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The top of a palm tree lies beside the road after being blown off by winds from the approaching Hurricane Earl in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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Hurricane Earl passes over the Leeward Islands on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in this image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (AP Photo/NASA)
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The "burning man" goes up in flames in Blackrock City, Nev., the home of the Burning Man event. The arts-themed festival, held every year during the week before Labor Day and over that holiday weekend, attracts about 50,000 participants. (The Washington Times)
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Workers stand by a new drill that will be used to rescue 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
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Mount Sinabung, near Karo on North Sumatra in Indonesia, erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing out towering clouds of ash and forcing the evacuation of more than 30,000 people. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama, speaking at Xavier University in New Orleans on Sunday, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, lauded the recovery there, but acknowledged that the recession and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have made it even tougher to bounce back. He pledged that his administration will continue assisting the storm-damaged region.
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Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. The volcano spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years causing thousands of people living around its slope to evacuate their homes. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years, causing thousands of people living around its slope to evacuate their homes in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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A NOAA satellite image taken on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, at 3 a.m. EDT shows clouds associated with Hurricane Danielle on the right side of the image as the storm moves northeastward away from any major land masses. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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A villager rides a buffalo cart with a backdrop of Mount Sinabung, in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. The volcano spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years causing thousands of people living around its slope to evacuate their homes. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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Ryan Briscoe, Sydney, Australia, leads the drivers on the restart after an accident at the opening of the IndyCar Series auto race in Joliet, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, (AP Photo/Warren Wimmer)
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St. Bernard Fire Chief Tommy Stone places a firefighter helmet in a "Katrina casket " during an Ecumenical funeral service for Hurricane Katrina at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette, La., one day before the fifth anniversary of the storm, which took over 1,000 lives and devastated the region, Saturday,Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A Pakistani flood survivor interacts with Rajiv Shah, left, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, during his visit to camp in Sukkur, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Khurram Shahzad)
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Pakistani flood survivors loot relief goods from a truck in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani flood survivors who fled their villages live on an embankment in Sajawal near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen gives an update on efforts to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during a briefing at BP headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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The circle in the center of the Grand Ole Opry House stage is seen after it was set in place on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 in Nashville, Tenn. The circle, made from a part of the old stage from the Opry's former home at Ryman Auditorium, was put back in place Wednesday after the rest of the stage was restored following flooding in May that left the stage submerged under 46 inches of water. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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FILE - In aJuly 8, 2010, file photo, Stan Kroenke, of the Kroenke group, attends the annual Allen & Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. NFL football owners on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, unanimously approved Kroenke's proposal to purchase majority ownership of the St. Louis Rams, assuming he turns over control of two other teams he owns--the NBA's Denver Nuggets and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche--to his son. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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In this Aug. 21, 2010, file photo, Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita walks off the field after a preseason NFL football game against the the St. Louis Rams in Cleveland. Fujita takes pride in his social work off the field, especially his involvement in helping wetlands recover near New Orleans, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)
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In this undated image provide by the journal Science, microbes degrade oil, indicated by the circle of dashes, in the deepwater plume from the BP oil spill in the Gulf, as documented in a study by Berkeley Lab researchers. The newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe, which is suddenly flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico, was discovered by scientists studying the underwater dispersion of millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf following the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. (AP Photo/Science/AAAS) NO SALES.
