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Expedition 24 astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Douglas Wheelock work outside the International Space Station on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, as they prepare to install a cooling pump module, replacing one that failed. (AP Photo/NASA)
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Soldiers take part in firefighting operations at a fireworks factory in the city of Yichun in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A massive explosion ripped through the factory, killing 13 workers, damaging nearby buildings and causing secondary blasts. (AP Photo/Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jianwei)
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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood victims jostle to get relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood survivors jostle for a sack of flour distributed by volunteers Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood victims fight with each others for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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A Pakistani flood survivor floats his mother to safer area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani army soldiers rescue villagers from flooded areas Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors return to their village devastated by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's helicopter flies over the flood waters in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan in Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan after surveying the devastation and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Echneider)
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Pakistani villagers chase relief supplies dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani villagers approach to pick up food packets dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani displaced families spend time around their tents at a camp set up for flood survivors in Razzakabad on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 wounded, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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In a photo made from NASA television, Expedition 24 astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson works outside the space station Monday Aug. 16, 2010 as she and Douglas Wheelock prepare to install a cooling pump module, replacing the one that failed. (AP Photo/NASA)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2010 file photo, James Cameron arrives at The Green Carpet and Home Tree Earth Day celebration in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, file)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) introduces Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the members of his delegation at the prime minister's house in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Mr. Ban traveled to flood-ravaged Pakistan to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless in one of the worst disasters to hit the country grow increasingly desperate. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
