A performer of the Haunt House is scaring visitors during Halloween, in Caddo Mills, Texas on Wednesday night. Thousands of people visit haunted houses across the country each year around Halloween.

People in costumes take part in a performance ahead of Halloween celebrations in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 31, 2012.

Halloween costume contestants parade before judges at a local park in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 31. Locals gather to 'trick or treat' and show off their costumes.

A woman dons a witch's hat during a Halloween party at Tierpark Berlin in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 31.

Students in costume dance after the annual Fall Festival Costume Parade at Janney Elementary School in Washington, D.C., Oct. 31.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Sergio Romo looks up as confetti falls during the baseball team's World Series victory parade in San Francisco on Oct. 31.

Cousins Reagan Hagerstrand and Ryan Magnani react as they are lifted above the crowd during the Giants' World Series winners parade along Market Street in San Francisco on Oct. 31.

Thousands of fans resplendent in orange and black choked downtown San Francisco's largest thoroughfare on Wednesday, noisily celebrating the Giants' second World Series baseball title in three years.

San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy holds the World Series trophy as confetti falls during the baseball team's World Series victory parade.

An aerial view shows the destruction in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 31, two days after a fire raged through the area as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Figures stand amid burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 30, 2012. The tiny beachfront neighborhood burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters from Sandy, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field.

A boardwalk, left, and waterfront property are heavily damaged following Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 31.

At dawn, a police car patrols an empty waterfront neighborhood that lost power as a result of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 31.

A photo provided by the US Air Force shows damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast during a search and rescue mission by the New Jersey Army National Guard on Oct. 30. Photo was made available Oct. 31.

Homes in Fenwick Island, Del., are surrounded by floodwaters from superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Officials said Fenwick Island and nearby Bethany Beach appeared to be among the hardest-hit parts of the state.

A blacked-out lower Manhattan is seen from the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn on Oct. 30. Lower Manhattan is still suffering from widespread power outages and flooding from Hurricane Sandy.

People are illuminated by a light from a car battery as they wait to leave the city on a bus heading to North Carolina from the Chinatown area of New York on Oct. 30.

The dark skyline of lower Manhattan is seen from a rooftop in Brooklyn on Oct. 30.

A dark lower Manhattan is seen from a NY Waterways ferry in Jersey City, N.J., on the morning of Oct. 31.

Youths carry pots of chrysanthemums into a cemetery in the French city of Lyon on October 31, 2012, the eve of All Saints' Day. In France, people place chrysanthemums on graves to mark All Saints' Day on November 1.

A woman stands in front of a tombstone in a cemetery in Lyon on the eve of All Saints' Day.

Pedestrians cross the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan on Oct. 31, as the city returns to life following Hurricane Sandy.

People wait for buses on 6th Avenue in New York on Oct. 31, 2012, as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

With limited functioning transportation options, people wait for ferry tickets to Manhattan on Oct. 31, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J.

Commuters cross the Queensboro Bridge from Queens into Manhattan on Oct. 31.

A man looks up towards the New York Stock Exchange as he returns to work on Wall Street on Oct. 31, 2012.

Zac Vawter, who is fitted with an experimental "bionic" leg, is silhouetted on the Ledge at the Willis Tower in Chicago. Vawter, who is in training to climb to the top of the tower using the new prosthesis, recently took the elevator to the 103rd floor to see the view after an afternoon of work in the lab.

Biomedical engineer Annie Simon, left, and research prosthetist Elizabeth Halsne fit an experimental "bionic" prosthetic leg on Zac Vawter at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Dr. Levi Hargrove, lead researcher for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's Center for Bionic Medicine, holds an experimental 'bionic' prosthetic leg.

Physical therapist assistant Suzanne Finucane, right, helps Zac Vawter as he practices walking at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Protesters take part in a march during the "week of indignation" in Bogota on Tuesday.

Jeff Willard lights a candle in his living room as his girlfriend, Diana Conte, back left, and her son, Ricky, wait for electricity to return in Ventnor City, N.J., Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

A man shops for groceries by flashlight at an East Village grocery store in New York, Oct. 30.

Food is served at the Mee Sun Cafe in Chinatown as power to most of lower Manhattan was down Oct. 30. Superstorm Sandy was one of the largest in history to hit the U.S. East Coast and has caused power outages for millions of people in the Eastern U.S. and crippled transportation in New York City.

Stephanie Sikaris, of Union, N.J., with red bandana, waits in line on Oct. 30 at an Exxon station on Route 22 to fill up her gas containers to feed the generator she bought on Monday from Home Depot. "This looks like it may take a while [to restore power] but hey, it could be worse, right?" she said while standing in line.

Customers and staff ride out Superstorm Sandy together by candle light at the Greenwich Village restaurant French Roast in New York, Oct. 30. New York Power Company Consolidated Edison Inc. said that it had shut off power to part of Lower Manhattan to protect electrical equipment and to allow for quicker restoration after Hurricane Sandy passes.

