The First Step Act, which became law last year, is a bipartisan measure to address concerns that too many Americans were imprisoned for nonviolent crimes as a result of the drug war.

Officials say Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line is approaching the legal limit after snowmelt from a stormy winter left enough water to potentially last through three summers of drought.

Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman says federal authorities wasted no time in sending the convicted Mexican drug lord to the ultra-high-security prison in Colorado to begin serving his life sentence.