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Family members of slain local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement Raza Haider who was killed by unknown gunmen, cry during his funeral in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Pakistani para military troops gather near a vehicle set on fire by angry mob following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Flood-stricken Pakistanis wait outside a relief center to get food supply on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Relief work for some 3.2 million people has been delayed by swamped roads, washed-out bridges and downed communication lines, and survivors have complained about government inaction. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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People are seen being evacuated from Hartford Distributors, Inc., in Manchester, Conn., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Authorities say several people have been shot at the beer distribution company in Connecticut. Police in other surrounding towns and state authorities have been called to the scene. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jessica Hill)
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A vehicle burns after being set on fire by protesters following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. More than 40 people were killed in revenge attacks. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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In this photo taken July 9, 2010, Serge Latour, left and Jack Rudloe, right, examine some of the gulf life from the collectors at the docks of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea, Fla. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Jack Rudloe is working on a "Noah's Ark" project at the facility to protect the species in the gulf effected by the oil. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)
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In this photo taken July 9, 2010, Jack Rudloe holds a Kemp's Ridley, claimed to be the most endangered sea turtle, at his Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea, Fla. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Rudloe is working on a "Noah's Ark" project to protect the species in the gulf effected by the oil. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)
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Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, a mulitple DUI offender, has been charge with killing a nun and injuring two more in a drunk driving accident Sunday morning. (Provided by Prince William County Police)
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Dan Mathews, Sr. Vice President of PETA, and actress Pamela Anderson play with some of the roughly 50 orphaned dogs that are being moved from Louisiana to Virginia, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, in New Orleans. The dogs have been orphaned by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Anderson, PETA's honorary director, paid all the expenses and costs to relocate the dogs. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)
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A woman washes clothes in floodwaters at her collapsed house in Camp Karoona village near Nowshera, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan's impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst floods in the country's history, a disaster that has claimed some 1,100 lives, wiped out whole villages and left families clinging to the tops of collapsed houses in the hope of being rescued. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)
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Little flood survivors sit in a makeshift tent set up on the mid section of a main highway in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and civilian rescue workers to save people trapped by the floodwaters, distribute food and collect the bodies of the dead. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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People carry their belongings to shift them to higher place through floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan's impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst floods in the country's history, a disaster that has claimed some 1,100 lives, wiped out whole villages and left families clinging to the tops of collapsed houses in the hope of being rescued. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)
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FILE - This Feb. 19. 2010 file photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with Earth's horizon as a backdrop. Several power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling loops aboard the space station was shut down Saturday, July 31, 2010. A module that pumps ammonia coolant to prevent equipment from overheating was still shut down early Sunday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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** FILE ** A Conair waterbomber flies past a wildfire burning out of control after dropping fire retardant on the other side of the mountain in Kelowna, British Columbia, on July 20, 2009. A waterbomber similar to the one pictured crashed on Saturday, July 31, 2010, while fighting a wildfire in the British Columbia interior. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)
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** FILE ** Earth's horizon is a backdrop for the International Space Station, photographed in February 2010. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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An oil containment boom is laid out in the waters of Treasure Pass near Yscloskey, La., on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Onshore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on one another finally to plug the environmental disaster. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
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An aerial view shows houses submerged in water because of heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. More than 1,100 people have died as rescuers struggle to reach marooned victims and some evacuees show signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
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FILE-This July 10, 2010 file photo shows director Spike Lee entering Cipriani's for the wedding of Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vasquez, in New York. Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. The director showed "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday July 31, 2010. It airs in August on HBO. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File)
