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Vessels operate in the area of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, July 13, 2010. BP officials have placed a containment cap over the leak in hopes that the flow of oil will be diminished. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Residents wade through a flooded street at Las Pinas, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, hours after typhoon Conson lashed through Manila and other provinces in the Philippines. The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year has toppled trees and power lines, causing widespread blackouts, canceling flights, classes and suspending work in some government offices. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Vessels monitor oil burning near the Deepwater Horizon spill on Tuesday. BP officials placed a containment cap over the leak, hoping the oil flow will slow, and said BP will begin gradual tests to see if the cap can stop oil from spewing into the sea. (Associated Press)
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Vietnamese fishermen wait to be registered by Catholic Charities at a community center in New Orleans. Many are facing financial disaster after rebuilding their lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina five years ago. (Associated Press)
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A Vietnamese oyster fisherman stands idle at the docks in Empire, La. The BP PLC oil spill has struck at the heart of the tight-knit Vietnamese community, posing hardships for those who brought their fishing traditions here as refugees. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 13, 2010, people gather around damaged houses after the flooding in Xiaohe, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains. The landslides swept through three different areas before dawn, state media said. In the worst-hit town of Xiaohe in Yunnan province, four died and rescuers were searching for 42 others, the official provincial newspaper Yunnan Daily reported on its website. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
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In this image taken Monday from video provided by BP PLC at 18:17 CDT, a new containment cap (left) is lowered over the broken wellhead at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep-sea robots swarmed around BP's ruptured oil well Monday in a delicately choreographed effort to attach the tighter-fitting cap that could finally stop crude from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico nearly three months into the crisis. (Associated Press)
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Supervisor Wade Falany handles a rope Monday while preparing for oil-skimming operations on the deck of the Pacific Responder skimming vessel in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. The vessel sailed from its home port in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the containment of oil leaking from the broken Deepwater Horizon well. (Associated Press)
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South Koreans visit the wreckage of a warship that the government says was sunk by a North Korean torpedo in March. North Korean military officers and an American-led U.N. Command will discuss the sinking of the ship on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Trucks carrying supplies to coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in NATO operations in Logar province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammed Obaid Ormur, File)
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In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC, the arm of a remotely operated vehicle works at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Undersea robots manipulated by engineers a mile above were expected to begin work Saturday removing the containment cap over the gushing well head in the Gulf of Mexico to replace it with a tighter-fitting cap that could funnel all the oil to tankers at the surface. If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the tankers could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday. But it would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe unleashed by a drilling rig explosion. It won't plug the busted well and it remains uncertain that it will succeed. (AP Photo/BP PLC)
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In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC, the containment cap that had previously been covering the well head at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site, in the Gulf of Mexico, is lifted above the gushing leak on Saturday, July 10, 2010. Officials say a tighter dome will be installed to funnel more oil to collection ships on the surface a mile above. (AP Photo/BP PLC)
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A pair of shrimp trawlers skim oil in Caminada Bay north of Grand Isle, La., Friday, July 9, 2010. The tiny resort island on the Gulf of Mexico is closed to all fishing due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)
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An amphibious craft is salvaged from the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Friday, July 9, 2010. An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overboard and leaving two passengers unaccounted for after a frantic rescue effort. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Russian plane believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap, is seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, on Friday, July 9, 2010. The plane carrying the colours of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is thought to have flown from Austria on Friday, following an exchange of spies between Moscow and Washington. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Men stand outside their flooded homes in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Friday July 9, 2010. A tropical depression that came ashore just north of the mouth of the Rio Grande on Thursday was expected to add 6 inches to 8 inches of rain to rivers and reservoirs in south Texas and northern Mexico already swollen from the heavy rains dropped by Hurricane Alex. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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A man tosses water from his flooded home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Friday July 9, 2010. A tropical depression that came ashore just north of the mouth of the Rio Grande on Thursday was expected to add 6 inches to 8 inches of rain to rivers and reservoirs in south Texas and northern Mexico already swollen from the heavy rains dropped by Hurricane Alex. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Rescue vessels are seen on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Coast Guard officials say a barge collided with a tourist duck boat on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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** FILE ** A duck boat crew member is pulled from the Delaware River where a tourist boat carrying 37 people overturned when a barge hit it, leaving two people unaccounted for and the extent of injuries unclear after a frantic rescue effort in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Terri Ronna)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Churchgoers sing during a service at Barataria Baptist Church in Lafitte, La. Pastor Eddie Painter in the fishing village told his congregation recently that a silver lining in the otherwise disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill might be renewed government commitment to restoring the region's battered coastal marshlands.
