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In this image supplied by MSF, victims receive first aid following a military air strike at a camp for displaced people in Rann, Nigeria, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. Relief volunteers are believed to be among the more than 100 dead after a Nigerian Air Force jet fighter mistakenly bombed the refugee camp, while on a mission against Boko Haram extremists. (Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) via AP)
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In this image supplied by MSF, a man carries an injured child following a military air strike at a camp for displaced people in Rann, Nigeria, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. Relief volunteers are believed to be among the more than 100 dead after a Nigerian Air Force jet fighter mistakenly bombed the refugee camp, while on a mission against Boko Haram extremists. Medical condition of the child unknown. (Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) via AP)
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A brochure is on display that is part of an initiative involving the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the American Foundation to Prevent Suicide, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Las Vegas. The brochures are supplied to gun dealers and gun ranges to help gun owners understand the warning signs of those at risk of suicide and to find ways to prevent suicide. It’s a difficult topic to discuss and an even tougher one to fix, fraught with politics and societal stigmas: people who kill themselves with a gun. But now two unlikely allies, the gun industry and a leading suicide prevention group, are coming together to tackle it. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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National Shooting Sports Foundation President and CEO Steve Sanetti discusses an initiative with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Las Vegas. It’s a difficult topic to discuss and an even tougher one to fix, fraught with politics and societal stigmas: people who kill themselves with a gun. But now two unlikely allies, the gun industry and a leading suicide prevention group, are coming together to tackle it. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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Dr. Christine Moutier, medical director for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, discusses an initiative with the National Shooting Sports Foundation to prevent suicide, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Las Vegas. It’s a difficult topic to discuss and an even tougher one to fix, fraught with politics and societal stigmas: people who kill themselves with a gun. But now two unlikely allies, the gun industry and a leading suicide prevention group, are coming together to tackle it. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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Baltimore Delegate Maggie McIntosh, who chairs the Maryland House Appropriations Committee, leaves the governor's mansion after a budget meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Annapolis, Md. McIntosh, a Democrat, says Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's budget plan does not include money for several initiatives lawmakers passed last year to help Baltimore, including funds for a scholarship program and after school programs. Hogan says the state can't afford adding new spending mandates. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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This undated booking photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff shows William James Hartwell, who is scheduled to go on trial next week on charges that his pornography-production studio near Phoenix's airport operated as a front for a prostitution ring. Hartwell denies the allegations and accuses the government of criminalizing actions protected by the First Amendment. Prosecutors say Hartwell's actions aren't constitutionally protected. (Maricopa County Sheriff via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, Cameroon soldiers stand guard at a lookout post as they take part in operations against the Islamic extremists group Boko Haram, their guard post is on Elbeid bridge, left rear, that separates northern Cameroon form Nigeria's Borno state near the village of Fotokol, Cameroon. Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2017, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers, a Borno state government official said. (AP Photo/Edwin Kindzeka Moki, File)
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Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, Jan. 8, 2017. The actress, who gave an impassioned speech at the Golden Globes criticizing President-elect Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter and calling for the defense of a free press, will be honored for a career of advocating for LGBTQ equality on Feb. 11, by the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ civil rights organization. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP, File) ** FILE **
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts, scheduled for execution in April 2017 for fatally stabbing Fred Hicks in 1997 in Cincinnati. Ohio Parole Board members met Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, to hear arguments for and against clemency for Tibbetts, whose attorneys provided family testimony and psychological evidence of the impact a traumatic and chaotic childhood had on Tibbetts' adult life. Tibbetts is also sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the beating death of his wife Judith Crawford. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Premiums and the number of uninsured would soar under a Republican bill scuttling President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that Congress passed last year, lawmakers’ nonpartisan budget analyst estimated Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in a report underlining the GOP’s risks as it starts a fresh push to dismantle and replace that statute. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Premiums and the number of uninsured would soar under a Republican bill scuttling President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that Congress passed last year, lawmakers’ nonpartisan budget analyst estimated Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in a report underlining the GOP’s risks as it starts a fresh push to dismantle and replace that statute. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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In this Jan. 15, 2017 photo, a dead horse that appears to have been hit by a car lies on the side of the street in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's tiny Vieques island is famed for its scenery and its free-roaming horses. But there are now so many that officials have joined the Humane Society in a campaign to hold down the population with a campaign of contraceptive darts. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)
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In this Jan. 14, 2017 photo, horse owners arrive for free veterinary services by the U.S. Humane Society as they carrying out a birth control campaign for horses in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Many locals keep their horses in open fields near the sea, where they graze until they’re needed next. Officials say that as a result, it’s nearly impossible to control the horse population and hold owners accountable when trouble occurs. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Jan. 14, 2017 photo, Dave Pauli, senior director for the U.S. Humane Society wildlife response team, shoots a horse with a vaccine dart as part of a birth control program to manage the horse population in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Saturday. Puerto Rico's tiny Vieques island is famed for its scenery and its free-roaming horses. But there are now so many that officials have joined the Humane Society in a campaign to hold down the population with a campaign of contraceptive darts. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Dave Pauli, senior director for the U.S. Humane Society wildlife response team, shows the vaccine dart used on horses as part of a birth control program to manage the horse population in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's tiny Vieques island is famed for its scenery and its free-roaming horses. But there are now so many that officials have joined the Humane Society in a campaign to hold down the population with a campaign of contraceptive darts. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Dave Pauli, senior director for the U.S. Humane Society wildlife response team, waits for an opportunity to shoot horses with a vaccine dart as part of a birth control program to manage the horse population in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The horse population has grown to an estimated 2,000 animals that break water pipes to quench their thirst, knock over garbage cans in search of food and die in car crashes that have increased as tourists flock to Vieques, which grew in popularity after the U.S. Navy shuttered military operations in the early 2000s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Jan. 14, 2017 photo, a horse roams before the U.S. Humane Society wildlife response team shoots it with a vaccine dart, part of a birth control program to manage the horse population in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Many locals keep their horses in open fields near the sea, where they graze until they’re needed next. Officials say that as a result, it’s nearly impossible to control the horse population and hold owners accountable when trouble occurs. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Jan. 14, 2016 photo, tourists walk by a horse grazing on the side of the road in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's tiny Vieques island is famed for its scenery and its free-roaming horses. But there are now so many that officials have joined the Humane Society in a campaign to hold down the population with a campaign of contraceptive darts. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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President Barack Obama waves to people in the community during a visit to the Jobs Have Priority Naylor Road Family Shelter in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
