Rescuers carry out the body of a victim from the rubble of a collapsed building in quake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province May 16, 2008. China has put the known death toll at over 22,000 but has said it expects it to exceed 50,000 days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday. Picture taken May 16, 2008.
Crew members sit on CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters on the USS Essex, about 50 nautical miles south of Myanmar's Irawaddy Delta, May 17, 2008. The USS Essex is currently stationed in international waters to the south of the delta pending permission to carry out the delivery of humanitarian relief goods to people hit by Cyclone Nargis.