Barack Obama addresses the crowd at an election night celebration in Chicago's Grant Park. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during his election night rally with his wife Cindy (R) and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in Phoenix, November 4, 2008. Photo: Reuters
People crowd around the front of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to look at the front pages of newspapers from around the world announcing Barack Obama had won the 2008 presidential election. RICK MCKAY / cox newspapers
Nativity scene artisan Genni Di Virgilio puts a crown on his terracotta statuette of American President-elect Barack Obama, next to wife Michelle, in Naples, southern Italy, on Wednesday. SALVATORE LAPORTA / AP
Zilly Rosen of Buffalo, N.Y,, poses with a portrait of Barack Obama she designed and created out of tiny cupcakes, Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008, at the Obama campaign headquarters in Buffalo. Rosen says she watched the returns at home, in pajamas, because she was exhausted after baking over 1,200 1-1/4 inch cupcakes for her Photoshop-designed creation. (AP Photo/ CHARLES LEWIS, Buffalo News)
A boy scout writes a message to President-elect Barack Obama on a 24-foot long message board in front of the Lincoln Memorial November 6, 2008 in Washington, DC. The organization Avaaz.org has set up a global message board at the memorial with display of congratulatory messages from all around the world for people to write their notes to Obama. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team member has his assault weapon at the ready while sitting in the rear of a motorcade SUV as they escort President-elect Barack Obama, not pictured, to a private meeting at the FBI building in Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Bush, accompanied by first lady Laura Bush, gives an emotional wave to White House staffers after he made remarks on the transition of authority, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Bullock County Sheriff Raymond "Buck" Rodgers talks with Annie O. Calloway as he prepares to cast his ballot in the general election in *** Eye, Ala., on Tuesday. Voters in this small Alabama town cast their ballot in a metal storage shed. (DAVE MARTIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A voter casts his ballot at his polling place at Slater's Auto Repair in Philadelphia. (AP/ Matt Rourke)
Jack Nygren, 65, casts his ballot overlooking the ocean at the Spencer Beach Park open air pavilion, near Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii. "I could vote absentee, but I love voting here, " he explained. (AP Photo/Chris Stewart) 
Curtis Irwin holds a .50 caliber rifle to show at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Cheaper Than Dirt gun store recorded a record day of gun sales the day after the election of President-elect Barack Obama and is having trouble keeping up with the demand for assault riffles. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Debbie Portman-Chamberlain (R) and her wife Amy Chamberlain hold their kids Alexandra and Joshua during a Proposition 8 opposition rally at the San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center November 5, 2008 in San Diego, California. Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage, passed in Tuesday's Calfironia election. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, at left, greets Mustafa Ceric, right, head of the Bosnia Islamic Community, during a a three-day Catholic-Muslim forum hosted by the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Pontiff has told Muslim clergy and scholars that Christians and Muslims must overcome their misunderstandings. He is also urging freedom of worship for non-Muslims in the Islamic world. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)
U.S. Army soldiers hold their certificates and folded U.S. flags, during a ceremony in the al-Faw palace, Baghdad, Iraq,Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. More than 200 service members received, Tuesday, their U.S. citizenship. U.S. President Bush signed an Executive Order allowing all active-duty immigrants in the Armed Forces to apply for U.S. citizenship without waiting the standard three years. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Whalen, 22, from Plover, Wis., playfully taps his helmet with an Iraqi boy's donated toy football helmet during a visit to the boy's school in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. Iraqi Army troops donated school supplies to children who attend the school. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Ella McDuffie sings a song for the veterans at the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home in Monroe, La., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. Students at St. Paul?s Day School observed Veterans Day a little early with the concert of children's songs for the home's residents. The preschoolers gave the veterans little American flags at the end of the concert. (AP Photo/The News-Star, Margaret Croft)
A woman places a poppy cross in the Field of Remembrance in front of Westminster Abbey, London on November 5th, 2008. The Remembrance crosses are placed by ex-servicemen and women as well as the general public to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. The Duke of Edinburgh placed a wreath to officially open the Field of Remembrance on the morning of November 6th, 2008. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Under the guidance of Kahu Kamaki Kanahele, far left, and Kahu Kalena Hew Len, right, dignitaries break ground for a new Pearl Harbor Museum and Visitor Center during ceremonies on the lawn of the current USS Arizona Memorial visitor center in Honolulu, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008(AP Photo/Honolulu Advertiser,RICHARD AMBO)
Edward Webb of Oregon, Wis. (left) and Denny Behr of Madison watch the docking of the USS Freedom in Veterans Park on Sunday. The LCS-1 is the first of its class and was built in Marinette. The ship will be commissioned on Saturday. Both men served in the Navy and are members of the Madison Navy League. Journal Sentinel Photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff
Tourists look at a sand sculpture profiling U.S. presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama, right,and Republican John McCain at the Puri beach, off the Bay of Bengal, 67 kilometers ( 42 miles) away from Bhubaneswar, India, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik created the sculpture ahead of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
Gas goes under $2 in Omaha. Photo: Omaha World-Herald
A model builder looks at a representation of the Frankfurt main train station, built with toy stones during a photo call of the International Fair for Model Railways in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. 185 companies from 12 countries are presenting their new products. New at the fair is a special show for buildings made using the toy stones. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)
A Chinese man displays acupuncture needles featuring planes in his forehead at the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, on November 4, 2008 in Zhuhai of Guangdong Province, China. The event, also known as 'Airshow China', is scheduled to run from November 4 to 9, 2008 in Zhuhai, attracting nearly 600 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
The Mitchell Park Domes reopened Wednesday night with a spectacular light show after being closed since June for repair and renovation. Hundreds attended the reopening. Journal Sentinel Photo: Michael Sears
Zero the polar bear at the Milwaukee County Zoo is still in his holding pen after he was removed from the moat that he had fallen into. Zero was finally sedated and taken out of the moat by crane. He is under observation and may remain there for a couple more weeks. Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn
Janice Tillman admires the color of a sugar maple as she walks her dog along Maryland Ave. at East Boulevard in Charlotte Thursday afternoon in the beautiful weather. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
Pancho Sullivan skipped a big contest in Brazil so he could surf big waves at his home-break, Sunset Beach in Hawaii. The 35-year-old was in near-perfect form Thursday on the way to winning the Xcel Pro men's surfing championship. BERNIE BAKER | Special to The Honolulu Advertiser
Timber Moreland and her Husky, Logan, take a stroll with her mountain bike on a snow covered street in Crested Butte, Colo. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, where the National Weather Service predicted up to ten inches of snow in the Colorado Rockies in a winter storm warning. Clear skies and cold temperatures were expected in the days to come. (Nathan Bilow/Crested Butte Mountain Resort via AP)
Preston Arity, 10, of Rapid City, S.D., plays in a huge snowdrift in the family driveway while his mother Jane shovels the drive on Thursday. Winter arrived in western South Dakota with a blast Thursday, with heavy snow and wind gusts as strong as 60 mph. Photo: Steve McEnroe, AP
