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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)
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City of Edinburg street crews close a flooded street in downtown Edinburg, Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. As Hurricane Alex inched closer to deep South Texas, residents in low-lying areas were experiencing more than eight inches of rain. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)
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Sergio Alvarez shovels seaweed off a boardwalk as the lingering effects of Tropical Storm Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. The Atlantic season's first hurricane largely spared Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Padre Boulevard floods as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A motorist is assisted by passerbys as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Dennis Barrett paddles his kayak down a flooded Padre Boulevard as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore Wednesday on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state, about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Alex is moving west near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph with higher gusts. Steady weakening is expected as the hurricane moves over land according to forecasters. (Associated Press/NOAA)
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An Indian police vehicle patrols a road dotted with rocks and a burning tire set up as road blockade by protesters in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Authorities brought new areas under curfew in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Wednesday to control the worst street violence in a year, triggered by the killing of 11 people allegedly by government forces over the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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This image provided by NOAA was acquired Tuesday June 29, 2010, at 5:32 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Alex churning through the western Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border and far away from the massive oil spill. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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In this June 8, 2010, file photo, Elaine Jesmer of Los Angeles holds a sign during a protest against BP PLC organized by Moveon.org outside an ARCO gas station in Los Angeles. Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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A Royal Canadian mounted police officer stands guard as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, and his delegation arrives in Toronto, Canada, Thursday June 24, 2010 to attend the G8 and the G20 meetings. Cameron steps into a potential hornets' nest of trans-Atlantic conflict when he makes his global debut this week at the G-20 summit in Canada, with tensions over Afghanistan, Europe's debt crisis and the BP oil spill gaining in intensity. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A mannequin wearing a respirator holding a fish painted with blood, and a child mannequin hiding its head and murals stand as a protest to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Cut Off, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
