Obama makes history

Supporters across the country and around the world celebrate Barack Obama's big win. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reports.

Barack Obama making history, as the first African American US president elected. From his home state of Illinois to his father's homeland in Kenya, on Main Street to Wall Street and outside the / gates of the White House, illation and celebration, Obama's simple call for change answered, and his defeated opponent John McCain humbled.

This is a historical election, and I recognized the special significance it has for African Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

Tears from the last African American to seek the office, (Everybody is singing ) and the realization from other activists the world has changed.

What Barack said tonight is true; this is the only place in the world where this could happen, AMERICA!

While it was clearly a moment of celebration for Obama's supporters, the president elected delivered a sobering message.

I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years, block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

One thing that really stood out last night in Barack Obama's speech was the tone and it s the call for, really the need to move forward here and to do it rather quickly in this transition, it was a rare, a rather thumber's speech that they talked about change, and they talked about everything that needs to be done. But he really set the stage here for a transition here that needs to happen very quickly. He talked about Afghanistan, he talked about Iraq, the soldiers that are / there, he talked about the economic crisis.

Until you really got the sense that this is the team that's gonna roll up sleeves and get to work right away. I talked to his chief of our staff last night that needed done who said expect actually get some announcements about the team members on the transition not White House positions necessarily this week but certainly in the weeks to come you are going to hear those kinds of things coming out of this group, it is obviously a very serious tone that not a lot of the, you saw the celebration outside, but Barack Obama pretty much focused on what / needs to be done.