Dnesstah Fields' eyelashes are coated with ice during a snow storm in Washington, on Monday, March 2, 2009. ferocious storm packing freezing rain, heavy snow and furious wind gusts paralyzed most of the East Coast on Monday, sending dozens of cars careening into ditches, grounding hundreds of flights and closing school for millions of kids.
Fixer-Upper
A Palestinian boy sits in the window of a bullet and shrapnel riddled house in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, March 2, 2009. The Palestinian president asked international donors at a conference Monday to funnel millions of dollars through his government to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip, seeking to shore up his position against the rival Hamas movement, which controls the tiny territory.
Record Loss
A man leaves AIG offices in New York Monday, March 2, 2009. American International Group Inc., once the world's largest insurer, said Monday it lost $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter, the biggest quarterly loss in U.S. corporate history, amid continued financial market turmoil. Meanwhile, the government is giving AIG another $30 billion from the bailout program. It's already pumped $150 billion into the company.
HHS Nominee
President Barack Obama looks on as Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2009, after he nominated her to be Health & Human Services Secretary.
Holding On
Former Univ. of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler is seen clinging to the engine of an overturned boat in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, March 2, 2009. Schuyler, NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith and another man, William Buckley, left Clearwater, Fla, on a fishing trip Saturday morning and did not return. The other three remain missing after the boat flipped while anchored Saturday night in rough seas.
In His Wake
A mallard duck swims in a pool at the Eden Park overlook on a sunny day, Monday, March 2, 2009, in Cincinnati.
Helping Hand
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on during her meeting with Egyptian Prime minister Ahmed Nazif, not seen, at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Monday, March 2, 2009. Clinton, on her first foray into Middle East politics as U.S. secretary of state, pledged about $300 million in humanitarian aid for the war-torn Gaza Strip at an international donors conference on Monday.