Images of the Day

Bill Hand a firefighter with the Florida Department of Forestry marks trees to be cut down along I-95 in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Thursday. The trees should be cut down by the end of the weekend, according to Chris Worrell of the DOF, as work continues after fallen trees caused by brush fires forced the closure of serveral miles of the interstate.

---

---

Michael McIntosh

---

Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, left, and center Shaquille O'Neal share a laugh as they sit on the bench in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the second round of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference playoff series Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in Miami. Wade had 31 points and O'Neal had 21 as the Heat defeated the Nets 111-89.

---

Ichetucknee Springs State Park biologist Sam Cole wades through the Ichetucknee River in this Feb. 6, 2004, file photo. Cole said loggerhead musk turtles and spring run crayfish once seen by the hundreds are harder to find today.

---

President Bush speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room in front of a portrait of George Washington commented, Thursday, May 11, 2006, about a newspaper report that the National Security Agency was collecting records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls. Bush neither confirmed or denied the report that AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., and BellSouth Corp. began turning over records to the NSA shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

---

Actors David Bailie, Mackenzie Crook, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are shown in a scene from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," scheduled for release this summer. A number of summer releases have teamed with retailers to sell games and apparel.

---

---