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Smoke billow from Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea, in South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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** FILE ** Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, flanked by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Michael R. Bromwich (center) and Assistant Interior Secretary Tom Strickland, visits Louisiana on Monday, Nov 22, 2010. He promised to work with the oil and gas industry and to "ensure that everyone understands the rules of the road." (Associated Press)
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Friends and families of miners trapped after an explosion at the Pike River coal mine leave a briefing with police and company officials in Greymouth, New Zealand, after visiting the Pike River coal mine, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
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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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The entrance to the Pike River coal mine is cordoned off in Greymouth, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Anguished relatives of 29 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/Pool)
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The entrance to the Pike River coal mine is cordoned off in Greymouth, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Anguished relatives of 29 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/Pool)
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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)
