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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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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Tairausuiso area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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JSA forgoes appeal, Sokokurai to return in July

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Sokokurai (L) shakes hands with his stablemaster Arashio in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, after the Japan Sumo Association decided not to appeal a court ruling that orders the body to reinstate Sokokurai, whom the body had expelled in 2011 over match fixing. Sokokurai will make his comeback at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July as a No. 15 maegashira.

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JSA forgoes appeal, Sokokurai to return in July

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Sokokurai holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, after the Japan Sumo Association decided not to appeal a court ruling that orders the body to reinstate Sokokurai, whom the body had expelled in 2011 over match fixing. Sokokurai will make his comeback at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July as a No. 15 maegashira.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents celebrate as a special train arrives at Yoshihama Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - A special train departs Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents see a special train off from Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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2 years after quake

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2013.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R).

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Fight Shimbun children share experiences with French kids

PARIS, Japan - Children from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, who worked on creating the Fight Shimbun newspaper, participate in an exchange event with children of Institution Jeanne d'Arc, a Catholic private school in the suburbs of Paris, on April 3, 2012. The children from the northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami shared their experiences of creating the newspaper to encourage evacuees at a shelter after the disaster.

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Iwaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Yotsukura port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Higashimatsushima soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show members of the Ground Self-Defense Force saluting to victims at a temporary burial site in the city of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which the site was covered by snow.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom). At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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Disaster-hit Otsuchi in April and June

OTSUCHI, Japan - Combination photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), and on June 3, 2011 (bottom). The pleasure boat ''Hamayuri'' washed up on the rooftop of an inn by tsunami and a building have so far been removed.

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JOC's Mizuno in London

LONDON, Britain - Masato Mizuno (C), vice president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, hands out a leaflet in London on April 3, 2011, emphasizing the safeness of Tokyo following the March 11 earthquake and a subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Some people in the athletic community overseas are anxious about attending events in Japan after the disaster.

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A's collect $50,000 for quake relief

OAKLAND, United States - The Oakland Athletics' Hideki Matsui (C) responds to the fans together with personnel associated with a charity drive for the recent quake and tsunami disaster in Japan at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, prior to a game against the Seattle Mariners on April 3, 2011. The A's have collected $50,000 for the quake relief.

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Turkish medical ship arrives in Benghazi

BENGHAZI, Libya - People cheer as a Turkish medical relief ship arrives at Benghazi port, northeastern Libya, on April 3, 2011, to transfer people who were injured in the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's regime to hospitals in Turkey. The city has become a stronghold of rebels fighting forces royal to leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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A's Matsui reaches 2,500 hits

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui (R) hits a double from Doug Fister (L) in the second inning of a game against the Seattle Mariners at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 3, 2011. It was his 2,500th hit in his career across Japan and the United States, in a 7-1 win for the A's.

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A's Matsui reaches 2,500 hits

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a double in the second inning of a game against the Seattle Mariners at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 3, 2011. It was his 2,500th hit in his career across Japan and the United States, in a 7-1 win for the A's.

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A's Matsui reaches 2,500 hits

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a double in the second inning of a game against the Seattle Mariners at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 3, 2011. It was his 2,500th hit in his career across Japan and the United States, in a 7-1 win for the A's.

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Twins' Nishioka records 1st RBI

TORONTO, Canada - Minnesota Twins second baseman Tsuyoshi Nishioka hits a single in the fifth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 3, 2011. Nishioka recorded his first RBI with the Twins on the hit in a 4-3 victory.

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Quake aftermath in Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - A member of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces directs traffic and people in the quake-and-tsunami hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 3, 2011.

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A's Matsui reaches 2,500 hits

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a double in the second inning of a game against the Seattle Mariners at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 3, 2011. It was his 2,500th hit in his career across Japan and the United States, in a 7-1 win for the A's.

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Absorbent to soak up radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bag of polymeric water absorbent, the same type of material used by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to stop the leakage of highly radioactive water into the sea at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 3, 2011.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. A's

OAKLAND, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a single in the first inning of a game against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 3, 2011. The A's won 7-1.

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Quake aftermath in Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo shows the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on April 3, 2011, about three weeks after the disaster.

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Softbank's Son to donate 10 billion yen for quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Masayoshi Son, president of Softbank Corp., who announced April 3, 2011, that he will donate 10 billion yen for earthquake relief.

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China on alert for street protest

BEIJING, China - Chinese police officers stay on alert on a Beijing street on April 3, 2011, as people have been calling for a pro-democracy gathering.

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Burial of quake victims

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - People bid farewell to a victim of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at the city-run cemetery in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011.

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U.N. convention on climate change

BANGKOK, Thailand - Hideki Minamikawa (L front), vice minister at Japan's Environment Ministry, attends a U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bangkok on April 3, 2011.

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Plum tree flowers in quake-hit Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Plum tree flowers are blooming in the quake-hit Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011, about three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Aid supplies for Filipino residents

TOKYO, Japan - Filipino residents in northeastern Japan who were devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami receive relief supplies provided by an advocacy group on April 3, 2011, in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture.

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Mass relocation of evacuees in Miyagi Pref.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Evacuees wave to a bus carrying people relocating from the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, to other facilities on April 3, 2011. Around 1,100 residents of the tsunami-hit town have started to move to other municipalities in the prefecture as part of a collective evacuation, but some residents have declined the offer of relocation as it did not meet their requirements.

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Quake victims in Higashimatsushima

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces salute the coffins of unidentified victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011.

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Tokaidai Sagami wins nat'l high school invitational

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hirotsugu Sato, captain of Tokaidai Sagami in Kanagawa Prefecture, carries the champion flag at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on April 3, 2011, after winning the national high school baseball invitational tournament by beating Kyushu Kokusaidai Fuzoku in Fukuoka Prefecture 6-1.