The defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints take to the practice field at their training camp in Metairie, La.
Fishermen contracted to help collect oiled boom go about their work in Barataria Bay, La.
From left, Holly, Christina and Jay Casso pray at St. Anthony Church in Lafitte, La., on Sunday. A resolution by Louisiana state Sen. Robert Adley, a Republican, designated June 20 the day to pray for an end to the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis.
From a bar in the oil-stricken community of Grand Isle, La., residents watch President Obama's address to the nation from the Oval Office after returning from his fourth visit to the Gulf Coast since the Deepwater Horizon oil tragedy unfolded.
Obama told the nation that the spill is a wake-up call and that the country should change the way energy is produced and used. The BP spill has been called the largest environmental disaster in American history. U.S. government scientists have estimated that the flow rate of oil gushing out of a ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well may be as high 40,000 barrels per day.