memory during a memorial service at Grace Chapel in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, April 14, 2017. Several hundred people attended the memorial service for teacher Karen Smith after her estranged husband Cedric Anderson entered North Park Elementary, killing Smith, eight-year-old student Jonathan Martinez and wounding nine-year-old student Nolan Brandy on April 10 in San Bernardino. (Rachel Luna/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Colleagues of North Park Elementary School shooting victim, teacher Karen Smith, attend a memorial service at Grace Chapel in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, April 14, 2017. Several hundred people attended the memorial service for Smith after her estranged husband Cedric Anderson entered North Park Elementary, killing Smith, eight-year-old student Jonathan Martinez and wounding nine-year-old student Nolan Brandy on April 10 in San Bernardino. (Rachel Luna/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Rod Smith Jr., son of North Park Elementary School shooting victim Karen Smith, is overcome with emotion and sheds tears as he sings "Give Me Jesus," a worship song his mother once taught him, in honor of her memory during a memorial service at Grace Chapel in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, April 14, 2017. Several hundred people attended the memorial service for Karen Smith after her estranged husband Cedric Anderson entered North Park Elementary, killing Smith, eight-year-old student Jonathan Martinez and wounding nine-year-old student Nolan Brandy on April 10 in San Bernardino. (Rachel Luna/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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This April 5, 2017 photo shows the tombstone of Texas prisoner George Washington at the Texas prison cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. Washington was one of five convicts put to death on Feb. 8, 1924, the first time Texas used the electric chair for capital punishment. It was one of 28 times the electric chair in Texas was used more than once in a single night. Arkansas is set to use a three-drug mixture for a scheduled eight lethal injections, two each on four days, starting Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, an exhibit at the Texas Prison Museum shows the old Texas electric chair used to execute hundred of Texas inmates in Huntsville, Texas, from 1924 through 1964. In Texas, records show multiple executions 28 times starting in 1924 when the state took over execution duties from counties and electrocution became the capital punishment method. For its inauguration on Feb. 8, 1924, the new electric chair was used five times. Arkansas is set to use lethal injection for a scheduled seven executions, two of which are planned for Monday, April 17. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, an exhibit at the Texas Prison Museum shows the three-chemical mixture used by Texas prison officials for lethal injections in the state from 1982 until 2012, when it was replaced by a single drug. Not even Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, has scheduled multiple executions in a single day in recent years. Arkansas is planning a double execution Monday, April 17 the first since one in Texas in 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
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New York City police officers detain a passenger from a disabled New Jersey Transit train who became belligerent and sparked a stampede among passengers leaving the overcrowded station once the train finally arrived at New York's Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017. The New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard was stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey for nearly three hours. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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In this photo provided by Dr. Mia Sanati, passengers aboard a New Jersey Transit train stranded in a railroad tunnel under the Hudson River wait for repairs to be completed so the train can proceed into New York's Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017. Authorities say that the train, which became disabled around 3:25 p.m. due to an Amtrak overhead power problem, finally made it into Penn Station around 6 p.m. (Dr. Mia Sanati via AP)
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Former Arkansas death row inmate Damien Echols speaks at rally opposing the state's upcoming executions, on the front steps of Arkansas' Capitol, Friday, April 14, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
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Actor Johnny Depp, left, stands with former Arkansas death row inmate Damien Echols, before speaking at a rally opposing Arkansas' upcoming executions, which are set to begin next week, on the front steps of the Capitol Friday, April 14, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
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This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows Bruce Earl Ward, who has been scheduled for execution April 17, 2017. The Arkansas Supreme Court has halted the execution of Ward, one of two inmates facing lethal injection Monday under the state's multiple execution plan. Justices on Friday, April, April 14,2017, issued a stay in the execution of Bruce Ward, one of seven inmates the state plans to put to death before the end of the month. (Arkansas Department of Correction, via AP File)
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Evening rush hour commuters look at the departures board while at Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017, in New York. A New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard is stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey. Authorities say the Northeast Corridor train became disabled Friday due to an Amtrak overhead power problem. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Evening rush hour commuters wait for trains sitting under the departures board announcing that all trains are on stand by at Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017, in New York. A New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard is stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey. Authorities say the Northeast Corridor train became disabled Friday due to an Amtrak overhead power problem. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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New York Firefighters make their way to a track at Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017, in New York. A New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard is stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey. Authorities say the Northeast Corridor train became disabled Friday due to an Amtrak overhead power problem. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Evening rush hour commuters look at the departures board while at Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017, in New York. A New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard is stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey. Authorities say the Northeast Corridor train became disabled Friday due to an Amtrak overhead power problem. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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New York Fire Dept. EMTs make their way to a track at Penn Station, Friday, April 14, 2017, in New York. A New Jersey Transit train with about 1,200 passengers aboard is stuck in a Hudson River tunnel between New York and New Jersey. Authorities say the Northeast Corridor train became disabled Friday due to an Amtrak overhead power problem. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