People in New York's Tribeca neighborhood wait for a chance to charge their mobile phones on an available generator setup on a sidewalk, Oct. 30. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

Turkish riot police fire tear gas as they clash with Kurdish demonstrators during a protest in support of a hunger strike movement by Kurdish prisoners in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 30, 2012.

Turkish riot police fire a water cannon as they clash with Kurdish demonstrators during a protest in support of a hunger strike movement by Kurdish prisoners in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 30.

Protestors help a woman affected by tear gas used by police during clashes against Kurdish demonstrators protesting in support of a hunger strike movement by Kurdish prisoners in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 30.

Kurdish protestors stand in front of a flaming barricade during clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and riot police in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 30.

Turkish riot police take positions as they clash with Kurdish demonstrators during a protest in support of a hunger strike movement by Kurdish prisoners in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 30.

At least 80 homes were destroyed in a fire during Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, photographed Oct. 30.

A home owner assesses the damage to his house Oct. 30, in the Breezy Point neighborhood.

Police rescuers gear up to help people Oct. 30, in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.

Scenes of destruction in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough.

Police evacuate people and their pets Oct. 30, in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.

Fall color is muted by snow on Interstate 68 on Oct. 30, in Preston County, W. Va.

A snow-stuck freight truck is hooked up by a large tow truck in Garrett County, western Maryland on Oct. 30.

Joe and Linda Bays shovel snow in front of their home in Beckley, W.Va. on Oct. 30.

A person walks through snow on Oct. 30 in Belington, W.Va.

A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Hoboken, NJ.

A playground apparatus stands surrounded by water pushed up by Hurricane Sandy in Bellport, New York, Oct. 30.

A general view from Exchange Place shows the skyline of lower Manhattan in darkness after a preventive power outage caused by giant storm Sandy in New York on Oct. 30.

Burned down houses after a fire caused by Hurricane Sandy, in Breezy Point, Queens, New York City on Oct. 30.

The Empire State Building towers in the background of an apartment building in Chelsea, New York City, with the facade broken off on Oct. 30, the morning after Hurricane Sandy.

Cars floating in a flooded basement following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Financial District of New York City.

The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is flooded after a tidal surge caused by Hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 30, in Manhattan, New York.

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 30, Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

Deputy Cliff Tice of the Dare County Sheriff's Department walks down damaged and impassable NC 12 leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Oct. 30.

A street sign is partially buried in sand Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and across Beach Avenue.

A boat floats in the driveway of a home in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Lindenhurst, N.Y.

Looking out the high water in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29 in New York City.

A keep off the dunes sign is buried Tuesday morning, Oct. 30 in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from superstorm Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and into the streets.

Miatid Amini makes his way with his family onto John Mercadante's truck assisted by his son, Frank Mercadante, right.

A resident passes his baby to an emergency worker as they are rescued from flood waters in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

An emergency personnel carries an elderly resident from flood waters brought on by Hurricane Sandy in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

Emergency personnel rescue a resident from flood waters in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

Olivia Loesner, 16, hugs her uncle, Little Ferry Deputy Fire Chief John Ruff, after she was brought from her flooded home in a boat in Little Ferry, N.J., Oct. 30. At right, carrying pets, is her mother, Janice Loesner.

People are rescued from floodwaters on a large truck in Little Ferry, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30.

An Egyptian child stands in front of a tire repair shop where he works in Cairo, Egypt. Photo taken on Oct. 2.

An Egyptian girl fills water containers at a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo taken on Oct. 18.

An Egyptian child helps his father to load a donkey cart with hay in a farm at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured on Oct. 17.

An Egyptian child loads a cart with cement bricks in a brick factory at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo.

An Egyptian child carries a clay roof tile in a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo captured on Oct. 18.

An Egyptian child takes a tea break during his work at a mechanics workshop in Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured Oct. 4.

U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gives a swimming lesson to youths during a visit at the Alemao slum complex's Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 30.

U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps trains young swimmers at Olympic Village Carlos Castilho in the Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30.

U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps high fives young swimmers after leading them in a workshop at the Olympic Village Carlos Castilho in Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Oct. 30.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on October 30, in New York. The storm has claimed at least 27 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard.

Belt Parkway is one of many roads still closed due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, in New York.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30.

Board walk on the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy.

Flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

A flooded board walk in the Williamsburg Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29, in New York. US Pres. Barack Obama has declared the situation a 'major disaster' for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City, with wide spread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city.

Children playing near a Soviet-era Yakovlev Yak-42 plane which has been turned into their kindergarten, in the Georgian city of Rustavi on October 29, 2012.

People survey the damage Tuesday to homes devastated by fire in Breezy Point, Queens.

A resident looks over the remains Tuesday of burned homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, N.Y.

Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point in Queens, N.Y.

Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point in Queens, N.Y. is seen Tuesday morning.

A rainbow forms over Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday morning.

A statue of Mary is left behind after a fire in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y.