Waves crash into a seawall and buildings along the coast in Hull, Mass., on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. A high-wind warning is in effect in the state until Wednesday night, with gusts of up to 60 mph expected in some coastal areas, and 50 mph gusts expected for Boston and western Massachusetts.

People walk past as Communist party supporters gather near a monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin during a Communist meeting marking the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg, Russia on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. This monument was moved from Varshavsky railway station to a yard of the Physical Education Academy. Nov. 7 was a holiday celebrating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that ushered in more than 70-years of Soviet rule, but Russian President Vladimir Putin abolished the Nov. 7 holiday in 2005.

A Hindu devotee covers herself and her child in a blanket to protect themselves from the morning cold as she arrives to take a dip in the River Ganges in Allahabad, India on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Allahabad on the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna is one of Hinduism’s holiest sites.

Boats travel on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012.

A riot police officer is engulfed by petrol bomb flames thrown by protesters in front of the parliament during clashes in Athens, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Greece’s fragile coalition government faces its toughest test so far when lawmakers vote later Wednesday on new painful austerity measures demanded to keep the country afloat, on the second day of a nationwide general strike. The $17.3 billion package is expected to scrape through Parliament, following a hasty one-day debate. But potential defections could severely weaken the conservative-led coalition formed in June with the intention of keeping Greece in the euro.

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the election night party at McCormick Place on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.