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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, left, talks with reporters as he points to vessels of opportunity skimming for oil just off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. At right is Mike Halstead, Director of Emergency Management for Florida. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist talks with a heavy equipment operator transporting contaminated sand off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. Mr. Crist was making a personal inspection of cleanup efforts along the Florida panhandle. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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A vessel of opportunity skims for oil just off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. Much of the oil that washed up on Pensacola Beach over the last few days has been cleaned up and officials have reopened the public beaches. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Booming operations continue across the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, June 25, 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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A helicopter drops bags of sand onto a barrier during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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People move bags of sand onto a barge during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill collects in shallows in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill creates dark pockets on a small island ringed with absorbant material in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Police and rescue workers inspect a victim at the Castelldefels Playa station where a high-speed train passing through the station struck a group of people crossing the tracks, in Castelldefels, Spain, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a Delta crib. More than 2 million cribs from seven companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs. (AP Photo/CPSC)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a Delta crib. More than 2 million cribs from seven companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs. (AP Photo/CPSC)
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People make their way back into an office building in Cleveland after an earthquake shook parts of Canada and the United States on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The magnitude-5.0 temblor, which was centered on the Ontario-Quebec border, cracked plaster in Cleveland and caused buildings to sway gently in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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Family of victims of the 2009 Metro crash, Jordan McMillan, 20, son of Metro train operator Jeanice McMillan, left, and Tawanda Brown, mother of Lovonda "Nikki" King, touch a plaque in honor of the victims of the June 22, 2009 Metro crash, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Washington, during a memorial held by Metro on the first anniversary of the crash. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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U.S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman, who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry. (AP Photo/Office of U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman)
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In this file photo taken June 16, 2010, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington. BP PLC said Wednesday, June 23, 2010, that Mr. Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the oil spill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)
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Workers walk along a line of barges anchored in Pass Abel on the coast of Louisiana near Grand Isle, La., Monday, June 21, 2010. When completed, the barges, which will be lined up end-to-end, are expected to serve as a barrier against oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from entering Barataria Bay. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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In this image made available by the Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, ministry forces conduct house-to-house searches in an Uzbek area in the village of Nariman on the edge of the main southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday, June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, Pool)
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A new wildfire burns at Shultz Pass between the San Francisco Peaks and Mount Elden on Sunday, June 20, 2010, in Flagstaff, Ariz. Several neighborhoods were evacuated because of the blaze. (AP Photo/Michele Legg)
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A plume of black smoke rises from behind houses in an area north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that was evacuated on Sunday, June 20, 2010, because of a wildfire. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in North Korea and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo on Monday, June 21, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gestures while meeting with miners at Pyeong-an puk-do, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
