Barack Obama’s speech was blasted over loudspeakers along the parade route.  The crowd stood in contemplative silence punctuated by the occasional cheer.

Moments after Mr. Obama finished, they started up the music over those loudspeakers and about a hundred people busted out the electric slide... Waiting to watch as their new president will pass them in the parade on his way to the white house.

They just cranked up the speakers on the parade route and they're blasting U2 down Pennsylvania ave.  Most people are just shivering together along the street but some of the volunteers have decided the best way to keep warm is to dance!

People are still filing through the security checkpoints but once they hit about 350,000, they're closing the gates.

DC never slept last night.  People were lining up to get on the parade route before the bars closed.

We spent two and a half hours mashed up against a security wall before they opened the parade route doors at 7:30am.  Some people climbed trees and others crawled up on a huge generator to get a better look.  Police looked nervous but no one got too rowdy.

So far so good.