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People rest on the floor of a warehouse in Nuevo Laredo, northeastern Mexico, after being evacuated from the nearby town of Ciudad Anahuac, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. About 18,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from Ciudad Anahuac where authorities opened a dam's floodgates for fear it would overflow from rains that accompanied Hurricane Alex. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward traveled to the United Arab Emirates on July 7, 2010, to meet with the company's "partners" amid speculation BP is trying to raise case to cover the cost of Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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** FILE ** Traffic passes a building in lower Manhattan that once housed a Burlington Coat Factory store. A 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center is planned to replace the building, which was damaged by airplane debris on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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People pass a building in lower Manhattan that once housed a Burlington Coat Factory store, Thursday, May 6, 2010, in New York. A 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center is planned to replace the building that was damaged by airplane debris on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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This June 2003 file photo of a Boeing 747 of Iran's national airline Iran Air at Mehrabad International airport in Tehran. The EU on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, banned most of Iran Air's jets from flying to Europe due to safety concerns, emphasizing that the move was not related to U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. The 27-nation bloc also relaxed restrictions on two airlines from Indonesia and put a Surinam airline on its blacklist of carriers the EU believes do not meet international safety standards. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, file)
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DEJA-VU: On May 28 this year, President Obama picks up a tar ball in Port Fourchon, La., while touring Gulf Coast areas impacted by the BP oil spill. (Associated Press)
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A sample jar of tar balls found on Crystal Beach and Galveston's East Beach during the holiday weekend are displayed during a news conference Monday at the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Texas City, Texas. Officials have confirmed that the tar balls discovered recently along the Galveston and Bolivar coastline are from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, marking the first time oil from the spill has been found on Texas beaches. (Associated Press/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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A boat skims oil in Mobile Bay near workboats and barges that sought refuge in the bay from Hurricane Alex near Dauphin Island, Ala., on Sunday, July 4, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Children are sprayed down with water at a cooling station while waiting for fire works on the National Mall near the Washington Monument in Washington on July 4, 2010. Temperatures reached the mid nineties in the Nation's Capital. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of the conservative Law and Justice party and twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, meets supporters prior to a pre election rally in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Oil spill clean up crews walk the beaches Friday, July 2, 2010 on Elmers Island, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil spill clean up crews work in a staging area Friday, July 2, 2010 on Elmers Island, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A barge carrying supplies for the oil spill clean up is pushed by a tug boat Friday, July 2, 2010 near Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Small boats manuver around the $4.6 million broken oil containment boom in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Heavy seas caused by Hurricane Alex sheared off large bolts on the boom, causing almost 800 feet of the structure to come apart. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Heavy oil approaches the already stained beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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A boat drags its boom material, used in the oil spill clean up efforts, as it makes its way with another boat across Barataria Bay Friday, July 2, 2010 near Grand Isle, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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An oily sailboat heads out on a skimming mission in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Thursday, July 1, 2010. A $4 million oil booming system at the opening of the pass came apart when six foot seas caused by Hurricane Alex battered the coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Pieces of a $4 million oil booming system in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., float in disarray Thursday, July 1, 2010 after six foot seas caused by Hurricane Alex battered the pass overnight. Officials said large bolts holding the structure together sheared off in the high seas. They hope to have it back in place by Saturday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Storm clouds created by Hurricane Alex are seen over shrimp boats modified to skim oil in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Alex, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, closed oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and caused waves as high as 8 feet in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill area. (Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg)
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Residents of Edinburg carry food and other belongings in to the shelter at Edinburg, Texas South Middle School on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Hurricane Alex was expected to make land fall just south of the Texas border by nightfall. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)
