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Pike River Mine Ltd. Chief Executive Peter Whittall attends a morning media briefing on miners missing underground of the Pike River coal mine in Greymouth, New Zealand, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Rescue officials on Monday were preparing to send a high-tech robot into a mine tunnel to transmit pictures and assess toxic gas levels three days after an explosion left 29 miners missing underground. At right is police superintendent Gary Knowles. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford)
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A coach carrying the families of 29 miners trapped underground arrives near the Pike River coal mine, Greymouth, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Anguished relatives of the workers missing after an explosion at the coal mine grew frustrated over delays in the rescue operation Sunday, as officials prepared to drill a small hole through hundreds of feet (meters) of rock to test for levels of deadly gasses. (AP Photo/NZPA, Tim Cuff)
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Families of miners missing underground of the Pike River coal mine react in Greymouth, New Zealand, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Rescue officials on Monday were preparing to send a high-tech robot into a mine tunnel to transmit pictures and assess toxic gas levels three days after an explosion left 29 miners missing underground. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford)
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Mine blast survivor Daniel Rockhouse, center, hugs family members following their briefing with police and company officials in Greymouth, New Zealand, after visiting the Pike River coal mine, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Rescue officials are preparing to send a high-tech robot into a mine tunnel to transmit pictures and assess toxic gas levels three days after an explosion left 29 miners missing underground. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
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Rescuers escort a trapped miner wrapped in white quilt on their way out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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Rescuers put a trapped miner on a stretcher after rescue out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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Rescuers and police officers carries a trapped miner on a stretcher out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Liu Mingquan, center, the first miner rescued among the 29 miners trapped underground, gets help from rescue workers at the Batian coal mine in Xiaohe Town of Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained a flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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Rescuers carries a trapped miner wrapped in white quilts out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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A medical worker adjusts an eye cover on a trapped miner before moving him out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, miner Liu Hengqiang, center, is rescued at the Batian coal mine in Xiaohe Town of Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Barefoot and wrapped in white quilts, 29 miners were pulled out of a Chinese coal mine Monday after being trapped by a flood and waiting a day for rescuers to pump out water. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a nurse takes care of a rescued miner at a hospital in Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. All 29 miners were pulled out of a Chinese coal mine Monday after being trapped by a flood and waiting a day for rescuers to pump out water. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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Danish model Helena Christensen poses for photographs as she arrives for a press conference in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Christensen spent three days in villages in southern Nepal as part of her campaign to highlight the effect of global warming on poor and rural communities. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
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Houses stand vacant Friday in the Castlemoyne development in North Dublin, Ireland. This development is one of the many so-called "ghost estates" that have been been largely abandoned and left unfinished across many parts of Ireland due to the financial crisis which has struck Ireland. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Sept. 16, Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to North Korea, speaks to reporters in Beijing, China. Mr. Bosworth will visit South Korea, Japan and China as fears rise that North Korea is ramping up its nuclear program. South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Stephen Bosworth is to arrive in Seoul on Sunday for a two-day trip aimed at discussing the North's nuclear weapons program. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This photo combination of two satellite images made available by DigitalGlobe shows the Yongbyon nuclear complex in Yongbyon, North Korea, in an image taken on Sept. 29, 2010. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security said the image shows heavy construction and excavation equipment at the site and the construction of two small buildings. It estimated that North Korea was constructing a 25- to 30-megawatt light-water reactor. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)
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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2010, file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigns for Senate candidate Joe Miller, left in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stunning write-in victory was a political poke in the eye to Alaska's other favorite daughter, Sarah Palin. (AP Photo/Rob Stapleton)
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An aerial view shows the Pike River Coal mine near Atarau, the site of an underground explosion, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, while at least 27 people were underground. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface, while more than two dozen are missing. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Stewart Nimmo)
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A man takes photos of the original mammoth calf Lyuba, at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, western Germany, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The mammoth baby died 40.000 years ago in the mud, where it was conserved in the ice. A new exhibition shows the giants of the ice age in the famous valley, where the Neanderthal man was found. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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The small original mammoth Lyuba is shown at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, western Germany, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The mammoth baby died 40.000 years ago in the mud, where it was conservated in the ice. A new exhibiton shows the giants of the ice age in the famous valley, where the Neanderthal Man was found. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
