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** FILE ** An emergency worker searches a tornado-damaged Walmart store in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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On Monday, May 23, 2011, an emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Emergency workers wait for a medical team after finding a body in a tornado-ravaged car in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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A shelf cloud containing a thunderstorm approaches a tornado-ravaged neighborhood of Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital, hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A farmhouse is protected by a small evee while another stands flooded near Yazoo City, Miss. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.
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Cars are stranded on a dry strip of roadway north of Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday. Thousands have been displaced by the floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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President Obama is greeted by Booker T. Washington High School students Cassandra Henderson (left) and Christopher Dean after stepping off Air Force One in Memphis, Tenn., for private meetings with families affected by flooding and to deliver the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High School. (Associated Press)
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Billy Hanchett stands underneath chairs that he tied to the ceiling of his garage Sunday in Krotz Springs, La., to prepare for flooding brought on by the opening of the Morganza Spillway north of town. (Associated Press)
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Tricia Cochran packs her grandmother's belongings into a pickup truck Sunday in Krotz Springs, La., where flooding is expected after the Morgan Spillway opened. Many area towns are ordering mandatory evacuations. (Associated Press)
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Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell hits from the sand onto the 11th green during the rain-delayed third round of the Players Championship golf tournament on Sunday, May 15, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Severe thunderstorms delayed the completion of the third round Saturday. (AP Photo/Lynne Slakdy)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (right) speaks with workers Thursday while viewing levee construction work with Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, in Krotz Springs, La., during a tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A carp tries to swim from the backwater flooding cornfields near Yazoo City, Miss., on Thursday. Fish displaced by the flooding of the Mississippi River and its tributaries are trying to return to their natural environment as people and animals head for higher ground.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Friends and family help build a sandbag wall around the home of Michael Davis (not pictured) in preparation of impending flooding from the likely diversion of Mississippi River floodwaters into the Atchafalaya Basin in Stephensville, La., on Wednesday.
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Floodwaters invade downtown Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday. The historic city, site of a pivotal Civil War battle, has been one of the hardest hit along the Mississippi River. All along the river's path, residents are worried about the flood's impact on homes and farmland. (Associated Press)
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The Pyramid Arena sits protected by a flood wall from the swollen Mississippi River on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. The Mississippi crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Flood waters from the Mississippi River encroach on Mud Island and parts of downtown Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. The Mississippi crept toward the highest level ever in the river city, flooding pockets of low-lying neighborhoods.
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A photo released by Tom Gordon shows damage caused by a PATH train accident at the Hoboken, N.J., station on Sunday, May 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Tom Gordon)
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In this May 3 photo, people wearing rubber boots walk through a flooded street at high tide after helping residents clean up debris in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The area in this part of the city sunk nearly 2 feet 7 inches following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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Floodwater surrounds two pickup trucks outside a garage in Memphis, Tenn., on Sunday, May 8, 2011. Residents were told Sunday to flee their homes for higher ground as the mighty Mississippi River edged toward the city, threatening to bring more flooding to parts of an area already soaked. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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A tugboat heads under the Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tenn., next to Tom Lee Park which is beginning to be flooded by the Mississippi River on Friday, May 6, 2011. Memphis Police began distributing more than 1,000 evacuation notices to area homeowners on Friday. (AP Photo/Lance Murphey)
