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Relatives of miners trapped in a collapsed mine react Sunday after being informed that one of the drill machines being used in the rescue effort has reached the depth where the miners are thought to be located after 17 days in Copiapo, Chile. At least 33 miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed on Aug. 5 due to tons of falling rock. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Haitian-born singer and presidential candidate Wyclef Jean (second from left) walks surrounded by security after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his candidacy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Roads along the Yalu River are inundated by floodwaters in Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning province on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. The Yalu, which marks China's border with North Korea, breached a dike Saturday after torrential rains, forcing the evacuation of more than 94,000 people. (AP Photos/Xinhua News Agency, Zhao Guiliang)
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FILE - This Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 image provided by NASA shows astronaut Alan Poindexter exercising on a bicycle ergometer on the space shuttle Atlantis while docked with the International Space Station. Astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months at the International Space Station, according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates prolonged trips to asteroids and Mars. (AP Photo/NASA)
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Agronomist at the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station Sergei Gandrabur walks at the station in Pavlovsk, near St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The world's first seed bank survived World War II thanks to 12 Russian scientists who chose to starve to death rather than eat the grain they were saving for future generations. Now the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry's seed bank is in danger again, this time because of court-approved plans to rip up its vast fields of genetically diverse plants and build fancy homes on the prime real estate they occupy near St. Petersburg.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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FILE - In a Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 photo, shrimpers haul in their catch in Bastian Bay, near Empire, La., on the first day of shrimping season since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Scientists released a report Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 that says an invisible plume of oil lies more than a half mile beneath the sea's surface off the coast of Louisiana, within 20 miles of the BP well. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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A June 2010 photo provided by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows Chief Scientist Rich Camilli, left, a WHOI environmental engineer, and co-principal investigator Chris Reddy, a WHOI marine chemist and oil spill expert, aboard the research vessel Endeavor in the Gulf of Mexico. Camilli is the chief author of a study released Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 in which scientists report the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill. (AP Photo/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cameron McIntyre)
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Pakistan flood-affected swarm to get relief food distributed by a local charity group in Baseera, central Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. About 150,000 Pakistanis were forced to move to higher ground as floodwaters from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south, a government spokesman said. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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An Iranian security directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Flood survivors jump to catch relief goods in flood hit Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Thursday Aug. 19, 2010. Weeks after massive downpours first battered northern Pakistan, submerging tens of thousands of square miles, killing near 1,500 people and leaving millions homeless, those floodwaters are still sweeping down river and through the south, adding one more layer of misery to people long accustomed to hardship. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Flood survivors negotiate a flooded road at Muzaffargarh, in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The floods have affected 20 million people and about one-fifth of Pakistan's territory, straining its civilian government as it struggles against al-Qaida and Taliban violence. Aid groups and the United Nations have complained foreign donors have not been quick or generous enough given the scale of the disaster. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani flood survivors wait their turn to get relief food distributed by naval officials in Sangi Village near Sukkur, in southern Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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The shadow of a Pakistan Navy helicopter is seen as a residents ride in a boat carrying rescued farm animals during an emergency aid distribution, near Bachel in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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A Pakistani family stand on their farm compound surrounded by flood waters as seen from a Pakistan Navy helicopter during an emergency aid distribution, near Bachel in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Augu. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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The shadow of a Pakistan Navy Sea King helicopter is seen flying over buildings surrounded by flood waters near Bachel in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Lal Pir power generating station which is submerged in flood water further increased the power crisis in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country's president said Thursday. Asif Ali Zardari's remarks were echoed by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who toured some of the worst hit areas and visited a relief camp alongside the president. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
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President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, wears cap, listens the ordeal of flood survivors in Jampur near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country's president said Thursday. Asif Ali Zardari's remarks were echoed by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who toured some of the worst hit areas and visited a relief camp alongside the president. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar takes a closer look Thursday in an area that was open water two years ago before a wetlands restoration project in the Delta National Wildlife Refuge off Louisiana. He and other federal officials led an inspection tour of the refuge in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bill Lehr, (above) a federal government scientist, calculates some figures related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill while testifying on Capitol Hill during a House energy and environment subcommittee hearing.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Brian Matusz delivers to a Texas Rangers batter during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in Baltimore.
