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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Takahashi, Asada at quake charity event in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi (L) and Mao Asada (2nd from L) ask visitors for donations to support reconstruction from the March 11, 2011, disaster after their performances at a charity event held in Kobe on April 2, 2014.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children gather around a spring at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children play at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play in front of a wall with graffiti reading "WAKE UP MUSLIMS," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A man plows a field within a site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy passes by a wall with graffiti reading "Osama is a martyr," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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Work at Fukushima nuclear plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on April 4, 2013, shows an area around a crack at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, from which highly radioactive water leaked into the sea in April 2011. The crack in front of the structure has been filled and covered with gravel. Installation work on a water shielding wall began at the plant on April 2, 2013.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - People pass the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in a house that used to stand there.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play cricket at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy plays at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a building in the town of Ogatsu, part of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 2, 2012 (bottom), in which a bus swept by the tsunami still remains on the building.

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JAL logs profit

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. Chairman Kazuo Inamori (L) and President Masaru Onishi attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2012. The airline, which was undergoing rehabilitation, reported a group operating profit of 161.66 billion yen in the April to December period on cost-cutting efforts and revised upward its operating profit projection for fiscal 2011 by 40 billion yen to 180 billion yen.

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Nissan COO Shiga

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co.'s Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga explains the automaker's consolidated results for the April-September first half, when it posted a group net profit of 183.43 billion yen, down 12.0 percent from a year earlier, in Yokohama on Nov. 2, 2011. Shiga said its worldwide production could be cut by around 60,000 units due to the effects of supply chain disruptions stemming from the flooding in Thailand.

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Brewers' Saito gets 1st win of season

MINNEAPOLIS, United States - Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Takashi Saito pitches against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis on July 2, 2011. Saito picked up his first win of the season in an 8-7 victory after rejoining the team as he had been on the disabled list since April due to a left hamstring injury.

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Actor Watanabe visits evacuation center in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe chats with a woman at an evacuation center in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 2, 2011, during his trip to the area to encourage people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, previously visited evacuees in Ishinomaki and the town of Onagawa, both in the prefecture, in April.

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Diet OKs 4 tril. yen extra budget for quake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on May 2, 2011. The Diet enacted a 4.02 trillion yen extra budget for fiscal 2011 the same day, the first in a series of large emergency spending packages to fund reconstruction after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as the upper house approved the budget and related bills. The supplementary budget and related bills were approved by the more powerful House of Representatives on April 30.

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Tens of millions of 'lost' cash found

SENDAI, Japan - A woman checks cash and a deposit book from a bag which was turned in at a police station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. Tens of millions of yen in cash have been turned in by rescue workers and citizens who found the money in the rubble in devastated areas in northeastern Japan since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Local firefighters in quake-hit Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - Takashi Oguni (R), a local firefighter, prays for the souls of his coworkers who have been killed in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 2, 2011.

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Ichiro is Seattle's all-time hits leader

OAKLAND, United States - Seattle Mariners' leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a single in the ninth inning of a game against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on April 2, 2011. Ichiro became the Mariners' all-time hits leader with 2,248, surpassing Edgar Martinez.

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Ichiro is Seattle's all-time hits leader

OAKLAND, United States - Seattle Mariners' leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki celebrates the team's 5-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on April 2, 2011. Ichiro became the Mariners' all-time hits leader during the game with 2,248, surpassing Edgar Martinez.

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Quake charity in MLB game

CINCINNATI, United States - A girl makes a donation for a Japan quake relief charity after the fourth inning of a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Milwaukee Brewers at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 2, 2011.

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Miyazato at Kraft Nabisco C'ship

RANCHO MIRAGE, United States - Japan's Ai Miyazato hits a recovery shot from a bunker on the sixth hole during the third round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club in California on April 2, 2011.

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Pato leads AC Milan over Inter

MILAN, Italy - AC Milan forward Pato celebrates his second goal in the second half of a Serie A match against Inter Milan at the San Siro stadium in Italy on April 2, 2011. The league-leading AC Milan won 3-0 over the second place rival.

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AC Milan sink Inter in Milan derby

MILAN, Italy - AC Milan defender Alessandro Nesta (R) tries to stop Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto'o in the first half of a Serie A match against their cross-town rivals at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, on April 2, 2011. League-leading AC Milan beat their second-place rival 3-0.

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Rally against nuclear plant in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Protesters gather at Union Square in New York on April, 2, 2011, calling for the immediate shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in the wake of the crisis at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Japan, Germany eye enhancing nuclear safety standards

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) speaks during a joint press conference with his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 2, 2011, following their meeting. Japan and Germany agreed during the meeting to work toward enhancing nuclear safety standards in the wake of a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant triggered by the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Rescue team from India

ONAGAWA, Japan - Members of the National Disaster Response Force from India search through the rubble for missing people in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. It is the first time India's NDRF, whose 46-member rescue team arrived in Japan on March 28, is engaged in an overseas mission.

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Twins' Nishioka vs. Toronto

TORONTO, Canada - The Minnesota Twins' Tsuyoshi Nishioka steals second base in the fourth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 2, 2011. The Blue Jays won 6-1.

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Rescue team from India

ONAGAWA, Japan - Yukiyoshi Sato, 38, cries in front of the recovered body of his mother, 59, as members of India's rescue team and others look on in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. The body was recovered by India's National Disaster Response Force team, which is engaged in its first overseas mission in Japan, following the country's March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Dog rescued off tsunami-devastated coast

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A member of the Japan Coast Guard carries a rescued dog as he arrives at the port of Shiogama, in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. Coast guard members aboard a helicopter found the dog on a roof, believed to have been washed away by the March 11 tsunami, drifting some 1.8 kilometers off the coast, the previous day.

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2nd day of 3-day intensive search

OTSUCHI, Japan - Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force offer prayers after recovering a body from the rubble in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. The SDF, the U.S. military and other rescue workers continued for the second day of the three-day intensive search operation.

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2nd day of 3-day intensive search

SOMA, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces search through the rubble for missing people in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture, on April 2, 2011, the second day of the three-day intensive search operation by the SDF, U.S. military and other rescue workers.

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Damaged port in Fukushima

SOMA, Japan - Photo shows port equipment bent by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the port of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, on April 2, 2011.

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Tsunami aftermath

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A mountain of trash is burned in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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'Megafloat' artificial island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 2, 2011, shows an aerial view of an artificial floating island called the ''megafloat'' off the port of Shimizu in Shizuoka. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering using a ''megafloat'' to store tainted water with high levels of radiation found at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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2nd day of 3-day intensive search

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces search for people missing since the March 11 tsunami in an inundated area near an elementary school, where many children have gone missing, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. The SDF, the U.S. military and other rescue workers continued for the second day of the three-day intensive search operation.

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'Megafloat' artificial island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 2, 2011, shows an aerial view of an artificial floating island called the ''megafloat'' off the port of Shimizu in Shizuoka. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering using a ''megafloat'' to store tainted water with high levels of radiation found at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Kan visits tsunami-devastated area

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) speaks to a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force near an elementary school serving as an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture on April 2, 2011. The city was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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Kan visits tsunami-devastated area

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) visits Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, a city devastated by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, on April 2, 2011.