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Fire engines arrive at the site where a Lufthansa cargo plane (unseen) caught fire and split in half as it was landing at the airport in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were slightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)
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A man stands on top of the wreckage of a Lufthansa cargo plane that caught fire and split in half as it was landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were slightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)
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A tree fallen by Sunday's storm blocks a street in Silver Spring, Md., near Washington, Monday, July 26, 2010. It could take days to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people in and around Washington after a storm downed power lines and trees and left four people dead, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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** FILE ** A Lufthansa MD-11 cargo plane similar to this aircraft caught fire and broke in two while landing at the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Press-Telegram, Marilynn Young, File)
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** FILE ** In a Thursday, June 17, 2010, photo, BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies during a House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward leaves the oil company's offices in London on Monday in the back of a car. He became the face of BP's failure to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and will step down in October. (Associated Press)
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A tree, downed by Sunday's storm, blocks a street in Silver Spring on Monday. The storm left hundreds of thousands without power. (Associated Press)
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Iraqi army soldiers stand near a massive crater outside the office of the Al-Arabiya television channel after a suicide bomber driving a minibus struck in Baghdad on Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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A medic treats a man injured in a passenger bus accident in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday, July 26, 2010. More than two dozen people on board were killed when the speeding bus flipped over, Afghan police said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Families of victims of the Concorde supersonic jet crash lay flowers at the site of the crash in Gonesse, France, a northern suburb of Paris, on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The relatives gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the disaster. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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Water from Iowa's Maquoketa River surges over the bridge of the Delhi Dam as areas surrounding the river continue to flood on Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Julie Koehn)
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In this image taken from television an ambulance at the scene where people receive first aid after a panic on this year's techno-music festival "Loveparade 2010" in Duisburg, Germany, on Saturday, July 24, 2010. More than a dozen people were killed and others injured when mass panic broke out in a tunnel at the Love Parade. (AP Photo/WIEBOLD TV via APTN)
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The Michigan State Police Underwater Recovery Team gets ready to go out with to search for missing people after their plane crashed into Lake Michigan, Friday, July 23, 2010, in Ludington, Mich. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Romain Blanquart)
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A worker prepares to secure cleaned and repaired oil retention booms at a staging area in Grand Isle, La., Friday, July 23, 2010. Tropical Storm Bonnie is expected to make landfall sometime Saturday along the Louisiana coast. BP has recalled much of the oil skimming efforts in anticipation of bad weather. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Piles of dirty oil retention booms await disposal at a staging area in Grand Isle, La., Friday, July 23, 2010. The staging area was being prepared for Tropical Storm Bonnie which is expected to make landfall sometime Saturday along the Louisiana coast. BP has recalled much of the oil skimming efforts in anticipation of bad weather. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Torrie Emery appears in a video arraignment in Pontiac, Mich. on Friday July 23, 2010. Torrie Emery was charged with second-degree murder, assault and child abuse in a fatal car crash stemming from a dispute on the social networking site Facebook. Police say the 23-year-old woman had her 3-year-old daughter in the car Wednesday afternoon when she rammed a car being driven by Alesha Abernathy of Pontiac. Police said Abernathy's car hit a dump truck while being chased. (AP Photo/The Oakland Press, Vaughn Gurganian)
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This image provided by NOAA taken late Thursday July 22, 2010 shows Tropical Storm Bonnie as she steamed through the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. At 2 a.m. EDT Friday B onnie is moving to the Northwest at 16 mph with maximum of winds nearing 40 mph according to the National Hurricane Center. On Friday, the center of Bonnie was expected to pass near or over the Florida Keys and part of the southern Florida peninsula. (AP photo/NOAA)
