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Boonville Junior High School seventh-grader Gabby Henry, 12, gets hit with snowballs from friend Katie Shannon, 11, as they play in more than 18 inches of snow in front of their Main Street homes, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 in Boonville, New York. The snow caused school cancellations and a lot of cleanup. (AP Photo/Nicole L. Cvetnic, Observer-Dispatch)
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Tom Zynda snow blows the driveway at his home in South Dayton, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Downwind from Lake Erie in western New York, 20 inches of snow has piled up in South Dayton. (AP Photo/Doug Benz)
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RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 15: Masked Palestinian men lower a cow into a underground chamber as Palestinians continue to smuggle supplies and animals through tunnels between Rafah, southern Gaza Strip and Egypt as the Gaza crossings remain closed on November 15, 2008 in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip, Gaza. Israel has tightened the blockade in recent weeks as a response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants and assertions on both sides that ceasefire agreements have been violated. Muslims are preparing for Eid al-Adha, celebrated at the end of pilgrimage of the Hajj, purchasing cattle to be slaughtered in commemoration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 16: A masked Palestinian man prepares to transport fuel underground as Palestinians continue to smuggle supplies, cattle and fuel through tunnels between Rafah, southern Gaza Strip and Egypt on November 16, 2008 in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip, Gaza. Israel opened a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday 17th, allowing in a limited amount of humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. In recent weeks Israel had tightened the blockade as a response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants and assertions on both sides that ceasefire agreements have been violated. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 16: A Palestinian man fills containers with fuel as Palestinians continue to smuggle supplies, cattle and fuel through tunnels between Rafah, southern Gaza Strip and Egypt on November 16, 2008 in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip, Gaza. Israel opened a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday 17th, allowing in a limited amount of humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. In recent weeks Israel had tightened the blockade as a response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants and assertions on both sides that ceasefire agreements have been violated. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 15: A cow is lowered into a underground chamber as Palestinians continue to smuggle supplies and animals through tunnels between Rafah, southern Gaza Strip and Egypt as the Gaza crossings remain closed on November 15, 2008 in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip, Gaza. Israel has tightened the blockade in recent weeks as a response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants and assertions on both sides that ceasefire agreements have been violated. Muslims are preparing for Eid al-Adha, celebrated at the end of pilgrimage of the Hajj, purchasing cattle to be slaughtered in commemoration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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President George W. Bush laughs as he presents the 2008 National Medals of Arts to comic book creator Stan Lee, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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President George W. Bush greets actress Olivia de Havilland as he presented her with the 2008 National Medals of Arts, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Police officers share a moment next to a newly dedicated Mural Arts Program mural honoring three slain Philadelphia police officers at the 35th district station in Philadelphia, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Officer Chuck Cassidy, pictured center, was one of five city officers killed while on duty in the last three years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Palestinian truck drivers wait for the Kerem Shalom border to open, near Rafah refugee camp, southen Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The Israeli military said Israel allowed 30 trucks into Gaza on Monday to deliver supplies for United Nations and Red Cross relief efforts.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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A police officer comforts the son of a colleague killed during a rebel attack in southern Peru during funeral services in Lima, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Suspected Shining Path rebels ambushed a police patrol in a drug-smuggling zone in Ayacucho on Sunday, killing three police officers with submachine guns and injuring one, officials said. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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An Iraqi girl looks on as the shadow of a U.S. Army soldier of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, is seen on a wall which reads in Arabic "for sale" during a routine U.S. army patrol in the Al Islah Al Serai neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, 360 kilometers (224 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Iraqi lawmakers Monday began a debate over a pact with the United States that will allow U.S. forces to remain for three more years, while an Iranian official close to that country's leadership praised the Iraqi Cabinet for approving the deal. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A girl carries water she collected in a camp for displaced people, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Congo's army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader's promise to support a cease-fire, the United Nations said Monday. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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People walk-by a newspaper poster, headlining jobs cut at the Citigroup bank, on a newspaper vendor stand in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Banking giant Citigroup said it planned to shed 53,000 jobs with losses falling "particularly heavily" in London and New York. The cut, along with previously announced job losses of around 22,000, will leave it with a global total of 300,000 employees in the near term. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. after having brain surgery. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and their dogs Sunny and Splash, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
