U.S. shutdown ends: parks, museums and monuments reopen

이집트 카이로대 학생들이 호스티 무바라크 전 대통령이 무죄 판결을 받은 데 항의하는 시위를 벌이고 있다.

With the Lincoln Memorial in the distance, a worker cleans the fountain at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2013.

Pres. Barack Obama, speaking in Washington, D.C., is seen on a screen on the floor of the N.Y. Stock Exchange, Oct. 17, 2013. Obama says the government shutdown "inflicted unnecessary damage" to the U.S. economy.

National Park Service employees remove barricades from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013.

Richard Doerner, Museum Specialist for the U.S. Senate Commission on Art, listens to the Ohio Clock as he restarts it outside the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill, Oct. 17, 2013 in Washington. The clock stopped during the 16-day government shutdown because the workers that care for the clock were furloughed.

Visitors are led on an official tour, which had been suspended during the 16-day government shutdown, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2013.

With the Washington Monument in the distance, Park Service police officers stand on duty at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Oct. 17, 2013.

People form a tour group at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2013.

National Park Service Ranger Wendy Solis welcomes visitors to Alcatraz Island, Oct. 17, 2013, after it reopened following a partial government shutdown, in San Francisco, California.

Visitors entered the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum after it reopened, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2013.

Visitors to the U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest ship in the United States Navy, line up and walk up the gang plank to the top deck for a tour in Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 17, 2013.