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Will Harrison's flag hangs from a fallen tree after it was blown off his house when a tornado ripped through the Cottonade neighborhood in Fayetteville, N.C., on Saturday, April 15, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of tornadoes from the western hills to the streets of Raleigh. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft)
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A radio-controlled PakBot robot opens a door inside the reactor building of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as the robot is monitored by another Pakbot from behind during inspection of the tsunami-damaged facilities on Monday, April 18, 2011, in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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An aerial photo shows destroyed mobile homes in the Stony Brook Mobile Home Park in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday. A tornado ripped through the area Saturday as a line of severe storms moved across the state. (Associated Press)
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Kizuki Ishimori, 27, clears debris from his family's home in Higashi-Matsushima. After the March 11 tsunami devastated his hometown, Mr. Ishimori said he might have to move south to find work. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Rescuers worked throughout the early morning hours of Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullen, Idaho, to clear debris from a collapsed tunnel in search of a miner missing more than a mile underground since Friday, officials said. The miner's brother, who also was working in the mine, was able to escape. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)
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Fire and smoke rises from storage warehouse at a construction site that is run by a foreign company, with no clear causes of the incident, in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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A car drives through a partially flooded street, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Decatur, Ala. Waves of strong storms left damage across a wide area of Alabama on Friday, slamming into homes and businesses and forcing promoters to cancel the first race of a busy weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 18, 2008, file photo, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski poses in the cockpit of an FAA jet in a hangar at Washington's Reagan National Airport. Krakowski, the official who oversees the nation's air traffic system resigned Thursday and the FAA began a "top to bottom" review of the entire system following disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take a seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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A severe storm passes over east Tulsa and the Renaissance Hotel, in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, James Gibbard)
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A statue of Buddha is seen in the city cemetery in the area devastated by the Match 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on April 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Winchester Homes is building three- and four-bedroom homes at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown. The homes are priced from $994,900 to $1,363,900.
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The center-island kitchen in the Belmont model has 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and upgraded appliances.
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Ryland Homes is building single-family homes at Reid's Prospect in Woodbridge. The homes are base-priced from $404,990 to $459,990.
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A woman drove a minivan carrying three of her four children down this boat ramp into the Hudson River in Newburgh, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. All the occupants of the minivan, which was found in 10 feet of water about 25 yards offshore, died, the city fire chief said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A boy holding an opposition flag is walked back Tuesday to a checkpoint near the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, for his safety by a rebel thought to be his father. A female relative brought the boy to show support.
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The Rakuten Golden Eagles, a professional team representing disaster-wracked Sendai in northeastern Japan, along with fans in the stands, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, when the 2011 pro baseball regular season opened in Japan. (Associated Press)
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Survivors of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami pray Tuesday at the site where their home once stood in Natori, Japan. The natural disasters badly damaged a nuclear power plant, which caused the nation Tuesday to raise its crisis level to 7, the highest rating. (Associated Press)
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Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday. Oil is falling after Goldman Sachs warned investors that crude is due for a "substantial pullback." Oil imports fell in February. (Associated Press)
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Dallas Stars center Mike Ribeiro, left, defenseman Stephane Robidas, center left, center Steve Ott, center right, and left wing Brenden Morrow, right, celebrate a goal by Ribeiro in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche in Denver on Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)