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Security personnel waits for the arrival of China's President Hu Jintao at the Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela, on the outskirts of San Jose, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Hu Jintao is on a two-day official visit to Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Deng Qing Qiang holds his daughter Natalia Deng Yuan, as members of the Chinese community await the arrival of China's President Hu Jintao at the National Theater in San Jose, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Hu Jintao is on a two-day official visit to Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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A woman looks inside the "Wellness Skull", an installation by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, at the Karlsplatz, Vienna, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Tourists and locals alike appeared astounded by the skull on Monday, two days before it officially goes on display as part of an effort by Public Art Vienna to revitalize and enhance urban space around the capital. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)
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Two men show their catch of crickets in Mutoko about 250 kilometres north east of Harare,Saturday, November, 15, 2008Grazing land has been razed by poachers burning the bush to scare rock rabbits, rodents and small animals for the cooking pot into traps and nets as people look for food..Jackals, baboons and goats also compete with villagers for roots and wild fruits according to witness accounts.The United Nations has forecast a full scale humanitarian crisis and estimates more than 5 milion people, about half the population will need food aid by the begining of next year.Zimbabwes inflation, the highest in the world pegged at over 213 million percent has spiraled out of control at a time when health and education services have collapsed.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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SYLMAR, CA - NOVEMBER 17: A member of the Los Angeles Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) looks for signs of possible fatalities at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park, where 480 homes were destroyed by wildfire, as residents are escorted in by bus to see their devastated neighborhood, November 17, 2008 in Sylmar, California. Residents are not yet allowed to go into the ruins as authorities continue to search for bodies. The Sylmar Fire, now referred to as the Sayre Fire, has charred 10,000 acres, burned 630 structures, and injured five firefighters. Firefighters have built containment lines around 40 percent of the advancing fire and are getting a break as the strong Santa Ana winds that stoked a series of major wildfires across Southern California begin to dissipate. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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Dave Hastings, left, helps his friend Bob Allison excavate some plates from Allison's home in Yorba Linda, California, Monday, November 17, 2008. (Michael Goulding/Orange County Register/MCT)
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The devastation of Oakridge Mobile Home Park is seen after a wildfire swept through in Sylmar, Calif., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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State police and Department of Environmental Conservation officers investigate Sunday's fatal hunting accident in Swan Lake, N.Y. Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The todder was killed by a stray bullet when a New York City deer hunter fired his rifle too close to her family's home. Edward Taibi, 45, of Queens, who was hunting Sunday afternoon in Sullivan County, was charged with second-degree manslaughter and was being held without bail Monday. (AP Photo/Times-Herald Record, Michele Haskell)
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President-elect Barack Obama and Sen John McCain, R-Ariz. smile during their meeting at Obama's transition office in downtown Chicago, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President-elect Barack Obama, right, meets with Sen John McCain, R-Ariz., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at Obama's transition office in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Five-year-old Layla Watson stands over a cross (on Monday, Nov. 17 2008), placed in memory of Joshua Wiggins, 11, who died when a tornado struck his home near Elm City early Saturday morning. Layla Watson, with help from her grandmother Rebecca Watson, picked out this bear at the dollar store to leave beside Wiggins' temporary memorial in front of the destroyed home. Rebecca Watson said she did not know Wiggins' family, but felt compelled, as a former Elm City resident, to leave something at the site. "I felt like I had to do something," said Rebecca Watson. Staff photo by Ted Richardson/The News & Observer
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Boonville Junior High School seventh-grader Gabby Henry, 12, gets hit with snowballs from friend Katie Shannon, 11, as they play in more than 18 inches of snow in front of their Main Street homes, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 in Boonville, New York. The snow caused school cancellations and a lot of cleanup. (AP Photo/Nicole L. Cvetnic, Observer-Dispatch) ** ROME OUT **
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Bison enjoy lunch at Paul Raynor's bison farm in Arkwright, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Doug Benz)
