Spectators watch some big waves in Newport Beach, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
A large wave crashes behind a surfer at the Wedge in Newport Beach, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. High tide and a winter storm off New Zealand are combining to bring high waves to the Southern California coast. The National Weather Service said waves of 8 feet to 11 feet or more could hit beaches from San Luis Obispo to San Diego counties through the afternoon and peak Thursday night or early Friday.
A protester shouts while she takes part in a demonstration against a constitutional amendment in Madrid, Sept. 1, 2011.
A firing party fires a volley during the burial service for Army Cpl. A.V. Scott, 27, of Detroit, Mich., who was missing in action during the Korean War in 1951 and was just recently identified, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2001, during his burial servicea at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
From left, British actress Natalie Dormer, Australian actress Abbie Cornish, U.S singer and director Madonna, and British actress Andrea Riseborough, arrive on the red carpet for the film "W.E." at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
Heavy fuel oil floats down a roadway drainage ditch past boom absorption material on Cochrane Causeway on Blakeley Island just south of the Gulf Coast Asphalt Company's facility, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, in Mobile, Ala. Heavy petroleum spilled into the Mobile River early Thursday, forcing the closing of the shipping channel, Alabama authorities said.
Libyan residents of Jamal Goubtan district in Tripoli hold a giant former Libyan flag for the cars driving under in the streets of Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
People greet the US Navy Destroyer, Spruance, as it passes Popham Beach in Phippsburg, Maine on its way from Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine to her commissioning at Key West, Fla. in late October, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
Ann O'Leary-Liu, watches as her husband, Goodwin Liu is sworn in to the California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
Mana's drummer Alex Gonzalez, left, and lead guitarist Sergio Vallin performs during the filming of the Mexican rock band's new video "El Verdadero Amor" (True Love) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Thursday Sept. 1, 2011.
A helicopter drops a load of water on a hot spot from Tuesday's grass fires, behind a tree line in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
This portrait of German concentration camp prisoner Hans Kurzweil by Jewish engraver Felix Cytrin is on display at the American Society for Yad Vashem, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, in New York, after a collection of 43 portraits by Cytrin were donated to the Israeli Holocaust remembrance museum by Cytrin heirs in a ceremony. The portrait is part of collection of portraits of Jewish prisoners given the dubious choice of forging fake money for the Nazis or almost certain death, famously fictionalized in the Oscar-winning film "The Counterfeiters".