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Japanese comedian Pikotaro, as he is known, gestures as he performs his viral hit "pen-pineapple-apple-pen" or "PPAP" during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Pikotaro says he is astonished by the global success of his PPAP song. It has more than 65 million YouTube views and was the first Japanese song in the U.S. Billboard top 100 singles in 26 years. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japanese comedian Pikotaro speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Pikotaro behind the viral hit “PPAP” said he is astonished by the global success of his “pen-pinapple-apple-pen” song. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo, Billy Goat Tavern owners Sam Sianis, left, and his son Bill pose with "Billy" the goat outside their tavern on Madison Street in Chicago. In 1945 Sam's uncle, William, cast a curse over the Chicago Cubs for not letting him bring his billy goat into Game 4 of the World Series and declared they never would win the Series. As the Cubs participate in the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, the legend of the curse lives on. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty File)
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Chelsea Handler arrives at the amfAR Inspiration Gala Los Angeles at Milk Studios on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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FILE- This Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo shows author Toni Morrison speaking during an interview about her latest book "Home," in New York. Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night, Oct. 27, 2016, at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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The Women for Trump tour made an unscheduled stop at the Pulse Nightclub memorial in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday to pay their respects to the shooting victims. (Associated Press)
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Illustration for the 130th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty The Washington Times
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First Lady Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Finance Committee, which was holding hearings on health care reform, on Sept. 30, 1993. (Associated Press)
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In this still frame from video provided by KTTV Fox11 News, Los Angeles firefighters hoist a delivery truck driver from a deep and narrow hole at a construction site in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The 30-year-old man fell up to 50 feet down the 24-inch-diameter hole and landed feet-first on compacted soil, according to Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. Firefighters pumped fresh air into the hole and lowered a radio to the man, who remained conscious and was able to put on a harness attached to a rope. Firefighters used a fire truck's ladder like the boom of a crane to hoist the man up. (KTTV Fox11 News via AP)
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Mike Pence (Associated Press)
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Chicago Cubs' Willson Contreras, left, hugs Kyle Schwarber as Schwarber stretches during batting practice for Friday's Game 3 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Chicago Cubs' Kyle Schwarber works out in the outfield during batting practice for Game 3 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, OCT. 29, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - This Oct. 12, 2016 photo shows the exterior of, Val Vrinceanu's remodeled warehouse at 601 North Chicago Street in Joliet, Ill. Val and his wife, Anna Vrinceanu, won one of the 13 Neighborhood Hero awards issued this year by the civic organization Project Acclaim to Joliet residents who have done something special with their property to give it a certain eye-catching curb appeal. (Eric Ginnard/Herald-News via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2016, file photo, Buffalo Bills strong safety Aaron Williams (23) is attended to on the field during the first half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in Miami Gardens, Fla. The father of Bills safety Williams tells The Associated Press his son intends to wait until the offseason to determine whether to continue playing after sustaining his latest neck injury. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, OCT. 29, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 12, 2016 photo, Russell Pedersen has the year 2017 added to his Stanley Cup tattoo hours before the Chicago Blackhawks season even began. The 50-year- old union plumber did the same just before the 2012-13 playoffs and the 2014-15 season. The Hawks won the Cup both years. "I have the same feeling now that I had back in 2015," Pedersen said, while getting his new ink at Darkside Tattoo in Bradley, Ill. (John Dykstra/The Daily Journal via AP)
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This Oct. 3, 2016 photo shows the interior of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Wichita Falls, Texas, which features hundreds of photographs, outfits, props and a wide variety of other memorabilia in addition to the 169 inductees of the hall of fame. (Torin Halsey /Times Record News via AP)
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In this Feb. 25, 2015, Ebola survivor Nina Pham walks her dog Bentley in Dallas. Ebola no longer dominates the headlines, but for an estimated 17,000 survivors of the largest Ebola outbreak in history the struggle is not over. Many who survived the West African outbreak that sickened nearly 30,000 people between 2014 and 2016 are living with a constellation of long-term symptoms known as post-Ebola syndrome. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Donald Trump's former campaign adviser Roger Stone. (YouTube/The Alex Jones Channel) ** FILE **
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama wave to supporters during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Alycia McCauley puts facepaint on her 15-month-old daughter, Scarlett Fout, as Brittany Chartrand holds her for an outdoor photo at a pumpkin patch in Glendale, Ariz., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. In Arizona, jack-o'-lanterns may not be the only things face-melting this Halloween. The state is in the midst of a heat wave that has made October one of the hottest in years, including lengthy runs of 90-plus degree days in Phoenix and Tucson that could break a record Thursday. (AP Photo/Terry Tang)